Heartlight has published over 4,000 articles for Christians seeking to follow Jesus in everyday life.Written to encourage faith, offer biblical perspective, and speak to real-world joys and struggles, these articles remain fully searchable and freely available. While Heartlight is no longer publishing new articles, this library continues to serve as an active, enduring resource to help people live for Jesus.
by Rubel Shelly · Romans 12:1 · Spiritual Focus
Spirituality is about who you are on a daily basis.
by Patrick D. Odum · Hosea 11:1 · Fatherhood
Fathers may not cry as much, but when they do, it is surely because they love you: and God loves you!
by Tom Norvell · Focus · Champion
While we will have a great deal of help, ultimately, making it through depends upon us sticking to it.
by Alan Smith · Ephesians 2:1 · Death
There are spiritually dead people all around us.
by Russ Lawson · Philippians 3:12 · Focus
A four year old reminds us that the problem isn't falling down, but it is staying down.
by Jeff Lee · 2 Timothy 4:10 · Disciple Making · Discipleship
Just as key people did with John Mark in moving him from failure to useful, so too, good leaders must recycle.
by Rubel Shelly · 2 Timothy 2:1
The generation coming behind us, the millenials, are not hopeless at all, but we must step up and help guide them.
by Phil Ware · James 2:14 · Millenials
Rather than fearing the new group of young adults, we should embrace them and hope to influence them for Christ.
by Bill Denton · Ephesians 6:4 · Fatherhood · Father's Day
Dads know the secret: they have incredible influence over their kids.
by Rubel Shelly · 2 Timothy 2:1 · Disciple Making · Discipleship
An experience of Steve Mc Nair at training camp becomes the opportunity for all of us to remember we teach and train others.
by Alan Smith · Matthew 5:14 · Parenting
People are watching us all the time and learn from watching what is important to us and to them.
by Paul Lee · Proverbs 23:24 · Fatherhood · Father's Day
What do you want your boy to be when he grows up?
by Philip Gulley · Ephesians 1:15
What are we passing on to our children?
by Dr. Jeff Lee · 1 John 3:1
God is the father I never had.
by Phil Ware · Ephesians 6:4 · Fatherhood · Father's Day
Remembering the importance of men as fathers in our world.
by Bill Sherrill · Colossians 3:15
Singing changes and so must we, but the bigger issue is that we sing!
by Rick Brown and Reg Cox · Exodus 13:17 · Faith · Fear
God can get us in some tough scrapes because he wants to develop faith and comfort in us.
by Alan Smith · John 14:27 · Faith · Fear
Fear and faith are often enemies and fear is often addressed by the Bible and by Jesus -- let's not be afraid!
by Mike Barres · Ephesians 4:14 · Kingdom
Let's not just be thrill seekers, but also Kingdom seekers.
by Elizabeth Price · Luke 5:32 · Bible
While there are many specialty Bibles, the Bible is really written for only one group of people: sinners.
by Rubel Shelly · Psalm 90:12 · Time
We must learn to make our use of time a holy enterprise.
by Phil Ware · 1 Timothy 2:1 · Faith
We must live to pass along our faith to several generations, not just our kids.
by Brian McCutchen · Isaiah 64:8 · Submit
Like clay in the hands of the potter, so also are we in the hands of God.
by Gene Vance · 1 Peter 5:7
God longs for us to come to him and receive his mercy and grace in our struggles and cast all our anxieties on him.
by Alan Smith · Hebrews 12:18 · Worship
We need to remember that when we assemble, God joins us and it is a holy moment.
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