2013-10-04T14:52:24-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/desperate/ http://faithgateway.com/how-to-make-mom-friends/ 2013-10-04T14:52:24-05:00 “Two are better than one because they have a good return for their labor. For if either of them falls, the one will lift up his companion. But woe to the one who falls when there is not another to lift him up.” — Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 Going at it alone is, without a doubt, one […] http://faithgateway.com/desperate-mom/ 2013-10-04T14:46:23-05:00 When I originally thought of the idea for Desperate: Hope for the Mom Who Needs to Breathe, I was in a place of desperation, and I saw so many other women who were right there beside me. The thing we all have in common is little ones. With some perspective, I can see that having […] http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/the-power-of-powerlessness-6831 2013-03-18T10:47:45-05:00 Right now you have the opportunity to run and wrap yourself around your Heavenly Father like a desperate child. And in that complete dependency His power takes over unobstructed by your efforts to do it. It's all God; it's none of you, because there's no more of you left to fight. And at that moment you are more powerful than you have ever been - powerless but powerful. http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20142:6&version=NIV 2009-09-11T10:09:46-05:00 The psalmist cries out to God in desperation. When we're at the end of our rope and life seems to be collapsing around us, God is able to step in and restore us. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/amazing-cleanup-5852 2009-09-10T13:58:27-05:00 We are in desperate need of someone who can clean up the messes of a lifetime, and that is what Jesus specializes in. It is, in fact, the reason He went to a cross and allowed men He had created to crucify the Son of God. He went there to pay for every sin any of us has ever committed, from the lies to the immorality, to the abuse, to the selfishness, and even the most heinous of human sins. http://hutchcraft.com/a-life-that-matters-blog/eternal-perspectives/a-new-set-of-lenses-part-2-of-4 2009-07-08T17:11:15-05:00 How desperate we are to see life through a new set of lenses - eternal lenses, and how we will be transformed when we understand that each aspect of our life has eternal significance. I believe this includes three things that we need to be willing to change if we are going to experience all of what God has in store for us as we seek to know and to have His heart. We will look at the first one today and the other two in the next two blogs.