Articles Tagged 'Sin' (Page 4)

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.

ToGather.church for Sunday July 26, Is Ready!

Dr. Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware invite you to join us for our Sunday, Verse of the Day focused, home worship guide and videos, called ToGather.church!

You're Invited!

ToGather.church for Sunday July 12 Is Ready!

Dr. Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware invite you to join us for our Sunday, Verse of the Day focused, home worship guide and videos, called ToGather.church!

We invite you to share worship with people from all over the world!

ToGather for Sunday, July 5 is Ready

Dr. Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware invite you to join us for our Sunday, Verse of the Day focused, home worship guide and videos, called ToGather.church!

You're invited to take part even though the ToGather.church!

Leaving a Multi-generational Legacy

Phil Ware reminds us that as fathers and grandfather, we will leave behind messes but we can also leave behind a legacy of faith that lasts for generations.

As fathers, we can leave behind messes for our children and grandchildren; more importantly, we can leave behind a lasting legacy of faith!

The Scandal and Grace of Jesus' Cross

Phil Ware and Demetrius Collins lead us into worship in song and the Word to experience, proclaim and rejoice in the power of the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For us, the cross means everything because at the cross God meets us with overwhelming grace and love that know no limit.

Sowing to the Spirit: Finding Power from on High

Phil Ware reminds us that God wants us to know that we have the Holy Spirit present and at work with power in our lives!

We can trust God's promises that the Spirit is at work in us!

Jesus' Loose Lug Nuts and His RagTag Band

Phil Ware reminds us that we want to not only share in the Lord's Supper, but we also want our table to be like Levi's table of grace and friendship.

Could it be that we are more afraid of being contaminated by the world than motivated by Jesus to be salt and light?

A Party for Jesus with Sinners?

Phil Ware and Demetrius Collins invite us to worship God and remind each other of those who are lost, left out, and left behind that need to be at Jesus' table of grace and how we are called to reach the lost as our mission.

Let's awaken our hearts to the greatness of God, the assured hope we have in our future with Jesus, and our mission to take Jesus' grace to the world.

How Do I Keep My Sinful Flesh in Check?

Phil Ware and Demetrius Collins invite us to worship God and keep our sinful nature, our flesh, in the past and nailed to the cross and lead us in worship through this practical home worship guide.

Those of us who have followed Jesus for any significant length of time know that keeping our sinful flesh in check is a challenge.

A Shattered Lamp and a Broken White Stallion

Phil Ware talks about a broken horse statue and a shattered pink lamp and how God not only forgives but also purifies us and makes us whole.

How do you put a shattered life back together?

Valuing Women of Faith and Courage

Phil Ware and Demetrius Collins invite us to worship God and celebrate the work of the Holy Spirit as we are transformed to be more like our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Happy Mother's Day! Today is Mother's Day in many part of the world, so let's celebrate women of faith and courage who have blessed our lives and empowered the work of God in our world.

Waiting in Expectation

Phil Ware and Demetrius Collins invite us to worship God and celebrate the work of the Holy Spirit as we are transformed to be more like our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

We can approach each day with hope and expectation because of God's faithfulness.

Living My MUSD #6: Shared Prayer through Forgiving Redemptively

Phil Ware opens the New Testament and reminds of a great way to live out our mission while under social distancing, prayer because prayer has always been a virtual way of blessing others.

Living My Mission Under Social Distancing

Dealing with the Anger Inside

Phil Ware and Demetrius Collins invite us to worship God and celebrate the work of the Holy Spirit as we are transformed to be more like our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

We are ToGather: People from around the world, gathered virtually, to honor God as we are reshaped by his Spirit to do the work of Jesus in our broken world.

Living My MUSD #5: Shared Prayer through Interceding Personally

Phil Ware opens the New Testament and reminds of a great way to live out our mission while under social distancing, prayer because prayer has always been a virtual way of blessing others.

Even when confined to our houses and limited in our travels and frustrated with social distancing, we still have the incredible ability to pray for others.

Until Christ Is Formed in You

Phil Ware and Demetrius Collins invite us to worship God and celebrate the work of the Holy Spirit as we are transformed to be more like our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

We are gathered to honor and praise God and to be reshaped by his Spirit so we can do the work of Jesus in the world.

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!

The Power of Affirmation

ToGather.church for March 22, 2020

Luke's account of Jesus' baptism and the Father's response provides our focus for today: They remind us of how powerful loving affirmation can be!

Introducing ToGather

This is an introduction and explanation of the purpose of ToGather!

We covet your prayers, comments, and suggestions as we begin what we hope will be a blessing to Jesus' people.

He Entered Your World

Max Lucado reminds us that Jesus longs for us to draw near to him in our times of troubles, problems, challenges, pain, and trials.

God drew near to us in Jesus, so why would we not come to him with our challenges, troubles, and trials?

Grace Beyond the Flood

Phil Ware and James Nored share ideas in video and writing of the grace God brought to humanity after their repeated rebellions as the journey down the story of redemption and as they find their story in God's story.

Each passing generation beckoned the deepening shadows of evil, corruption, violence, and wickedness until these four held the world in their ever-tightening grip.

God of Gracious Love

James Nored and Phil Ware remind us of God's grace: both his common grace and his sacrificial grace meant to save us from our sinful failures and save us to share his gracious purposes with the world.

Life without grace leaves us with a distorted understanding of God.

Grace for the Worst of Us... Even Me!

James Nored and Phil Ware remind us that not only is God's grace available in his love and mercy but also that mercy and grace is available to all, even the worst of sinners, like you and me!

It took several years for him to dig out of the hole he made for himself with his lack of appreciation for grace and his own need of it.

The Expertise and Artistry of God's Grace

James Nored and Phil Ware remind us that not only is God's grace available in his love and mercy, it is also beautiful in the artistic style he brings us this beauty!

Grace is the mercy and love of God freely shared with us. Grace is also the style, the way in which God shares this mercy and love

Broken: But NOT Forever!

James Nored and Phil Ware remind us that sin, both rebellion and missing God's goal of goodness for us, has reaped destruction on all we touch, but that this is not what God intended for us, there is redemption coming!

Why did this brokenness, this pain, this shattering, come upon us if it is not God's intention for us?