Making Life Work for Your Family

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.

Leaving the Past, Living the Kingdom

Paul Faulkner reminds us that we need to live for the present to help others and keep our focus on the matters of the Kingdom rather than let our lives get filled with regret for the past.

How can I escape my past?

Free to Be Authentic

When we don't have to impress folks, we are free to live authentically.

Are you truly free?

What's Really Important

Paul Faulkner reminds us that most folks miss the point of life entirely because they don't know what is really important.

How do you know the difference?

Vulnerable God

Paul Faulkner reminds us that Jesus attracts us to God because of his vulnerability and humanity.

What touches you most about Jesus?

Imprint

Jesus has split time in two and had an even greater impact on our lives and hearts.

How has he left his imprint on you?

People Count Most

Stuff enslaves us rather than blesses us and people count most in our lives.

How much stuff do you own and have in your garage?

What's Really Important

Paul Faulkner reminds us that most folks miss the point of life entirely because they don't know what is really important.

How do you know the difference?

Live Like Jazz!

Paul Faulkner reminds us that while we may have plans and ideas on how to arrange and achieve our future, life requires improvisation and adaptability as we keep in step with the Spirit of God.

Running an organization and managing your life is a lot like playing jazz!

Vulnerable God

Paul Faulkner reminds us that Jesus attracts us to God because of his vulnerability and humanity.

What touches you most about Jesus?

Celebrate!

God gives us each day as a day of celebration and newness.

Do you welcome each day with joy?

Living vs. Life

Life is more than making a living, it's making a life.

What's the difference between making a living and making a life?

Biblical Marriage

Lee Wilson goes back to the beginning of Scripture and as an experienced relationship coach, invites people to look at God's plan to make marriages thrive.

Not an archaic form of subjugation but a divine and brilliant system for harmony, mutual enrichment, and voluntary submission!

Tough Times Toughen

Tough times, even when they are filled with temptation can help us grow and better appreciate good times when they come.

Wow, tough times can be hard, but is there a payoff to them?

What's Really Important

Paul Faulkner reminds us that most folks miss the point of life entirely because they don't know what is really important.

How do you know the difference?

Leaving the Past, Living the Kingdom

Paul Faulkner reminds us that we need to live for the present to help others and keep our focus on the matters of the Kingdom rather than let our lives get filled with regret for the past.

How can I escape my past?

Free to Be Authentic

When we don't have to impress folks, we are free to live authentically.

Are you truly free?

A Day of Surprise?

Paul Faulkner reminds us to greet each day as a gift of something fresh, new, and something that has never happened before or will again.

Things are not always the same. You wake up in the morning, and things are changing every day.

Leaving a Legacy of Faith

Paul Faulkner talks about four gifts that we can give our children to pass on to them a living legacy.

What can we really leave our children?

My Mistakes

God can forgive all of our mistakes, sins, and failiures.

How much of my mess can God actually forgive?

Free to Serve

Paul Faulkner reminds us of our freedom in Christ to serve and find God's blessing.

Set free and yet we still serve?

Transparency

Paul Faulkner reminds us how desperately we need to be in a loving relationship with someone with whom we can be fully transparent.

How open are you to others who want to bless you?

LOVING A SPOUSE WITH ADHD: Understanding the Misery and Ecstasy

Ken Fox, a relationship coach, shares insight and research on what it is like to be married to a person with adult ADHD.

More and more people have a better idea of the challenges of being married, or hopelessly in love with someone possessing the unmissable gifts you can't imagine living without!

Fifty Shades?

Patrick Odum writes about 50 Shades of Grey and reminds us to think carefully about our participation and expectation of the movie and our sexuality.

Is it Grey or Gray?

A Grieving Family's Courage

Rubel Shelly share insight into Rick and Kay Warren's interview on Piers Morgan about their son Matthew whose mental illness led him to commit suicide.

How can there be hope in such heartbreak?

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?