2012-01-18T09:50:54-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com http://www.gospel.com/feeds/topics/church 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-mission/breaking-rules-saving-lives-6525 2012-01-13T16:52:12-05:00 Rescuing? It always means risking, including the misunderstanding, the criticism of people who love the "rules" but aren't reaching the lost. Jesus knows about that. Remember? Yeah, He made the "rules people" very uncomfortable. So they crucified Him, and we were saved. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-mission/what-i-found-hiding-in-the-christmas-story-6511 2011-12-27T10:30:02-05:00 The Great Commission of Jesus came with His birth. It was His final word before He left. Whatever the years before have been, let's let 2012 be, as never before, the "Year of our Lord" 2012. The year each of us fulfills our destiny, fulfills our Lord's orders to make sure the News about Jesus gets to "all the people" we know. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/not-just-at-christmas-6509 2011-12-22T10:43:24-05:00 Today move beyond a religion about Jesus - to this love relationship with Jesus. Move from just believing things about Jesus - to really belonging to Jesus. http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/6548 2011-12-19T12:06:47-05:00 Church websites have huge potential. The Internet Toolbox for Churches offers a regular podcast with vital information on this area. Some podcasts are rather self-indulgent chats with a lot of padding around the content. This one isn't. It is 28 minutes of sheer clarity and practical guidance by David Hakes, so good you'd pay to go to a conference to hear it as a seminar. http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/6513 2011-12-16T11:57:35-05:00 In the Celtic Christian tradition, 'thin spaces' are times and places where the spiritual and the natural world intersect – occasions when it is possible to reach out and be touched by God. Christmas, even in our post-christendom world, is such a thin space. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/our-own-little-bethlehem-6505 2011-12-16T09:29:56-05:00 You know, Christmas really is all about a Baby who came to die so we could live. And I will never stop thanking Him that He saw that lost little family in a second floor apartment on the south side of Chicago and sent a missionary - my brother - who never spoke a word to gave us Jesus. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/fighting-the-right-enemy-6486 2011-11-21T11:04:37-05:00 Somebody said, "Christians are the only army on earth that form their firing squads in a circle." Maybe the devil has succeeded in getting you to start to criticize and waste ammunition on another church, or another denomination, or another Christian movement, or an organization, or on a brother or sister in Christ. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-mission/the-first-church-of-yeah-but-6477 2011-11-10T10:47:46-05:00 God's Word on any subject is the final word. You'll know that eventually, after your "yeah, but" leads to heartache, disappointment, and shame. Face the truth now. Don't deceive yourself by twisting God's Word to fit what you want. Change your situation to fit God's Word. You don't pull the island of God's Word to the boat of your ideas. You pull the boat to the island. http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/5876 2011-10-10T11:31:27-05:00 Without a website, a church is effectively invisible. With a website, you potentially create a shop window for the community to peer through. What is on display, especially 'near the glass', is very important.