2012-01-04T10:50:02-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com http://www.gospel.com/feeds/topics/ecclesiastes http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/the-man-with-what-s-next-6516 2012-01-04T10:50:02-05:00 What you decide to do with Jesus even this very day could be eternally decisive. I urge you, if you're not sure you've begun your personal relationship with Jesus Christ, make this the day you get that done and to say, "Jesus, I'm Yours." http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/a-strong-sense-of-season-6472 2011-11-03T14:24:12-05:00 I like what the Bible says in Colossians 3, "Whatever you do, do it with all your heart." And I really like what Jim Elliot, the missionary martyr said, "Wherever you are, be all there." See, things don't work as well when you do them "out of season." Each day, each week has seasons in your life. Well, do with all your heart what it's time to do at that moment and then God makes everything beautiful in its time. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/not-in-a-hurry-6374 2011-06-16T09:39:49-05:00 Trust your Father's timing. He does make everything beautiful in its time. Trust God's timing even if it seems late to you. God always seems to work a little more slowly than I want Him to, but He's always right on time. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/destination-sickness-6368 2011-06-13T13:51:32-05:00 Jesus walked out of His grave under His own power, so He's alive to walk into our lives and change them, and fill that hole in your heart. It doesn't have to be there any longer. Why waste any more years or days looking where there are no answers and no ultimate fulfillment? http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/living-a-much-bigger-life-6217 2010-11-09T09:47:39-05:00 You'll never have enough love until you have the only love that's everlasting. You'll never feel like your life really has meaning until you're part of something that's everlasting. You'll never be ready for eternity, whenever it comes, until you know for sure that you will have everlasting life in heaven. You can, if you pin all your hopes on Jesus Christ, who took the everlasting death we deserve for our sin. http://ivpress.com/cgi-ivpress/book.pl/code=3027 2010-11-04T12:30:52-05:00 As you explore this fascinating Old Testament book with Bill and Teresa Syrios, you will discover how God brings meaning to the world and how following God brings meaning to your life. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/always-beyond-your-reach-6114 2010-06-18T10:42:28-05:00 Celebrate everything you do have. Focus on all the good things your Father has done for you, and let Him turn praise for Him into blessed contentment for you. Because this stubborn push to always get what we don't have - well, it's for babies. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/paralyzing-predicaments-6113 2010-06-16T13:32:19-05:00 The horse didn't move for hours - even though she was free. That could be a picture of someone who's listening right now, as well. Christ has given you His new identity, His forgiveness, His grace for your grief, His freedom to make your future different from your past. But you're still standing there like you're still a prisoner; like you're still a victim. You're free! You can walk, you can trot, and you can gallop. It's time to get moving again! http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/mighty-rivers-mini-beginnings-6049 2010-03-22T11:12:18-05:00 God loves to use small, unseen acts of kindness we do to start great things. He loves to take a little seed that we sow quietly in someone's life and do a miracle through it one day. He looks for people who aren't full of themselves, who know their only real asset is their God, to be in the middle of awesome things that He wants to do. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/why-more-is-never-enough-6046 2010-03-15T10:53:12-05:00 In Ecclesiastes 3:11, Solomon actually puts his finger on why happiness is so elusive: He says, "God has set eternity in the hearts of men." We're made for something that will last forever, and nothing that doesn't last forever will ever fill the hole in our heart. In fact, we were made for a personal relationship with God, the only One who's big enough to fill that hole because that hole was made for Him.