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.
by Phil Ware · John 19:23-27 · Cross
Phil Ware continues his series on the 7 sayings of Jesus at the cross and reminds us how Jesus values his mother, widows, and the grieving.
by Mike Barres · Matthew 28:19-20
Mike Barres challenges us with a powerful example of climbing Mt. Everest and compares it with having a great church experience but not being concerned with people.
by Russ Lawson · Philippians 4:8
Russ Lawson challenges us to look at the way filth and dirt get into our lives and contaminate them and challenges us to pursue holiness and purity.
by Patrick D. Odum · Matthew 16:24-27 · Rich
Patrick Odum reflects on several folks who have auctioned off huge portions of their lives and property on eBay and challenges us to ask if we have done the same thing with our stuff.
by Tom Norvell · Romans 5:6
Tom Norvell reminds us that God saved us through grace in Jesus at just the right time and has intervened in our lives at just the right time over and over again.
by Tim Archer · Isaiah 40:31 · Hope
Hope can give us the power to overcome illness, change our lives and face whatever this life may bring. Hope needs a foundation, and only God gives an eternal foundation.
by Rubel Shelly · Philippians 4:4-8 · Joy
Rubel Shelly reminds us that we've got to look past our own failures and low view of our own importance and learn to rejoice because we are each a child of the King.
by Phil Ware · 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 · Fear
Phil Ware continues his 7 sayings of Jesus on the Cross with the meaning of the line today of "you will be with me in paradise" and talks about the hope it brings in the face of death.
by Bill Denton · 1 Corinthians 15 · Grace
Bill Denton reminds us that the Gospel of Jesus isn't centered in a list of do's and don't's but in a Savior, Jesus Christ, who was crucified and raised to bring us God's grace.
by Russ Lawson · 1 John 4:1
Russ Lawson reminds us to check out what we are told from Scripture, because just like made up statistics, the facts are not always what is presented to us.
by Rubel Shelly · Ephesians 2:1-3 · Anger
Rubel Shelly reminds that God hates and gets angry at evil and calls us to be stirred to anger and action.
by Mike Barres · Ephesians 4:32 · Kindness
Mike Barres reminds us to be thoughtful to others and one way to do that is to remember those who have been thoughtful to us.
by Steve Ridgell · Luke 5:31 · Healing
Churches are spiritual hospitals full of those who need spiritual healing ... and that includes all of us.
by Ron Rose · Ephesians 4:30-5:2 · Forgiveness
Ron Rose reminds us of Reginald Denny and the vicious attack he suffered in the riots of LA and yet forgave.
by Mike Barres · Lamentations 3:22-23 · Ruts
Mike Barres talks about his gravel driveway and how it gets full of ruts and how he goes about avoiding them and then he challenges us to avoid living in the ruts we have made in our churches and our lives.
by Paul Faulkner · Luke 12:15 · Possessions
Paul Faulkner talks about how possessions seem to take over our lives and own us.
by Straight from the Bible · Hebrews 2:14-18
This is simply quoting Hebrews 2:14-18 about freedom from death's tyrranny.
by Tom Norvell · John 8:31-37 · Freedom
Tom Norvell thinks about July 4th and reminds us that freedom is found in Jesus.
by Bill Brant · Psalm 20:7 · Christian Living · Faith · Christlikeness
When in the course of human events it becomes necessary to state deliberately and unequivocally the basis for one’s belief, a person, an organization, a nation, or people must make a Declaration.
by Sarah Stirman · John 14:1-3 · Heaven
Sarah Stirman talks about the funeral for her grandfather and it reminds her where her real home is.
by Phil Ware · 1 Corinthians 15:54-55 · Resurrection
Phil Ware shares with us the real meaning of Independence Day and how we can celebrate it every week.
by Bill Sherrill · Isaiah 42:9 · Hardship
Bill Sherrill talks about Fanny J. Crosby, the great Christian song writer, and her ability to see acutely even though she was blind.
by Alan Smith · 1 Timothy 1:5 · Parenting
Alan Smith tells us of the developer of the laser and how he doesn't claim any sense of achievement because he wasn't the one who designed the ultimate final use.
by Russ Lawson · Hebrews 11:1 · Faith
Russ Lawson reminds us that our faith needs to keep growing and going in the direction of faith, believe but help my unbelief.
by Tom Norvell · 1 Thessalonians 4:1-12 · Influence
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.
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