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
Phil Ware writes about Ruth and her love and faithfulness and how God used this to bring the Messiah, bless broken-hearted Naomi, and bless his people.
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 Rubel Shelly · Ephesians 4:25 · Respect
Rubel Shelly challenges us with an old story to be people of truth and respect even in the most dire and painful circumstances and treat people with the same ethical respect we would expect ourselves.
by Rubel Shelly · Proverbs 12:22 · Honesty
Rubel Shelly talks about his medical ethics class and the importance these students put on telling the truth in all situations.
by Biblical Reflections · 2 Timothy 1:5 · Mothers
A simple message from 2 Timothy about mothers.
by Phil Ware · Ruth 1:16-18 · Faithfulness
Phil Ware looks at Ruth and Naomi and the difference one faithful person can make in everything!
by Mike Barres · Proverbs 26:18-19 · Deceive
Mike Barres holds himself accountable for telling the truth, the full truth, and not deceiving others when it is in his best interest.
by Bill Denton · Ephesians 4:29 · Communication
Bill Denton introduces us to a new word, communifaking, and also challenges us to communicate truthfully.
by Patrick D. Odum · Luke 3:8-11 · Repentance
Patrick Odum confronts us with the words of John the baptist about repentance and how we need to face ourselves honestly in the mirror.
by Mike Barres · Psalm 1:1-5 · Truth
Mike Barres reminds us that often what culture is giving us as water is not God's truth and will rot our roots.
by Steve Higginbotham · 2 Samuel 12:13 · Confess
Steve Higginbotham reminds us that saying "I'm sorry" means truly apologizing.
by Bill Sherrill · Ruth 3:10 · Providence
Bill Sherrill connects to an old King James phrase, the latter days, and reminds us that we often don't see things clearly until time has passed and we view things from God's perspective.
by Russ Lawson · 1 John 4:1
Russ Lawson reminds us to check out what we are told from Scripture, because just like made up statistics, the facts are not always what is presented to us.
by Tom Norvell · John 8:31-37 · Freedom
Tom Norvell thinks about July 4th and reminds us that freedom is found in Jesus.
by Rubel Shelly · Proverbs 7:26 · Speech
Rubel Shelly shares his insights on tact, telling the truth, kindness, sophistry, avoidance, and sugar coating the truth.
by Rubel Shelly · 1 Thessalonians 2:3-9 · Integrity
Rubel Shelly tells how a famous author fabricated her tale as a Holocaust survivor and then reminds us that this lie diminishes the truth of the Holocaust, and we diminish the truth of Jesus by living in ways which contradict what we say we believe.
by Rubel Shelly · Ephesians 6:4 · Bible
Rubel Shelly is asked a hard question about the awful stories of the Bible and reminds the questioner that it is truthful, gritty, real life story of the human race while offer God's grace to redeem us.
by Russ Lawson · Matthew 28:18-20 · Word of God
Russ Lawson reminds us that while some words are balderdash and came to us through crazy circumstances, Jesus words are the opposite: he speaks with real authority.
by Paul Faulkner · Matthew 5:37 · Speech
Paul Faulkner reminds us of the awesome power of words and our human ability to use them to distort the truth and anger God.
by Steve Ridgell · John 14:6 · Salvation
We all need help to get where we're going. If you don't know how to get to Jesus, don't be afraid to ask someone who does.
by Steve Ridgell · Ephesians 4:4-5
What Christians share in common is much greater than any differences than could seem to separate them.
by Phil Ware · Acts 4:12 · Jesus
Phil Ware talks about what is most important about the Bible and the focus of Scripture and the answer is simple: Jesus must be the center of everything.
by Rubel Shelly · Matthew 6:42 · Kindness
Rubel Shelly reminds us how important it is to do simple acts of kindness and not simply look for the splashy and big things to do to bless others.
by Steve Ridgell · Romans 5:8
We can never be good enough on our own; it takes God's help to make us what we should be.
by Russ Lawson · Acts 17:10-12 · Bible
A humorous account of a hanging leads to some observations on how frequently our perception is wrong.
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