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 Max Lucado · Ephesians 2:10 · Measure Up
Max Lucado reminds us not to think less of ourselves than God, our Creator does, and he declares that we are his masterpiece.
by Phil Ware · Mark 1:35 · Compassion · Discipleship · Called
Phil Ware begins an 8-part series on discipleship and following Jesus in caring for the hurt people of the world.
by Phil Ware · Exodus 33:15
Phil Ware continues his series on The Andrew Effect and reminds us that Jesus promised to be present with us as we live out the four moves of the Andrew Effect.
by Steve Ridgell · Luke 2:10 · Christmas
Christmas is very difficult for many people. Is it really possible to find joy, peace, hope, and love this year.
by Phil Ware · Matthew 10:17
Phil Ware shares his series for December 2015 on welcoming Jesus and focuses on the Magi from the gospel of Matthew and lets that story remind us our need to reach out to the lost and foreigner and alien and refugee among us.
by Phil Ware · 2 Timothy 2:1 · Legacy
Phil Ware talks about his NASCAR Experience and his father and passing on faith to future generations.
by Phil Ware · Acts 20:24 · Past
Phil Ware reminds us to let the past stay in the past and gives us Paul's advice for moving beyond our past: forgetting, straining, pressing on.
by Phil Ware · Luke 12:8
Phil Ware shares a passion on his heart about the way we have privatized and personalize conversion and salvation that eliminates the necessary grace of Jesus' community, family, and spiritual community.
by Phil Ware · Luke 5:1 · Lord
Phil Ware continues his series on Saved at Sea looking this week at the call of Simon Peter and the miraculous catch of fish when it shouldn't have happened unless Jesus is Lord.
by Max Lucado · John 9:15 · Jesus
Max Lucado writes about the man born blind in John 9 and reminds us that even though no one else notices us as a person, Jesus does.
by Stacy Voss · Romans 8:28 · Providence
Stacy Voss writes about her pain and a friend's pain at finding out that their husbands have been unfaithful and had repeated adulteries.
by Rubel Shelly · Galatians 6:10 · Sportsmanship
Rubel Shelly writes about a basketball game between the Gainesville Tornadoes and the Vanguard Vikings and the fans who helped give the team a life.
by Phil Ware · Genesis 1:26 · Sexuality
Phil Ware begins a seven week series of posts called Fifty Shades of Grace and will focus on Scripture and the Bible and God and the holy plan for fulfillment and sexuality in Scripture.
by Phil Ware · Hebrews 4:16 · Incarnation · Idols
Phil Ware has one more Christmas thought to place in our hearts before we lose Jesus in the New Year!
by Phil Ware · Matthew 1:23
Phil Ware brings to close his series on experiencing the presence of Jesus in our lives.
by Phillip Morrison · Philippians 2:10 · Christmas
Phillip Morrison talks about the incarnation of God in human flesh in Jesus and the parable of the birds to explain why God had to do it.
by Tim Archer · Isaiah 7:14 · Immanuel
So a little boy was born, named Immanuel. He was a living sign from God, a reminder that God is with his people. Because Ahaz wouldn't listen and wouldn't put his trust in God, his nation would suffer defeat. But he had in this young boy the constant remi
by Cathy Messecar · Isaiah 9:6 · Christmas
Cathy Messecar reminds us what we need most at Christmas and that only God can give us what humanity and our broken world cannot give.
by Phil Ware · Hebrews 13:5
Phil Ware writes a two part series on Finding Jesus at Christmas and this one focuses on spending time with Jesus in the Gospels.
by Phil Ware · Luke 8:1 · Women
Phil Ware continues his series on the importance of women to God and to the early church and focuses on the "The Women" Luke refers to as standing by Jesus in his Passion, crucifixion, burial, resurrection, and pouring out the Spirit at Pentecost and how
by Phil Ware · Acts 22:3 · Women
Phil Ware continues his series on the way God values women and expresses this in Scripture and also against the grain of culture.
by Phil Ware · Ephesians 2:14
Phil Ware continues his series on the way God values a woman and how Pentecost begins a new humanity that is to work itself out in the life of Jesus' people, the church.
by Phil Ware · John 8:1 · Abuse
Phil Ware reflects on the Ray Rice debacle and speaks about Jesus' encounter with the teachers of the law and the Pharisees and a woman caught in the very act of adultery.
by Ann Voskamp
Ann Voskamp looks at her daughters, remembers her own journey, and reminds all women that it is God, our Father, who determines the worth of a woman, not a mirror, not the media, and not our own doubts and self-deprecations.
by Teresa Bell Kindred · Hebrews 2:18 · Grief
Teresa Bell Kindred writes about the 24th anniversary of her mother's death and how it is still real to her and then she gives some good pointers on grief.
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