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 12:19-29 · Seed
Phil Ware continues his four week series on seed, towel, promise, and torchlight focusing on the power of the Seed to overcome dirt, darkness, and death.
by James Nored & Phil Ware · Genesis 12:1-3 · Faith
James Nored and Phil Ware remind us of God's incredible journey of redemption and how Abraham was the one who began this journey demonstrating great faith when he followed God for a destination he did not yet know.
by Phil Ware · Matthew 13:8 · Seeking God · Seed
Phil Ware begins a four week series on seed, towel, promise, and torchlight as he looks at Jesus' last hours on earth and what they mean for us.
by James Nored & Phil Ware · John 19:38-42 · Build · Buried
James Nored and Phil Ware remind us that Jesus died and was buried and that his burial has special significance for us.
by Phil Ware · 1 Corinthians 10 · Communion · Lord's Supper · Eucharist
Phil Ware continues his series on Resurrection 2.0 and the vital importance of Jesus' resurrection for our life as his disciples today.
by Phil Ware · Acts 1:1-11 · Providence · Holy Spirit · Power
Phil Ware begins an eight-part series on eight truths that turned the world upside down, a look at the early verses of the book of Acts.
by Phil Ware · Matthew 19 · Sexuality
Phil Ware continues his series on how God values women and how precious they are to Him, His people, and the future of humankind, this week focusing on sexual intimacy and value.
by Phil Ware · Mark 9:28-35 · Sacrifice
Phil Ware writes out of the context of recent disasters and the loss of a mother and child to remind us that being a servant, offering ourselves in sacrificial love, is never a waste!
by James Nored & Phil Ware · 2 Corinthians 1:20-21 · Promises
James Nored and Phil Ware remind us that God keeps his promises and Jesus is the ultimate proof that God's promises can be trusted!
by Phil Ware · Acts 1:1-8 · Great Commission
Phil Ware continues his series called 'I Doubt It' and focuses today on Jesus' call and promise that his eleven apostles and those that followed them would turn the world upside down with their message of good news and hope and grace.
by Phil Ware · John 1:1-18
Phil Ware begins a four series set of articles for Advent and this first one is called BEFORE and focuses on Jesus being God, pre-existent before the world began.
by Bill Brant · John 3:16-17 · Jesus
So while the world around us tilts ever closer to self-destruction, and the choices being made offer harsh contradictions of almost horrible conclusions, our focus must be on God and His Son.
by Phil Ware · John 10:10 · phil · phil · phil
Phil Ware finishes his six-part series on Paul's promises to the Philippians that the Lord is always near and God and the peace he brings will be with them.
by Phil Ware · Philippians 4:4-9 · Foreigner · Never Forsaken
Phil Ware shares his message focused on Paul's promises that the Lord will always be near us, focusing on Jesus' promises to his early disciples and to us!
by Phil Ware · Mark 1:35-45 · Jesus · Easter · Resurrection
Phil Ware continues his series on Jesus touching a man with leprosy and focuses on how Jesus' touch and word of command make clean and redeem this man who was left alone to die, abandoned by everyone and everything in his world.
by Max Lucado · Psalm 139 · Presence
Max Lucado reminds us that God longs to be with us and for us to be reassured of his pervasive and blessed presence in our lives.
by Phillip Morrison · 1 Peter 3:1-9 · Redemption
Phillip Morrison writes about the weather in Texas and the reminder that we need to look beyond the horizon of our own circumstance and remember the promise, hope, redemption, and healing of God.
by Tim Archer · 2 Chronicles 20:21 · Faith
It had to be hard to sing praises while marching against a more powerful enemy. It had to be hard to trust that God would fight the battle. It's easier to depend on ourselves, to trust in our strength, to put our faith in what we see and know. But fait
by Phil Ware · Matthew 25:31-46 · Immanuel
Phil Ware continues his leadership series on the Immanuel Sayings or ways to experience Jesus, this one focuses on compassionate service.
by Phil Ware · 2 Corinthians 4:14-16 · Presence
Phil Ware begins a series of messages about Immanuel, God with us, The Presence, in our lives that we yearn, ache, thirst for.
by Phil Ware · Joshua 1 · Fear
Phil Ware continues his series from The Story as he shares with us the challenges of taking the new land and the price paid for the lack of faithfulness and leadership and vision on the part of the generation that would not enter the land because of fear.
by Phil Ware · Genesis 50 · Journey · Joseph
Phil Ware stays with The Story theme and reminds us again of Joseph and his faithfulness.
by Rubel Shelly · Ecclesiastes 5:5 · Promises
Rubel Shelly talks about trustworthiness, about keeping our word, honoring our promises, and even more, honoring God by keeping our promises.
by Phil Ware · John 10:1-18 · Promises
Phil Ware talks about the promises of Jesus and how we know we can trust them: because he kept the hard and painful promises to die for us.
by Tom Norvell · Matthew 11:25-30 · Rest
Tom Norvell prays for the weary and the heavy burdened and tired, based on Jesus' promise to give us rest.
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