Special Features 2020 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.

Bringing God's Grace through Love and Prayer

Phil Ware shares Scriptures, stories, and ideas to help us prepare for the hour of worldwide unified prayer for our broken world, especially focused on love and prayer as a source of hope for our broken world.

Prayer is a holy moment. We invite the eternal and divine grace of God to invade our hearts and change our lives and the lives of those we love.

Healing and Health for Our Broken World

Phil Ware shares Scriptures, stories, and ideas to help us prepare for the hour of worldwide unified prayer for our broken world, especially focused on healing and health for our broken world.

One of the important areas of our focus for our shared hour of prayer is the healing and health of our world and the people in our world.

Exalting Jesus as Savior and Lord

Phil Ware shares Scriptures, stories, and ideas to help us prepare for the hour of worldwide unified prayer for our broken world, especially focused on Jesus being both Savior and Lord.

Simple spiritual moves of faith can become divine appointments that change the world!

With Arms Uplifted and On Our Knees

Phil Ware invites us to share in prayer in all the seasons of life and especially know we have an all-season God who longs to hear our prayers, especially prayers for a change in our world's messes.

God is faithful to us through all the seasons of our lives. He isn't a fair-weather God.

New Year with New Hope

Phil Ware explains the unified, simultaneous, hour of prayer on January 1 and December 31 as all the time zones gather together to pray.

Imagine if we all came together at the same time and prayed for God to intervene and help us overcome our world's problems!

Donny, Marie, and LeBron: Real People, Real Words

Michael DeCamp shares a chapter out of his new book, "Loving Out Loud," and challenges us to use our words to bless and not hurt, to give life and not steal it from someone.

We actually exchanged real words with both of them. It was amazing. Would you believe that they are both real living, breathing human beings?

Beyond Our Impatience, Loneliness, and Fear

Max Lucado reminds us that discovering God's love for us in Jesus, his perfect love, helps us overcome our feelings of loneliness, impatience, and fear.

What if loneliness has an invitation for a great discovery about God?

Crown Him!

Glenn McDonald reminds us that we are never more free than when we surrender to the will of Jesus -- when we willingly lay down our crowns to the Lord of lords.

Followers of the Prince of Peace aren't necessarily skilled at experiencing peace with people who cherish different opinions about important matters.

His Peace

Tom Norvell reminds us this Lord’s Day that Jesus came to give us peace and that peace is meant to be a blessing in the middle of the chaos and uncertainty we face in our world.

There have been many times in my life that I believed I would only find peace when...

Our Chorus is the Gospel

Patrick Odum picks up a line from a Bruce Springsteen interview and helps us understand the need for being real about our struggles but also celebrating our hope in the gospel.

'The verses are the blues, the chorus is the gospel.'

In the Hands of the Potter

Tom Norvell reminds us what it means to be in the hands of the potter!

God is the potter. He created us, taking us from an idea to what He imagined we could be, then shaping us into something beautiful.