Articles Tagged 'Serving'

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.

I Doubt It: Dirty Feet & Open Hands

Phil Ware continues his series called, 'I Doubt It,' focusing this week on Jesus' tender act of washing the disciples' feet.

Learning the art of loving and sacrificial service in a room full of dirty feet.

Look Who Made the List!

Ron Rose writes about Oskar Schindler and his list of Jewish employees saved from the Holocaust by his mercy and bravery and by being put on his list, and we are put on God's list of life!

I want to live, so His story is compelling and inviting... I want to live worthy of the cost and to never forget...

Wonderfully Unsettling Grace

James Nored and Phil Ware explore the wonderfully unsettling nature of God's grace and His desire to make it accessible to everyone.

God perched His grace on a tree of torture in the middle of humanity's worst abuses so that grace would be available to everyone... even you!

Preparing Hearts for Jesus

Phil Ware shares insight on the beginning of Mark's gospel and how salvation is preceded by service, serving comes before saving, and the gospel always begins with a servant.

The sequence of grace — serving before saving!

A Palm Full of Mercy from a Basin of Grace

Max Lucado reminds us that mercy may be hard, but it is often the only solution and that solution can only be offered by the one offended.

How can a basin of water mean so much to so many?

I Doubt It: Dirty Feet & Open Hands

Phil Ware continues his series called, 'I Doubt It,' focusing this week on Jesus' tender act of washing the disciples' feet.

Learning the art of loving and sacrificial service in a room full of dirty feet.

Love: The Deep and The Quiet

Ann Voskamp's article on love and the river is merged with Delirious? and Martyn Smith's song Find Me in the River.

Love means so much more than a warm fuzzy feeling; it means we act differently.

Go and Do Likewise

Yet this parable, or teaching story, is focused on one man who personally, intimately and immediately did something. Thus, the lesson is that as followers of Jesus, we need to go and do likewise as we travel over our own roads of life and help those in ne

What do you do, actually do, to help your neighbor?

The Leadership Issue

Leadership is not about being boss or bullying, but about motivating, serving, and equipping others to their full potential.

Why being boss won't solve your problems!

Exercise Gives Energy

Serving may be hard work, but like good exercise, it develops us into a healthier people.

Why in the world would anyone want to go to such an effort?

Listen to Your Teacher

We need to listen to our Teacher: Jesus is the one we must look to for our answers in how to help and bless others.

Have you been listening lately?