Articles Tagged 'Joyful'

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.

Cheerful Generosity

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in a virtual, DIY, worship through words and music using YouTube videos to call us to live generous lives of grace where we are joyful recipients of God's grace and cheerfully generous in our acts of mercy.

Why we should we be thankful, cheerful, and generous in a world full of negativity!

Finding Contagious Joy

Max Lucado reminds us that contagious joy is rooted in courageous joy and not contingent joy, and our courageous joy is rooted in Jesus and faith in what God did through Jesus.

How can we move from contingent joy through courageous joy to contagious joy?

Reason to Smile

Rubel Shelly reminds us that being dour doesn't help any of us make disciples or friends.

What such a dour and serious face?

Finding Happiness?

Teresa Bell Kindred reminds us that what we define as happiness is nearly always temporary pleasure that is soon gone and leaves us unhappy; happiness is really on our own shoulders.

Are we looking in the right places to find happiness for ourselves?

Complete Joy!

Tom Norvell talks about his son's wedding and how everyone sacrificed to do what the bride and groom wanted and this allowed complete joy to bless everyone.

What can make my joy complete?

Rise Up Singing

Singing changes and so must we, but the bigger issue is that we sing!

What's your favorite way to sing?