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 James Nored & Phil Ware · Matthew 1:18-25 · Incarnation
James Nored and Phil Ware remind us to push past the glittering lights and see that God came to be one of us in the birth of Jesus of Nazareth.
by Phil Ware · 1 Corinthians 15
Phil Ware continues his series on Resurrection 2.0 focusing this week on the doubts of early disciples, and our times of doubting sometimes in our world.
by Patrick D. Odum · 1 Peter 2:17
Patrick Odum reminds us that we can be better at loving the family of believers than we are doing now and that this change, this commitment to love, can make all the difference in the world.
by Phil Ware · 1 Corinthians 10 · Communion · Lord's Supper · Eucharist
Phil Ware continues his series on Resurrection 2.0 and the vital importance of Jesus' resurrection for our life as his disciples today.
by James Nored & Phil Ware · Exodus 20 · 10 Commandments
James Nored and Phil Ware remind us of the importance of the 10 Commandments and the two divine principles of God and Jesus and call us to live them in our daily lives.
by James Nored & Phil Ware · Exodus 3
James Nored and Phil Ware look at Moses' showdown with Pharaoh to remind us that this was really a showdown to show who was truly God and our need to choose to follow him.
by Phil Ware · Mark 16:1-8
Phil Ware finishes up his series on CRUCIFORMED and the way of the cross that Jesus shows us in the Gospel of Mark.
by James Nored & Phil Ware · Exodus 3 · Delivered
James Nored and Phil Ware remind us that God's great stories of deliverance, like the Exodus with Moses leading God's people to victory over Egypt and Pharaoh, are reminders of Jesus' greater deliverance and God's faithfulness.
by Phil Ware · Mark 15 · Risks
Phil Ware continues his series of insights on living the CRUCIFORMED life Jesus calls all disciples to live on his way to the cross.
by Phil Ware · Mark 8-10 · Servant
Phil Ware continues his series on the Cruciformed disciple, focusing this week on the power of the small.
by Steve Hemphill · Deuteronomy 6 · Prayer
Steve Hemphill challenges us to rethink our role in spiritual warfare and calls on us to battle for the heart of our cities through prayer and prayer stakes.
by Phil Ware · Mark 9 · Prayer
Phil Ware continues his series of posts from the discipleship section of Mark chapters 8-10, this time focusing on the boy the disciples of Jesus could not heal.
by Phil Ware · Mark 9:2-7 · Listening
Phil Ware continues his short series on becoming a cruciformed people -- disciples transformed by the cross of Jesus -- by talking about the focus on the story of Jesus' transfiguration.
by Max Lucado · Matthew 18:21-35 · Unfair · Unforgiving
Max Lucado reminds us of the importance of forgiveness or bitterness poisons our hearts and destroys our influence.
by James Nored & Phil Ware · Hebrews 11 · Faith
James Nored and Phil Ware challenge us to look at C.S. Lewis and his journey of faith along with a broken-hearted father and see how we might be able to find faith in our own lives.
by Phil Ware · Acts 1:1-8 · Exercise · Empower
Phil Ware continues his series called, 8GHT, focusing on eight principles out of Acts 1, today his focus is on the Holy Spirit being the power behind the early church.
by Patrick D. Odum · Romans 3:23 · Parenting · Mothers · Sin
Patrick Odum challenges us to look at sin, community involvement, engagement in the problems of our world, and what it means to be a citizen of the world in which we live.
by Phil Ware · Acts 1:1-11 · Witnessing · Witnesses · Testimony
Phil Ware continues his short series on Acts 1:1-11 and focuses today on being witnesses of the great things Jesus has done.
by · Luke 15 · Prayer · Seek · Path to God
Jordan Harrell reminds us of the comfort we find in the times of our darkness are tied to the amount of time we have sought to have a path to the Father when we are in the light.
by Phil Ware · Acts 2 · Millenials · Message
Phil Ware continues his series called 8GHT -- Eight Truths that Turned the World Upside Down! from Acts 1:1-11, this week focusing on Jesus as the Message, Motive, Model, and Mover in the early days of the church.
by Jackie Halstead, Ph.D. · Romans 12:1-2 · New Year
Jackie Halstead challenges us to take advantage of the New Year to begin writing a new chapter in our lives that brings grace to a world struggling with evil.
by Phil Ware · Acts 1:1-11 · Providence · Holy Spirit · Power
Phil Ware begins an eight-part series on eight truths that turned the world upside down, a look at the early verses of the book of Acts.
by Phil Ware · Luke 2:21-38 · Aging
Phil Ware concludes his end of the year series called Beginning in Endings by talking about Anna and Simeon from Luke 2 and what they should teach us about aging and what to expect as we grow older.
by Phil Ware · Philippians 2:5-11
Phil Ware asks us to remember all the people who joined Jesus at his birth and challenges us to believe that these are exactly the kind of people Jesus came to redeem -- people just like us!
by James Nored & Phil Ware · John 1:1-18 · Jesus · Christmas · Incarnation
James and Phil continue their series on The Story of Redemption by focusing on the birth of Jesus and what it means for us.
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