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 · 2 Corinthians 2:14 · Kingdom
Phil Ware reminds us that we are to be the aroma Christ and asks for input on how to there?
by Bill Sherrill · Philippians 4:6
Bill Sherrill describes the problem with worry and how we often replace prayer with worry, but reminds us that peace isn't about circumstances or logic, but trust in God.
by Sarah Stirman · Isaiah 40:29 · Worship
Sarah Stirman reminds us that when we use our hands to serve the Lord, we are seen as beautiful and he gives us strength to serve him.
by Teresa Bell Kindred · Proverbs 18:24 · Cancer
Teresa Bell Kindred shares some good advice for those who have loved ones dealing with cancer -- this is based on her own personal experience.
by Phil Ware · Matthew 22:35 · Prayer
Phil Ware continues his series of thoughts on The Jesus Vibe and this time he shares how the Lord's Prayer tunes our hearts to living the life of the Jesus Vibe.
by Phil Ware · Psalm 33:1 · Adversity
Phil Ware talks about the death of a friend who died with friends singing praises to God and how we can sing our way through anything.
by Teresa Bell Kindred · Mark 6:31 · Sacred · Sabbath
Teresa Bell Kindred shares with us her absent-minded follies because she is distracted from all of her hi-tech toys to which she is plugged in and she reminds us to get away and be with God.
by Tim Archer · 1 Timothy 2:1 · Prayer
When we pray for people, God actually works in their lives. The story of Fernando's conversion reminds us of the power of prayer.
by Patrick D. Odum · 1 Corinthians 15:20 · Cancer
Patrick Odum tells about a guy who thought he had pancreatic cancer and lived it up his last year of life and then found out the cancer diagnosis was wrong.
by Rubel Shelly · 2 Chronicles 7:14 · Tragedy
Rubel is pretty fed up with the dumb questions that people ask after a tragedy and reflects on how maybe if we prayed more and prattled less these things would not be as frequent.
by Leah Adams · Isaiah 26:3 · Help
Leah talks about struggling with a mess at her new home and shares how prayer and God's help pulled her through!
by Rubel Shelly · Isaiah 58:8 · Hope
An old Rabbi reminds us that it is not dawn until we see the light of the sunrise in the eyes of our neighbor.
by Rubel Shelly · Psalm 107:27 · Prayer
Trying to find time to be still and wait for God feels awfully impossible in our busy world today, so why not cry out to God in the struggles and noise you face today?
by Phil Ware · Psalm 34:5
We often turn prayer into a time to demand God give us things so we can cash our check from him rather than as a time to submit to his will and grace for us.
by Alan Smith · Psalm 135:1 · God
In a humorous teaser from comedians comes the important reminder that God is bigger!
by Tom Norvell · Ezekiel 36:26 · Change
Tom prays to God that all that he has seen, heard, experienced, and known in worship will change his heart and move him to be the person God wants him to be.
by Scott Owings · 2 Peter 1:4 · Spiritual Focus
The Rule of Life is our own commitment to live out the spiritual disciplines, exercising the Spirit and doing what God longs to see us doing.
by Patrick D. Odum · John 3:16 · Prayer
Life is unfair and in the unfairness we need to learn to pray and keep after it and not relent, not praying those PC prayers, but gut check from the heart prayers that are real.
by Tom Norvell · Psalm 30:1 · Health · Hardship
In the times of hardship and trial, it is hard to wait on the Lord because it seems so long before his deliverance, promised and sure as it is, comes to free us from our pain and suffering.
by Phil Ware · John 1:12 · Fatherhood
Phil talks about when his son Zachary was born hurt and how his voice as a father comforted his son and how we as God's children can approach God as Abba Father.
by Paul Faulkner · James 5:16 · Soul
Healing after surgery is directly related to support from prayer.
by Tom Norvell · Psalm 86:1 · Worship
The words of an old song remind us of our deep need for God and longing for him.
by Tom Norvell · Psalm 102:1 · Eternal
We can cry out to God and know he hears us and that our children and our grandchildren's futures are in his hands.
by Mike Barres · Matthew 18:19 · Prayer
Mike learns to not put off prayer, but when someone has a need, he says, "Let's pray right now!"
by Russ Lawson · Job 11:13 · Prayer
In the middle of our struggles, we need to remember that we need to reach out for God's unchanging hand.
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