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.
Rubel Shelly takes on the issue of a recent suicide because a person's recent sexual escapades were shown online without his permission and Rubel reminds us that the issue is about gossip and both fact and intention for sharing news matters.
Ron Rose reminds us of the benefits of our faith and our need to celebrate them!
Rubel Shelly reminds us of Stephen Covey and living by priorities rather than just prioritizing the things we schedule.
Brian McCutchen looks at the principles of Hebrews 10:24-25 and reminds us that the assembly, the church gatherings, must be about encouragement.
Ron Rose talks about being the Jesus our friends need today, not just having answers for what we believe.
Bill Sherrill talks about bad news about his heart and he begins to worry until he remembers what Jesus said!
Pat Mingarelli shares insight from his time hiking and being outdoors as a photographer and reminds us our need for silence to listen to God.
Rubel Shelly talks about a PGA event, calling a self-imposed penalty no one knew about, and losing a lot of money for his honesty.
Phil Ware compares 1 Corinthians 15 and Romans 6 and reminds us that what saves us is Jesus' death, burial, and resurrection and we get to participate and experience these in baptism and the Lord's Supper!
Phil Ware continues his series on Catch and Release, focusing on sharing our blessings and also seeing sharing Jesus, the good news of Jesus, as a gift of generosity.
Tom Norvell tries to get us to think in terms of what the Lord has planned for us.
Tom Norvell talks about our desire to go good and how strong it is and how we battle against the desire to do evil.
Tom Norvell reminds us that we were saved from what we were to be what we are: God's people created with purpose to do good works.
Russ Lawson reminds us that the habits, patterns, and companions of our lives leave a message in the hearts of all who see us and know us.
Tom Norvell talks about taking off in the pea soup of bad rainy weather and lifting up through the clouds and finding the sun and tying this all to our need to look beyond the clouds.
Patrick Odum sees a billboard by an atheistic and agnostic group that says many are good without God and he decides he is barely tolerable with God, so there's no hope for him without God!
Phil Ware talks about Nathan's rebuke of David using a shepherding story, the use of shepherd imagery to describe God, and the call of God's leaders to be shepherds to the people of God.
Phil Ware writes about Romans 8:22-29, the bondage to decay that our world faces, our own troubles and hardships, and slogans that we often use and abuse to try to encourage people who are grieving, wounded, or hurt.
Phil Ware challenges us to look at our identity built around the question of "Who are you?" and the answer framed by the work of Jesus.
Rubel Shelly reminds us that the economic times, especially the financial downturn, gives us an opportunity to learn new things and establish new values, more biblical values, in our approach to consumption, greed, and ownership.
The apostle Andrew shows us how to tell others about Jesus.
Rubel Shelly reminds us to try new things, to take risks, and to find some things we don't do well rather than falling into stale and boring ruts only doing the things we do well.
Rubel Shelly takes on the negative sentiment of the day and confronts it head on.
Phil Ware challenges us to look beyond the cosmetic image we see in the mirror and view ourselves as God does.
Joe Beam answers the reader's question about having a good marriage again after all the hurt and sinfulness?
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