2010-12-27T11:29:27-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com http://www.gospel.com/feeds/topics/darkness http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/when-the-lights-go-on-6250 2010-12-27T11:29:27-05:00 Because Jesus loved you enough to pay for your sins on the cross, He can now lift the heavy burdens of your past. He can erase every sin from God's book and declare you forever forgiven. He can give you the security of knowing that you will spend eternity in heaven - because the only thing that could keep you out is gone - your sin. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/turbulence-that-transforms-6251 2010-12-27T11:21:42-05:00 The shaking you're enduring, the hits you're taking, those are tools in God's hands to bring out an amazing beauty in you: a strength, a tenderness, a maturity, a confidence, a compassion that comes only from being beautified in God's tumbler. So don't wallow in the "why is this happening?" quagmire. Instead, keep asking, "How can God use this?" http://truewoman.com/?id=881 2010-09-08T15:55:15-05:00 As millions of young women everywhere take in the Twilight movies and tune in weekly to vampire shows, I can't help but wonder if this fascination with the dark, dangerous, bad boys featured in these series is fitting for girls who love Jesus. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-mission/punching-holes-in-the-darkness-6023 2010-02-17T14:43:30-05:00 The lost folks around you probably won't be all that impressed with your don'ts or all the religious meetings you go to. They need to see meaningful differences in you because Christ is in you. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-mission/night-lights-5934 2009-10-08T09:10:37-05:00 Don't be intimidated by the darkness - you are the most important person in that dark place because you have the light of Jesus. Without you, darkness is all there is. Humbly, gently, lovingly, be the light there. You are one light that should never be turned out! http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%204:5&version=NIV 2009-10-02T14:13:24-05:00 Paul tells the Cortinthians that Jesus will expose everything that has been hidden in the dark to the light. He will draw out the motives of our hearts. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-mission/a-rattle-but-no-bite-2571 2009-10-02T11:09:56-05:00 You've been frightened and held back long enough by the rattle of a snake whose head is crushed. He has no bite - just a lot of noise! So, resist the devil, and he will flee from you! http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Corinthians%206:14&version=NIV 2009-09-27T19:25:03-05:00 This passage warns believers not to become too entangled with non-believers. Christians have long discussed and debated the meaning of this passage, and the extent to which we are to apply it to our everyday lives. http://hutchcraft.com/a-life-that-matters/radio-program/unnecessary-darkness-8242 2009-09-11T14:40:49-05:00 It’s funny how you adapt pretty quickly to a new normal; like when we learned to live without electricity after a storm. The first day without power, we kept turning on useless light switches. Pretty soon we retrained ourselves; we didn’t bother with trying to turn on a light. A few days later, after we managed to get a generator going, my wife had to go to the other end of the house to check on something. She came back to the living room and said, “I can’t believe what I just did. I walked all the way through the house in total darkness, and I didn’t have to anymore!” http://hutchcraft.com/a-life-that-matters/radio-program/a-light-for-all-the-dark-places-8237 2009-09-11T13:33:49-05:00 I’m Ron Hutchcraft, and it was really good to carry a light that could go in all the dark places with me. Of course, not all the dark places in our life are because we don’t have electricity. We walk through dark stretches because of what’s happening in our family, in our job, with our health; important decisions, unexpected bad news, situations that seem like hopeless.