2010-07-23T16:16:41-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com http://www.gospel.com/feeds/topics/goals http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/the-waves-you-re-making-6140 2010-07-23T16:16:41-05:00 Before you go speeding into what you may be considering, would you think about it and consider the waves that your life is making? Make the choices that will cause those who follow you to bless your memory and the God that you helped them find across those years. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/sunsets-in-the-puddles-6131 2010-07-23T15:23:05-05:00 How you handle what you don't like is the difference between peace and frustration, between contentment and anger, and between joy and discouragement. It's all about what you dwell on, not what you're going through. If you dwell on what's beautiful, if you dwell on what God is doing, or how you can lift up other people, you could be unsinkable no matter how many icebergs there are. For as one man said, "To those who look for providences, there will always be a providence to see." Choose joy! http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/choosing-your-battles-6116 2010-06-21T11:16:58-05:00 Don't make every issue a battleground. Don't make everything a battle. Fight for the real issues, not over every incident. Don't try to settle issues based on an incident that's got everybody all inflamed right now. Deal with it at a time when there's not an incident. Save your ammunition for the battles that really matter. Above all, always check with God to see if this is His battle; one that He thinks is worth fighting. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/sunsets-should-be-beautiful-6090 2010-05-17T16:24:19-05:00 Yes, our later years can have their share of physical pain, disappointed dreams, financial strain, grievous losses, frustrating limitations, and even hurtful neglect. We can't choose our circumstances, but we can, whatever our age, choose our attitude. We can choose what kind of climate we're going to bring with us wherever we are: selfish or unselfish, gentle or harsh, praising or griping, critical or encouraging. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/navigating-without-going-aground-6081 2010-05-03T15:15:48-05:00 It takes a real man, a real woman, a moral hero to say about an issue, "God hasn't changed His mind, and He's calling the shots. The lighthouse isn't moving, and I am navigating - not by my feelings, not by your feelings - but by the unchanging light from heaven called the Bible. Any other course means that sooner or later, we're going down!" http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/the-good-thing-about-bad-storms-6017 2010-02-02T12:10:23-05:00 The hurricanes of God seem devastating sometimes, but He sends them to accomplish things that might not happen any other way - the cleansing that your life needs. The new priorities your life needs. He's removing what's blocked the sun so something beautiful can grow there. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/no-escape-on-a-dead-end-road-6000 2009-12-21T09:30:08-05:00 Actually, no religion gets you to God, including Christianity. Only Jesus can because only Jesus "gave Himself as a ransom" for us. That's ransom as in the price you pay to get someone back, because our sin has an eternal death penalty, actually described by Jesus as involving a place of fire. The price to be paid is death, and that's what you and I deserve for hijacking our lives from God. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/why-it-does-not-have-to-be-the-way-it-has-always-been-5967 2009-11-24T09:49:36-05:00 As surely as physical family resemblances get passed on from one generation to another, so do family flaws, family sins, family baggage. Except for the miracle that makes it possible for one person to say, "It stops here. I'm not going to be another one in that same old line. I'm going to be the first one in a brand new line in our family!" http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/the-avalanche-zone-5947 2009-10-27T09:11:33-05:00 The ultimate outcome of our sin will inevitably be death, the death of our self-respect, of relationships, of people's trust, our reputation, but worst of all, our eternal separation from our God in a place Jesus called hell. But the dying for your sin has already been done by Jesus Christ. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/holy-hunger-5937 2009-10-13T09:07:09-05:00 ince you're farther along the line than most of the people with you, you've stopped where you are. But there is so much more God wants to serve you than you have ever sampled before. Don't be satisfied with where you are now. You go after food when you're physically hungry. Ask God to stir up that holy hunger in your soul that goes after the rest of His righteousness.