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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.

Through the Keyhole of Grace

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 and gives us a reading plan to discover more!

What can we learn about God by looking at Jesus?

Every Time!

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in a virtual, DIY, worship through words and music using YouTube videos to remind us of the importance of affirming people we love through note-prayers of thanksgiving as we seek to be a blessing to other as Jesus h

God is full of goodness and mercy. He has faithfully poured his love upon us and now asks us to share this blessing with others.

Overcoming the Greater Pandemic: From Lonely to Connected

Phil Ware and James Nored speak to the isolation pandemic that is accompanying COVID-19 and share ways and invite us to share ways to battle the loneliness and isolation.

Let's move from talking about the problem to providing each other ways to address the loneliness and isolation!

A One Another People

Phil Ware shares a great infographic on one another passages in the Bible.

We are made in God's image with a built in hunger for relationship.

Don't Make the Detestable Digestible

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead through worship in song, the Lord's Supper, a powerful message from God's word, and a blessing to enable us to worship from home or with family and friends in a meaningful way.

The call to be holy is not a call to be self-righteous, but to humbly approach God, live holy lives, and love sinners as Jesus did!

One Defining Note

Phil Ware and James Nored remind us that the core of our faith is Jesus, that Christ is our defining note around whom all of us must tune our lives and recognize the grace of being called and transformed to be like him.

Do we realize the grace of getting to tune our lives to Jesus?

When Life Is Unfair!

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 hope in the middle of oppression.

God’s great story of redemption reminds us of three truths that we must take with us as we live in a world that always seems to tilt away from fairness.

Living My MUSD #2: Low-Tech Love in a High-Tech World

Many of us are focusing on how to connect with work, family, friends, and church through high-tech resources which is good, but we also need some good ol' fashioned low-tech love!

How our high-tech world desperately needs some low-tech love!

Teach Us to Pray 06: Kingdom Come

Phil Ware with Chad Higgins help us understand and commit to praying for God's Kingdom to come.

While we see glimpses of our universe's awe-inspiring beauty, variety, and magnificence, we also are witnesses of its brokenness.

Our One Defining Note

Phil Ware and James Nored remind us that the core of our faith is Jesus, that Christ is our defining note around whom all of us must tune our lives and recognize the grace of being called and transformed to be like him.

Do we realize the grace of getting to tune our lives to Jesus?

Cruciformed #4: Only by Prayer

Phil Ware continues his series of posts from the discipleship section of Mark chapters 8-10, this time focusing on the boy the disciples of Jesus could not heal.

Unlike the father of the boy with the tormenting spirit, we don’t confess our unbelief and then ask for help in believing more is possible.

Why Forget Verse 17?

Phil Ware asks us to think about a simple, but important question: why is it that we love to quote John 3:16 but leave out John 3:17?

For many people, verse 16 is the most beloved verse of the Bible. Why not also verse 17?

One Defining Note!

Phil Ware and James Nored remind us that the core of our faith is Jesus, that Christ is our defining note around whom all of us must tune our lives and recognize the grace of being called and transformed to be like him.

Do we realize the grace of getting to tune our lives to Jesus?

Simple, Complex, and Awesome

Byron Ware reminds us that in our world of darkness, now more than ever, we need to be a people who do put love into practice every day.

Are we really letting our love light shine in a world filled with so much darkness?

We'll Never Be Happy Here (And That's Okay)

Michele Howe reminds of that glorious moments are precious and fleeting, until they last forever with Jesus in glory.

We love glorious moments, but they don't last that long... until, with Jesus, they last forever.

After the Crowd Has Gone

Phil Ware reminds us that Jesus gave us a great example on how to deal with the challenges we face after a great thanksgiving feast.

Thanksgiving is over; so what do we do now as we return to the challenges of life?

To Benefit Them!

Byron Ware reminds us of the vital importance of how we communicate both in the words we choose to say, not speak, and the non-verbals we use as we speak them.

Preparing my mouth for marriage... and beyond!

All That Stuff

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.

How are we going to define ourselves?

A Word for Misfits

Max Lucado writes about Samuel's anointing David king of Israel and reminds us that God uses all sorts of misfits.

Can God really use someone like me?

One Another

This is a collection of "one another" passages in the New Testament, and primarily from Paul, that speaks about life together.

We were not made to do life alone.

Through the Keyhole of Grace

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.

What can we learn about God by looking at Jesus?

The Creator Brings Grace

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.

Can you drown out all the noise and simply listen for the Creator's voice in the Bible's first chapter?

Letting Hatred Go...

Stacy Voss reminds us that we can let our bitterness and un-forgiveness poison us and steal our lives from us.

Why do we hold onto the things that poison us the most?

'...and thankful!'

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.

That passion to pursue Jesus must never die!

What If?

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.

How do we handle our deepest grief?