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 · John 14:7 · Incarnation
Phil Ware compares Jesus to a keyhole through which we look at God and the closer we get to Jesus the more clearly we see God.
by Phil Ware · Genesis 1:1-31 · Creator
Phil Ware continues his series of messages based on the sea passages of the Bible, called Saved at Sea, this post is called Something Beautiful, Someone Good.
by Rubel Shelly · Luke 10:29-37
Rubel Shelly reminds us of the dangers of isolating or cocooning ourselves against the world to the point we are fearful and withdrawn and lose contact with real people in real life.
by Phil Ware · Matthew 14:13-21 · Storm
Phil Ware shares a much-anticipated doctor's visit that didn't go like he had anticipated and turned his life from calm into a storm of great concern.
by Rubel Shelly · Psalm 107:1-43 · Called · Calm
Rubel Shelly reminds us about God's enfolding peace in the middle of life's worse storms and that this has been true for centuries.
by Phil Ware · Nehemiah 3:1-32 · Nehemiah
Phil Ware shares a third message from the book of Nehemiah, this one focusing on the great work of ordinary people given in lists of names in Nehemiah.
by Phil Ware · Nehemiah 1:1-11 · Nehemiah
Phil Ware continues his series on Nehemiah and focuses on prayers, especially when prayers seem to go unanswered and we feel alone, frustrated, disappointed, discouraged, and ignored by God.
by Phil Ware · Song of Songs 4:9-16 · Sexuality
Phil Ware continues his series of posts and articles called Fifty Shades of Grace and focuses on the gift of pleasure, delight, joy, fulfillment, and blessing in sexual intimacy for the Christian married couple.
by Stacy Voss · Proverbs 18:1-2 · Forgiveness
Stacy Voss reminds us that we can let our bitterness and un-forgiveness poison us and steal our lives from us.
by Tim Archer · John 17:3 · Knowing God
It seems to me that some people interact with Jesus in the same way. They take a moment out of their busy lives and give it to him. Just a moment. He is a stop on the way, an interruption to a more important routine. And they never really see him. Othe
by Phil Ware · James 1:26-27 · Acceptance
Phil Ware talks about reaching the 1,000 sponsored child mark with Heartlight.org and verseoftheday.com and what a great mark this is to break.
by Phillip Morrison · Philippians 2:10-11 · 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 Phil Ware · Revelation 3:20
Phil Ware continues his Christmas series on finding Jesus and emphasizes Jesus' promise to be real to us and near us and in us if we seek him and ask him.
by Phil Ware · Matthew 1:23
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 · Matthew 6:13-16 · Thankful
Phil Ware finishes his November series of giving thanks and focuses on our mission or call from God.
by Phil Ware · John 17:1-3 · Jesus
Phil Ware shares the beginning of A Year with Jesus and an invitation to join the free daily devotional and get to know Jesus more fully during the course of the year as you journey together through the New Testament.
by Phil Ware · Hebrews 11 · Aging
Phil Ware continues his series tied to Thanksgiving called "...and thankful" and this week he is thankful for the longing to move toward Jesus and pursue the things of God.
by Phil Ware · 2 Corinthians 9:10-15 · Comparison
Phil Ware writes part of a monthly series on his Compassion visit to Chiang Mai Thailand as Heartlight.org and Verseoftheday.com move closer to 1,000 sponsored children.
by Mark Frost · Acts 2 · New Life · Nostalgia
Mark Frost of Interim Ministry Partners shares the second in his series on Acts and nostalgia and doing the work of God in bringing the Kingdom of God.
by Phil Ware · Galatians 3:26-29
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 Rubel Shelly · Philippians 3:13-16 · Pessimism
Rubel Shelly reminds us that while we don't want to be blindly optimistic, there is value in not being a pessimist and always thinking things are worse.
by Steve Ridgell · Revelation 2:17 · Name
Nicknames are given to us by people who know us and love us. God knows us, loves us, and has a special name picked out for us.
by Steve Ridgell · Acts 10:4-5 · Good Enough
Good people still need Jesus. He is the only way to God because he is the only man to ever live a life good enough to spend eternity with God.
by Phil Ware · John 8:1-12 · 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 Lisa Mikitarian · Colossians 3:23-24
Lisa Mikitarian reminds us of our need to honor God with the things he has called and gifted us to do regardless of how they are used or appreciated by others.
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