Articles Tagged 'Wish'

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.

Cruciformed #6: The Gamble

Phil Ware continues his series of insights on living the CRUCIFORMED life Jesus calls all disciples to live on his way to the cross.

As Jesus journeyed into Jerusalem that last time, he had reached the point where he was going to gamble everything on the cross.

8GHT: It's All About Jesus

Phil Ware continues his series called 8GHT -- Eight Truths that Turned the World Upside Down! from Acts 1:1-11, this week focusing on Jesus as the Message, Motive, Model, and Mover in the early days of the church.

Behind every move made by disciples in the book of Acts, Jesus was The Mover!

Hope: More than Wishing, It's Expecting!

Ron Rose is back at Black Rifle coffee and visiting and reflecting with others who have gone through rough times and found lasting hope.

God is in the room and has placed hope on a buffet platter right here, right now.

Cruciformed #6: The Gamble

Phil Ware continues his series of insights on living the CRUCIFORMED life Jesus calls all disciples to live on his way to the cross.

As Jesus journeyed into Jerusalem that last time, he had reached the point where he was going to gamble everything on the cross.

All About Jesus

Phil Ware continues his series called 8GHT -- Eight Truths that Turned the World Upside Down! from Acts 1:1-11, this week focusing on Jesus as the Message, Motive, Model, and Mover in the early days of the church.

Behind every move made by disciples in the book of Acts, Jesus was the mover!

I Will Cling to the Old Rugged Cross

Phillip Morrison reminds us where the journey of Holy Week ends and our new life in Christ begins, the cross and the empty tomb.

Like him, and because of him, we live and die to live again.

Going to Heaven?

You can know you are going to heaven. You do not have to wish you were able to, you just have to decide how bad you want to go.

Some wish they could, some might want to, but you can know you will go to heaven.

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?

The Plateaued Church

Tim Woodroof continues his series on the ways we need to freshen our approach to church if we are going to connect with people in today's world and how we react to our own church issues.

What happens when culture passes us by?

Hate Crime or Love Offering?

Phil Ware writes on this day after Palm Sunday about Jesus' ultimate destination in Jerusalem, with the triumphal entry, the conflict with the leaders, and his betrayal, death, and resurrection.

So what, or who, really put Jesus on the cross?

Exchanging Your Christmas Dream for a Bigger One

Rick Brown shares an insight from the Westjet Santa Claus video and says we need to ask God for more and greater vision.

Does God really have a bigger dream for you than He gave Joseph and Mary?

Yes, Virginia There Really Is ...

Rubel Shelly helps clarify that Jesus is a historical figure and real, not something imaginary like the Easter Bunny, tooth fairy, and Santa Claus.

Where does Jesus fit into all the make believe?

Merry Christmas?

Rubel Shelly shares very respectfully the reason he wants to say Merry Christmas.

Isn't happy holidays just too bland?

I'll Take My Two Talents!

Lisa Mikitarian talks about the parable of the talents and learning to focus on using what we have and not saying, "If only"

How much is enough?

Wishes Are Not Plans

Rubel Shelly reminds us that wishes aren't plans and we have to begin on the road to growth or it never happens.

Can we ever move beyond the failure to act on good intentions?

Don't Forget to Wish for the Best

Rick Brown finds a Black Friday experience that pushes him back to the real meaning of Christmas and the old Sears Wish Book.

When was the last time you sat down with the

Traveling Mercies: Broken Dreams?

Phil Ware continues a series of messages called Traveling Mercies focusing on Moses and his journey from broken dreams to having those dreams realized in his life.

Are those old broken dreams really gone?

Under the Passover Moon

Lois Tverberg shares from her blog on the Jewishness of Jesus and about why the disciples fell asleep on the night of Jesus' betrayal.

So why did those friends of Jesus fall asleep on him?

Totally Present for Today with a Vision for Tomorrow

Michelle Howe warns women about worry and wishing that can rob them of the present moment and distort their vision of their future.

Can I be present in the moment and still have a hope for the future?

What Do You Really Want?

What we want and most need at Christmas are not the kinds of things that money can buy!

What are you asking Santa to bring you for Christmas?