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 Paul Faulkner · 1 Corinthians 10:13 · Temptation
Paul Faulkner reminds us that temptation is something that gets worse when we give into it, especially lying, and yet God promises to help us find a way out of the mess.
by Patrick D. Odum · James 4:7-10 · Temptation
Patrick Odum reminds us that overcoming temptation requires us to resist the devil, but he also adds some other insights from James' famous passage about overcoming temptation by being honest about oursleves and our need for God.
by Phil Ware · Luke 4 · Temptation
Phil Ware shares his continuing series on the Jesus vibe and focuses on how Jesus won the war over sin and temptation.
by Mike Barres · 2 Corinthians 2:11 · Temptation
Mike Barres reminds us that taking moral shortcuts and fudging on things spiritually always end up in disaster and sin.
by Kathy Bailey · Matthew 13:6 · Deceive
It is so easy to be deceived by the evil one, but the Scriptures can help us like they helped Jesus overcome temptation.
by Byron Ware · 1 Peter 5:8 · Duty · Divorce
The Devil is a lion and we let him into our kitchens, our homes, by treating temptation as a little kitten rather than a roaring lion wanting to devour us.
by Paul Faulkner · 1 Corinthians 10:13 · Temptation
Tough times, even when they are filled with temptation can help us grow and better appreciate good times when they come.
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 4:7
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 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 Katha Winther · Hebrews 12:1-2 · Repentance · Sin
We need to not only be sorry for our sin, but we also need to get rid of the things in our lives that lead us to sin.
by Mike Barres · Philippians 4:8 · Temptation
We need to keep our thought life free of weeds.
by Larry Zinck · Luke 12:15 · Sin
Sin is deceptive and offers shortcuts that ultimately enslave.
by Alan Smith · Revelation 2:10-11 · Temptation
Satan offers us many shortcuts and temptations, but only God has a really better offer.
by Joe Bagby · Romans 5:3-5 · Adversity · Trust
Trial, temptation, trouble, and testing are in the same neighborhood with trust: we're not going to get the one we want without experiencing the ones we dont!
by Bruce Wadd · Romans 8:1-2 · Temptation · Sin
We face temptation to sin, but sin is an old, dying, worthless lizard's tail.
by Alan Smith · Hebrews 12:1 · Temptation · Sin
Most of us are trying to carry around things that don't matter very much and they are weighing us down from doing what God wants!
by Phil Ware · James 1:2-4 · Temptation · Trials
We can survive times of trouble, trials, and temptation if we prepare.
by Patrick D. Odum · Psalm 19:12-14 · Forgiveness · Cleanse · Mercy
If we will honestly ask for God to change us and help us, he will step and do so because he knows our struggles and longs to give us mercy.
by Kathy Bailey · Ephesians 6:11 · Temptation
Satan loves to trap us when we wander away from God's people.
by Patrick D. Odum · Hebrews 5:7-9 · Prayer · Temptation · Spiritual Warfare
Jesus faced the fight we all face in the garden of gethsemane so we should be willing to fight that same fight and not give up!
by Alan Smith · Luke 12:13-21 · Greed
We can get so caught up in wanting more that we kill ourselves.
by Thom Lemmons · 1 Thessalonians 4:1-8
Can a man be expected to resist when things are so easy?
by Lynn Anderson · Colossians 1:13-14
The power of an anonymous motel room doesn't have to claim our purity or cause us to cave into sin.
by Phil Ware · James 1:14-16 · Temptation
Just like the fast food ads decieve us by making their product look too good to be true, so also satan deceives and tempts us.
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