Articles Tagged 'Strength'

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.

When the Way Out Is Through

Phil Ware begins a series called Saved at Sea which focuses on God's deliverance and truth found in the stories about the sea and rivers and water in the Bible.

What do we do in the middle of our challenges and problems with no plan in sight?

We Were Made for This!

Melissa Troyer shares her heart about the strength, faith, and love that it takes to get through hard things and hard times together.

There are a million little moments that really matter, and you DO have what it takes to give.

The Long, Hard Chill of Winter

Phil Ware talks about the harshness of a long, cold, hard winter and the trials and troubles we must endure as believers.

Are you ready for the long hard chill of winter?

I Will Lift My Eyes

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in an online, worship through words and music using YouTube videos to lift our eyes to the LORD and receive our strength, hope, and encouragement from him.

Despite many warnings from the prophets, Israel began felt entitled because they were God's PEOPLE, in God's PLACE, by God's POWER.

Jesus' Power to Get It Done

Phil Ware continues his series called 8GHT, focusing on eight principles out of Acts 1:1-10, today his focus is on the Holy Spirit being the power behind the early church.

We must not forget to punch that little red button and make sure the current of heaven's grace and power flow to us and flow through us to the world.

8GHT: Jesus Isn't Finished with Us Yet!

Phil Ware begins an eight-part series on eight truths that turned the world upside down, a look at the early verses of the book of Acts.

Behind every act of power in Acts, we see Jesus at work, guiding his followers and providing his strength for them to do what he asked of them.

He is My Mighty Rock, My Refuge

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in a virtual, DIY, worship through words and music using YouTube videos to remind us that God is our stronghold, foundation, certainty, refuge, strength and assurance.

We celebrate that God is our salvation, our stronghold, our refuge, our one certainty in the middle of all that is unsure!

My Heart's Treasure!

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 as our greatest treasure and that he is enough for us, even in, and especially when, the world crashes in on us.

Is God my treasure? If I were to lose everything but still have God in my life, would he be enough for me?

Look to El Shaddai

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in a virtual, DIY, worship through words and music using YouTube videos to glorify God as El Shaddai, our Abba Father, and God Almighty.

We can have hope for the future because of our eternal and faithful Father, the LORD God, El Shaddai, even when everything we think is lasting crumbles into dust.

Unflattering Beauty

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in virtual worship through words and music using YouTube videos to challenge us to use our strengths, interests, and gifts to bless others and glorify God.

We must try to see each other, our world, and ourselves with the eyes and the heart of God, not through our own self-serving point of view.

ToGather.church for November 22 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 use our worship guide for your home or group worship!

No Unfinished Business!

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in virtual worship through words and music using YouTube videos to challenge us to live for God and finish what he has given us to do by investing in future generations to carry on God's work.

Can you live certain that you will finish all you are supposed to do in this life before you leave it?

New Frontiers of Grace through Obedience

Phil Ware lead through worship in song, the Lord's Supper, a powerful message from God's word about the blessings in obedience to give us the freedom to become all that God intended us to be.

We believe in the Lord's goodness and grace. We trust that obeying the LORD opens our lives to the new frontiers of his grace!

ToGather.church for November 8 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 use our worship guide for your home or group worship!

Please Encourage Someone!

Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware lead through worship in song, the Lord's Supper with Rubel Shelly, a powerful message from God's word about encouraging each other

Today's message is a reminder of something that God, throughout the Scriptures and in every age, has urged his people to do: Encourage someone!

Do Again in Our Day What You Did Before!

Phil Ware and Demetrius Collins lead us into worship through songs, Communion, and the Word God, inviting us to realize that God's presence and power are still available to us today and we can ask God to do again in our day what he did in days of old thro

Why settle for a past-tense God when the Lord longs to move through us with power from the Holy Spirit?

Where's the Power?

Phil Ware focuses on Jesus' promise to send the power of the Holy Spirit to empower the church and our need to seek and use that power!

What happened to the power that Jesus promised to us?

Jesus' Power to Get It Done

Phil Ware continues his series called, 8GHT, focusing on eight principles out of Acts 1, today his focus is on the Holy Spirit being the power behind the early church.

We must not forget to punch that little red button and make sure the current of heaven’s grace and power flow to us and flow through us to the world.

Jesus Isn't Finished with Us Yet!

Phil Ware begins an eight-part series on eight truths that turned the world upside down, a look at the early verses of the book of Acts.

Behind every act of power in Acts, we see Jesus at work, guiding his followers and providing his strength for them to do what he asked of them.

More than Meets the Eye

Phil Ware looks into Jesus feeding the five thousand and reminds us that he longs to do amazing things through us, too!

Exhausted, bone-weary, and insufficient to meet the task at hand? Ah, you may just be in the place where Jesus can use you most powerfully!

When I Am Weak...

Tom Norvell reminds us that our weaknesses are the occasion for us to rely on God's strength.

So what's so good about admitting that we have times of weakness?

When the Way Out Is Through

Phil Ware begins a series called Saved at Sea which focuses on God's deliverance and truth found in the stories about the sea and rivers and water in the Bible.

What do we do in the middle of our challenges and problems with no plan in sight?

Bored to Life

Phil Ware talks about the importance of rest and the Sabbath principle.

Is rest really necessary for holy and whole living?

Icebergs

Phil Ware comes in right after Valentine's Day and reminds us about iceberg dates on our calendar that tend to sink us and overwhelm us with feelings of being alone, being failures, and being abandoned but that we can overcome them by crying out to Jesus

What do you do about those iceberg dates on your calendar that seem to sink you?

The Story: Second Incarnation

Phil Ware continues his series on The Story focusing on the early chapters of Acts and the coming of the Spirit and the work done in the name of Jesus!

Can I really experience Jesus today?