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 Phil Ware · 1 Corinthians 13:4
Love is unpredictable and that is the real meaning of love, that God would do the unexpected to love us and draw us to himself.
by Russ Lawson · Jeremiah 6:16 · Bible
What we learn from movies is not very accurate to life and we need to listen to God's word rather than movie stars.
by Phil Ware · Colossians 3:1
God will stick by us and get us through the worse times in our lives.
by Paul Faulkner · Genesis 2:18 · Marriage
Marriage proves to be beneficial for both men and women, though for different reasons.
by Tom Norvell · Ezekiel 36:26 · Change
Tom prays to God that all that he has seen, heard, experienced, and known in worship will change his heart and move him to be the person God wants him to be.
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 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 Phil Ware · Philippians 2:13 · Providence
Phil reminds us that a change in our plans may not be for the worst, in fact it may be one of God's little reminders that we need to be aware of his work in our lives.
by Alan Smith · 1 John 3:16 · Grace
God's love exhausts all analogies and can only be defined by what he did in Jesus on the cross and in the manger.
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 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 Tom Norvell · Psalm 30:1 · Health · Hardship
In the times of hardship and trial, it is hard to wait on the Lord because it seems so long before his deliverance, promised and sure as it is, comes to free us from our pain and suffering.
by Alan Smith · Matthew 5:6 · God
Can we spend any special, focused, time thinking about nothing but God? It is hard, but we must learn to do so.
by Phil Ware · John 1:12 · Fatherhood
Phil talks about when his son Zachary was born hurt and how his voice as a father comforted his son and how we as God's children can approach God as Abba Father.
by Bill Sherrill · 2 Corinthians 3:18 · Transformation
Article on the transformation God can do in our lives changing us from a lump of clay into an object of beauty and usefulness.
by Paul Faulkner · Acts 17:24 · God
Idolatry in India leads to a false notion that their gods are drinking milk, but the true and living God knows us and cares about us.
by Russ Lawson · 1 Peter 2:22 · Humility
Our egos are fragile and important but also dangerous, but we must learn humility.
by Tom Norvell · Psalm 86:1 · Worship
The words of an old song remind us of our deep need for God and longing for him.
by Rubel Shelly · Hebrews 11:39 · Faithfulness
God can take broken, weak, and unfaithful people and make something meaningful and important out of their lives.
by Rubel Shelly · Ephesians 4:31
The Amish are an example of simple piety that cares to honor God above getting even: it is their character and not their dress or agrarian culture we need to imitate.
by Bill Sherrill · Genesis 3:8 · Silence
Our love for the cool of the day after the hot day of work is a reminder of our need to be close to God and his desire to have us close.
by Scott Owings · 1 Corinthians 7:5 · Fasting
Fasting is a way to draw closer to God.
by Tom Norvell · Ephesians 3:14 · Fullness
God wants us to be full of Him, his grace, His mercy, His Spirit, His Love.
by Mike Barres · 2 Corinthians 7:11 · Repentance
This is an honest look at repentance and sorrow and life change, and reminds us that God's goal isn't our sorrow, but our reformed life.
by Bill Sherrill · Ephesians 1:18 · Vision
Lift up your eyes is a call for vision, a call to not walk in fear of danger, but to look for the new, the glory, the things God is calling us to embrace.
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