Articles Tagged 'Travel'

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.

Finding Jesus' Heart for Ministry: Raised

Phil Ware continues his series on Jesus touching a man with leprosy and focuses on how Jesus' touch and word of command made clean and redeemed this man who was left alone to die, abandoned by everyone and everything in his world, revealing Jesus' heart f

In the healing of a man with leprosy, we see the touch of Jesus and new life promised to us through the Spirit's resurrection power.

Before the Red Sea Parts

Melissa Troyes writes with beauty about God’s touches of grace on a trip to New England with her family as she wrestles with the grief over an aunt who is gone too soon and the uncertainty of the future of her family and where they will live.

Life is as full of beauty as it is uncertainty if we open our eyes to see the divine fingerprints of grace.

I Remember Mimi as the Fireflies Dance

Melissa Troyer shares her memories of her grandmother, Mimi Margaret, and tells her children about the safest place of her childhood.

I still remember the feeling of holding my mouth perfectly still while she put lipstick on my lips, the smell of the old wig on my head making me want to sneeze.

God's Providence? Perhaps!

Steve Higginbotham connects us with God's amazing work at getting people together and helping them live as brothers in Christ both in Bible times and today!

Is this any less amazing than Paul’s unlikely meeting with Onesimus?

Raised

Phil Ware continues his series on Jesus touching a man with leprosy and focuses on how Jesus' touch and word of command make clean and redeem this man who was left alone to die, abandoned by everyone and everything in his world.

In the healing of a man with leprosy, we see the touch of Jesus and new life promised to us through the Spirit's resurrection power.

Hope of the World

Phil Ware shares his series for December 2015 on welcoming Jesus and focuses on the Magi from the gospel of Matthew and lets that story remind us our need to reach out to the lost and foreigner and alien and refugee among us.

What can this old story powerfully say to our geopolitical messes of today?

Early Morning Coffee Discipline

Rubel Shelly reminds us that even early morning coffee can be a good thing if it is tied to a great habit of self-disciplined focus.

What's this discipline of early morning coffee?

The Land of In-between

Phil Ware talks about being stuck in the Land of In-between and how hard it is and some core ideas to take with you as you find yourself in that kind of place.

How do we survive in a place and time like this?

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!

Traveling

Like the Magi of old, people today will follow the signs that lead them to Jesus.

There's still a lot of telling to do

An Amazing Find

Russ Lawson talks about the origin of the word serendipity and asks how we will use these blessings in our lives?

Finding more than we are looking for!

SpiritFire - Leading Us Safely Home

Phil Ware concludes his SpiriFire series with a reminder that God -- Father, Son and Holy Spirit -- lives inside us and makes his home with us.

Where is home for you? No, really, Where?

Traveling Mercies: You've Got to Be Kidding Me!

Phil Ware writes about Christmas, Joseph and Mary, and the "You've got to be kidding me!" moments in the life of Jesus.

I've bet you have had a bunch of these moments at Christmas!

Family Unique: Stops along the Way

Rick Brown continues his family unique series and tries to help us understand that we have to stop and let our families rest sometimes along the way.

Isn't it about time your family took a rest break?

Star Bright

Phil Ware reflects upon the star the Magi saw and puts it in its context of astrologers from Iran who recognized Jesus as King of the Jews and the religious leaders among the Jews who tried to kill him.

What difference does one twinkling star really make?

When You Have Lost It All

Russ Lawson talks about a couple of friends who seem to have lost everything, but then he reminds us what is important and that we haven't really lost that much as long as we have Jesus.

So what have you lost?

Pincushion?

Phil Ware talks about his upcoming trip to Uganda with Compassion International and the opportunity to help children in poverty with the love of Jesus.

Why in the world would Phil get nine shots in four weeks?

Will Someone Please Help Me?

We all need help to get where we're going. If you don't know how to get to Jesus, don't be afraid to ask someone who does.

Do you know how to get where you're going?

Closer Than You Think

Rubel Shelly tells the story of a Rabbi who took a long trip to find what was buried under his own stove to remind us to not give up what we seek by trying something different than where we are simply because we are restless.

How far have you gone to find what you are looking for?

GPS?

Teresa Bell Kindred shares an experience she had with her GPS and then compares it to God's Plan of Salvation which is in the Bible, the only Voice we should trust.

Can your GPS get you out of life's real pickles?

Connecting the Dots!

Ron tells about his daughter's miscarriage and how God has connected the dots to help her come to the conclusion they need to adopt a baby.

Can you see the outline of your life taking shape?

From the Window Seat

Tom takes a ride on an airliner and from the window seat remembers how important it is to look at things from another perspective, God's perspective.

What can you see from where you are sitting?

Upside-Down Blessings

How God turned a couple of horrible, traumatic experiences in the Ware family into something really good!

How in the world can something good come out of something so rotten?

Change is Constant

Change is a constant so how we deal with it is crucial and is part of our heritage as God's people.

How can change be a constant that ties us to the past and gives us hope for the future?

Arriving Home

What happens to people when they die is a lot like trying to tell kids how much farther it is to granny's house!

When are we going to get there?