2012-04-03T14:52:24-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/abuse/ http://faithaliveresources.org/Products/156015/leaving-egypt.aspx 2012-04-03T14:52:24-05:00 Theologian Chuck DeGroat shows how our wilderness journey helps us face our fears, receive our new identity, experience transformation, and live into our newfound freedom. http://truewoman.com/?id=1609 2011-03-03T11:55:00-05:00 Super Bowl fans are not just looking for good food and entertainment. Many are looking for sex, making the Super Bowl the largest annual event for sex trafficking in the United States. http://truewoman.com/?id=1610 2011-03-03T11:53:42-05:00 A.H. was trafficked to Dallas/Ft. Worth and forced into prostitution when she was just a teen. Like many other girls, she was beaten, raped, and enslaved not far from Dallas Cowboys stadium, where the 2011 Super Bowl will be held. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/when-you-ve-fallen-and-you-can-t-get-up-5992 2009-12-29T09:12:46-05:00 At the end, it's your enemy who's covered with shame because you have shaken off his shackles of shame, and you've realized you can't change you but the Lord can. You have refused to stay down. You're defiantly determining to make the devil pay for what he deceived you into doing. You're going to do some serious damage to the kingdom of the one who had tried to do some serious damage to you. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/shaking-the-snake-that-stalks-you-5952 2009-11-03T09:08:34-05:00 The next time the serpent comes your way, the Bible says, "Resist him." "I know who this is. I'm not falling for this again!" That's how you stand up to him. You claim the victory that Jesus Christ won over Satan when He died on the cross. Take your stand! Go to your Savior and unleash Jesus on that serpent. No compromise. No giving in. No accommodation. http://discipleshiptools.org/apps/articles/default.asp?articleid=61407&columnid=4166 2009-10-23T16:05:57-05:00 Fruit of the Spirit, Part IX Here is a list of the vices of sin that abuse others and us and should not have a hold on us. They cause us to hurt and in turn, hurt others. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/when-the-container-lies-to-you-5918 2009-09-16T11:09:05-05:00 Don't fall for those lies on sin's package. Check its real contents, as exposed graphically in the Bible. If you've already opened sin's package, get out while you can. If you're looking at a compromise that God calls sin, run the other way. You haven't got time for the pain, for the scars, for the slavery, for the shame. Do it God's way, even if it's harder, even if it takes longer. Remember, it's the narrow road that leads to life. It's the wide road that leads to destruction http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/tick-bites-5873 2009-09-11T10:46:27-05:00 Scripture warns us, "See to it that no one misses the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many." Bitterness and resentment always begin just as this little root. But bitterness never stays a little root. It keeps growing into a poisonous plant that ends up hurting us and hurting others. A root of bitterness has destroyed marriages, churches, friendships, and ministries because it wasn't pulled up when it was small. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/shields-up-5782 2009-09-10T10:45:52-05:00 God promises not only to look out for you as you're going into the battle, but also to be your "rear guard" after the battle. So when God has worked mightily, when God has used you significantly, don't get spiritually careless. That's the time you give yourself that all-important order, "Shields up!" http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/boomeranging-satan-5771 2009-09-10T10:21:34-05:00 God says if you "resist the devil," he will "flee from you." First, you have to recognize who these feelings and who this pressure is coming from. Then, you have to make a conscious choice that says, "I know who this is. I'm not falling for this! I am taking my stand against the devil's schemes!"