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 · Acts 1:8 · Witnessing
Phil Ware begins a series of articles on sharing Jesus in word and deed with others called Catch and Release and focusing on following Jesus.
by Phil Ware · Ephesians 5:15 · Holy Spirit
Phil Ware continues his SpiritFire focus on the Holy Spirit, this week looking at what it means to live under the influence of the Holy Spirit.
by Phil Ware · 1 Corinthians 6:19 · Holy Spirit
Phil Ware continues his series on SpiritFire focusing on our bodies being the Temple of God in which God lives by His Holy Spirit.
by Phil Ware · Ephesians 3:14 · Holy Spirit
Phil Ware continues his thoughts on the Holy Spirit and prayer, especially focusing on us interceding and asking God to release the Holy Spirit into the life of those we love, who lead our churches, and who need God's presence.
by Phil Ware · Ephesians 1:19 · Holy Spirit
Phil Ware begins a four week challenge that coordinates with the SpiritFire daily devotional challenging us to invite the Holy Spirit into our daily lives.
by Phil Ware · 2 Timothy 1:12 · Passion
Phil Ware challenges us to a life of passionate discipleship and challenge our children to follow with boldness, using the life of Paul.
by Phil Ware · Acts 2:38
Phil Ware talks about the Holy Spirit and the importance of the Spirit in Jesus' conception, birth, and all that is tied to it.
by Phil Ware · Matthew 1:18 · Christmas
Phil Ware writes about Christmas, Joseph and Mary, and the "You've got to be kidding me!" moments in the life of Jesus.
by Phil Ware · Proverbs 3:3
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 · Acts 7:25 · Providence
Phil Ware continues a series of messages called Traveling Mercies focusing on Moses and his journey from broken dreams to having those dreams realized in his life.
by Phil Ware · Exodus 3:10 · Delivered
Phil Ware uses a car full of girls running out of gas on the way to church to connect Jesus' ministry and Moses' call to our opportunity to be God's tools of deliverance in the lives of those around us.
by Phil Ware · 1 Corinthians 4:17 · Leadership
Phil Ware continues his series of messages on true shepherds in the church and focuses on the subject of a leader's glory -- seeing his or her passion formed in others they have trained.
by Phil Ware · 1 Peter 2:25 · Lost
Phil Ware tells about a time he lost his son Zachary and then found him and the joy of finding lost sheep in the teaching of Jesus.
by Phil Ware · Isaiah 40:11 · 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 Phil Ware · Isaiah 40:11
Phil Ware talks about Nathan's rebuke of David using a shepherding story, the use of shepherd imagery to describe God, and the call of God's leaders to be shepherds to the people of God.
by Phil Ware · Matthew 4:23 · Evangelism
Phil Ware talks about tug-of-war and how we so often get into them in the Christian community and whether or not it is more important to do service trips or mission evangelism trips.
by Phil Ware · Matthew 14:22 · Providence
Phil Ware shares a personal storm in his life and the story of Jesus walking on the water to remind us and help us think about Jesus coming to us in the storms of our lives.
by Phil Ware · Romans 8:22 · Holy Spirit
Phil Ware writes about Romans 8:22-29, the bondage to decay that our world faces, our own troubles and hardships, and slogans that we often use and abuse to try to encourage people who are grieving, wounded, or hurt.
by Phil Ware · Ecclesiastes 1:9 · Adversity
Phil Ware reminds that God still has the whole world in his hands and he can get us out of our ruts and break through the barriers that hold us captive to boredom and sameness.
by Phil Ware · 2 Corinthians 5:15 · Grace
Phil Ware writes about the grace of God to save us from sin and for holy living.
by Phil Ware · Luke 19:1 · Community
Phil Ware talks about the tension between insiders and outsiders and how we are to view community and the way we connect our outside friends to it.
by Phil Ware · John 20:21 · Evangelism
Phil Ware talks about weird neighbors and who God has sent us to hear so we can lead them to Christ.
by Phil Ware · Miracle
Phil Ware talks about the events in the miracle stories that happen after the spectacle of the miracle takes place, the things that put people back into fellowship, community, and normalcy -- the way things were.
by Phil Ware · 1 Corinthians 6:10 · Grace
Phil Ware challenges us to look at our identity built around the question of "Who are you?" and the answer framed by the work of Jesus.
by Phil Ware · Luke 24:44 · Holy Spirit
Phil Ware continues the LifeWORDS series and focuses on Jesus' promise to send the power of the Holy Spirit to empower the church.
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