2010-08-24T10:51:53-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/break/ http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/moving-with-the-quake-6162 2010-08-24T10:51:53-05:00 The Golden Gate Bridge, while flexible, is not made out of Play-Doh. It has solid structure and so should your life and your days. This is no excuse for laziness or lack of planning. But it is an encouragement to folks who like control to loosen up a little bit and make room for God to do His very dynamic thing. It's the ones who are flexible that survive the shaking. http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2023:29&version=NIV 2009-09-25T10:41:14-05:00 God's Word is powerful--it can break down even the most powerful spiritual defenses. This verse reminds us of the consuming power of God's Word. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/the-hammer-in-gods-hands-5800 2009-09-10T11:38:03-05:00 The hammer that hits us in our life can either break us or build us. If we'll turn to God when we're getting hit, looking for His purposes and His message, that hammer can build us into something we've never been before. http://sermonindex.net/modules/articles/index.php?view=article&aid=579 2008-01-09T12:41:02-05:00 The Jews were a nation of farmers, and it is therefore a common thing in the scriptures to refer for Illustrations to their occupation, and to the scenes with which farmers and shepherds are familiar. The prophet Hosea addresses them as a nation of backsliders; he reproves them for their idolatry, a http://sermonindex.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=21514&forum=34&0 2008-01-01T11:39:19-05:00 The brokenness of spirit which makes no resistance to the Father’s hand is a main element of fertility in souls wherein He works. It is not power He seeks from us, but weakness; not resistant force, but ‘yieldingness’ to Him. All power is His: His strength is perfected in weakness.”