2013-04-11T13:18:50-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/disappointment/ http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/10602 2013-04-11T13:18:50-05:00 Sign up for the email newsletter at Killer Tribes and you'll get a free copy of Bryan Allain's new booklet This is NOT a treasure map as a thank you. This is a helpful message to anyone who has been disappointed in a creative project or ministry. In 25 pages, he shows you a new (and biblical) way of perceiving your life, failures and successes. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/surfing-is-better-than-sinking-6721 2012-10-15T09:47:25-05:00 Remember, your situation is your assignment from God. Do what the great surfers do! Ride on top of this wave; surf on it. Capture it for Christ. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/beautiful-but-broken-6596 2012-04-23T09:57:50-05:00 I think of the mistakes we make and the hurt we experience looking for this love anywhere else. The little kids singing their little church song, they "get" it: "Jesus loves me, this I know." You know that when you finally open your heart to His love. And your lifetime search for love ends in His welcoming arms. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/sad-success-6547 2012-02-14T12:02:35-05:00 For 2,000 years, Jesus has been the sustaining fulfillment for millions of us when life's spotlights go off. He's been the one love that's cherished us like no other, to the point of laying down His life so we wouldn't have to die for our sins. Until we commit ourselves to this God who gave His life for us and then rose from the grave to be alive to come into our life, our hearts are, in the Bible's words, "like the tossing sea which cannot rest...there is no peace" (Isaiah 57:20-21 ). http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hindrances/feeling-down-at-the-top-2897 2009-09-25T13:52:59-05:00 Life is a series of disappointing views until we give our lives to the only One who can give it eternal meaning. Every other destination will leave you feeling hollow inside - until you're home - in the waiting arms of Jesus Christ. http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2013:12&version=NIV 2009-09-11T09:13:42-05:00 Have you ever had your hope deferred? Proverbs tells us that when our hope is deferred it makes our very heart sick. However, when a longing is fulfilled, we are filled with life. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/beautiful-things-that-fall-apart-5830 2009-09-10T12:43:34-05:00 What Jesus offers is the one relationship - the one love that will totally fill the hole in your heart. It's the relationship with Him that the Bible says you were literally created for. That's why all those other beautiful things ultimately seem so hollow. But that relationship with Jesus is impossible as long as your sin stands between you and Him. No religion can take it away. Only He can because He died to pay for it. If there was any other way, He would not have paid that price. http://hutchcraft.com/Life-Issues/Weariness/Feel-Down-at-the-Top 2008-11-25T10:32:44-05:00 It is said that if you are at the top of Cadillac Mountain in Maine at daybreak, you will be one of the first Americans to see the sunrise that day. That would be something amazing to see, but you wouldn't want to make the valiant effort to get to the top of the mountain only to find the view there a big disappointment. Maybe you have experienced that feeling. You arrived somewhere you really wanted to go or you received something you really wanted, but it turned out to be disappointing. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Life-That-Matters/Radio-Program/The-Trouble-With-Trophies-8076 2008-08-15T16:43:36-05:00 How many times have we played our hearts out for a prize that ended up breaking in our hands? That position, the championship, the relationship, the vacation, the thing we always wanted, the dream come true only to find it was so fragile. It was actually pretty disappointing. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Relationships/Disappointing-Investments-5047 2008-08-07T10:51:38-05:00 The reason none of our earth-investments have been able to satisfy the thirst in our heart is because we've been trying to get from them what we were supposed to get from a personal relationship with our Creator - which we have totally missed.