2008-09-05T13:27:20-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com http://www.gospel.com/feeds/topics/church http://hutchcraft.com/A-Life-That-Matters/Radio-Program/Campaigning-Together-8083 2008-09-05T13:27:20-05:00 Politicians realize that they have to come together to win. You got to believe that your cause is more important than your differences. Now Christians need to remember that. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/Mission-Glue-4453 2008-08-29T01:35:34-05:00 As Paul once pleaded with former warriors in the battle to come together, I believe Jesus is pleading with us to get our eyes off each other and on the people who are dying without Him all around us. It is no one other than Satan who distracts us from our rescue mission - so he can keep his prisoners. It's our mission that forces us to come together, to fight our common enemy, to fight for our common Savior. We're same blood, remember? The blood of the Son of God! http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hindrances/The-High-Price-of-a-Little-Ice-4438 2008-08-28T15:46:50-05:00 Now, it doesn't take much ice on the wings to cause an airplane to start losing altitude. It doesn't take much ice in your soul to cause you to start losing altitude - to start going down spiritually. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/God-s-Wooden-Magnet-4319 2008-08-27T16:48:17-05:00 Jesus said in John 12:32, our word for today from the Word of God, "'But I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to Myself.' He said this to show the kind of death He was going to die." Strip away all the Christianity, and all the rituals, and all the steeples, and all the creeds and you're down to what this is really the issue - the God who hung on the cross. Jesus, God's one and only Son, pouring out His life to absorb all the hell of all the sin of all the people who have ever lived. Including you. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/The-Open-Door-on-the-Storm-Cellar-4341 2008-08-27T16:24:16-05:00 Now that's how every church and Christian fellowship should be -- a storm cellar with the door wide open for all to enter! Sadly, too many churches turn out to be a place where you find more storms, but it's meant to be the safest place in town. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/When-the-Tapestry-is-Unraveling-4356 2008-08-27T16:11:13-05:00 God's been weaving you into one of His tapestries - your family, your church (that's the tapestries that He does), maybe the people you minister with, your network of Christian relationships. The threads in God's masterpiece are His children, who like threads are in any tapestry, are very different from one another. People who are mostly head, people who are mostly heart, soft people, rough people, outspoken people, soft-spoken people, compliant folks, controlling folks, race horses, plodders. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/Hijackers-in-the-Church-4380 2008-08-27T15:41:45-05:00 Now that's one place you wouldn't expect to find hijackers - in the church. Oh, but they're there. If a hijacker is someone who tries to take over what belongs to someone else, to use it for their own ends, well then we've got quite a few hijackers in the church. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/Death-Orbit-4394 2008-08-27T15:32:02-05:00 What's far more significant - and far more deadly - is God's survey about what orbit you and I are in. In the words of the Bible, we were "created by Him and for Him" (Colossians 1:16). Like the earth is created to revolve around the sun, so you and I are created to revolve our life around our Creator. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/Out-of-the-Book-and-Into-the-Battle-4586 2008-08-26T13:35:17-05:00 Maybe your Christianity is kind of gray and boring, and it will be until you get a mission; you can't just hear about people with a mission. You need a job to do for Jesus, and you are surrounded by work that He needs done. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/Hummingbird-Wars-4635 2008-08-26T10:38:21-05:00 Something is very wrong at the feeding place of God. There's too much fighting and we're missing what the Father has prepared for us. It's time we ask our Lord for the humility, and the gentleness, and the love, and the self-sacrifice that He always showed. He was the Son of God.