Hope from the Hill Country

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.

Who Will You Trust?

Max Lucado uses the woman caught in adultery to remind us of the accusing voices we hear in our head and in our life and reminds us that this is from the adversary, the devil and challenges us to listen to the voice of Jesus.

With all the voices telling you who you are, who will you trust?

Overcoming Your Heritage

Max Lucado writes about Josiah and how he overcame the bad family heritage.

What's up in the forest of your family trees?

God Will...

Max Lucado writes about Abraham, his sacrifice of Isaac, and about the God who provides, Jehovah-jireh.

Do we really believe this before we see it?

When You Can't Hide Your Mistakes

Max Lucado reminds us that pride often keeps us in failure and compounds mistakes and sinks us deeper in sin.

What do you do when you've failed and you can't hid it?

Unnecessary Chapters in Life?

Max Lucado reminds us that the troubles of this present life are preparing us for something far greater.

Why do we go through these hard and apparently unnecessary times?

Jesus' Hand Will Touch You Too

From Max Lucado's "Next Door Savior" comes a story about Jesus touching our face and shoulder and our falling down to worship him.

Does no one see you, either?

Something to Complain About

Max Lucado reminds us that we can all find something to complain about even in the best of circumstances, but we can focus on the good and see the work God is doing in us!

Why is it so easy to find the negative?

Home for Christmas

We are not at home until we are home with God.

Where is your real home?

An Open Letter to the New Clergy

The most powerful voice for God in our culture must come from our business leaders who are Christians!

Will you step up as a business person and take a lead in our war for the soul?

Thanks for the Flame of Freedom

We need to give our children and grandchildren the opportunity to believe for themselves.

Will we let them search for themselves?

Want to Plant a Church?

Four diferent approaches to church planting.

Interested in church planting?

Creating a Vision for Your Congregation

Where can you find tools and resources for setting a vision for your congregation?

Is there anything your leadership can do to help cast a vision to your church?

Chaotic Light

This is the story of the blind man in John 9.

What's it like to be on the inside, not being able to look out?

In An Anonymous Hotel Room

The power of an anonymous motel room doesn't have to claim our purity or cause us to cave into sin.

Do you have the strength to stand?

The Old Home Place

As much as we would like to go home again, we must remember that home is not a place until we are home with God.

Can we ever really go home again?