Articles Tagged 'Goodness' (Page 3)

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.

The Truth about Happiness

Happiness isn't just going to come along, you are going to make your own happiness by what you invest your life in.

Can you handle the truth?

Filling the Vacuum

We've got to fill our kids with good things and not just tell them what not to do, because if we don't fill them with God's stuff, someone is going to fill them with satan's stuff.

What are you putting in the empty places of their lives?

Flexible

Life brings storms that threaten to break us, but will we be flexible and look for God's other alternatives and opportunities?

Just how much can you bend with life's strong winds?

Simple Dignity

The Amish are an example of simple piety that cares to honor God above getting even: it is their character and not their dress or agrarian culture we need to imitate.

Sometimes the most profound grace is based on simple action.

More than Falling Dominoes

The interconnectedness of our world isn't bad, but really an opportunity to do good and bring redemptive influence.

Is the interconnectedness of our world really such bad news?

Life in Three Centuries

Remembering a great lady of faith who lived for 106 years.

How many centuries will you live to see?

I Messed Up Your Butter

When the world sees us, do we show that we are willing to admit our failures and seek to make things right?

Are you willing to admit your offenses?

A Little Faith

While we don't know why about why things happen here, we do know that one day our sorrow will melt into the joy of the Lord.

How do we lift our spirits on difficult days?

Thermostat or Thermometer?

We can be situation complainers -- thermostats -- or situation changers -- thermometers; Jesus' will, however, is that we be salt, light, and examples who display the fruit of the Spirit.

Are you a situation complainer or an environment changer?