Featured Articles

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.

Beyond Trite Slogans to Real Help

Phil Ware writes about Romans 8:22-29, the bondage to decay that our world faces, our own troubles and hardships, and slogans that we often use and abuse to try to encourage people who are grieving, wounded, or hurt.

How can we say these things and really mean them when trying to help those who hurt?

He Never Looked Back

Letting go, whether to death or to school is hard, but when we do, let's let them go to God's care.

As they walk away, are they ready?

Confessions of a Blackberry Picker

A trip to the beach and other vacation sites helps lead Patrick Odum to ask what he is not recognizing in his daily life where God's fingerprints and footprints can be found.

Have you see the evidence of his beauty in your world?

The Sounds of Letting Go

Each year the start of school reminds us that our children are a little closer to moving out and away from us.

What happens when the school bus arrives in your neighborhood?

Settling In

Tom Norvel writes about his daughter moving and how his heart is still in a quest for home and that after she settles in to this place, he hopes she still continues her quest for home.

Have you found home?