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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.

Place of Quiet Rest

Bill Sherrill shares with us about his quiet place near to the heart of God.

Do you have such a place?

Excavation

Patrick Odum shares insight based on the buried Red Sox jersey in the new Yankee Stadium concrete and compares it to getting rid of the sin that lurks in our hearts.

What's buried in the concrete of your heart?

Prayer out of Compassion

Ron Rose tells us about a movement that swept the US nation many years ago and how God used it to change everyone.

What can you do?

Repair Men Love Me

We cannot repair the broken relationships in our life. So why do we try?

God made us. He can repair us.

A Tact Attack

Rubel Shelly shares his insights on tact, telling the truth, kindness, sophistry, avoidance, and sugar coating the truth.

What do you mean my dog is on the roof?

Bzrp-cha-ta-bzrp!

Phil Ware looks back on an old reel-to-reel recording and editing session and reflects how he could sure use that same kind of thing in his life!

What in the world is that sound?

When Your Heart is Breaking

Tom Norvell reminds us that broken hearts hurt and we often wish we could be dead, but that God stays close to us.

How can you mend a broken heart, especially when it's your own?

Real Perseverance

Mike Barres contrasts our whiny little attempts at perseverance and compares it to the real martyrs in the world and calls us to genuine perseverance.

Do we even know what it means to truly persevere?

Treating Symptoms

Rubel Shelly reminds us to not settle for merely treating the symptoms, but get to the root causes of our problems.

Can we get past the symptoms and really treat what is going on underneath?

Sweat the Small Stuff: It's the Big Stuff

Ann Voskamp looks a couple of small things important in the life of kitchen appliances and pots and reminds us that it's the small stuff that counts.

So when did small get to be so big?

Changing Seasons

We need faith to help us through the changing seasons of our life. The website www.hopeforlife.org helps us learn about that faith.

Just as seasons change in our world, so circumstances change in our lives

God on eBay?

Lisa Mikitarian shares with us an experience she had buying New Balance shoes on eBay and how the seller blessed her life in a special way.

You can find God in the most unusual of places!

Home

Phil Ware describes doing a funeral and a graveside for a good man and how it becomes the opportunity for good things to happen to children around the world.

When going home means giving a child a chance at life!

Expectations

Tom Norvell talks about setting expectations too high or too low and trusting in God to do more than we can ask or imagine so we can wait in expectation of each day for his work in our lives.

Will your expectations measure up over the test of time?

Living on Beam Unending

Ann Voskamp comes to a cross behind a country church and is reminded of the grace of Christ to not only save us but to also furnish us the basis of life.

Who wide is the Cross of Christ and the love He showed us there?

A Step in the Right Direction?

Rubel Shelly talks about the Old Testament concept of restitution instead of punishment for folks who have committed crimes.

What ever happened to restitution?

Content with the Patriots

Patrick Odum describes what happened to the Patriot SuperBowl championship jerseys that were going to be thrown away because they lost, and challenges us to give more than our throw aways to the poor of the world.

Would you wear the castoffs of the losers?

A Dog's Life

The relationship between my dog and I has shown me a pattern for my relationship with God. He is my master and I belong to him.

You can learn a lot about discipleship from a dog.

A Moron?

Steve Higginbotham reminds us of a recent news story and disputes the charge that he was a moron, but instead was a man of integrity like we should be?

I'm not sure I'd agree with the assessment that this guy is a moron, do you?

The Lord's Take on the Subject

Phil Ware shares Scriptures pertaining to the IRS deadline for taxes and other issues related to money.

So what are we supposed to do about such days as this?

Irreconcilable Differences

Warren Baldwin encourages us to try harder in our marriage relationships to prevent divorce using the standard irreconcilable differences as our reason for splitting up a marriage.

What really is the cause?

Dead by Midnight?

Russ Lawson emphasizes that we shouldn't be motivated out of fear, but urgency and love, and mend our relationships.

Who would you try to make contact with?

Companion Runner

Lisa Mikitarian talks about ultra marathons and companion runners and reminds us that Jesus is our companion runner and we need to be a companion runner to others.

How do you stay on the path?

Collecting the Fingerprints of God

Ron Rose reminds us to collect stories about God's fingerpints.

So what are you collecting?

The Healing

A handicapped woman experiences the joy of healing through the forgiveness of sins even though her physical impairment remains.

She still couldn't walk, but she was healed in the way that counts