2008-11-20T17:27:12-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com http://www.gospel.com/feeds/topics/faith http://hutchcraft.com/Life-Issues/Priorities/Blinded-From-the-Heavenly-Light 2008-11-20T17:27:12-05:00 Are you consumed with all kinds of earth stuff and blinded from what matters most? Many times we are blinded by the lights of making money, having fun, important relationships, busy schedules, even religious activity. ... We're blinded from heavenly light. http://hutchcraft.com/Life-Issues/Pride/The-Unsinkable-Myth 2008-11-20T17:25:32-05:00 The Titanic went out on its first voyage as the unsinkable ship. No one knew how much danger they were in until it was too late. ... Many died that night because of their pride, and human arrogance sinks more than ships. Pride has also cost many people their eternity. The Word of God in Matthew 18:2 says, "He (Jesus) called a little child and had him stand among them and He said 'I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.'" http://hutchcraft.com/Life-Issues/Pride/Missing-the-Way-Out 2008-11-20T17:24:43-05:00 You can see where people would turn back because of the smoke in between them and safety. Tragically, that was a fatal choice. It's a mistake that far too many people have made spiritually—going the wrong way because of all the smoke between them and Jesus. It could be that even you have been holding back from what Jesus offers because of the spiritual "smoke" that has kept you from moving His direction. http://hutchcraft.com/Life-Issues/Peace/Running-in-the-Rain 2008-11-20T17:23:19-05:00 You're alone out in the storm, feeling unnecessary loneliness because you're living outside of a safe place. Maybe there is unnecessary stress, pain, and emptiness in your life. You're trying to make sense of life without the One who gave you your life. http://hutchcraft.com/Life-Issues/Peace/Looking-Out-the-Wrong-Window 2008-11-20T17:22:45-05:00 A lot of people are intently looking for spiritual reality. They just don't find spiritual peace, promise of eternal life, and love where they thought they would. http://hutchcraft.com/Life-Issues/Parents/Fatal-Family-Resemblances 2008-11-20T16:32:08-05:00 There can be many family resemblances, whether it's hair, height, face, or even health problems. There are some family resemblances that are less obvious and much more damaging. ... They damage our marriage, kids, close relationships, future, and our self-worth. We pick up from our parents ways of talking and acting that we didn't like in them. Suddenly we hear ourselves sounding like mom or dad and treating others as our parents did. We react, communicate, and live as they did in ways we never meant to repeat. Of course, our children will have to go through the same pain unless something changes. http://hutchcraft.com/Life-Issues/Parents/The-Lessons-That-Shape-Your-Child-s-Life 2008-11-20T16:31:17-05:00 Children learn what they live, for better or for worse. It's ultimately what our children live that makes them into the people they become. God doesn't give a human being any greater trust or any greater responsibility than the shaping of a person He made in His image. Our children are, as one author described them, "wet cement." What they experience with us day after day is writing things in that cement that will mark their lives long after we're gone. http://hutchcraft.com/Life-Issues/Out-of-Control/Stopped-By-a-Storm 2008-11-20T16:20:25-05:00 Has your controlled life suddenly become out of control? Maybe you were going through life's journey with things looking pretty good, and all of the sudden a major storm has come your way. http://hutchcraft.com/Life-Issues/Out-of-Control/How-a-Thermometer-Becomes-a-Thermostat 2008-11-20T16:19:42-05:00 You are either a thermometer or you're a thermostat. Thermometer people tend to reflect the temperature of the people around them. "If you're hot, I'm hot. If you're cool, I'm cool. If you're nice, I'm nice. If you yell, I will yell." What most of us would like to be is a thermostat—someone who controls the temperature in our situation. http://hutchcraft.com/Life-Issues/Money/Paid-In-Full 2008-11-20T13:24:12-05:00 Is your goal to be totally debt free? Today there is someone you owe who has declared your bill "paid."