Articles Tagged 'Wounds'

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.

The King Who Shares Our Wounds

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in virtual worship through words and music using YouTube videos and invite us to welcome Jesus, God who came to us to share our wounds and we see this in his manger and cross, the thrones on which he was exalted and

As we come to understand God as the King willing to show us his wounds, then share our wounds, the birth of Jesus takes on a fresh and powerful new meaning.

The King Who Shares Our Wounds

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in virtual worship through words and music using YouTube videos and invite us to welcome Jesus, God who came to us to share our wounds and we see this in his manger and cross, the thrones on which he was exalted and

As we come to understand God as the King willing to show us his wounds, then share our wounds, the birth of Jesus takes on a fresh and powerful new meaning.

Called to Receive a Blessing

Phil Ware and Demetrius Collins lead us into worship in song and the Word to experience, proclaim and rejoice in the power of the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ and his call to us to remember and renew and relive the forgiveness of the cross to our daily

Jesus shared his love, his life, and his amazing grace with us on the cross, so will we follow Jesus and live the way of the cross in our lives?

You Break It; You Buy It?

Phil Ware reminds us that God broke one of the most held rules of merchandising, you break it; you buy it, and in Jesus turned this principle upside down.

You mean, this actually applies to my kid, too?

Our Father Is Not Silent!

Phil Ware continues his series on finding God's vision for our lives and living on mission for God.

Does God still speak and make his presence known in our lives or is he silent, leaving us to decipher our own way through our troubled world?

The Emmaus Option

Ann Voskamp looks at our ravaged world this summer and uses the image of a ravaged countryside to help us remember the power of sharing scars with the one who bears our sin in his scars.

How an old journey and a brief meal can help us reshape ourselves... and our world.

Tortured!

Phillip Morrison writes about a serious situation that was brought to light by an obituary -- child abuse -- and Phil Ware offers some helpful suggestions on ways to bring redemption out of the hurt of this world.

Not what any of us wants in our obituary!

Thanks Mom!

Mom, our mothers, pay a high price for loving us and bringing us to Jesus.

What can we say but,

Darkness

Phil Ware reminds us that darkness is the place where God can meet us, redeem us, deliver us, and save us from death and disaster.

Am I alone in my darkest hours?

The Personal Touch

Phil Ware continues his series on out of the box and reminds us that Jesus is God made touchable and personal: more than a miracle worker, Jesus is the personal care of God for people in their deepest needs.

More than a miracle worker, Jesus is the touch of God.

Roads Without Potholes

Rubel Shelly writes about potholes, discouragement, disappointments, pain, grief, wounds that occur in our lives and how they are part of the fabric of life and necessary to develop our character.

Why would we ever want potholes in the road?

Made 2BN Community

Phil Ware continues his series on experiencing God and focuses on experiencing God through Jesus in community with all of its challenges and opportunities.

Where do you best connect with God?

The Toll Over the Long Haul

Criticism hurts even when, or maybe especially when, it is dressed in pretty packages and given to us over a long time.

What difference does a little criticism really make?

Personality or Person?

We've got to move from viewing people as personalities to seeing them as people to love.

How do you view your church leaders?

Beautiful Scars

Jesus' scars are beautiful to those of us it has saved.

Can ugly scars be beautiful?