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title="Who Will You Trust?"></a> </div> <div class="col-md-9 col-sm-9 bulletin">  <h3 class="media-heading"><a href="https://www.heartlight.org/articles/201209/20120917_whotrust.html">Who Will You Trust?</a></h3> <h4 class="media-heading">With all the voices telling you who you are, who will you trust?</h4> <p>Max Lucado uses the woman caught in adultery to remind us of the accusing voices we hear in our head and in our life and reminds us that this is from the adversary, the devil and challenges us to listen to the voice of Jesus.</p> <p class="links">09/17/2012 by Max Lucado</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/201209/20120906_heritage.html"><img class="img-responsive center-block" src="//img.heartlight.org/crop.php?w=250&f=articles/2744-large.jpg" alt="" title="Overcoming Your Heritage"></a> </div> <div class="col-md-9 col-sm-9 bulletin">  <h3 class="media-heading"><a href="https://www.heartlight.org/articles/201209/20120906_heritage.html">Overcoming Your Heritage</a></h3> <h4 class="media-heading">What's up in the forest of your family trees?</h4> <p>Max Lucado writes about Josiah and how he overcame the bad family heritage.</p> <p class="links">09/06/2012 by Max Lucado</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/201208/20120831_godwillprovide.html"><img class="img-responsive center-block" src="//img.heartlight.org/crop.php?w=250&f=articles/2741-large.jpg" alt="" title="God Will..."></a> </div> <div class="col-md-9 col-sm-9 bulletin">  <h3 class="media-heading"><a href="https://www.heartlight.org/articles/201208/20120831_godwillprovide.html">God Will...</a></h3> <h4 class="media-heading">Do we really believe this before we see it?</h4> <p>Max Lucado writes about Abraham, his sacrifice of Isaac, and about the God who provides, Jehovah-jireh.</p> <p class="links">08/31/2012 by Max Lucado</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/201208/20120824_hidemistakes.html"><img class="img-responsive center-block" src="//img.heartlight.org/crop.php?w=250&f=articles/2736-large.jpg" alt="" title="When You Can't Hide Your Mistakes"></a> </div> <div class="col-md-9 col-sm-9 bulletin">  <h3 class="media-heading"><a href="https://www.heartlight.org/articles/201208/20120824_hidemistakes.html">When You Can't Hide Your Mistakes</a></h3> <h4 class="media-heading">What do you do when you've failed and you can't hid it?</h4> <p>Max Lucado reminds us that pride often keeps us in failure and compounds mistakes and sinks us deeper in sin.</p> <p class="links">08/24/2012 by Max Lucado</p>  </div> </div> </div> <div class="article-with-image-wrap"> <div class="row 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src="//img.heartlight.org/crop.php?w=250&f=articles/2717-large.jpg" alt="" title="Jesus' Hand Will Touch You Too"></a> </div> <div class="col-md-9 col-sm-9 bulletin">  <h3 class="media-heading"><a href="https://www.heartlight.org/articles/201207/20120722_jesushand.html">Jesus' Hand Will Touch You Too</a></h3> <h4 class="media-heading">Does no one see you, either?</h4> <p>From Max Lucado's "Next Door Savior" comes a story about Jesus touching our face and shoulder and our falling down to worship him.</p> <p class="links">07/22/2012 by Max Lucado</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/201207/20120717_complain.html"><img class="img-responsive center-block" src="//img.heartlight.org/crop.php?w=250&f=articles/2716-large.jpg" alt="" title="Something to Complain About"></a> </div> <div class="col-md-9 col-sm-9 bulletin">  <h3 class="media-heading"><a href="https://www.heartlight.org/articles/201207/20120717_complain.html">Something to Complain About</a></h3> <h4 class="media-heading">Why is it so easy to find the negative?</h4> <p>Max Lucado reminds us that we can all find something to complain about even in the best of circumstances, but we can focus on the good and see the work God is doing in us!</p> <p class="links">07/17/2012 by Max Lucado</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/200512/20051225_home.html"><img class="img-responsive center-block" src="//img.heartlight.org/crop.php?w=250&f=articles/828-large.jpg" alt="" title="Home for Christmas"></a> </div> <div class="col-md-9 col-sm-9 bulletin">  <h3 class="media-heading"><a href="https://www.heartlight.org/articles/200512/20051225_home.html">Home for Christmas</a></h3> <h4 class="media-heading">Where is your real home?</h4> <p>We are not at home until we are home with God.</p> <p class="links">12/25/2005 by Lynn Anderson</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/200507/20050712_newclergy.html"><img class="img-responsive center-block" src="//img.heartlight.org/crop.php?w=250&f=articles/665-large.jpg" alt="" title="An Open Letter to the New Clergy"></a> </div> <div class="col-md-9 col-sm-9 bulletin">  <h3 class="media-heading"><a href="https://www.heartlight.org/articles/200507/20050712_newclergy.html">An Open Letter to the New Clergy</a></h3> <h4 class="media-heading">Will you step up as a business person and take a lead in our war for the soul?</h4> <p>The most powerful voice for God in our culture must come from our business leaders who are Christians!</p> <p class="links">07/12/2005 by Lynn Anderson</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/200507/20050710_flameoffreedom.html"><img class="img-responsive center-block" src="//img.heartlight.org/crop.php?w=250&f=articles/659-large.jpg" alt="" title="Thanks for the Flame of Freedom"></a> </div> <div class="col-md-9 col-sm-9 bulletin">  <h3 class="media-heading"><a href="https://www.heartlight.org/articles/200507/20050710_flameoffreedom.html">Thanks for the Flame of Freedom</a></h3> <h4 class="media-heading">Will we let them search for themselves?</h4> <p>We need to give our children and grandchildren the opportunity to believe for themselves.</p> <p class="links">07/10/2005 by Lynn Anderson</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/200502/20050220_planting.html"><img class="img-responsive center-block" src="//img.heartlight.org/crop.php?w=250&f=articles/521-large.jpg" alt="" title="Want to Plant a Church?"></a> </div> <div class="col-md-9 col-sm-9 bulletin">  <h3 class="media-heading"><a href="https://www.heartlight.org/articles/200502/20050220_planting.html">Want to Plant a Church?</a></h3> <h4 class="media-heading">Interested in church planting?</h4> <p>Four diferent approaches to church planting.</p> <p class="links">02/20/2005 by Lynn Anderson</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/200501/20050104_vision.html"><img class="img-responsive center-block" src="//img.heartlight.org/crop.php?w=250&f=articles/471-large.jpg" alt="" title="Creating a Vision for Your Congregation"></a> </div> <div class="col-md-9 col-sm-9 bulletin">  <h3 class="media-heading"><a href="https://www.heartlight.org/articles/200501/20050104_vision.html">Creating a Vision for Your Congregation</a></h3> <h4 class="media-heading">Is there anything your leadership can do to help cast a vision to your church?</h4> <p>Where can you find tools and resources for setting a vision for your congregation?</p> <p class="links">01/04/2005 by Lynn Anderson</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/200410/20041003_chaoticlight.html"><img class="img-responsive center-block" src="//img.heartlight.org/crop.php?w=250&f=articles/380-large.jpg" alt="" title="Chaotic Light"></a> </div> <div class="col-md-9 col-sm-9 bulletin">  <h3 class="media-heading"><a href="https://www.heartlight.org/articles/200410/20041003_chaoticlight.html">Chaotic Light</a></h3> <h4 class="media-heading">What's it like to be on the inside, not being able to look out?</h4> <p>This is the story of the blind man in John 9.</p> <p class="links">10/03/2004 by Lynn Anderson</p> 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