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 Russ Lawson · 2 Thessalonians 3:10 · Measure Up · Materialism
What we have is not what determines how rich we are and our job is just a means to an end, not the real goal or end.
by Russ Lawson · 2 Timothy 3:1 · Bible
We can search Google and the Internet for all sorts of things, but the truth is going to be found in Jesus and His Word.
by Russ Lawson · Acts 7:38 · Future
Sometimes we find ourselves unhappy with where we are and look back to the good ol' days just like Israel did in turning their hearts back to Egypt.
by Bill Sherrill · Matthew 11:28 · Rest
Bill talks about all sorts of invitations that have been made and how they have all been rescinded or taken away, but Jesus offered one that won't ever go away, come to me and I will give you rest.
by Paul Faulkner · Matthew 12:43 · Affirm
We've got to fill our kids with good things and not just tell them what not to do, because if we don't fill them with God's stuff, someone is going to fill them with satan's stuff.
by Rubel Shelly · Proverbs 22:1 · Adultery
Gerald Ford was not flashy or spectacular, but he was kind, honest, decent, and dependable as a president and a husband and that is how he will be remembered.
by Kimberli J. Brackett · 1 Corinthians 6:9 · Holiness
Righteousness is not a choice but it is defined by God and his will, not by popular culture, media, and we cannot compromise and or flirt with evil.
by Paul Faulkner · Colossians 1:29 · Purpose
We have to have a mission for our families bigger than physical and financial goals, we have to have a spiritual mission.
by Alan Smith · 1 Corinthians 12:22 · Recognition
So often the people who do the most hard work get no recognition for it and we need to remedy that situation.
by Phil Ware · Hebrews 4:14 · Christmas
The coming of Christ is a violent grace that heads to a violent end and if we listen to the birth stories of Jesus we can find there a real Savior who lived in our all too real world.
by Paul Faulkner · 2 Corinthians 5:17 · Newness
Like a work of improvisational jazz, life is a journey from one new thing to another.
by Larry Davies · Luke 17:1 · Forgiveness
Resentment kills us, but forgiveness allows us to exercise a growing faith like a mustard tree and let God do the impossible within us.
by Phil Ware · 1 Peter 1:11 · Angels
Whether Christmas comes on December 25 or not doesn't really matter, what does matter is that Jesus came and the angels declared it and that we celebrate it with great joy.
by Charlotte Barres · Matthew 25:37 · Christmas
The real place Christmas happens is in our hearts, where love, joy, peace, and kindness are found.
by Randy Becton · John 1:10 · Grace
Jesus is the reminder of God's unconditional love and willingness to search and sacrifice to find us and bring us home as our love-sick father.
by Jamie Shell & Brent Nidiffer · Amos 5:21
We get so caught up in the fluff we forget the focus of God, like justice and mercy.
by Alan Smith · Acts 20:35 · Christmas
An older lady's mistake with Christmas envelopes reminds us that God never forgets to pay for our gifts!
by Patrick D. Odum · John 3:16 · Prayer
Life is unfair and in the unfairness we need to learn to pray and keep after it and not relent, not praying those PC prayers, but gut check from the heart prayers that are real.
by Paul Faulkner · Hebrews 1:1 · Christmas
Even Napoleon Bonaparte was awed by the astonishing Jesus who came to earth as a baby.
by Phil Ware · 2 Corinthians 3:17 · Christmas
Jesus wasn't just born into our world in the womb of Mary, but he longs to be born into our world again in each individual Christian the Holy Spirit gives birth to in the world.
by Paul Faulkner · Mark 6:30 · Rest
Without rest we cannot restore our bodies and our health, but this is not a new idea, it is God's fitness plan from long ago.
by Russ Lawson · Jeremiah 1:5 · Conception
Russ finds out about a grandbaby because of a sonogram and the baby is wiggling around all over the place and reminds us that life begins in the mind of God.
by Patrick D. Odum · Colossians 1:10 · Worthily
It's not how many days we have, but how we use those days for God that matter -- or to say it differently, it is not how far we walk, but how we walk in the miles we cover that matter most.
by Phil Ware · John 1:14 · Grace
A surprising winter snow gives Phil the opportunity to think about the changes of seasons and the falling of grace on us all with the birth of Jesus.
by Alan Smith · Deuteronomy 8:17 · Giving
Using something for free almost every weekend of the year for a parking lot reminds a church that they don't own what they use; we need to learn that same thing as God's children.
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