Articles Tagged 'Star'

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.

Starting Over Having Learned Lessons from the Past

Melissa Troyer combines her journey through motherhood, her realization of inadequacy, her belief in God's sufficiency, and the willingness to teach using our own failures.

We AREN'T enough, but He is. It is the goodness of the Lord that brings us nose-to-nose with our desperate need for Him.

Is God Listening to My Prayers?

Bill Sherrill reminds us about the importance of prayer and how we should pray to honor God.

Prayer that the Father hears is directed to him in faith with an unselfish attitude, seeking to bless and honor God's will because of our love for the Father.

The Cosmic Christmas Story

Dan Bouchelle reminds us of another story of the nativity, a violent one, a clash between heaven and hell, good and evil, the evil red dragon and the Christ child.

Don't forget the wildest story, the cosmic war story, behind Jesus' coming to earth!

ToGather.church for This Weekend is Ready!

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

You're invited to worship with other believers around the world!

I Forgot How Big!

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead through worship in song, the Lord's Supper, a powerful message from God's word, and a blessing to enable us to worship from home or with family and friends in a meaningful way. They invite us to remember just how big o

Nehemiah reminded God's people — even as they lived among the ruins of their failed history — that God is bigger than their failures and can re-create his new future for them.

How Can I Start Over with My Life?

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 as we trust in God to give us a new fresh start in life because of Jesus!

Our message points us to 2 Corinthians 5:17 and Paul's promise that if we are in Christ, we are a new creation!

Wonderfully Created

James Nored and Phil Ware look at Genesis 1 and the Bible's story of Creation and remind us that we are fearfully and wonderfully made.

How are we to view ourselves and each other in this magnificent creation?

Jesus or Religion?

Phil Ware reminds us that in the familiar story of the wise men is a challenging and life-changing question we must all answer with our choices and with our lives.

Am I more like the wise men who passionately sought to find Jesus or the religious leaders who chose their traditions, positions, and power over Jesus?

Aren't the Trees Nice and Full!

Phil Ware introduces us to the concept of TRANSENDING.church and calls us to be a people who gather to transform and scatter.

We are called to be a group of mustard seed people — folks who know they are GATHERED to be TRANSFORMED and SCATTERED.

God's Message to Jesus... and You!

Phil Ware reminds us of the importance of baptism to Jesus as a new beginning and how that should be important to us.

What does God long to say to you?

Welcoming the Dawn of a New Year

The beginning of the New Year brings challenges and the potential for fear and reluctance, but with God we can welcome it and use it for his glory.

What will you do about a New Year?

Think You Are a 'Hopeless Case'?

Rubel Shelley reminds us that God does his best work through the most unlikely of people.

The Father is looking to use you, no matter how unlikely it seems possible!

Prayer for 2014

Rubel Shelly re-shares a prayer for the New Year and a fresh start on life.

Let's begin with prayer!

Jesus. Birth!

Phil Ware wishes everyone Merry Christmas for the Heartlight team and shares 3 different ways to share the story of Jesus at Christmas: a short form, the Bible text from "The Voice" Compass Bible and from a Worship House Media video about a child coming.

Three different ways to tell the story of our Savior's birth — short form, Bible verses, video!

That Star?

Patrick Odum talks about the Christmas star and how it may have been identified, but how that doesn't nearly as much as the One who was born being the One who made the stars.

Is this really the Christmas star?

Silence at Christmas to Listen

Rick Brown writes about LSTN headphones, hearing, Starkey hearing foundation, 400 years of silence after the Old Testament, years, silence, quiet, need, hear, hearing, listening, listen, Immanuel.

If we listen, it is not so silent a night at Christmas!

Influence: Not a Church Word!

Ron Rose reminds us that influence and starting over and being a new creation is something God does all the time and we just need to begin.

Can we really start over?

When Our Star first Began to Shine

Phil Ware writes about the Christmas star that actually began to shine many years before the Magi found it!

It's Been up There a long, long Time!

Stealth Listening

Ron Rose reminds us of the importance of listening and listening beyond the words to the heart and then working for God's miracle in people's lives.

Listening is essential for the miracle to happen!

Bullying

Rubel Shelly reminds us about the problems of bullying and then the cycle we start when we bully the bully.

When does it cross the line?

Tired of the Ugliness?

Ron Rose asks us to see beyond all the ugliness in the world and use our influence for good, to be light in darkness and be an agent of transformation.

We have some choices, so what will we choose?

Something Fresh

Katha Winther shares insights on the New Year, fresh starts, and God's work of salvation in us!

Don't you want more than something new?

Beauty in Black and White

Pat Mingarelli shares more of his great photography, this time focusing on black and white images and reminding us that sometimes God meets us in the most stark of places.

Can you see the beauty here?

We Get to Play Baseball

Tom Norvell reminds us on this 2010 MLB Allstars game night about the blessings of what we get to do each day.

What do you get to do today?

The Heart of Successful Leadership

Rubel Shelly challenges us to go beyond the facade and charisma of many supposed leaders today and demand more.

Where can we find this kind of people today?