Articles Tagged 'Hopeless'

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.

Overcoming the Greater Pandemic: From Hopeless to Living Hope

James Nored and Phil Ware share a message of hope in video and word and Scripture to remind us to be ready to share our living hope for those caught in life's dark winter.

We can't think of a more important commitment for us as believers in our uncertain times.

Because You Know!

Jordan Harrell reminds us to not listen to the lies of Satan but instead remember who God is, what God has done, and what we know of God, and trust God's voice and not the lies of our circumstances, problems, pandemics, or hopelessness.

God says: 'There is no race too long, no wall too high, no gap too wide, no shattered thing too broken to strip you of my HOPE.'

Truly See the Coming King

James Nored and Phil Ware remind us that many were blind to Jesus as the Messiah because he refused to be the kind of Messiah they expected; he was the upside down Messiah.

See the King headed to a cross, the foal of a donkey, and a formerly blind man who followed along the way.

Truly See the Coming King

James Nored and Phil Ware remind us that many were blind to Jesus as the Messiah because he refused to be the kind of Messiah they expected; he was the upside down Messiah.

A King headed to a cross, the foal of a donkey, and a formerly blind man who followed along the way.

The Perfect Storm

Max Lucado reminds us about finding ourselves about being in a perfect storm and receiving God's perfect peace.

You don’t need to be a fisherman to experience a perfect storm.

Thanks, but No Thanks

There are reasons some people have difficulty giving thanks. We Christians see things differently.

Some people have a hard time being thankful. Christians do not.

When You're this Close to Giving up Hope

Ann Voskamp shares a powerful story about the first Sunday of Advent and butterflies and a friend with a broken heart.

Can you still believe you can fly with broken wings?

Blessed Assurance

Phillip Morrison reminds us that our assurance is based on what God does and has done in Jesus, not what we can accomplish for God!

Where is your certainty found?

Falling at His Feet

Phil Ware continues his series on Luke 8 and 9 and this week he focuses on what each of these events has in common -- in each one, someone falls at the feet of Jesus.

What do all these events in Jesus' life have in common?

At the Feet of Jesus

Phil Ware reminds us about the battle for our lives and that Jesus is the only one with control over the demons, the deep, the diseases, and death.

Where should followers of Jesus find themselves?

We Do Not Lose Heart

Tom Norvell uses Paul's words to the Corinthians to help us know that we can keep on the journey of faith and not lose heart.

Come on! Can we really say this honestly?

Powerless?

Tom Norvell writes about powerlessness and how we have God with us to help us overcome.

What do you do when you don't have the strength to do the next thing?

Coming to Terms with Change

Rubel Shelly talks about change and our need for it or we grow obsolete and irrelevant.

Don't like change? Here's something worse and something better!

All Who Are Weary

Tom Norvell prays for the weary and the heavy burdened and tired, based on Jesus' promise to give us rest.

Is there any place to get some rest?

Season of Joy

Phil Ware reminds us of the story of Zechariah and Elizabeth, lived out in hard times, when God did the glorious and amazing things and longs to do them again in our day.

Can you find the joy right now?

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?

When You Have Lost It All

Russ Lawson talks about a couple of friends who seem to have lost everything, but then he reminds us what is important and that we haven't really lost that much as long as we have Jesus.

So what have you lost?

Helpless but not Hopeless

No matter how bad things get, we are never hopeless.

Do you sometimes feel helpless?

God in the Dark

A trip through deep depression forces our writer to look at reliance, dependence upon God, and finding hope when there doesn't seem to be much reason to hope.

How do we move from self-reliance to God reliance?