2012-01-24T09:35:47-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com http://www.gospel.com/feeds/topics/1+peter http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/stopped-at-the-gate-6532 2012-01-24T09:35:47-05:00 No religion can die for your sins; no spirituality can die for your sins. Only God's sinless Son could do that. So He's the only "I.D." that will get us into God's heaven. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/christmas-far-from-home-6510 2011-12-27T10:07:58-05:00 Wherever you are this Christmas, your heart can finally be home, because you finally belong to Jesus. See, He left home so you could find home. http://hutchcraft.com/blogs/ron-hutchcrafts-blogs/pilgrims-at-your-table 2011-11-22T15:00:54-05:00 Thanksgiving seems like just the right time to look at what I have and say out loud, "Earth stuff. Just earth stuff." To say thank you to God for those blessings - while loosening my grip on them to let God do whatever He wants with them. To be willing to leave where I'm comfortable to go wherever He leads. Even if it's a little ship, a big ocean and an unknown destination. http://hutchcraft.com/blogs/ron-hutchcrafts-blogs/pardoning-turkeys 2011-11-21T11:05:56-05:00 Many to whom God has granted this "act of grace" called a pardon - based on the death of His Son for them - refuse to accept it. They either ignore it, postpone it, or choose to keep running their own life or depend on their religion and their goodness. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/hold-your-fire-6474 2011-11-03T14:26:01-05:00 In Romans 12 the Apostle Paul says, "Do not repay anyone evil for evil; do not take revenge, but leave room for God's wrath." Let God even the score; He's much better at it than you are. Jesus turned to His Father for justice. An eye for an eye is not the way of Jesus. Even from His cross He says of those who have nailed Him to that cross, "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do." That's the example for us. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/the-question-that-settles-the-questions-6470 2011-11-03T14:20:26-05:00 Have the courage to do what Jesus would do. What would John Wayne do? Well, that's a little shaky basis for a decision. But what would Jesus do? If that's your bottom line all day every day, you won't go wrong. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/a-precarious-planet-6399 2011-08-08T11:46:24-05:00 Every day on this planet, a "tsunami" called death sweeps 150,000 people into eternity ready or not. Since it happens with, you know, one heart attack here and one traffic accident there, we don't see it on the news like we do an attack of a killer wave. But it's real, it's relentless, and it's coming my way. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/the-way-home-6364 2011-06-03T09:48:15-05:00 Jesus literally took our hell so we could have His heaven. Then, three days after He died, Jesus walked out of His grave and blew away death! Only the Man who paid for your sins can forgive your sins. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/the-hurry-up-offense-6347 2011-05-10T13:28:00-05:00 You pray ready for anything God might say, and you love ready to forgive anything, and to give anything. I think we may have heard God's two-minute warning. It's time for God's hurry-up offense. Hey, it's time to go for broke. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/the-knife-and-the-nails-6339 2011-04-28T15:11:20-05:00 In a very deep, eternal sense, God's Son took your knife. How can you say no to Him? Go to that cross and say the two words that make all the difference forever, "For me. For me."