2008-11-20T16:32:08-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com http://www.gospel.com/feeds/topics/children http://hutchcraft.com/Life-Issues/Parents/Fatal-Family-Resemblances 2008-11-20T16:32:08-05:00 There can be many family resemblances, whether it's hair, height, face, or even health problems. There are some family resemblances that are less obvious and much more damaging. ... They damage our marriage, kids, close relationships, future, and our self-worth. We pick up from our parents ways of talking and acting that we didn't like in them. Suddenly we hear ourselves sounding like mom or dad and treating others as our parents did. We react, communicate, and live as they did in ways we never meant to repeat. Of course, our children will have to go through the same pain unless something changes. http://hutchcraft.com/Life-Issues/Parents/The-Lessons-That-Shape-Your-Child-s-Life 2008-11-20T16:31:17-05:00 Children learn what they live, for better or for worse. It's ultimately what our children live that makes them into the people they become. God doesn't give a human being any greater trust or any greater responsibility than the shaping of a person He made in His image. Our children are, as one author described them, "wet cement." What they experience with us day after day is writing things in that cement that will mark their lives long after we're gone. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Relationships/Why-the-Kids-Are-Safe-5687 2008-10-30T15:22:26-05:00 Isn't it great to know that your safety and security has nothing to with your situation or your surroundings? Your safety depends on one thing and one thing alone - the watch care of your Father in heaven! http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Relationships/Why-Always-Right-is-Wrong-5672 2008-10-15T16:52:18-05:00 Someone who insists on always being right loses the very respect they're trying to maintain. A healthy human being doesn't care who was right, they only care about what is right. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Relationships/A-Father-s-Greatest-Gift-5670 2008-10-15T16:43:28-05:00 As a father, you have a lot of important roles, but none so cosmic, so eternal as planting God in your son or daughter. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Relationships/What-You-Bring-in-the-Door-5644 2008-08-29T10:17:50-05:00 In many ways you set a tone when you walk in the door and you'll probably have to live with that tone for hours to come. After a stressful day it's just human nature to walk in with a pretty self-focused mind set, carrying the garbage of the day, which we then proceed to dump all over our loved ones! But, wouldn't you like to put your name in our word for today? "________ returned home to bless his or her family." http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/Straight-to-the-Throne-4451 2008-08-29T01:38:13-05:00 How many times have we sincerely promised we'd pray for someone and forgotten? And while someone's promise to pray for us may be an encouragement, it's nothing like actually hearing them pray for you, right then and there. Don't you think it's time we got over this feeling of awkwardness and timidity about praying with each other? http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Personal-Power/The-Only-Way-to-Build-a-Home-4440 2008-08-28T16:50:26-05:00 The way that Indian man built his home decades ago is still the only way to build a home - one building block at a time. And those building blocks are called days. Not years, not months, not weeks - days. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/The-Battle-over-The-Precious-4448 2008-08-28T16:44:26-05:00 The ring in Lord of the Rings is fantasy. The battle over "The Precious" is not. Because we all have something or someone in our life that is, for us, "The Precious." We can't let go of it. And like the ring in Tolkien's stories, the longer and more tightly we hold onto it, the more it slowly destroys us. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Relationships/Singular-Love-4431 2008-08-28T15:51:50-05:00 It really makes a difference when you focus the warmth of the sun on one spot. It really makes a difference when you focus the warmth of your love on one person. Especially if that person is the life partner you have or one of the children God has entrusted to you. The question for today isn't whether you love your family - I'm sure you do. The question is this: does each member of your family feel loved by you? Now, that may depend on how much focused love they get from you.