Articles Tagged 'Reign'

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.

Connecting People of Other Cultures with Jesus

Phil Ware continues his series on 'The Andrew Effect' and connecting people with Jesus, this time focusing on including people of other cultures, races, and languages.

Are we willing to take the risk and reach outside our comfort zones to connect people with Jesus?

Connecting People of Other Cultures with Jesus

Phil Ware continues his series on 'The Andrew Effect' and connecting people with Jesus, this time focusing on including people of other cultures, races, and languages.

Are we willing to take the risk and reach outside our comfort zones to connect people with Jesus?

Helping Immigrants & Refugees Get Involved with a Spiritual Group

Rhonda Underhill shares ways that newly arrived immigrants, especially older ones, can make a new home in their new world

These displaced people need to discover Jesus' love and the love of his people.

Exalting Jesus as Savior and Lord

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 Jesus being both Savior and Lord.

Simple spiritual moves of faith can become divine appointments that change the world!

In His Steps to Share His Light

Phil Ware and James Nored, through word and video, remind us of our need to return to the Jesus-styled kind of life.

Jesus went up on the mountain and taught his followers to live the good life, to live as Jesus did!

Caring for the Vulnerable

Phil Ware and Demetrius Collins lead us into worship through songs, Communion, and the Word God, inviting us to experience, proclaim and rejoice in the love of God for all people and to be stirred to share that love with others.

We are Jesus' heart, hands, and feet. Let's remind each other that we should bless the broken, forgotten, left out, and needy.

In His Steps to Share His Light

Phil Ware and James Nored, through word and video, remind us of our need to return to the Jesus-styled kind of life.

Jesus went up on the mountain and taught his followers to live the good life — to live as Jesus did!

When Life is Unfair!

James Nored and Phil Ware remind us of the importance of God's past stories of deliverance to help us know how to live in our times of unfairness and hold onto to hope in the middle of oppression.

God’s great story of redemption reminds us of three truths that we must take with us as we live in a world that always seems to tilt away from fairness.

Prepare Him Room

Phil Ware shares how Mark's gospel, which doesn't even mention the birth of Jesus, fits into the Advent season.

'Prepare Him room': Inviting Jesus to reign in our hearts is how the strange beginning of the Gospel of Mark fits into the Advent season.

The Holy Family, Incarcerated!

Patrick Odum challenges us to think critically and lovingly in light of our new-found awareness of baby Jesus' status as a refugee from violence.

Christ Church takes the story of the flight to Egypt and uses it to make us think about what the “old, old story” of Jesus tells us about this very contemporary issue.

The Good Life: Following the Way of Jesus

Phil Ware and James Nored, through word and video, remind us of our need to return to the Jesus-styled kind of life.

Jesus went up on the mountain and taught his followers to live the good life — to live as Jesus did!

The Lord is Near: Acorn

Phil Ware continues his series that the Lord is near focusing on the power of this promise found in the Lord's faithfulness, love, and grace.

The power of the oak is in the acorn!

Connecting People of Other Cultures with Jesus

Phil Ware continues his series on "The Andrew Effect" and connecting people with Jesus.

Are we willing to take the risk and reach outside our comfort zones to connect people with Jesus?

Hope of the World

Phil Ware shares his series for December 2015 on welcoming Jesus and focuses on the Magi from the gospel of Matthew and lets that story remind us our need to reach out to the lost and foreigner and alien and refugee among us.

What can this old story powerfully say to our geopolitical messes of today?

Let it Begin with Me!

Phillip Morrison is back as our conscience asking us about how we sort through the refugee crisis in Syria and what are we going to do about it.

What are we to do with such great human need and such great risk?

Golden Rule, Golden Door!

Phillip Morrison reminds us of the need to be open-hearted to the refugee crisis both as Americans and as Christians and to see this as a moral imperative.

Some connections God makes inescapable no matter how costly obedience may be!

Compassion after Easter

Phil Ware gives three reasons to sponsor a child with Compassion International.

Why not give the gift of new life to a child who is waiting for someone to help them experience grace?

But Herod's Time Ended!

Phil Ware reminds us of the simple, yet powerful words found in the hard story of Jesus' birth and Herod's attempt to murder him at Bethlehem -- But Herod came to an end.

The cycle of violence is heartbreaking — will it ever end?

The Story: The Hour of Darkness

Phil Ware continues his series on The Story and this week focuses on the The Hour of Darkness, Jesus' time on the cross and his crucifixion and passion.

What do you do when darkness descends and envelopes everything?

The Grace that Brought Us Jesus

Phil Ware continues his journey through The Story and this week finds us in the book of Ruth and the story about the faith of a foreign woman.

So why is Ruth so important in the overall scheme of things?

Strangers and Foreigners, No More

As Christians, we have family around the world. Some of our family members speak other languages, but we are still family

Have you ever been a stranger in a strange land?

Traveling Mercies: Never Leave These Behind

Phil Ware writes about Ruth and her love and faithfulness and how God used this to bring the Messiah, bless broken-hearted Naomi, and bless his people.

Can love and faithfulness be more than a slogan?

What Difference Can One Make?

Phil Ware looks at Ruth and Naomi and the difference one faithful person can make in everything!

Can one person really make a difference

The Freedom of Fellowship

Fellowship is so crucial and even more so in places that are hostile to faith: we must take advantage of our freedom to have fellowship.

How important is fellowship to you?

It Isn't Over

Some things come and go, but this one thing is always in season and this season never ends.

When does this season end?