2011-08-08T11:49:31-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/bondage/ http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/is-your-dog-walking-you-6402 2011-08-08T11:49:31-05:00 God's fullest blessing comes through His gifts, not through men's loans. Besides, you look silly being run all over by a debt that you should be running. Remember that the next time you see a dog walking a man. That could be you and your debts. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/the-unquenchable-thirst-for-freedom-6352 2011-05-17T09:27:56-05:00 The day I told Jesus, "I'm Yours," that was the day that this sin-slave went free. Because there's no feeling like the day you know you're finally free. For me, for millions, that was the day that we welcomed the Liberator, who paid the price so we would never have to. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/The-Freedom-Line-3994 2008-07-28T14:32:33-05:00 Not all slaves wear chains or are sold on an auction block. Some of us who have been physically free our whole lives have never really been free on the inside. From the guilt over those mistakes in our past. From the shame over what we've been, what we've done. Some of us know what it is to be slaves to our dark side, to our anger, our selfishness, to habits and patterns we seem powerless to break. http://christiananswersforthenewage.org/Articles_EatPrayLove.html 2008-05-16T10:39:09-05:00 “I was the administrator of my own rescue”. But the message from Jesus is that we cannot rescue ourselves: “Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am He, you will die in your sins,” (John 8.24). We cannot magically erase our sins... http://sermonindex.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=21141&forum=34&0 2008-01-03T12:19:32-05:00 Lamenting over the chains of our carnal nature and the shackles of our feeble efforts, the apostle Paul cries out in Romans 7:24, “O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from this body of death?” If Paul were to leave this cry unanswered and end his discourse here, we might be left to believ