All (Page 4) Articles 2013 Archives

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.

Living the ultimate Romance

Ann Voskamp writes about how much she loves her husband and why.

How strong can love grow?

Seven Tips to Being an awesome Husband

Joe Beam reminds us about how to be a good and effective husband who becomes awesome in the eyes of his wife.

Really, do these actually work and can I actually do them?

God's Redeeming Love!

Brian McCutchen reminds us that God's love is redeeming -- it forgives, cleanses, makes whole, and buys us back from our messes and lifts us from our burdens.

We must never forget God's most consistent message to each of us!

When God Does not Answer Prayer the Way You Expected

It is easy to share God's answer to prayer when things turn out the way we wanted. It is just as important to share our faith when the answer is not what we wanted.

What do you say to a nonbeliever when God does not answer your prayer the way you wanted.

Yearning for the Presence

Phil Ware begins a series of messages about Immanuel, God with us, The Presence, in our lives that we yearn, ache, thirst for.

Why do we settle for so much less than the real thing?

The Prize

Terese Bell Kindred shares a story of a friend she admires and compares her to a prize fighter because she keeps getting up and going on after bad things and cancer.

Why keep getting up?

Looking beyond Our Pigeonholes

Rubel Shelly reminds us that we can refuse to climb into the pigeonholes that other people have made for us because we know who our real Father is.

You know you don't fit, so why climb into someone else's pigeon hole for you?

Out Came this Calf!

When Aaron made the golden calf, he claimed that it just came out of the fire that way. We can't be that way with our sin. We must own up to what we've done and seek forgiveness.

Is it sin if it

It All Begins with...

Phil Ware completes his two article series on being strong and courageous and being ready to see God do great things among us.

Why are we so afraid to do what God makes clear is our next step?

Fighting Terror

David Capes uses The Voice translation to drive home the point that technology is not going to save us from ourselves, but only gracious trust that Jesus is Lord and our following Jesus into the world of forgiveness.

Will technology be the difference?

The 'How!' for hard Days

Ann Voskamp and Joni Eareckson Tada team up to provide a beautiful and powerful reminder of the power of our words to change everything.

How do we get past the hardest of days?

God Is never Late

An article reminding us that God is never late.

It was in the midst of poverty that I learned God is never late,

How to Make a Heart Work the Way It Should

God provides help for us to love him and others from the heart.

Loving God with all your heart is not easy. God knows that and he provides help.

But Herod's Time Ended!

Phil Ware reminds us of the simple, yet powerful words found in the hard story of Jesus' birth and Herod's attempt to murder him at Bethlehem -- But Herod came to an end.

The cycle of violence is heartbreaking — will it ever end?

Help?

Phil Ware reminds us to care actively for those suffering violence in the Muslim Spring that has now turned into the violent summer.

Do we notice or care?

Where Is Your Olive Oil?

Robyn F. Johnson shares the story of the widow and Elisha in 2 Kings 4, and she reminds us that God cares for us and provides for us, we just need to look for our little vial of olive oil and offer it to him.

Where do you go when you don't think you have enough?

It's His Problem to Solve

Rubel Shelly reminds us that trust in God to act is not passive, but an active life that does what is required, trusting that our difficulties and challenges are problems for God to solve.

So how do we obey these hard commands to not worry?

The Cure

I would give almost anything to obtain the cure for my permanent disease. Those who don't know Jesus are suffering a terminal existence that can be changed by taking THE Cure.

Will you share the cure?

Strong and Courageous?

Phil Ware reminds us that Joshua 1 and God's famous charge to Joshua to be strong and courageous is as much a promise and faithfulness from God as it is commitment and trust from us.

Is there something that can move us beyond being frozen in fear?

Talk Less Hug More

Ron Rose talks about his adopted granddaughter, Halle Grace, a Russian lifeguard and Halle's desire to hug and be hugged.

Why not forget winning arguments and win the heart?

WOOHOO! Let's Do this Thing!

Lisa Mikitarian reminds us that life with the Lord really is an adventure because when we love him and are called according to his purposes then he works in our life through adventure to bless us and bring him glory.

Is your life a little short on the adventure scale? Then come along and follow Jesus!

You Were Born to be You!

Tom Norvell reminds us that God made us uniquely to be us and the best thing we can be is to be who we were born and re-born to be.

Why are you here? What is your purpose? Can you know?

The Pardon That Wasn't

God offers each of us a pardon, the chance to have our sins blotted out. We can escape the death sentence that sin has placed on us. We can be forgiven. Or we can ignore God's offer and pay the penalty for what we've done.

Can you make someone accept a pardon?

Time to Get out of the Boat!

Phil Ware finishes his series on Out of the Box with a final call to get out of the boat and follow Jesus.

Why are you just sitting there?

So Glad God Doesn't Require a Smartphone

Max Lucado reminds us that we don't have to know how to use a smartphone to talk with the Creator of the universe who also happens to be our ABBA Father.

Which smartphone does God require of us?