Articles Tagged 'Wicked'

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.

Our Brutal World

by Max Lucado · Psalm 27:3 · Darkness

Max Lucado reminds us to be courageous in our times of trouble for we have put our faith in the one who has conquered.

Life is a dangerous endeavor. We pass our days in the shadows of ominous realities.

Grace Beyond the Flood

by James Nored & Phil Ware · Genesis 3 · Sin

Phil Ware and James Nored share ideas in video and writing of the grace God brought to humanity after their repeated rebellions as the journey down the story of redemption and as they find their story in God's story.

Each passing generation beckoned the deepening shadows of evil, corruption, violence, and wickedness until these four held the world in their ever-tightening grip.

This Brutal World

by Max Lucado · Matthew 8:28-32 · Courage

Max Lucado reminds us to be courageous in our times of trouble for we have put our faith in the one who has conquered.

Life is a dangerous endeavor. We pass our days in the shadows of ominous realities.

Noah, Violence, and Grace

by James Nored & Phil Ware · Genesis 6:5-6 · Violence

James Nored and Phil Ware remind us that violence is not God's plan, but humanity's corrupt and wicked propensity to injure and mar those created in the image of God.

The story of Noah fascinates children, but the message of Noah also reminds us of the Creator's heart being broken by humanity's penchant for violence.

Messenger to Humankind

by Phillip Morrison · Isaiah 6:1-10 · Love · Prejudice · Violence

Phil Ware adds some beginning thoughts and Phillip Morrison writes beautifully about a messenger to mankind and The Messenger to humankind.

Is there any message we can take from our dark night of the human soul?

Alert to Satan's Tactics

by Rubel Shelly · Ephesians 6:10-12 · Satan

Rubel Shelly reminds us of the sly intentions of the evil one who would like to deceive us, but we can and do have the power to resist.

No one wants to be an expert, but we all must be alert!

God Gets Mad

by Rubel Shelly · Ephesians 2:1-3 · Anger

Rubel Shelly reminds that God hates and gets angry at evil and calls us to be stirred to anger and action.

If it makes God mad, shouldn't we get angry, too?

Explaining the Unexplainable

by Patrick D. Odum · Romans 1:29-31

Patrick Odum looks at a grisly murder and wonders how can a human being do such a thing and then probes deeper into the heart of darkness that sometimes claims us and warns us away from it.

How can we make sense of something this awful?

The Violence of the Wicked?

by Phil Ware · Psalm 7 · Violence

Phil Ware shares insight on Psalm 7

Please end the violence!

Jockeying To Be Shocking

by Rubel Shelly · James 3:9-12 · Speech

Shock jocks have tried to out do each other in shocking, crude, and obscene remarks on radio, TV, and interviews and they have crossed the line and we are the only ones who can do something about it.

Aren't we way past too far?

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