2013-10-04T11:44:48-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/fault/ http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/tell-the-person-who-can-fix-it-6975 2013-10-04T11:44:48-05:00 You can be an agent of real love and real peace if you always stay away from the back room, the back-biting, and you speak directly to that other person. That other person? They may respond or they may not respond, but you have done the only thing Jesus can bless, and you can sleep well tonight. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/the-answer-in-the-mirror-6522 2012-01-10T15:36:30-05:00 Every counselor's first job is to get a person to take the responsibility for their own situation. Whether you're a parent, or a son, or a daughter, or a worker, or a boss, I trust that you will begin to say, "Lord, begin with me." http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/a-funeral-for-a-ghost-6481 2011-11-14T11:47:11-05:00 There's no healing, there's no forgiveness, there's no peace until you join David in saying, "I am without excuse, Lord. It's sin. I call it what You call it, and I accept full responsibility for it. I quit blaming anything or anyone around me. I'm dirty, Lord. I need to be clean by the blood of Christ." http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-mission/the-answer-in-the-mirror-6047 2010-03-16T09:29:16-05:00 I saw a simple, but profound little sentence on a church sign recently. It said, "God, I have a problem. It's me." That kind of prayer is the only place some of us are ever going to find any healing, any happiness, or any peace. Not "I have a problem - it's them," but "it's me." That admission can save a marriage, a relationship with a child, the unity of a church or a ministry, or a relationship that's too valuable to lose. http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians%206:1&version=KJV 2009-08-25T11:16:03-05:00 When Christians make mistakes, their brothers and sisters in Christ are to gently correct them and restore them to the faith. Those working to restore them from their faults are instructed to be very careful, lest they too give in to temptation.