Articles Tagged 'Resurrection' (Page 3)

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.

Touchable Hope

Phil Ware begins the new section with a reflection on the Lord's Supper and what it can mean for us.

What the resurrected Jesus gave to his shocked disciples who disbelieved for joy was tangible proof he had risen from the dead!

Resurrection Sunday!

Phil Ware and Demetrius Collins have put together a worship experience for folks who cannot make it to a church assembly or whom are uncomfortable with church worship in a building.

Today is Resurrection Sunday for many Christians around the world, and it is a reminder that Jesus is alive and we can have a genuine relationship with Him, everyday!

Resurrection!

A Bible description of Jesus' resurrection taken from a harmony of the Gospels.

Have you read the story lately? Are you celebrating life made new by our resurrected Savior?

Seed, Towel, Promise, and Torchlight: Intro

Phil Ware begins a four week series on seed, towel, promise, and torchlight as he looks at Jesus' last hours on earth and what they mean for us.

Yes, the seed is still enough of a mystery to keep me interested while I wait for the full blessing of its secrets to reach full bloom.

Life to Our Mortal Bodies!

James Nored and Phil Ware emphasize the importance of the Holy Spirit in our resurrection from the dead.

Jesus wasn’t just raised from the dead; he is also now alive in us through the Holy Spirit!

Buried?

James Nored and Phil Ware remind us that Jesus died and was buried and that his burial has special significance for us.

Jesus died. He was buried. He was raised from the dead. Each one of those facts reminds us that Jesus was not some antiseptic hero from a distance.

Free to Become

Phil Ware reminds us on the eve of Independence Day in the U.S. and movements all around the world striving for freedom, that the Holy Spirit gives us the greatest freedom of all!

Thoughts of freedom permeate the thoughts of the people of our world right now.

Resurrection 2.7: Let the Clouds Remind You!

Phil Ware continues his series on Resurrection 2.0 and focuses this week on Jesus' return in the clouds which is guaranteed by his resurrection from the dead.

As followers of Jesus, the clouds hold a message of hope for us, not just a warning.

Resurrection 2.4: When We Hear His Voice

Phil Ware continues his series on Jesus' resurrection called resurrection 2.0, this week focusing on Jesus' word to Mary!

Mary heard his voice call her name and that one word changed everything for her!

Resurrection 2.3: Unless...!

Phil Ware continues his series on Resurrection 2.0 and focuses this week on Thomas.

If Jesus was truly raised from the dead, then this new reality would call for Thomas to radically re-orient his life

Resurrection 2.2: Sometimes, I Doubt!

Phil Ware continues his series on Resurrection 2.0 focusing this week on the doubts of early disciples, and our times of doubting sometimes in our world.

Do doubts mean I don’t believe?

Resurrection 2.1: In the Breaking of the Bread

Phil Ware continues his series on Resurrection 2.0 and the vital importance of Jesus' resurrection for our life as his disciples today.

What if this song speaks the truth about Jesus' promise to meet us in our world today?

Resurrection 2.0: The Empty Tomb

Phil Ware begins his series on Jesus' resurrection appearances called Resurrection 2.0

They stood there, stunned and perplexed.

Cruciformed #8: The Land of In-between

Phil Ware finishes up his series on CRUCIFORMED and the way of the cross that Jesus shows us in the Gospel of Mark.

That unsettling

The Power Behind Our Story

James Nored and Phil Ware remind us of the central importance of the resurrection of Jesus and what it means for all us in our lives today

Christ is risen! Christ is risen indeed! And, nothing should ever be the same.

Cruciformed #7: He Knew

Phil Ware continues his series on CRUCIFORMED focusing on the events of Jesus' last week from his Triumphal Entry to his resurrection.

He knew that people were fickle. They could cry out, “Hosanna!” one day, then cry out, “Crucify him!” a week later.

Cruciformed #6: The Gamble

Phil Ware continues his series of insights on living the CRUCIFORMED life Jesus calls all disciples to live on his way to the cross.

As Jesus journeyed into Jerusalem that last time, he had reached the point where he was going to gamble everything on the cross.

Making It Count!

Patrick Odum reminds us that sometimes our best isn't good enough, it doesn't count, unless our focus is on the Lord Jesus and his work, then his resurrection ensures our work is not in vain!

It is simply not true that your best is always good enough; there are countless people every day who could witness to that.

All About Jesus

Phil Ware continues his series called 8GHT -- Eight Truths that Turned the World Upside Down! from Acts 1:1-11, this week focusing on Jesus as the Message, Motive, Model, and Mover in the early days of the church.

Behind every move made by disciples in the book of Acts, Jesus was the mover!

Treasures Old and New

Phil Ware continues his series on how the Bible and how God values women and their role in ministry.

This trek of discovery was our great joy in a year of deep sorrow. In the process, each of us discovered treasures old and new.

The Women

Phil Ware continues his series of reflections on the importance of women in the Bible, to Jesus, to Paul, and to the early church.

They all abandoned Jesus except for this one group!

This Kind of Faith!

Phil Ware reminds us that faith as understood in the New Testament was much more robust than what we often call faith today.

We've allowed our modern definition of faith to be drained of depth and turned into a shallow kiddie wading pool of little more than mental assent.

I Will Cling to the Old Rugged Cross

Phillip Morrison reminds us where the journey of Holy Week ends and our new life in Christ begins, the cross and the empty tomb.

Like him, and because of him, we live and die to live again.

Beginning in Endings #1

Phil Ware reflects on the last tens days of Jesus' life before his crucifixion and points us to the hope of a new beginning found in Jesus' life ending.

We have new life because Jesus gave up his. We have a fresh beginning because Jesus chose to submit to an earthly ending.

I Doubt It: Jesus Is Risen from the Dead

Phil Ware continues his series called 'I Doubt It' and focuses this week on Jesus having risen from death to never die again.

Jesus is risen, and we believe because the first disciples had their doubts!