2013-11-15T06:00:05-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/grief/ http://faithgateway.com/keep-on-keeping-on/ 2013-11-15T06:00:05-05:00 The Lord is close to the brokenhearted, and saves those who are crushed in spirit. — Psalm 34:18 I don’t think I’ll ever forget the day my dream of being Anna Price’s mom died. I was sitting on the couch with my laptop, returning e-mails when my cell phone rang and I noticed the caller was my adoption […] http://faithgateway.com/helping-kids-cope-with-tragedy/ 2013-10-04T14:51:30-05:00 As parents, we naturally desire to shield our children from tragedy. We turn off the TV to protect their eyes. We might even ask them to leave the room to protect innocent ears. We watch their intake carefully to protect their hearts. But as much protection and security as we attempt to provide, there comes […] http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/seldom-a-lot-but-always-enough-6593 2012-04-23T09:58:44-05:00 Take your assignment from God in 24-hour chunks. Count on enough grace for each day. My kids knew that their Father would see that they had what they needed that day. God's kids know their Father is much better than that. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/tomorrows-weather-6514 2011-12-29T10:29:31-05:00 You can stand this stormy season if you know it won't rain forever. Oh, you have hurt, but because of Jesus you have hope. So don't be discouraged. I have seen tomorrow's weather. http://truewoman.com/?id=1593 2011-03-03T13:48:35-05:00 Angie wasn’t pregnant with Audrey for very long before she knew something wasn’t right. http://truewoman.com/?id=1594 2011-03-03T13:47:11-05:00 "I cannot see to write these words because my eyes overflow with the tears of a mother who has been asked to give her daughter away." http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/light-for-lifes-darkest-valley-6103 2010-06-02T13:27:04-05:00 Jesus has, in essence, turned death from the enemy that destroys everything we have into a friend who opens the gate to everything God has. But if you don't know Him when you die, it will be too late to change it. Now is what we have. Some of us won't have a warning like my friend did. The end of our life will be sudden. The most dangerous thing you can do in your life, the most deadly, is to ignore or postpone or reject Jesus Christ. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/never-forgetting-what-it-cost-6100 2010-05-28T10:45:06-05:00 Each new day, make your way up to that skull-shaped hill again and picture yourself at the foot of that old rugged cross. Let His blood cover the sin that you brought with you. Let His love poured out there capture your heart again. And let His sacrifice there give you the courage to live for Him, whatever it takes, and whatever it costs. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/the-fog-cannot-win-6030 2010-02-19T11:22:23-05:00 The evil may have its hour of filling your horizon, but the Son's going to win! The grief will not last forever. Your prodigal will one day be carried home on the shoulders of the Good Shepherd. The doubts you're having in the darkness can't change what you heard from God when it was light. The answers you need will break through your confusion and struggle. The sadness of the fog is going to succumb to the joy of God's much more powerful sunlight. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/the-cancer-that-always-kills-6014 2010-01-28T10:04:41-05:00 The moment you reach out to Jesus, and in total trust take the cure that He died to give you, your hell is cancelled. Your sins are erased from God's book as if you'd never done them. Your cancer is cured. In the words of John 5:24 , you have literally "crossed over from death to life."