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 Tom Norvell · Ephesians 5:15-17 · Aging
Change, and the days pass quickly and we grow old and time flies by, so we better use them to our advantage and God's glory.
by Jeff Lee · Acts 24:15-17 · Contentment · Conscience
God calls us to have a clear conscience.
by Patrick D. Odum · Luke 19:10 · Lost
What would happen in church, church folks, got serious about seeking lost people like Jesus did?
by Alan Smith · 2 Corinthians 4:18-5:5
A joke about HMO's leads to some interesting oberservations about heaven and the fact that everyting on earth is temporary.
by Rubel Shelly · James 4:8 · Sin
Dumb criminals remind us that we are all just a step away from moral calamity and disaster and must resist satan and draw near to God.
by Patrick D. Odum · Matthew 5:1-14 · Blessed
We don't like being passive, so we have a hard time recognizing that we have what we have because we are blessed.
by Alan Smith · James 1:13-16 · Sin
While the most expensive meal in history was billed as an overcharge on a credit card, it really is a meal provided by our sin.
by Mike Barres · Hebrews 3:12-14 · Sin
Sin always hurts us and harms those we love, but Satan often delays our consequences so that we can get more and more involved in it and then he deeply wounds us and those we love.
by Paul Faulkner · Proverbs 23:25 · Mothers
Moms are crucial to the outcome of nations because of the way they rear their child.
by Paul Faulkner · 1 Thessalonians 2:17 · Mothers
A mother's love and touch are crucial to babies in those earliest days of life.
by Sarah Stirman · Hebrews 12:1 · Victory
Sin entangles and causes us to stumble and fall rather than running victoriously, whether the sin is our own or the sin of others against us.
by Rubel Shelly · James 4:13-17 · Work
So much of what we work for really doesn't matter, so let's invest in what does, the people around us.
by Alan Smith · Matthew 26:33-35 · Urgency
So often we have the grandiose promises we've made, when in reality we won't do the small stuff!
by Rubel Shelly · James 4:7
We've got to be honest about our weakness and inconsistency and quit trying to blame everything on someone or something else, including satan or the devil.
by Paul Faulkner · Luke 14:7-14 · Leadership
True leadership is found in following Jesus' example as a servant, not in winning at any cost!
by Phil Ware · Isaiah 40:30-31 · Perseverance
Failure and falling on our face is a part of life, the real question is whether or not we'll keep getting up.
by Ron Rose · Ephesians 2:8-10 · Trust
All around us are people who are grace stories -- people who have opened up to God and received his grace and had their hard lives changed for the better.
by John Roberts · Matthew 7:3-5 · Hypocrisy
Hypocrisy does exist in the church and we should weed it out, but it doesn't exempt us from church.
by Russ Lawson · Matthew 14:22-33 · Faithfulness
We don't usually sink into sin all of a sudden, but it is a gradual thing that leads us away when we do not call on the Lord for help.
by Jerry Dyess · James 1:14-15 · Leadership
A self-destructive meal at a mud hole reminds us of how our own desires can blind us to the dangers of our own greed and lust for power.
by Paul Faulkner · Romans 12:1-2 · Sin
When we lose the Bible as our moral compass, then we are left without a good understanding of right and wrong and sin.
by Russ Lawson · Ephesians 5:19-20 · Singing
A visit to the Phantom of the Opera on a cold night opens back wide the door of singing in a family's home.
by Teresa Bell Kindred · Matthew 10:39 · Aging
As we age and the years speed by, we need to take some time and examine what we have done with our lives.
by Russ Lawson · Psalm 118:24 · Rejoice
So much of life is a matter of perspective; we can choose to be glad.
by Joe Bagby · Matthew 1:18-21
A preacher gets in trouble talking about Christmas on Sunday, but warns that the world will take Christ out of Christmas.
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