Articles Tagged 'Quiet'

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.

Reflecting the Servant Heart of Jesus

Phil Ware talks about a university honoring students for their acts of service and it leads him to wonder how we honor God's servants today.

How do you honor a servant who is not trying to be noticed but simply trying to do good things for others?

Reflecting the Servant Heart of Jesus

Phil Ware talks about a university honoring students for their acts of service and it leads him to wonder how we honor God's servants today.

How do you honor a servant who is not trying to be noticed but simply trying to do good things for others?

Be Mindful of the Words You Hear

Tom Norvell reminds us that we don't have to hear the messages and noise around us, we can follow Jesus' example and withdraw from the situation.

You don't have to listen to the noise around you!

The Silence of Saturday

Max Lucado reminds us during this special week of a day that is so often neglected: Saturday, the Sabbath, when everything appears to be silent and that Satan has triumphed, yet lying still in the grave, Jesus' body belies the truth of God.

God is at work even when nothing appears to be happening!

Let the Show... End!

Tom Norvell reminds us that true piety is about quiet, anonymous, kind acts of service and generosity for others done to honor God and not ourselves.

Why is it so hard to do things quietly and without drawing attention to ourselves

A Few Minutes Alone

Rubel Shelly talks about an airport delay that ended up in a blessed day alone with God focusing and praying on the things and people that matter most and being present with God in the quietness of the moment.

When is time waiting, not wasted?

Alms and the Red Kettle

Cathy Messecar confesses her struggle to make giving something that honors God and not herself and she talks about the Salvation Army Red Kettle Drive.

Doesn't my gift count?

Silence at Christmas to Listen

Rick Brown writes about LSTN headphones, hearing, Starkey hearing foundation, 400 years of silence after the Old Testament, years, silence, quiet, need, hear, hearing, listening, listen, Immanuel.

If we listen, it is not so silent a night at Christmas!

Illness, My Teacher

Jackie Halstead reminds us of our need to slow down and let God lead us instead of thinking we can be in charge of our own lives.

Can anything good come from being sick?

Father, Your Servant Is Listening

Tom Norvell reminds us to listen to God's voice for time alone with him to be renewed, rekindled, and directed to what matters most in our lives and on our to do lists.

How will I get everything done on my to do list?

Come with Me!

Tom Norvell reminds us of Jesus encouraging his disciples, his followers, to get away from the maddening rush of the crowds and go to a quiet place with him and get some rest.

Is there any way to step off the treadmill a minute?

True Peace

Bill Sherrill talks about God, who is there through all the tough and also gentle moments of our lives!

Do you have the God who is there through everything?

Settling In

Tom Norvel writes about his daughter moving and how his heart is still in a quest for home and that after she settles in to this place, he hopes she still continues her quest for home.

Have you found home?

The Unmentioned Essentials

Phil Ware shares about two people passing from life and how their quiet lives of service were essential to the work of God's Kingdom.

Do you notice the folks around you who are the true heroes?

Your Ambition

Tom Norvell shares with us some insights from 1 Thessalonians and how to life a quiet life and honor God and win the hearts of outsiders.

What is your ambition in life?

Place of Quiet Rest

Bill Sherrill shares with us about his quiet place near to the heart of God.

Do you have such a place?

Snow Days

Lisa Mikitarian shares some beautiful insights on the beauty of a heavy snow and how Jesus comes to us and offers to do the same -- bring peace to our hectic and harried worlds.

Can you hear the sound of muffled noise?

The Care and Feeding of Christian Servants

Paul Faulkner reminds us that if we are going to keep being a servant to Christ and others, then we've got to care for ourselves and replenish what we are depleting in our service to others.

Why do we not take care of ourselves in our service to others?

Unplug!

Teresa Bell Kindred shares with us her absent-minded follies because she is distracted from all of her hi-tech toys to which she is plugged in and she reminds us to get away and be with God.

What's got you so distracted?

Take off the Fireman's Hat!

Paul Faulkner reminds us that being in such a rush in life is not the way God intended us to live and not the way Jesus lived, so we ought to slow down, spend time with the Father, and be refreshed.

What's the big rush, anyway?

Gentle Moments

Paul Faulkner reminds us to use the gentle quiet tuck-in times with our kids.

Are you taking advantage of the gentle moments?

The Quiet Kingdom

Rubel Shelly talks about the kinds of ways the Kingdom of God grows and spreads, quietly, gently, in the faithful, every day actions of real people.

Can you hear the Kingdom advancing?

Exercising the Spirit: Rule of Life

The Rule of Life is our own commitment to live out the spiritual disciplines, exercising the Spirit and doing what God longs to see us doing.

Are you ready to set out on your own with God?

The Cool of the Day

Our love for the cool of the day after the hot day of work is a reminder of our need to be close to God and his desire to have us close.

Have you been refreshed in the presence of the Lord lately?

Take a God Break

We all need to take a God-break a time when we get alone with God and be renewed and restored.

When's the last time you shut everything down and sought to be alone with God?