2011-11-14T11:43:35-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com http://www.gospel.com/feeds/topics/1+thessalonians http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-mission/facing-the-flame-6480 2011-11-14T11:43:35-05:00 Could it be that we've gotten so busy and even so involved in accumulating blessing at our church, at our conferences, and our Bible studies that we have walked right by the people who are facing the flames? You know, we're all called to rescue them. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hindrances/storm-warning-in-your-soul-6413 2011-08-10T10:19:09-05:00 the internal Holy Spirit sirens go off whenever we step out of the Light and into the darkness. And I'm wise to wake up right away and get to where it's safe; doing what God blesses instead of what God judges. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/prints-in-sand-and-cement-6308 2011-03-17T09:53:29-05:00 Could it be that you didn't mean to, but you've been caught up in the footprints that you've been making in the sand? It's been so important to make that mark at work, at church, with a group of people you want to impress. Well, are the people close to you losing out to the things that you're involved in? Put your prints in cement, where they'll last, not in sand where they can't last. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/the-line-between-night-and-day-6292 2011-03-11T16:12:46-05:00 How do people feel after they've been around you? Do they feel lighter or darker? Have you built them up, or have you been critical - torn them down; made them feel anything but important? Maybe you've been living too close to that line. Your temper keeps crossing into the night; your humor, your thoughts, your physical involvement with someone else. Or maybe it's an attitude or an action that's just too dark for a day person like you. You don't belong there. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/the-gift-you-don-t-want-to-ruin-6248 2010-12-22T10:49:20-05:00 God wants to make you clean, wants to make you new, and He wants you to have His very best. When you give Him your life, you get love without strings and you get love without regrets. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/how-a-father-builds-a-son-6203 2010-10-20T11:51:28-05:00 You build a son by building up your son, by often helping him see the awesome thing God did when He created that boy. Even God the Father launched His Son into life with His public approval. How can you do any less for the son He's given you? http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/what-they-re-trying-to-tell-us-6164 2010-08-27T11:15:23-05:00 God has promised His wisdom upon request (James 1:7 ) - and nobody needs that wisdom more than moms and dads. So, several times a day as you look at your children, ask your Heavenly Father, "Help me see what You see when you look at them." Then you'll know how to give them what they need the most. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-mission/missing-those-you-love-6020 2010-02-05T13:44:23-05:00 There are very few sadnesses deeper in life than standing by the casket of someone you could have told about Christ - you should have told about Christ - but you didn't. We can't have any of those opportunities back, but we do have the friends and neighbors and coworkers and loved ones who are still with us. And we still have time to tell them, but no one knows how much time. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/no-time-to-pray-no-hope-if-i-do-not-2787 2009-09-18T14:16:30-05:00 There are miracles waiting for you if you will pay the price of praying when you feel there's just no time for it. You may think there's no time to pray, when, in fact, there's no hope if you don't. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/stubborn-singing-2633 2009-09-15T13:30:33-05:00 You may be in a sickbed, or an unemployment line, or a lonely time, or a time of overwhelming stress, but it is not what should determine your attitude or your talk. It's the Christ in you, not the circumstances around you. I want to be like our little canary friend - singing, no matter what. And turning the sadness of others to singing, too.