Special Features (Page 16)

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.

Dare to Dream

Tom Norvell shares about moving into a new home and his dreams for the future.

Do you dare dream for the road ahead?

Symbol and Reality

Bill Sherrill reminds us of the importance of the cross as both a symbol and a reality of our center as believers in Jesus.

Just how important is the cross as a symbol?

Bent Out of Shape

Patrick Odum reminds us that there are all sorts of ways to be bent and only Jesus can unshackle us from our position.

How bent are you?

Of Grasshoppers and Giants

Russ Lawson shares some insights from the 12 spies, 10 of whom convinced the children of Israel to fear the future and turn back; but Russ reminds us of God's promises.

How do we overcome our giants

The Power of Human Kindness

Rubel Shelly shares a great story of how simple kindness and candy help heal old wounds and made friends out of enemies.

Can kindness really melt the heart of stone?

Lord, Help Me Look Ahead

Tom Norvell talks openly with the Lord about how hard it is to look forward and not backward and push on to the Lord's horizon.

Why is it so easy to look backward instead of forward?

Where Do I Go from Here?

Tom Norvell reminds us that we have a person to go to, when we have no place to go, and his name is Jesus, our Lord.

Where can you go when there's no place left to go?

The View from a Troubled Heart

Bill Sherrill connects to an old King James phrase, the latter days, and reminds us that we often don't see things clearly until time has passed and we view things from God's perspective.

What can we really see from where we are right now?

Selling Your Soul

Patrick Odum reflects on several folks who have auctioned off huge portions of their lives and property on eBay and challenges us to ask if we have done the same thing with our stuff.

So what are you really worth?

The Failure of List-keeping

Bill Denton reminds us that the Gospel of Jesus isn't centered in a list of do's and don't's but in a Savior, Jesus Christ, who was crucified and raised to bring us God's grace.

Why do we trade our Lord in for our lists?

Donkeys Kicking, Sharks Attacking, Airplanes Falling

Russ Lawson reminds us to check out what we are told from Scripture, because just like made up statistics, the facts are not always what is presented to us.

What do donkeys, sharks, and airplanes have in common?

Freed!

This is simply quoting Hebrews 2:14-18 about freedom from death's tyrranny.

A biblical reminder of our ultimate freedom.

Set Free

Tom Norvell thinks about July 4th and reminds us that freedom is found in Jesus.

Where can I find true freedom?

Who Thanks God for This?

Bill Sherrill talks about Fanny J. Crosby, the great Christian song writer, and her ability to see acutely even though she was blind.

How can you see so clearly when your eyes have no sight?

Faith: Growing in the Right Direction

Russ Lawson reminds us that our faith needs to keep growing and going in the direction of faith, believe but help my unbelief.

So where is your faith growing?

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 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?

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?

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?

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?

Living Water

Tom Norvell reminds us that only Jesus can quench our parched spirits and souls with his living water.

Who can satisfy our parched souls?

Learning from Our 'Mistaks'

Mike Barres reminds us that mistakes and missteps are a part of life, an dwe can learn from them and grow through them.

What have you learned from your mistakes?

Jesus Is the Same

Tom Norvell reminds us that in the world of massive change, Jesus is the same.

Why does everything have to change all the time?