2008-08-25T13:12:07-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com http://www.gospel.com/feeds/topics/hosea http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/Life-Saving-Pain-4656 2008-08-25T13:12:07-05:00 If someone you love is the one who's away from the Lord, you can pray in accordance with God's recovery plan here in Hosea 2. Pray for the thornbushes and the walls and the frustrating pursuits that can cause this one you love to think about what they're doing and to remember the better days - the Jesus-days. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Personal-Power/The-Amnesia-Of-Success-3953 2008-07-28T15:49:00-05:00 That is the amnesia of success. God delivers us, cares for us, and brings us into a season of success, of victory, of results, of progress. But instead of that making us more humble and more grateful, and more dependent on God than we've ever been, we start to take the wheel ourselves. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Mission/Stubborn-Heifers-5606 2008-07-21T11:58:06-05:00 A farmer has to put cumbersome yokes and sometimes painful constraints on a stubborn one. And that may explain why life has been so difficult for you, why there's been so much grief. It's unnecessary grief - grief because you simply will not do it God's way. You insist on your way - your outcome - your timetable. In certain areas of your life or your personality, you just have your mind made up how it's going to be and you're determined that not even God is going to make you change or move. http://sermonindex.net/modules/articles/index.php?view=article&aid=579 2008-01-09T12:41:02-05:00 The Jews were a nation of farmers, and it is therefore a common thing in the scriptures to refer for Illustrations to their occupation, and to the scenes with which farmers and shepherds are familiar. The prophet Hosea addresses them as a nation of backsliders; he reproves them for their idolatry, a