Articles Tagged 'Lonely'

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.

I Doubt It: The Well

Phil Ware continues his series on Jesus and series of encounters where people say to him or heard him and thought, 'I doubt it!'

Phil Ware invites us to join a weary woman who is all alone at the well in the middle of her daily grind and whose life was changed by a divine encounter!.

Be an Agent of Happiness

Max Lucado reminds us that we are God's agents of joy in our lonely planet full of discouraged people.

The people in our world can be moody, fickle, and stubborn and Jesus wants us to bring joy to them!

Overcoming the Greater Pandemic: From Lonely to Connected

Phil Ware and James Nored speak to the isolation pandemic that is accompanying COVID-19 and share ways and invite us to share ways to battle the loneliness and isolation.

Let's move from talking about the problem to providing each other ways to address the loneliness and isolation!

Escaping the Dark, Lonely, Hole of Depression

Teresa Bell Kindred opens up about her struggle with anxiety and depression, a secret hidden in her family for multiple generations, and she urges us to open up and get help.

Find someone you can talk to. Don't wait any longer. Get the conversation started!

I Doubt It: The Well

Phil Ware continues his series on Jesus and series of encounters where people say to him or heard him and thought, 'I doubt it!'

Phil Ware invites us to join a weary woman who is all alone at the well in the middle of her daily grind and whose life was changed by a divine encounter!.

Lonely Places as Usual

Jesus' life was framed by prayer, but do I find my "as usual" and "lonely places" moments in the presence of the Father in prayer?

Is my life shaped by intentional time away from the noise to be with the Father?

Sitting Duck?

Max Lucado reminds us sometimes loneliness is an invitation from God to find his perfect love that can drive out fear and chase away our isolation and fill it with love and promise.

What if loneliness has an invitation for a great discovery about God?

A Cry from the Hills of Judea

Bill Sherrill writes about God's clearest message through Jesus on the Cross and through the Gospel of John.

What could change everything?

A Small Man, a Big Day

Patrick Odum does a fictional biography styled account of Zacchaeus and Jesus and the special moment in the tree.

Who would have thought he would be out on a limb?

Horrifying Halloween

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

How can it be worse?

Flying Solo

Last Christmas my wife and I were given a kite. It’s one of those really large ones that requires two handles and gives you a pretty good work out.

Last Christmas my wife and I were given

Of Natural Causes

Larry died and no one missed him and was not discovered until 18 months after his death.

How long would you have to be gone before someone noticed?

A Visit Over Coffee

A woman talking to herself reminds us our need to engage in conversation in meaningful ways with others.

Who was she really talking with?

Where to Find the Help of a Friend?

With so many lonely people out there, how are we going to be like Jesus and God and minister to their loneliness and isolation?

Do you have any idea how many there actually are?

Loving Like Jesus

Loving like Jesus means that we love the forgotten, the unlovely, the left out, the marginalized.

Can you sit cross-legged on the floor?