Articles Tagged 'Goals'

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.

Living Your Dream

God has placed a dream in each of our hearts and we will not be satisfied until we find it.

Are you living the dream God placed inside you?

Exchanging Your Christmas Dream for a Bigger One

Rick Brown shares an insight from the Westjet Santa Claus video and says we need to ask God for more and greater vision.

Does God really have a bigger dream for you than He gave Joseph and Mary?

Discovering the Character of your Church: 'Are' Values or 'Should' Values?

Tim Woodroof talks about the values of churches and distinguishes between the values that are and the values that churches feel like they should have.

How do we get down to our true values?

Discovering the Character of Your Church: Core Values

Mark Frost of interimministrypartners.com shares insights into transition times for churches who are looking for a minister or pastor and helps them discover ways to determine their core values.

What really do we value?

Through God's Eyes

Rubel Shelly reminds us that our self-perceptions may be totally inaccurate.

How do I really look?

Wishes Are Not Plans

Rubel Shelly reminds us that wishes aren't plans and we have to begin on the road to growth or it never happens.

Can we ever move beyond the failure to act on good intentions?

Family Unique: Fuel in the Family Tank

Rick Brown reminded us that families run on values, so what are the values your family runs on?

What is your family running on and what is it running toward?

Marcus Welby, Jesus Christ Superstar, & Bill Parcels

Danny Sims takes a weird mixture of folks and reminds us that we are what we are, so look at your life and see if that is who you want to be!

So who are you based on your living?

Holiday Hangover

Sarah Stirman reflects on the holiday blues, the ending of Christmas, and the extravagance and expense of the holiday, both modern and old.

Got that sinking feeling now that Christmas is past?

Growing to Your Space

Rubel Shelly reminds us to not settle for cramped spaces, especially cramped spaces in our minds!

Are you allowing life to shape you into it's mold?

Desires & Imagination

Russ Lawson speaks to our desires being the pursuit of our prayers.

What are your deepest desires?

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 Coriolis Effect on the Heart

Lisa Mikitarian examines how we often get driven off course in life and how we are going to do something about it.

How far have you been deflected away from your goals and dreams?

Totally Present for Today with a Vision for Tomorrow

Michelle Howe warns women about worry and wishing that can rob them of the present moment and distort their vision of their future.

Can I be present in the moment and still have a hope for the future?

Right Priorities

When things are not in good shape at home it is usually because our priorities have gotten off track.

How are you going getting your life in proper order?

Family Mission?

We have to have a mission for our families bigger than physical and financial goals, we have to have a spiritual mission.

What in the world are you living for, anyway?

Things That Matter

So much of what we work for really doesn't matter, so let's invest in what does, the people around us.

What is really important as you go to face your week?

Holy Impatience!

God doesn't want us to grow complacent or satisfied with the way things are simply because we are growing older.

Is your sense of urgency on the rise or on the wane?

Living Your Dream

God has placed a dream in each of our hearts and we will not be satisfied until we find it.

Are you living the dream God placed inside you?

The Value of Vision

If you don't take the time to dream it, it probably won't happen.

Have you begun to dream of what lies ahead?