Articles Tagged 'Redemptive'

For over 30 years, Heartlight has shared articles to help people live for Jesus in everyday life. While we are no longer publishing new articles, this enduring collection features relevant pieces throughout the year to encourage faith, offer biblical perspective, and speak to real-world joys and struggles.

Your Life in God's Mission

Rubel Shelly talks about using our work and workplace as the place we live out God's mission for us.

Can you visualize your workplace as your mission?

Bringing God's Grace through Love and Prayer

Phil Ware shares Scriptures, stories, and ideas to help us prepare for the hour of worldwide unified prayer for our broken world, especially focused on love and prayer as a source of hope for our broken world.

Prayer is a holy moment. We invite the eternal and divine grace of God to invade our hearts and change our lives and the lives of those we love.

Living My MUSD #6: Shared Prayer through Forgiving Redemptively

Phil Ware opens the New Testament and reminds of a great way to live out our mission while under social distancing, prayer because prayer has always been a virtual way of blessing others.

Living My Mission Under Social Distancing

Don't Just Stand There

Phil Ware finishes his series called 8GHT and focusses on Jesus' command for us to quit standing around and doing nothing, but to go and do something to redeem our lost world.

As our world sinks ever deeper into the abyss of division, evil, hatred, and violence, Jesus’ followers must do more than spout platitudes, post opinions, blame others, go to church, pray, and preach.

Our New Chapter

Jackie Halstead challenges us to take advantage of the New Year to begin writing a new chapter in our lives that brings grace to a world struggling with evil.

My response is to recognize God’s greatness and grace in using me as an instrument and with confidence move into this pure, unspotted new chapter.

Lifestyle: Connecting Others with Jesus

Phil Ware finishes his series on "The Andrew Effect" about connecting people with Jesus by reminding us how Jesus viewed people.

How we view people impacts our lifestyle

Fifty Shades of Grace: Submission

Phil Ware continues his series called 50 shades of grace that focuses on the intimacy between a husband and wife in marriage.

The power of grace, the gift of life in marriage.

Tortured!

Phillip Morrison writes about a serious situation that was brought to light by an obituary -- child abuse -- and Phil Ware offers some helpful suggestions on ways to bring redemption out of the hurt of this world.

Not what any of us wants in our obituary!

Building a Culture of Honor: Prayer

Phil Ware continues his series on building a culture of honor focusing this week on prayer, especially prayer as a redemptive tool of offering forgiveness and blessing to those who are our enemies and who mistreat us.

Prayer changes something much more important than our circumstances!

Your Life in God's Mission

Rubel Shelly talks about using our work and workplace as the place we live out God's mission for us.

Can you visualize your workplace as your mission?

What Our Lives Proclaim

Russ Lawson reminds us that the habits, patterns, and companions of our lives leave a message in the hearts of all who see us and know us.

What are your habits, patterns, and companions communicating to others?

Willing to Be Weirdos

God calls us to be weird, different, to be like Christ who died outside the camp to help those caught inside to find his glory and grace.

Are you willing to pitch a tent with the weirdos outside the camp?

More than Falling Dominoes

The interconnectedness of our world isn't bad, but really an opportunity to do good and bring redemptive influence.

Is the interconnectedness of our world really such bad news?

An Open Letter to the New Clergy

The most powerful voice for God in our culture must come from our business leaders who are Christians!

Will you step up as a business person and take a lead in our war for the soul?

When I Can't, He Can!

While we may think we can't make a difference in the lives of troubled teens, with God's help, we can.

What can't you do?