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 Rick Brown · Romans 8:1 · New Year
Rick Brown reminds us that even though we may have already begun to slip back into the old way of living, the New Year can be bring us fresh life if we remember this.
by Phil Ware · Acts 1:12-26 · Reconcile
Phil Ware continues his series, Better Broken, focusing on the problem of there being 11 apostles and how people fail us and what are we doing to do to go on after we've been betrayed.
by Phil Ware · Acts 1:1-11 · Mission
Phil Ware begins the New Year with an article or post about the book of Acts and the power of Jesus and the Holy Spirit to take broken people and use them powerfully to change the world.
by Tim Archer · Romans 7:24-25 · Change · Resolutions
There is a certain futility in making resolutions. Only God can truly change us.
by Tom Norvell · Proverbs 17:6 · Birth
Tom Norvell talks about his first grandchild, a granddaughter, being born in New York.
by Steve Ridgell · 2 Corinthians 5:17 · Conversion
The correct way to put on a new roof is to first take off the old roof. That is the same way Jesus gives us new life. Take off the old, put on the new.
by Tom Norvell · Psalm 62 · Rest
Tom Norvell reminds us of our need for rest and to rest in Jesus, in God, and in the Spirit.
by Steve Ridgell · 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 · Baptism
Gospel means good news. Jesus died for your sins. You can make this good news part of your life.
by Phil Ware · Romans 11:35-36 · Mistakes
Phil Ware introduces the Heartlight 15 year anniversary month and hints at things to come.
by Steve Ridgell · 2 Corinthians 5:17 · Christian Living
Spiderman is a story about new identity, new power, and the battle between good and evil. So is the Jesus story. And it is real.
by Tom Norvell · Mark 6:30-31 · Rest
Tom Norvell reminds us of Jesus encouraging his disciples, his followers, to get away from the maddening rush of the crowds and go to a quiet place with him and get some rest.
by Steve Ridgell · Samuel 51:7 · Forgiveness
God's forgiveness can make even the darkest life new, clean, and pure.
by Phil Ware · Mark 5:19 · Communion
Phil Ware begins his series on God's Riches for Us at the Table of the Lord and reminds us that we are called to share with those close to us what the Lord has done for us.
by Katha Winther · 2 Corinthians 5:17 · New Year
Katha Winther shares insights on the New Year, fresh starts, and God's work of salvation in us!
by Steve Ridgell · Matthew 18:3 · Change
Jesus makes it possible to once again have the purity and innocence of a child.
by Steve Ridgell · 1 Corinthians 5:17 · New Life
God can take the broken, the useless, and the worthless and make them brand new.
by Pasquale R. Mingarelli · Ephesians 4:17-5:20 · Renewal
Pasquale Mingarelli shares pictures and a Bible study to help us remember that spring is the time for renewal
by Phil Ware · 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 · Conversion
Phil Ware compares 1 Corinthians 15 and Romans 6 and reminds us that what saves us is Jesus' death, burial, and resurrection and we get to participate and experience these in baptism and the Lord's Supper!
by Phil Ware · 1 Peter 3:15 · Evangelism
Phil Ware continues his series on Catch and Release, focusing on sharing our blessings and also seeing sharing Jesus, the good news of Jesus, as a gift of generosity.
by Larry Davies · Joshua 24:13 · New Year
Larry Davies talks about spiritual ways to prepare and live out the year 2010.
by Rubel Shelly · Matthew 6:33-34 · New Life
Rubel Shelly gives us some practical advice and a challenge to face the New Year with expectation and also reminds us to take one day at a time.
by Phil Ware · Ephesians 3:14-21 · Holy Spirit
Phil Ware begins a four week challenge that coordinates with the SpiritFire daily devotional challenging us to invite the Holy Spirit into our daily lives.
by Phil Ware · Acts 7:25 · Providence
Phil Ware continues a series of messages called Traveling Mercies focusing on Moses and his journey from broken dreams to having those dreams realized in his life.
by Tom Norvell · Mark 9:7-8 · Attitude
Tom Norvell talks about taking off in the pea soup of bad rainy weather and lifting up through the clouds and finding the sun and tying this all to our need to look beyond the clouds.
by Tom Norvell · John 10:10 · Life
Tom Norvell talks about living life abundantly, with urgency, a recognition that life is short, and that we may only have the opportunity to do some things once.