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 · Matthew 5:23-24 · Forgiveness
Phil Ware takes the two love commands of Jesus, the Greatest Commands, and applies them to all of life for a follower of the Lord.
by Larry Davies · Isaiah 43 · Tragedy
Larry Davies shares a hard and horrible story of tragedy and asks where God is and helps walk us through Isaiah 43 and shows how it reflects the presence of God in our worst times through the people of God who help.
by Bill Denton · 1 John 4:20-21 · Hate
Bill Denton challenges us to understand that hateful behavior is our expression of hate no matter how we try to deny it.
by Jane Vincenzi · 1 Peter 3:9 · Blessed
Jane Vincenzi shares some insight in the old southern phrase bless your heart and realizes that it is really what our Christian life is all about.
by Rubel Shelly · Matthew 6:42 · Kindness
Rubel Shelly reminds us how important it is to do simple acts of kindness and not simply look for the splashy and big things to do to bless others.
by Steve Higginbotham · Acts 10:38 · Death · Daughter
Steve Higginbotham tells about his daughter learning the most important lesson of all, wan ting to be like Jesus.
by Rubel Shelly · 1 Peter 3:4 · Kingdom
Rubel Shelly talks about the kinds of ways the Kingdom of God grows and spreads, quietly, gently, in the faithful, every day actions of real people.
by Leah Adams · Isaiah 26:3-4 · Help
Leah talks about struggling with a mess at her new home and shares how prayer and God's help pulled her through!
by Joey Cope · Ephesians 2:4-7 · Grace
Joey's granddaughter Landrye has taught him a great deal about God's grace.
by Amy Grant · Matthew 10:29-31 · Children
What will it take for us to realize our great value to God simply because he wants us to love him and be with him?
by Tom Norvell · John 10:10 · Life
Life is a combination of ups and downs and all arounds but Jesus is in the middle trying to bring us full life all the time!
by Rubel Shelly · 1 Peter 1:12 · Christmas
Rubel reminds us that Christmas is the season for many things depending on who we are. So let's use this season to be a blessing and not to stir trouble and let's do it responsibly and with grace.
by Mary Lindow · 1 Thessalonians 5:18 · Appreciation
Sending thank you cards or notes can be such a powerful and special blessing to those who receive them and are just the kind of thing the Lord would have us do!
by Phil Ware · Psalm 139:13-16 · Children
An awful Halloween ten years ago reminds us how important it is to value children for who they are!
by Rubel Shelly · Ephesians 4:31-32
The Amish are an example of simple piety that cares to honor God above getting even: it is their character and not their dress or agrarian culture we need to imitate.
by Phil Ware · Luke 23:34 · Forgiveness
Christian people can be ugly and ungrateful, but we must be like Jesus in both the way we use our speech and the way we forgive others who are hateful and ungrateful.
by Phil Ware · John 19:30 · Jesus
Jesus gave up his spirit, but he did not give up his mission, his mercy, his grace.
by Paul Faulkner · James 4:13-17 · Urgency
Paul has a scare while tending his goats and it makes him realize the urgency of now, of doing the things today that need to be done and saying the things that need to be said right now.
by Scott Owings · Hebrews 13:2 · Hospitality
Hospitality is the Christian virtue of entertaining strangers, outsiders, and guests and recognizing in them angels or even the presence of God in the Trinity.
by Paul Faulkner · 1 Peter 3:4
We like a person with kindness much more than a person who has had a bunch of cosmetic surgery or plastic surgery.
by Paul Faulkner · John 15:12-15 · Friendship
Friends can help friends if they love them and minister to them.
by Rubel Shelly · 2 Timothy 2:24 · Friendliness
We all need more friends, but the way to have them is to invest the time and offer others our friendship
by Scott Owings · Matthew 5:42 · Generosity
The spiritual discipline of generosity is crucial if we are going to grow in the spirit.
by Mike Barres · Matthew 25:38-40 · Generosity
Will we help those who need it simply because we follow Jesus and because they need it with no strings attached?
by Patrick D. Odum · Romans 12:15 · Gentleness
The horrible death of one daughter and the coma of another and the confusion between the two leads the Ceraks and Van Ryns on the ultimate challenge of Christian faith.
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