Articles Tagged 'Support'

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.

A Journey of Love and Care

Finding help for aging adults with Alzheimer's, ALS, and other mobility-related issues is essential to care for those you love fully.

Finding Hope and Support in Times of Need!

Biblical Marriage

Lee Wilson goes back to the beginning of Scripture and as an experienced relationship coach, invites people to look at God's plan to make marriages thrive.

Not an archaic form of subjugation but a divine and brilliant system for harmony, mutual enrichment, and voluntary submission!

Comfort in any Season

Phil Ware talks about 2 Corinthians 1:3-4 and comforting others with the comfort we have received when we went through the season of mourning, grief, and pain.

How does God use us to comfort other?

Once for Him, Once for Us!

Phil Ware reminds us that God said almost exactly the same words to his Son twice, yet he spoke the first time to affirm his Son and the second time to let us know we must listen to the Son.

Jesus is my beloved Son. What he says not only pleases me, but it is my fullest truth.

Having a Fitting Reply

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in online, virtual worship through words and music using YouTube videos to help us understand how to give fitting replies to others in different conversation contexts.

Let's worship today, praising God and asking for the help of the Holy Spirit as we seek to respond to people as Jesus did!

A Great Friend, A Great Man

Phil Ware shares about the important influence of Paul Faulkner, especially for the online ministries of Heartlight.org and VerseoftheDay.com

We are not alone as recipients of the kindness, encouragement, and love of Paul Faulkner. Many others have received the gracious touch of Paul and Gladys.

Freed to Serve

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in a virtual, DIY, worship through words and music using YouTube videos to remind us how Jesus paid the price to free us from sin and adopt us into God's family so we need to serve one another with our freedom.

Jesus paid the price to free us from sin, death, and hell so we could serve others in love.

An Overlooked Gem?

Phil Ware continues his reflections on his daily reading in the gospels, this time focused on Luke 8:1-3 and how this forgotten gem opens our eyes to the importance that women played in Jesus' ministry.

This seemingly innocuous transitional passage in the gospel of Luke is one of those hidden gems we often overlook!

Three Easy Ways To Help Service Members in Your Community

Rhonda Underhill shares simple ways to help active service members and veterans with their adjustments to civilian life and provides many good links to services and resources that are helpful.

Living in a civilian world after being in service can be a tough transition, but with support from their community and friends like you, a service member's life can be much easier to navigate.

To the Girl on the Elevator

Teresa Bell Kindred shares an emotional story from her experience caring for her husband in his two-plus month battle with COVID-19 and invites us to pray God's blessing into the life of an unknown young wife whose husband is in ICU.

I wish I could have hugged the girl on the elevator.

Once for Him, Once for Us!

Phil Ware reminds us that God said almost exactly the same words to his Son twice, yet he spoke the first time to affirm his Son and the second time to let us know we must listen to the Son.

'Jesus is my beloved Son. What he says not only pleases me, but it is my fullest truth.'

Escaping the Dark, Lonely, Hole of Depression

Teresa Bell Kindred opens up about her struggle with anxiety and depression, a secret hidden in her family for multiple generations, and she urges us to open up and get help.

Find someone you can talk to. Don't wait any longer. Get the conversation started!

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!

Beyond Trite Slogans to Real Help

Phil Ware writes about Romans 8:22-29, the bondage to decay that our world faces, our own troubles and hardships, and slogans that we often use and abuse to try to encourage people who are grieving, wounded, or hurt.

How can we say these things and really mean them when trying to help those who hurt?

Who Will Carry Us?

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 and ask this important question: Who will

Young children can fall asleep anywhere and sleep peacefully, trusting that those who love them will carry them where they need to go!

Once for Him, Once for Us!

Phil Ware reminds us that God said almost exactly the same words to his Son twice, yet he spoke the first time to affirm his Son and the second time to let us know we must listen to the Son.

Jesus is my beloved Son. What he says not only pleases me, but it is my fullest truth.

Three Questions that Made Me Healthier

Jordan Harrell shares some challenges from several years ago after her baby was born and how three questions she needed to answer helped make her healthier in every way.

What I didn’t realize was that my wellness is not just about the food I put inside my body!

Hope, Healing, and Help

Phil Ware continues his posts on how to help with the disasters currently plaguing the United States.

With so many struggling, each of us has an opportunity to step up and make a difference in the lives of those in deep need!

Here's Where to Help!

Phil Ware shares a way to donate to help people in need from Hurricane Harvey.

You can help by donating to folks on the ground who have pledged to handle your gifts honorably.

After the Crowd Has Gone

Phil Ware reminds us that Jesus gave us a great example on how to deal with the challenges we face after a great thanksgiving feast.

Thanksgiving is over; so what do we do now as we return to the challenges of life?

Angels Among Us!

Brian McCutchen reminds us of the special role God has for angels in our lives.

You never know who a stranger is or the special person who is helping you out of an embarrassing mess!

A Circle of Love: Too!

Phil Ware takes us back to an old article from twenty years ago about a circle of love and a family that was sustained through tragedy and loss because of the love of friends.

When Jesus' family loves each other, even in our worst moments, we can find ourselves being carried!

One Another

This is a collection of "one another" passages in the New Testament, and primarily from Paul, that speaks about life together.

We were not made to do life alone.

A Caution about Criticism

Rubel Shelly reminds us that unfair criticism is a part of life so we need to rely on our relationship with God to overcome it and we need to not ever become one of those kinds of criticizers.

Some criticism isn't helpful, it is withering, so how do we deal with it?

YOU Matter to God

Brian McCutchen reminds us that we are known, loved and valued by God.

Sometimes we just need to be reminded that we matter.