Featured Articles

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.

Icebergs

Phil Ware comes in right after Valentine's Day and reminds us about iceberg dates on our calendar that tend to sink us and overwhelm us with feelings of being alone, being failures, and being abandoned but that we can overcome them by crying out to Jesus

What do you do about those iceberg dates on your calendar that seem to sink you?

Comfort in any Season

Phil Ware talks about 2 Corinthians 1:3-4 and comforting others with the comfort we have received when we went through the season of mourning, grief, and pain.

How does God use us to comfort other?

Trust

All around us are people who are grace stories -- people who have opened up to God and received his grace and had their hard lives changed for the better.

Will we open up and really trust him to change our story into a grace story?

Hope Does Not Disappoint Us

No matter how desperate things can seem, God has given the ability to hope in him through the power of the Holy Spirit.

Can we keep from being disappointed by broken hopes?

Empty!

We can think we are following God's will, but the only way to know for sure is by consulting his word.

What are you filling your tank with?

The Behinder I Get

We get behind and stay behind because we don't pray.

How are you doing at keeping up with all your responsibilities?

No Greater Love

Tom Norvell talks about God's love for us in Jesus and also anniversaries.

Admit it! Accept it! Share it!

Forgotten Kindness, Forgotten Love?

Mike Barres reminds us of the incredible and personal nature of God and his love for us and our need to let Him know with kind words and loving words and genuine affection.

When is the last time you let God know how much you love Him?

God at Our Feet

Cathy Messecar challenges us to see the God of Abram, our God, in a new way, the God who will bless and bow to serve us as well as the God who calls us to obey and follow.

Here's a place it's hard to imagine God, but it is the place God often chose to be!

Servant!

Phil Ware reminds us that the Jesus vibe is about being a servant and helping others, but he also reminds us that there are powerful memories in the Lord's Supper to help remind us of this thought.

Jesus recalibrated greatness and changed it from being fame and notoriety to kneeling and using a basin and towel.

Delayed Truth

We need to learn that there is a time to be silent.

Have you learned this important spiritual skill?

A Family Without Borders

Phil Ware continues his short series on Acts 1:1-11 and focuses today on sharing the message of Jesus with the world God loves.

These ordinary people did the extraordinary: they lived Jesus’ words into reality.