2012-01-18T09:50:54-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com http://www.gospel.com/feeds/topics/acts http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/rebel-with-the-cause-6528 2012-01-18T09:50:54-05:00 Before the wake-up call reaches our young people, we have to wake up first. To how we've failed to challenge them, to believe in them, to show them what God sees when He looks at them, as leaders who can be examples of the believer. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/going-not-knowing-6515 2012-01-04T10:47:49-05:00 Jesus died for you. Is He ever going to do you wrong? God's mystery trips always lead to a destination that is selected with you in mind for your good. So, why not settle back, enjoy the trip, and let Him drive. Trust your Father and don't be afraid of going not knowing. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/the-message-at-macy-s-parade-6489 2011-11-28T11:19:58-05:00 There's only one person who even claimed to die for our sins. There's only one person who backed up that claim by walking out of His grave under His own power, because only someone who has eternal life can give it. Jesus alone paid the price so you and I wouldn't have to. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/you-win-i-win-6478 2011-11-10T10:53:10-05:00 Be like your Master. Enable someone else to be a winner. Look at the people close to you and quit trying to beat them, or use them, or to control them. Look at them and say, "Hey, if you win, I win." http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/surprises-in-the-storm-6464 2011-10-20T11:17:21-05:00 it may feel like you're either going nowhere right now or you're on the verge of disaster; maybe on the verge of being blown on the rocks. But remember, the surprise in the storm is this: that God uses these out-of-control times. He uses them to blow His children right where they were supposed to go all along. I know it feels like your life is out of control, but you know what? You're really right on course. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hindrances/worth-the-wait-6460 2011-10-17T11:16:17-05:00 Probably there's nothing that's cost more people the perfect will of God than impatience. So, don't jump to the high-speed line. Remember that the longer line may very well lead to the better view. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/a-message-from-the-titanic-6424 2011-08-25T10:20:08-05:00 Maybe you know some folks who are still outside the lifeboat. You have nothing more urgent to do than in the Bible's words, "rescue those who are being led away to death" (Proverbs 24:11). http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/a-thousand-invisible-mornings-6419 2011-08-18T10:03:50-05:00 That price is to make our daily time with Jesus non-negotiable; the anchor of our daily schedule; the "sun" around which all the other "planets" of our life must revolve. Christian meetings and events won't do it. Great Bible teaching, Christian fellowship, they won't do it. There simply is no substitute for the love-driven discipline of spending time with Jesus yourself. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/squeezed-to-obey-6415 2011-08-12T09:38:09-05:00 Two thousand years ago the Gospel spread around the world by first breaking out of Jerusalem because some people were pushed and squeezed to do it, and right now He might be doing the same thing with you. If you're like my children or you're like the first century Jerusalem Christians, maybe you have to be squeezed to obey. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/not-in-charge-after-all-6395 2011-08-08T11:42:53-05:00 Times like these are wakeup calls, and we ought to pick up the phone. It might be God on the other end reminding us that He's God and we're not.