Articles Tagged 'Skin'

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.

Connecting People of Other Cultures with Jesus

Phil Ware continues his series on 'The Andrew Effect' and connecting people with Jesus, this time focusing on including people of other cultures, races, and languages.

Are we willing to take the risk and reach outside our comfort zones to connect people with Jesus?

God-skin!

Ron Rose is back at Black Rifle Coffee, being the available friend and pastor to folks who drop in with a story to tell, this time it's a lady who's been dumped and betrayed and Ron Reminds her of her need for God, and he will be available to be the skin

Without hesitation, no warm-up required, she told her story of betrayal and rejection.

Connecting People of Other Cultures with Jesus

Phil Ware continues his series on 'The Andrew Effect' and connecting people with Jesus, this time focusing on including people of other cultures, races, and languages.

Are we willing to take the risk and reach outside our comfort zones to connect people with Jesus?

More than God's Whisper

James Nored and Phil Ware share the meaning of Jesus' incarnation in word and video using a simple but powerful allegory.

How could God help us understand his faithful love for us, yet demonstrate his desire for us to live in our world with his righteous character and gracious compassion?

The Way of Christ Jesus

Far too often the incarnation of God in Jesus as Immanuel, God with us, gets lost in all the theological language and forgets the call of Jesus to live with each others in love.

Far too often the incarnation of God in Jesus as Immanuel, God with us, gets lost in all the theological language, and the call of Jesus for us to live with each other in love is forgotten.

Here, Near, and Far

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in a virtual, DIY, worship through words and music using YouTube videos to call us to recognize God's call to mission for us as we seek to be God with Skin On to people here, near, and far.

God loves all the people of the world (John 3:16) and wants us to demonstrate his love for them so they will turn from their destructive ways and be saved (2 Peter 3:9).

More than God's Whisper Inviting Us Out of Flatland

James Nored and Phil Ware share the meaning of Jesus' incarnation in word and video using a simple but powerful allegory.

How could God help us understand his faithful love for us, yet demonstrate his desire for us to live in our world with his righteous character and gracious compassion?

Not a Patch, but a Whole New World

Phil Ware continues looking at the gospel of Mark and reminds us that Jesus isn't a patch on religion or a new joy to infuse old and stale religion; he is an altogether all new thing.

Pursue Jesus. Completely pursue him. You will notice that while you are not religious, you are being drawn to a holy character and gracious compassion that religion longs to impart, but cannot!

God Made Touchable

Phil Ware challenges us to remember that Jesus was God made touchable and that Communion makes God touchable to us again.

That is God with curly dark brown hair and wood shavings in his hair and callouses on his hands. That is God come live among us.

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.

Connecting People of Other Cultures with Jesus

Phil Ware continues his series on "The Andrew Effect" and connecting people with Jesus.

Are we willing to take the risk and reach outside our comfort zones to connect people with Jesus?

New Wine and Old Skins

Phil Ware shares an insight on older people in the Bible and today who kept growing and changing through the years because they wanted to be more like Jesus.

Can we keep growing, or do we have to stop just because we age?

Some Things just Matter More!

Phil Ware shares a recent heart-gripping moment they had with their compassion child from Uganda and what it all means as he remembers a trip from 5 years ago with Compassion Bloggers.

A touching reminder of why we do some very simple, but important things!

The Worst of both Worlds

Ruble Shelly helps think through some of the challenges of change!

Should we mix and match, hold on to the past, or change — how do we know?

More than Words

Phil Ware talks about why he and about 100 others go to Peru each year when it costs so much.

God spoke His greatest message with just one Word!

I Understand This

Phil Ware continues his series on Sagrada Familia and the children of the Community and relates it this time to the words he prays in the Lord's Prayer.

There are simply things I don't get!

Getting a Firm Grip

Russ Lawson uses an old story about street cars to remind us of our need to hang on to God and our relationship with him.

Are you holding on to God?

Doing the Best I Can

Mike Barres reminds us that we all reach times in our lives when our best efforts are not enough, but God can do what needs to be done if we will persevere, fast, and pray.

What happens if your best isn't good enough?

Uncluttering

Patrick Odum challenges us to get rid of the clutter in our lives and our churches just like Jesus challenged the people of his day.

Are you willing to get rid of the stuff in your life that is just in the way?

Chosen by God!

Paul Faulkner reminds us that God chose us, and still chooses us, every time for his team.

Imagine never being picked last!

Skin Color Shouldn't Matter

Phil Ware continues to share the values of his dad with his children and wants them to know that prejudice and racial hatred is not acceptable or tolerabe.

Why is this such a big deal to us?

Sharing the Story of Our Lives

Paul Faulkner writes about sharing our story and being vulnerable with others so we can have friends.

With whom have you shared your story?