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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.

Becoming a Citizen

The only way to become a citizen in God's kingdom is to be born a second time, born of water and God's Holy Spirit.

What's the easiest way to become a citizen?

The Comma Makes All the Difference

Ron Rose talks about where we find our significance and comfort in life, God or false substitutes.

How do you punctuate your life and walk with God?

How to Survive a Bear Attack

Phil Ware talks about bear attacks in Alaska and also how Satan attacks us and reminds us that Jesus is our assurance that we are never alone when we are attacked and he has worked to defend us.

This is no joking matter when you are in the bear's woods!

In the Cool of the Day

Tom Norvell compares being in his yard and garden in the cool of the day and the words of Genesis 3 and God's desire to be with us and give us rest.

Where are you trying to hide?

The Coriolis Effect on the Heart

Lisa Mikitarian examines how we often get driven off course in life and how we are going to do something about it.

How far have you been deflected away from your goals and dreams?

The Frantic Pursuit of Rest

Bill Sherrill talks about our rush to rush into everything and how we need to read God's Book about life and how to experience it.

Why does it seem to get farther away while we run faster to chase it?

Shout for Joy!

Rubel Shelly reminds us that we still have a lot to be celebrate even if things are bad with our lives, because God is at work in us and has done great things.

Whatever is bad, remember the great!

I Just Wanted to Get Out Alive

A near death experience taught me lessons about God's deliverance that guide my life to this day.

God saved my life ,,, and he will continue to do so forever.

Spiritual Restoration

Muriel Larson shares some things about being spiritually dry and about an experience on a ranch where a stock pond revitalizes life around the parched desert.

How do we re-charge our spiritual batteries?

Dad-Dee

Russ Lawson shares some things from his granddaughter that helps us understand that we are God's children.

Where did you get those eyes?

Coaches Invest in People

Ron Rose talks about one of his personal mentoring heroes and emphasizes how we must all step up and start coaching someone.

Have you ever thought about being a coach?

What Difference Would It Make?

Rubel Shelly shares a story about a little boy who was powerfully impacted for good by a neighbor lady.

What can one woman do in a life so hard?

Damocles, Spock, and Paul

Russ Lawson talks about the Sword of Damocles, Mr. Spock, the apostle Paul and about being satisfied with life.

So when will what you have be enough to be happy?

The Gain is Worth the Pain

God’s plan for us is not to eliminate suffering in our lives, but to teach us to look past it.

What do you do when you hit a bump in the road?

Very Good!

Patrick D. Odum uses the Vatican's ruling on UFOs as a chance to remind us that we are made in God's image, and are very good.

Can't God do any better work than human beings?

NOT Just Another Face in the Crowd

Phil Ware reminds us that the Gospel of Luke introduces us to common folks made special by God to remind us that we are not just another face in the crowd.

How did God make you to stand out from the crowd?

The Aroma of Christ

Tom Norvell reminds us that we are to carry the aroma of Jesus with us wherever we go -- some will like it, some will not, but God will be pleased!

So what do you smell like today?

The Fred Factor

Steve Higginbotham shares with us the opportunity to be Fred, like Jesus, to those around us.

How many opportunities will you miss today?

Clutter

Larry Davies shares with us his struggle with a cluttered office and how it's been embarrassingly displayed on the Internet.

What am I supposed to do with all this mess?

Stop Signs

Ann Voskamp uses a rolling California stop at a stop sign and has someone yell at her and it gets her thinking about all the stop signs she has been running.

How many of God's signs are your rolling through and not pausing to hear His voice?

It Seems Too Good To Be True

No matter how badly we have messed up our lives, God still loves us and will forgive us.

He had to realize he could not make his life work on his own.

What Do You Treasure?

Russ Lawson lets silver dollars remind him of long ago with his grandparents and challenge himself right now to treasure the proper things in life.

An old silver dollar evokes many old memories!

Coming Down in the Wrong Place

Phil Ware talks about an airplane that landed on the wrong runway and compares it to some of the values we attach to people.

When is landing not good?

Cap and Gown

Tom Norvel thinks about time and how fast his daughter has grown up at her graduation.

Where does all the time go?

Honor

Bill Denton remembers a story told about President George W. Bush putting his feet up on his mother's coffee table and being scolded, and reminds us that it's all about honor.

Why would she tell the President to get his feet off her table?