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 Alan Smith · Romans 12:1-2 · Evangelism
Alan Smith uses a story by Elie Wiesel to help make the point that sometimes we have to do things that seem even futile because we don't want to be changed into something we don't want to be.
by Patrick D. Odum · James 4:7-10 · Temptation
Patrick Odum reminds us that overcoming temptation requires us to resist the devil, but he also adds some other insights from James' famous passage about overcoming temptation by being honest about oursleves and our need for God.
by Phil Ware · Luke 4 · Temptation
Phil Ware shares his continuing series on the Jesus vibe and focuses on how Jesus won the war over sin and temptation.
by Paul Faulkner · Matthew 6:8 · God · Fatherhood · Father's Day
Paul Faulkner talks about God knowing all about us and still loving us immensely and how his love is better than the best dad and compensates for the worst dad.
by Kimberli J. Brackett · Isaiah 5:20 · Holiness
Righteousness is not a choice but it is defined by God and his will, not by popular culture, media, and we cannot compromise and or flirt with evil.
by Byron Ware · Philippians 2:3-11 · Selfishness
Selfishness is what really lies behind all of marriage problems and the devil wants to use selfish people and marriage problems to render the church ineffective.
by Rubel Shelly · James 4:7
We've got to be honest about our weakness and inconsistency and quit trying to blame everything on someone or something else, including satan or the devil.
by Teresa Bell Kindred · 1 Peter 2:11 · Addiction · Drugs
Drugs are an awful evil afflicting our world and Christians need to do something to combat them.
by Tom Norvell · John 14:30-31 · Satan · Addiction
Don't you wish you could say, like Jesus said, that the devil or Satan has no hold on you?
by Phil Ware · Ephesians 6:10-12 · Sin · Evil
We shouldn't play around with sin because it opens the door of heart to evil and satan.
by Sarah Stirman · John 8:44 · Devil
Satan is the Father of lies and tries to get us to believe his cruel and ugly lies.
by Rubel Shelly · Proverbs 16:25 · Morals
Morals and values, right and wrong, matter or nothing really matters anymore in society.
by Kathy Bailey · Ephesians 6:11 · Temptation
Satan loves to trap us when we wander away from God's people.
by Phil Ware · James 1:14-16 · Temptation
Just like the fast food ads decieve us by making their product look too good to be true, so also satan deceives and tempts us.
by Tom Norvell · Philippians 4:12-13 · Faith · Spiritual Warfare · Future
Life is filled with its share of both good things and bad things, so we mustn't get so caught up in one that we forget the other!
by Rubel Shelly · 2 Corinthians 12:9 · Christian Living · Character · Death
God never promised to protect us from every bad thing; he only promised to save us and turn every bad thing into a good one.
by Bruce Wadd · Ephesians 6:10-12 · Satan · Demons · Temptation
Satan likes to sneak in and set up shop and begin his destructive work in our lives when we are unsuspecting.
by Phil Ware · Matthew 3:17 · Affirm
Phil Ware reminds us that God said almost exactly the same words to his Son twice, yet he spoke the first time to affirm his Son and the second time to let us know we must listen to the Son.
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