Together in His Grace

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Norvell</p>  </div> </div> </div> <div class="article-with-image-wrap"> <div class="row has-margin-bottom"> <div class="col-md-3 col-sm-3"> <a href="https://www.heartlight.org/articles/201308/20130802_terribleday.html"><img class="img-responsive center-block" src="//img.heartlight.org/crop.php?w=250&f=articles/2918-large.jpg" alt="" title="What a terrible Day?"></a> </div> <div class="col-md-9 col-sm-9 bulletin">  <h3 class="media-heading"><a href="https://www.heartlight.org/articles/201308/20130802_terribleday.html">What a terrible Day?</a></h3> <h4 class="media-heading">What really makes our days bad, hard, and difficult to swallow?</h4> <p>Steve Higginbotham reminds us that many of our most difficult days come from our negative and judgmental assumptions about why things happen.</p> <p class="links">08/02/2013 by Steve Higginbotham</p>  </div> </div> </div> <div class="article-with-image-wrap"> <div class="row has-margin-bottom"> <div class="col-md-3 col-sm-3"> <a href="https://www.heartlight.org/articles/201306/20130627_hugmore.html"><img class="img-responsive center-block" src="//img.heartlight.org/crop.php?w=250&f=articles/2897-large.jpg" alt="" title="Talk Less, Hug More"></a> </div> <div class="col-md-9 col-sm-9 bulletin">  <h3 class="media-heading"><a href="https://www.heartlight.org/articles/201306/20130627_hugmore.html">Talk Less, Hug More</a></h3> <h4 class="media-heading">What's the universal language?</h4> <p>Ron Rose talks about his adopted grand daughter Halle Grace and how important hugs are to her.</p> <p class="links">06/27/2013 by Ron Rose</p>  </div> </div> </div> <div class="article-with-image-wrap"> <div class="row has-margin-bottom"> <div class="col-md-3 col-sm-3"> <a href="https://www.heartlight.org/articles/201306/20130620_It's well.html"><img class="img-responsive center-block" src="//img.heartlight.org/crop.php?w=250&f=articles/2880-large.jpg" alt="" title="It is Well"></a> </div> <div class="col-md-9 col-sm-9 bulletin"> 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back on our backs?</h4> <p>Beyond weight loss, why do we keep picking up old burdens and carrying them, Ron Rose reminds us to set aside the past burdens and come to Jesus.</p> <p class="links">11/16/2012 by Ron Rose</p>  </div> </div> </div> <div class="article-with-image-wrap"> <div class="row has-margin-bottom"> <div class="col-md-3 col-sm-3"> <a href="https://www.heartlight.org/articles/201210/20121005_indarkness.html"><img class="img-responsive center-block" src="//img.heartlight.org/crop.php?w=250&f=articles/2758-large.jpg" alt="" title="What Do You Learn from the Darkness"></a> </div> <div class="col-md-9 col-sm-9 bulletin">  <h3 class="media-heading"><a href="https://www.heartlight.org/articles/201210/20121005_indarkness.html">What Do You Learn from the Darkness</a></h3> <h4 class="media-heading">When life is tough, how does faith really help?</h4> <p>Ron Rose writes about hard times and hospital visits and Job and Israel and what we do with the darkness we find ourselves in.</p> <p class="links">10/05/2012 by Ron Rose</p>  </div> </div> </div> <div class="article-with-image-wrap"> <div class="row has-margin-bottom"> <div class="col-md-3 col-sm-3"> <a href="https://www.heartlight.org/articles/201207/20120709_ourlegacy.html"><img class="img-responsive center-block" src="//img.heartlight.org/crop.php?w=250&f=articles/2689-large.jpg" alt="" title="Our Legacy"></a> </div> <div class="col-md-9 col-sm-9 bulletin">  <h3 class="media-heading"><a href="https://www.heartlight.org/articles/201207/20120709_ourlegacy.html">Our Legacy</a></h3> <h4 class="media-heading">What are we leaving behind?</h4> <p>Donna Ware shares insight into raising children to leave a legacy of faith.</p> <p class="links">07/09/2012 by Donna Ware</p>  </div> </div> </div> <div class="article-with-image-wrap"> <div class="row has-margin-bottom"> <div class="col-md-3 col-sm-3"> <a href="https://www.heartlight.org/articles/201206/20120622_highcostforgiveness.html"><img class="img-responsive center-block" src="//img.heartlight.org/crop.php?w=250&f=articles/2699-large.jpg" alt="" title="High Cost Forgiveness?"></a> </div> <div class="col-md-9 col-sm-9 bulletin">  <h3 class="media-heading"><a href="https://www.heartlight.org/articles/201206/20120622_highcostforgiveness.html">High Cost Forgiveness?</a></h3> <h4 class="media-heading">Is it really worth the cost?</h4> <p>Ron Rose reminds us of the need to forgive, not just because we are commanded but because we are imprisoned in bitterness when we don't.</p> <p class="links">06/22/2012 by Ron Rose</p>  </div> </div> </div> <div class="article-with-image-wrap"> <div class="row has-margin-bottom"> <div class="col-md-3 col-sm-3"> <a href="https://www.heartlight.org/articles/201202/20120214_nogreaterlove.html"><img class="img-responsive center-block" src="//img.heartlight.org/crop.php?w=250&f=articles/2635-large.jpg" alt="" title="No Greater Love"></a> </div> <div class="col-md-9 col-sm-9 bulletin">  <h3 class="media-heading"><a href="https://www.heartlight.org/articles/201202/20120214_nogreaterlove.html">No Greater Love</a></h3> <h4 class="media-heading">Admit it! Accept it! Share it!</h4> <p>Tom Norvell talks about God's love for us in Jesus and also anniversaries.</p> <p class="links">02/14/2012 by Tom Norvell</p>  </div> </div> </div> <div class="article-with-image-wrap"> <div class="row has-margin-bottom"> <div class="col-md-3 col-sm-3"> <a href="https://www.heartlight.org/articles/201201/20120106_boringstuff.html"><img class="img-responsive center-block" src="//img.heartlight.org/crop.php?w=250&f=articles/2624-large.jpg" alt="" title="God in the boring Stuff?"></a> </div> <div class="col-md-9 col-sm-9 bulletin">  <h3 class="media-heading"><a href="https://www.heartlight.org/articles/201201/20120106_boringstuff.html">God in the boring Stuff?</a></h3> <h4 class="media-heading">What are you seeing God at work doing in your life?</h4> <p>Ron Rose asks us to pay attention to our lives and see God at work, even in the moments he does not appear to be present and especially in the moments that appear to be boring.</p> <p class="links">01/06/2012 by Ron 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