Articles Tagged 'Sin' (Page 14)

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.

Missing It

Tom Norvell reminds us to praise God for what he has done in our lives, not explain it away.

How badly have you missed it or messed it up?

What's Really Important

Paul Faulkner reminds us that most folks miss the point of life entirely because they don't know what is really important.

How do you know the difference?

Hand-Me-Downs

Mary Anne Brannon shares memories of her childhood and the hand-me-downs and hand sewn clothes from her mother that were all made with love.

Have you worn your cousin's best?

Clearing a Path

There are so many times in life that the world around me is full of confusing messages. It's hard to know which way to turn and it seems impossible to find my way. The good news is that as a Christian I have someone to clear the path ahead for me.

Who is clearing your path?

The Staying Power of Our Words

Katha Winther reminds us of the weird and yet powerful staying power of many of our words and reminds us to use them to be a blessing to others.

Why do some of these things stick in our heads for so long?

The Disease

Jesus came to touch and to heal, to take away The Disease.

How would you feel if you had The Disease?

The Jewel

Muriel Larson reminds of the great blessing we have from Romans 8:28

What's the most precious thing you've seen?

Upside Down is Right Side Up

Paul Faulkner reminds us that Jesus turned things upside down adn stirred things up to bring God's blessings to others.

Jesus really could stire things up, couldn't he?

Waiting Can Be a Blessing!

Tom Norvell describes the blessings promised to those who wait on the Lord from Isaiah.

How hard is it really to wait for this?

Explaining the Unexplainable

Patrick Odum looks at a grisly murder and wonders how can a human being do such a thing and then probes deeper into the heart of darkness that sometimes claims us and warns us away from it.

How can we make sense of something this awful?

A Selfish Christian?

Mike Barres reminds us that God wants to bless us and he also wants to conform us to Jesus: so let's not use our Christianity for selfish motives.

Isn't this an oxymoron?

Getting Out of Trouble

Paul Faulkner reminds us that temptation is something that gets worse when we give into it, especially lying, and yet God promises to help us find a way out of the mess.

How in the world are you going to get out of this mess?

Resistance Is NOT Futile!

Patrick Odum reminds us that overcoming temptation requires us to resist the devil, but he also adds some other insights from James' famous passage about overcoming temptation by being honest about oursleves and our need for God.

Have you given resisting a try lately?

We are Brothers

What Christians share in common is much greater than any differences than could seem to separate them.

How are we alike when we seem so different?

The Jesus Vibe: Crouching at the Door

Phil Ware shares his continuing series on the Jesus vibe and focuses on how Jesus won the war over sin and temptation.

How do you face down our enemy?

Unity in Christ

Summertime is a great time of the year! There is nothing I enjoy more than spending a day at the swimming pool, having a cookout in the park, watching my favorite baseball team play late on a warm evening and watching the neighborhood kids play without th

In our relationship with Christ, what unites us all?

Just Keep Singing

Phil Ware talks about the death of a friend who died with friends singing praises to God and how we can sing our way through anything.

What do you do when you can't think of anything else to do to hang on?

Bless Your Heart!

Jane Vincenzi shares some insight in the old southern phrase bless your heart and realizes that it is really what our Christian life is all about.

Whose heart are you blessing these days?

Proclaim Liberty Throughout the Land

Despite common misconceptions, freedom is not granted by governments, nor won on a battlefield. True freedom comes from God and God alone.

Let's celebrate TRUE freedom

Last Will and Testament

Alan Smith tells the story of a wild will and how Jesus' last will and testament is far different and far better!

What did you get in the will?

GPS?

Teresa Bell Kindred shares an experience she had with her GPS and then compares it to God's Plan of Salvation which is in the Bible, the only Voice we should trust.

Can your GPS get you out of life's real pickles?

How Much Does He Know?

Paul Faulkner talks about God knowing all about us and still loving us immensely and how his love is better than the best dad and compensates for the worst dad.

Does God really know all about me?

I'm Sorry, Butt ...

Hal Runkel reminds us that we can issue an apology and actually use it to beat up someone else in the process by transferring the focus of the guilt from ourselves to someone else and this is fake and mean and bullying.

When is I'm sorry not an apology?

Same and Different

Rubel Shelly reminds us that we are all unique and different and yet we must all take responsibility for our actions.

How are we all the same and yet all different?

Jockeying To Be Shocking

Shock jocks have tried to out do each other in shocking, crude, and obscene remarks on radio, TV, and interviews and they have crossed the line and we are the only ones who can do something about it.

Aren't we way past too far?