Together in His Grace (Page 4)

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.

There's Always Almost Meatloaf

Russ Lawson shares about a hard time when all they had was some oatmeal and hamburger and ketchup.

What's your almost food?

10 Things to Do When Affairs Happen

Joe Beam shares his passion and recommendations for rescuing couples when an affair has blow apart their lives.

Is there anything I can do to help redeem this situation?

Under All These Masks

Ann Voskamp shares a trip to minister to homeless people in Toronto and a struggling homeless addict that takes off his mask and speaks the truth.

Who will deliver us?

Horrifying Halloween

Phil Ware writes about children being valued for who they are.

How can it be worse?

Improv Parenting

Jenny Runkel reminds us of the rules of improv and shows us how to use them in our parenting!

Can you adjust to family life on the fly?

Friendship and the Abundant Life

Ron Rose shares some beautiful insights on friendship and the importance of a friend to living the abundant life.

Where can I find something more than more demands and more stuff?

The Dance of Life!

Ron Rose talks about sleep walking through life like zombies and how we were made to find life and dance with joy and help others do the same.

Are you going through life like a zombie?

Long Fire

Ann Voskamp is reminded of a night where love was first ignited and how it still burns brightly, even in the most mundane moments of life.

Is the flame still alive for your?

The Greatest Gift of Gratitude

Patrick Odum challenges us to see the basic call of our lives to live for Jesus.

What would you have done to thank them?

Complete Joy!

Tom Norvell talks about his son's wedding and how everyone sacrificed to do what the bride and groom wanted and this allowed complete joy to bless everyone.

What can make my joy complete?

Hopes & Dreams

Brenda Terrell shares her dreams and how God has more than answered them in ways she didn't expect.

What are your greatest dreams?

The Art of Saying, 'I am Sorry'

Steve Higginbotham reminds us that saying "I'm sorry" means truly apologizing.

Simple words, so why don't we say them more genuinely?

Back-to-School Cool

Hal Runkel gives us some good advice on how to be ready for the transition back to school.

How can we best approach the beginning of school?

Expectations

Rob Woodfin uses the movie "Evan Almighty" and Morgan Freeman to remind us to pray specifically for people and personally for them.

How do you think He answers them?

Dad-Dee

Russ Lawson shares some things from his granddaughter that helps us understand that we are God's children.

Where did you get those eyes?

What Do You Treasure?

Russ Lawson lets silver dollars remind him of long ago with his grandparents and challenge himself right now to treasure the proper things in life.

An old silver dollar evokes many old memories!

Radical Love, Radical Forgiveness

Byron Ware reacts to a message he heard related to his daughter's graduation.

Does our love have to be so irrational?

When the New Babies Require Extra Care

Janet Colbrunn shares her experiences as a grandparent to multiple multiples.

How do grandparents deal with multiple multiples?

Grand Slam?

Kelly Breece talks about her son, Shane, and his first hit in baseball.

When is a hit more than a home run?

When Your Heart is Breaking

Tom Norvell reminds us that broken hearts hurt and we often wish we could be dead, but that God stays close to us.

How can you mend a broken heart, especially when it's your own?

Expectations

Tom Norvell talks about setting expectations too high or too low and trusting in God to do more than we can ask or imagine so we can wait in expectation of each day for his work in our lives.

Will your expectations measure up over the test of time?

Irreconcilable Differences

Warren Baldwin encourages us to try harder in our marriage relationships to prevent divorce using the standard irreconcilable differences as our reason for splitting up a marriage.

What really is the cause?

Dead by Midnight?

Russ Lawson emphasizes that we shouldn't be motivated out of fear, but urgency and love, and mend our relationships.

Who would you try to make contact with?

Events and Emotions

Katha Winther shares the up and downs of her emotional roller coaster in her life recently and reminds us that God is with us in the ever-changing emotions of life.

Have you ridden the roller coaster lately?

Does the Dog Need To Be Petted

Mike Barres reminds us that love, the blessing of human touch, is important to our pets and also to us and those who we love.

Which gets blessed more, the pup or the petter?