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 Lee Wilson · Ephesians 5:21-6:4 · Marriage
Lee Wilson goes back to the beginning of Scripture and as an experienced relationship coach, invites people to look at God's plan to make marriages thrive.
by Max Lucado · 1 Peter 2:8-9 · Sacred
Max Lucado talks about his experiences as a baseball catcher and how the dimensions of homeplate were immutable, sacred, and in a sense holy and compares that to certain things in life that God has called sacred and holy.
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 Phillip Morrison · Genesis 1:26-27 · Sexuality
Phillip Morrison brings Sara Barton's writings into the moments of our headlines of today with a story from long ago that reminds us that God's word still has the ultimate love song.
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 Teresa Bell Kindred · Psalm 51:10 · Purity
Teresa Bell Kindred compares seeing Fifty Shades of Grey to a dirty mop bucket and a sponge.
by Phil Ware · Ephesians 5:21 · Sexuality
Phil Ware continues his series called 50 shades of grace that focuses on the intimacy between a husband and wife in marriage.
by Rubel Shelly · Hell
Rubel Shelly talks about the way Satan dupes into buying the lie about holiness and goodness and gets us to buy the sins of self-destruction.
by Phil Ware · Genesis 1:25-31 · Intimacy
Phil Ware continues his series on fifty shades of grace and what God has in mind for us in marriage with sexual and physical and spiritual and emotional intimacy.
by Phil Ware · Romans 1:18-32 · Sexuality
Phil Ware begins a seven week series of posts called Fifty Shades of Grace and will focus on Scripture and the Bible and God and the holy plan for fulfillment and sexuality in Scripture.
by Patrick D. Odum · Colossians 3:1-6 · Sexuality
Patrick Odum writes about 50 Shades of Grey and reminds us to think carefully about our participation and expectation of the movie and our sexuality.
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 Phil Ware · Judges 2:7-19 · Repentance
Phil Ware continues his journey through The Story focusing this week on the Judges, especially the cycle of destruction that was leading them to catastrophe and the ways we can escape the cycle.
by Phil Ware · Genesis 39 · Sexuality
Phil Ware continues his series connected to The Story, this week from Chapter 3, focusing on Joseph and his temptation with Potiphar's wife.
by Thom Lemmons · 1 Thessalonians 4:3 · Faithfulness
Thom Lemmons tells us a story that gets to the heart of danger in sexual temptation and lust and a need for a friend.
by Phil Ware · Matthew 19:1-9 · Acceptance
Phil Ware shares his second message in the Holy Passion series about delight in sexual intimacy being one of God's primary purposes.
by Phil Ware · Genesis 1:26-31 · Sexuality
Phil Ware shares about the sacredness of our sexual relationship as husbands and wives and calls us to follow Jesus in how we deal with this issue.
by Phil Ware · Matthew 19:1-9 · Marriage
Phil Ware gives the basis and background for the section of heartlight.org called together in his grace.
by Joe Beam · 1 Corinthians 6:12-20 · Sexuality
Joe Beam addresses what is Biblically appropriate and not appropriate for Christians in their sexual relationships.
by Rick Brown · Matthew 22:37-39 · Marriage
Rick Brown challenges us to really love each other in active ways for one week after having seen a shocking ad during the Super Bowl.
by Joe Beam · 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 · Sexuality
Joe Beam answers a question about low sexual desire after a heart attack and what a wife should do in this situation.
by Joe Beam · Matthew 19:1-10 · Adultery
Joe Beam answers questions on love, sex, and relationships; this one focuses on an emotional affair.
by Joe Beam · Hebrews 13:4 · Marriage
Joe Beam's weekly questions and answers on marriage and love.
by Rubel Shelly · James 3:9-12 · Speech
Shock jocks have tried to out do each other in shocking, crude, and obscene remarks on radio, TV, and interviews and they have crossed the line and we are the only ones who can do something about it.
by Bill Keller · Matthew 5:26-30 · Pornograpy
The leader of the Girls Gone Wild empire and smut king is facing charges and problems, but the real problem is the sexual addiction that pornography causes in the lives of men and women.
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