Articles Tagged 'Sacred'

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.

Worship in the Real World

Phil Ware reminds us that there should be no line between sacred and secular for followers of Jesus.

Why is it so easy to draw this line?

What is Core: Communing

Phil Ware talks about what is core to our faith and then ties it to everyday meals as well as our celebration of the Lord's Supper and the things of first importance in 1 Corinthians 15:1-7.

When we gather in Jesus' name, something transcendent happens: the Lord is present with us!

What is Core: Communing

Phil Ware talks about what is core to our faith and then ties it to everyday meals as well as our celebration of the Lord's Supper and the things of first importance in 1 Corinthians 15:1-7.

When we gather in Jesus' name, something transcendent happens: the Lord is present with us!

Is Anything Sacred?

Max Lucado talks about his experiences as a baseball catcher and how the dimensions of homeplate were immutable, sacred, and in a sense holy and compares that to certain things in life that God has called sacred and holy.

Like speedbumps and curbs, these acts of holiness are meant to slow us down and keep us on the road.

What is Core: Communing

Phil Ware talks about what is core to our faith and then ties it to everyday meals as well as our celebration of the Lord's Supper and the things of first importance in 1 Corinthians 15:1-7.

When we gather in Jesus' name, something transcendent happens: the Lord is present with us!

Of Sacred Value

Phil Ware begins a series of posts focusing on the sacred value of women and how we have lost the focus of Jesus.

God didn't make one a first class person and the other a second class person based on gender.

Giving Thanks for Work?

Ron Rose reminds us that work is sacred and we should not divide our lives into sacred and secular boxes.

Have you ever thought as your job as your primary place of worship?

What is Core: Communion

Phil Ware talks about what is core to our faith and then ties it to everyday meals as well as our celebration of the Lord's Supper.

When we gather in Jesus' name, something transcendent happens: He is there with us!

Holy Passion: Sacred Sexuality

Phil Ware shares about the sacredness of our sexual relationship as husbands and wives and calls us to follow Jesus in how we deal with this issue.

What, talk about sex and God in the same sentence?

Looking for a Sacred Job?

Ron Rose talks about the difference and the parallel of sacred and secular work and the jobs we have and do and whether or not we are secular or sacred people.

Isn't it time to consider giving up your secular work?

Living for Just One!

Phil Ware asks what we should wear to worship God and challenges us to see all of life as sacred space!

Will you live all of life as worship, or just a few hours per wek?

The Father's Love

Tom Norvell reminds us of the overwhelming deep love the Father has for us and reminds us that he gives us glimpses of this in a good father's relationship and love for his children.

How deep is His love for us?

A Broader View of the Sacred

Rubel Shelly reminds us that all space is sacred space and that all of life is bound up with the holy because God is with us and in us.

Where are we called to live holy lives, in private or in public?

Worship in the Real World

Phil Ware reminds us that there should be no line between sacred and secular for followers of Jesus.

Why is it so easy to draw this line?

Work as Witness

Rubel Shelly reminds us that for Christians all of life is a place of sacred activity, especially our work.

Can my daily work actually be sacred work?

Exercising the Spirit: Lectio

If we are to grow in our spiritual walk, we must exercise the Spirit within us and one way is lectio divina, sacred reading.

Have you really been listening for God in his word?

All Space is Sacred Space

All space must be reclaimed as sacred space.

Can we segment our lives into secular and sacred?

In the Presence

We need to remember that when we assemble, God joins us and it is a holy moment.

What do you go to church to do?

The Church Was Used For What?

Some places are holy and we shouldn't violate these sacred spaces.

What's cookin' in your church's kitchen?