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 · 2 Corinthians 3:17-18 · Holy Spirit
Phil Ware continues his series on the Holy Spirit focusing on Jesus and our need for Jesus to be the transforming presence in our lives.
by Phil Ware · Acts 14:27
Phil Ware continues his 4 part series on Thanksgiving and how important it is for churches to leverage change and growth in in their church families.
by Phil Ware · Matthew 28:18-20 · Mission
Phil Ware continues his 3 series of articles on Sagrada Familia in Lima, Peru and talks about the need to change missions occasionally for the sake of a grander goal and greater return.
by Tim Woodroof · 1 Corinthians 9:22 · Faithfulness
Tim Woodroof continues his series on "Change in the Life of the Church" and focuses this week on faithfulness and how we define it and how Jesus and Paul define it -- staying on the journey and responding to changes faithfully rather than trying to do thi
by Tim Woodroof · Acts 9
Tim Woodroof continues his series on the ways we need to freshen our approach to church if we are going to connect with people in today's world and how we react to our own church issues.
by Tim Woodroof · 2 Corinthians 3:16-18 · Culture
Tim Woodroof of Interim Ministry Partners shares the introductory article on changes facing the church today and comparing it to the early church we find in the book of Acts.
by Phil Ware · Genesis 1 · Creation
Phil Ware challenges us to ask the 'Now, so what?' question to our own faith in Jesus and God and to make life changes based upon it.
by Rubel Shelly · Revelation 7:9-12 · Unity
Rubel Shelly reminds us of MLK, Martin Luther King, Jr., and how he taught us we were all equal in God's eyes and that Jesus was the answer to uniting us into one people under God.
by Ann Voskamp · Psalm 50:23 · Thanksgiving
Ann Voskamp shares the flash of insight that changed everything and began the journey of a 1000 God gifts and eucharisteo and thanksgiving.
by Phil Ware · Romans 8:26-27 · Prayer
Phil Ware continues his series on building a culture of honor focusing this week on prayer, especially prayer as a redemptive tool of offering forgiveness and blessing to those who are our enemies and who mistreat us.
by Phil Ware · Matthew 5:11-16 · Light
Phil Ware shares the sweet prayer request from one of the translators in a predominantly Muslim nation wracked with violence and bloodshed: "Please pray for the terrorists that they know Jesus Christ like Saul who became Paul :)"
by Lisa Mikitarian · Romans 8:28 · Adventure
Lisa Mikitarian reminds us that life with the Lord really is an adventure because when we love him and are called according to his purposes then he works in our life through adventure to bless us and bring him glory.
by Ron Rose · 2 Corinthians 5:17 · Influence
Ron Rose reminds us that influence and starting over and being a new creation is something God does all the time and we just need to begin.
by Rubel Shelly · 2 Corinthians 3:17-18 · Transformation
Rubel Shelly reminds us that rushing around to get where we think God wants us to be is seldom God's plan and seldom accomplishes what God wants to do in us.
by Tim Archer · Ezekiel 36:25-27 · Heart
Photos often represent a "reality" that doesn't exist. They focus on the surface level. God looks beyond that, looking at the heart. How do we get our hearts right? God can fix them.
by Phil Ware · Nehemiah 8:8-11 · Renewal
Phil Ware takes us back to The Story, God's story and our story and reminds us that while rebuilding infrastructure for a city and country is hard, it is even harder to rebuild the morale, moral, and faith foundation.
by Phil Ware · Matthew 22:34-40 · Love
Phil Ware continues his series on what is core and focuses on love and what it is and how Jesus and God demonstrate it.
by Ron Rose · 2 Corinthians 3:18 · New Year
Ron Rose writes about redemption and even more of sanctification, the slow work of God to transform us into something new and better and more like Him and reminds us that this is a process.
by Lisa Mikitarian · John 4:34 · Work
Lisa Mikitarian reminds us that our Father in heaven has invited us into his work just like our earthly parents have sometimes invited us, and taken pride in us, working in their world.
by Ron Rose · 1 Peter 3:13-15 · Addiction
Ron Rose talks about moving from waiting to tell the story to being the story in someone's life today.
by Phil Ware · John 5:1-16 · Grace
Phil Ware continues his series called UNPREDICTABLE about Jesus and his love and grace and call to follow him in holiness and reminds us that grace calls us from sin and death and to a life of holiness.
by Rubel Shelly · Mark 2:22 · Change · Champion
Ruble Shelly helps think through some of the challenges of change!
by Ron Rose · 2 Corinthians 3:17-18 · Change
Ron Rose writes about change and how it is not only inevitable, but it is the answer to life's greatest challenges and the wind upon which faith sails.
by Tim Archer · Romans 7:24-25 · Change · Resolutions
There is a certain futility in making resolutions. Only God can truly change us.
by Steve Ridgell · 2 Corinthians 5:17 · Conversion
The correct way to put on a new roof is to first take off the old roof. That is the same way Jesus gives us new life. Take off the old, put on the new.
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