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 6:9-13 · Negative · Need, Bread
Phil Ware with Andy Johnson remind us that our prayer is for the bread we need today, not the extravagance we want for ourselves.
by James Nored & Phil Ware · John 20:1-9 · Resurrection
James Nored and Phil Ware share in video, words, and images some of the many reasons Christians have to believe that Jesus was raised from the dead and is Lord, Christ, Jesus, and Son of God!
by James Nored & Phil Ware · Colossians 1:18-23
James Nored and Phil Ware remind us that we all needed Jesus' redemptive death on the cross so we could find new life in the grace of God.
by Phil Ware · 1 Corinthians 15 · Parousia
Phil Ware continues his series on Resurrection 2.0 and focuses this week on Jesus' return in the clouds which is guaranteed by his resurrection from the dead.
by James Nored & Phil Ware · Matthew 4
James Nored and Phil Ware discuss the temptations and trials of Jesus and why they are important to us and what they have to say to us as people who are part of God's story.
by Phil Ware · John 20:11-18 · Resurrection
Phil Ware continues his series on Jesus' resurrection called resurrection 2.0, this week focusing on Jesus' word to Mary!
by James Nored & Phil Ware · Luke 3
Phil Ware and James Nored look at what the ministry of John the Baptizer meant for people in his day and call on us to share in this move toward the kingdom of God 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 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 James Nored & Phil Ware · Exodus 3 · Mountains · Moses
James Nored and Phil Ware remind us of the importance of God's past stories of deliverance to help us know how to live in our times of unfairness and hold onto to hope in the middle of oppression.
by Phil Ware · Luke 1 · Jesus · Christmas · Incarnation
Phil Ware shares some thoughts on what incarnation means as the collision of mortality and eternal, God in human flesh.
by James Nored & Phil Ware · Luke 3 · Repentance
Phil Ware and James Nored look at what the ministry of John the Baptizer meant for people in his day and call on us to share in this move toward the kingdom of God today.
by Phil Ware · John 1:14-18
Phil Ware challenges us to remember that Jesus was God made touchable and that Communion makes God touchable to us again.
by James Nored & Phil Ware · Genesis 6:5-6 · Violence
James Nored and Phil Ware remind us that violence is not God's plan, but humanity's corrupt and wicked propensity to injure and mar those created in the image of God.
by Phil Ware · John 4 · Food
Phil Ware continues his series on doubt focusing on Jesus' statement that doing the Father's will was the basis of finding fullness in life.
by Max Lucado · Ephesians 3:16 · Holy Spirit
Max Lucado reminds us to wait on the Holy Spirit to come with power.
by Phil Ware · Matthew 16:13-27 · Evangelism · Christlikeness · Confess
Phil Ware begins a four post series on Jesus' question to the disciples about who they thought he was and Jesus comes and asks us this question personally, so what will our answer be?
by Max Lucado · John 14:1-3 · Abba Father · Plans · Home
Max Lucado invites us to look at the beautiful Lord's Prayer and see it as the blueprint to the Great House of God prepared for us -- not just later, but now -- as his children.
by Phil Ware · Matthew 1:23 · Church · Abba Father · Compassion
Phil Ware challenges our settled notions about church in the box and wants us to realize that Jesus has so much more in store for us if we will make the moves necessary to experience Jesus and his story for ourselves.
by Phil Ware · John 5:25 · Grief
Phil Ware pauses and looks at the pain of grieving parents at the loss of a child and reminds us to forgo easy answers and cling to the stories and promises of Jesus.
by Max Lucado · Psalm 34:8 · Grief
Max Lucado reminds us that sorrow can open the door for anger to overwhelm us because we cannot figure out why bad things happened, but we hold onto the reality that God is good.
by Max Lucado · Ephesians 2:8-10 · Grace
Max Lucado recognizes the monotonous routine of life and its challenges and reminds us that God's grace meets us in our messes and gives us the power to live our way out of them.
by Phil Ware · Mark 1:35-45 · Jesus · Easter · Resurrection
Phil Ware continues his series on Jesus touching a man with leprosy and focuses on how Jesus' touch and word of command make clean and redeem this man who was left alone to die, abandoned by everyone and everything in his world.
by Max Lucado · Luke 12
Max Lucado reminds us that we shouldn't and we can't define who we are by what we have or don't have, but by our contentment in the Lord.
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