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 Heather Gray · Psalm 116:15 · Memorial Day
Heather Gray shares a devotional on death and love and the power of God through it all for families who are deployed in harms way and she speaks with the authenticity of someone who knows because her husband David Gray was killed in Afghanistan.
by Teresa Bell Kindred · Psalm 46:10 · Rapture · Rain
Teresa Bell Kindred shares her love for the rain, being still, thinking about the reason and purpose we are here, and Amy Purdy.
by Phil Ware · Ephesians 4:15-21 · Transition
Phil Ware talks about being stuck in the Land of In-between and how hard it is and some core ideas to take with you as you find yourself in that kind of place.
by Phil Ware · Matthew 25:40 · Compassion
Phil Ware gives three reasons to sponsor a child with Compassion International.
by Phillip Morrison · 1 Corinthians 15:1-3 · Resurrection
Phillip Morrison challenges us to face the resurrection and believe or disbelieve, and he promotes believing because you can trust the testimony of those who have their throats cut.
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 Phil Ware · Luke 15 · Waiting
Phil Ware shares his heart about someone who is precious to him who needs to come to the Lord and has not yet done so.
by Mark Frost · Revelation 2:1-7
Mark Frost continues a series on how a church can discover its mission.
by Tom Norvell · 1 Peter 3:15 · Christmas
Tom Norvell reminds us that this is really a gift worth regifting -- Jesus -- because he is our hope, joy, love, and peace and others need to hear us speak of him when they need him most.
by Phillip Morrison · Genesis 1:1-27 · Speech · Earth
Phillip Morrison writes about the Apollo 8 moon orbit and the famous earthrise photo taken by the astronauts orbiting the moon in what otherwise would have been a disastrous year for America.
by Ann Voskamp · Romans 5:5
Ann Voskamp shares a powerful story about the first Sunday of Advent and butterflies and a friend with a broken heart.
by Greg Anderson · Matthew 28:18-20 · Mission
Greg Anderson completes the series on seasons in the life of a church and its vision, mission, and focus.
by Ann Voskamp · Galatians 5:6 · Communion
Ann Voskamp talks about this year's wheat harvest and how it reminds her of God's grace and message of love when she was once in France and how communion is about love and love is about sacrifice.
by Ann Voskamp · Proverbs 5 · Marriage
Ann Voskamp writes about the love she shares with her farmer husband and how he loves her with real love.
by Steve Ridgell · Philippians 3:14 · Hope
We live in a hard world and then we die. The world sees this as bad news getting worse. The Christian sees it as bad news getting better.
by Phil Ware · Matthew 28:18-20 · Great Commission
Phil Ware does part 4 of a 5 part series on experiencing Jesus' presence from the gospel of Matthew, focusing on the Great Commission and Jesus' promise to be present.
by Greg Anderson · Romans 12 · Values
Greg Anderson reminds us why values are so important and how we must live out of our values with integrity.
by Jackie Halstead, Ph.D. · Psalm 5:1-3 · Silence · Illness
Jackie Halstead reminds us of our need to slow down and let God lead us instead of thinking we can be in charge of our own lives.
by Phil Ware · Romans 12 · Values
Phil Ware continues the series on values and leadership, especially conflict in the leadership because they cannot discern operational, personal, strategic, theoretical, shared, and other types of values.
by Phillip Morrison · Ephesians 2:8-9 · Assurance
Phillip Morrison reminds us that our assurance is based on what God does and has done in Jesus, not what we can accomplish for God!
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 Joni Eareckson Tada · Proverbs 18:21 · Revenge
Ann Voskamp and Joni Eareckson Tada team up to provide a beautiful and powerful reminder of the power of our words to change everything.
by Patrick D. Odum · Matthew 8:1-4
Patrick Odum reminds us that Jesus majors is making the unclean clean and taking the outcast and bringing them back home into community.
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 Phil Ware · Luke 8 · Salvation
Phil Ware continues his series on Out of the Box and focusing on the big Four primal fears that Jesus helps us address and he reminds us that salvation involves a from, for, and to component and shouldn't be simply elevator theology.
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