2012-04-04T11:34:24-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/invitation/ http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/easter-up-close-and-personal-6583 2012-04-04T11:34:24-05:00 I'm so glad the arms of Jesus are still open wide this Easter, to send those who know Him to "go and tell" those who don't, and to welcome one who's been searching for a lifetime to "come and see" His love and His power for themselves. Yeah, Jesus walked out of His grave that first Easter, and He's ready to walk into your life this Easter. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/the-excitement-of-exploring-6013 2010-01-27T13:21:47-05:00 Exploring new ground implies that you don't know exactly what you're going to encounter; how you're going to have what you need to meet whatever is on the new road. Listen to God's next statement here: "I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland." http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/the-open-door-at-the-manger-5989 2009-12-28T16:42:59-05:00 The people who miss Jesus and miss heaven are the people who think they've got it all together, who are quite religious and quite good and not really in need of the Savior who died on the cross for their sins. But just like He did for those shepherds, whether you were born in church or never been in church in your life, Jesus is throwing open the door to His family and to His heaven and saying, "Come on in. I died and I rose again so you and I can be together forever." http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%2014:23&version=KJV 2009-09-20T13:12:27-05:00 God has opened His kingdom to all who want to enter. In this parable, He orders his servants to go out to the roads and fields and invite everyone they find to enter the kingdom. Entry into God's kingdom is not restricted to any race or ethnicity. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-mission/the-god-who-knows-your-name-5890 2009-09-11T11:35:01-05:00 When it dawns on you that the biggest person there is in the entire universe actually knows your name and loves you, not as one of six billion inhabitants of Planet Earth, but as if you were the only one on this planet! http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/gods-super-glue-5823 2009-09-10T12:21:37-05:00 We struggle, we worry, we scheme, never going to the Grace Throne for the answers or the resources we need. We could be rich; we live in unnecessary poverty. We need to accept this incredible invitation many times a day and pray aggressively, not passively; boldly, not timidly; specifically, not generally. And it's all available to us because of Jesus. We come there because He died to make it possible for us to get this close to the God of the universe. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/settling-for-so-little-5717 2009-09-09T14:00:40-05:00 We get man-sized answers because we expect man-sized answers. We believe God for what we can conceive, but your God is the God of the inconceivable. We've settled for so much less than what He could do because we continually overestimate the situation and underestimate God.