2008-11-25T11:34:44-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com http://www.gospel.com/feeds/topics/james http://hutchcraft.com/A-Life-That-Matters/Radio-Program/The-Killer-Storm-8145 2008-11-25T11:34:44-05:00 Most of my life I have been trying to be a messenger of a warning that God has given to all of us—a killer storm that we cannot escape. ”Man is destined to die once,” the Bible says, “and after that to face judgment” (Hebrews 9:27). Because we’ve all broken God’s laws and we’ve hijacked the running of our lives. We all face the storm of God’s judgment—certain spiritual death—unless we get out in time through the escape route God Himself provided. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Relationships/Why-Always-Right-is-Wrong-5672 2008-10-15T16:52:18-05:00 Someone who insists on always being right loses the very respect they're trying to maintain. A healthy human being doesn't care who was right, they only care about what is right. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Relationships/Putting-it-On-Or-Rubbing-it-in-5665 2008-10-09T17:00:44-05:00 When you open your mind to the words of God, open up your life, too! All this Bible you're learning and believing is supposed to be growing a Jesus-heart in you and a life that looks more and more like His. Every day, open yourself up to God's Holy Spirit to take the words He inspired and to rub them into your life. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Life-That-Matters/Radio-Program/Levees-the-Flood-Can-t-Break-8078 2008-09-05T13:31:43-05:00 When you know a flood is possible, you do need to build your levees high around a town, or even around your marriage. Marriages have got a flood of pressures on them, problems, and demands, and temptations. It’s really challenging to make a marriage work these days. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Life-That-Matters/Radio-Program/The-Cost-of-Compromise-8085 2008-09-05T13:25:41-05:00 See, temptation never tells you where the first compromise is going to ultimately take you. Moral explosions and marital explosions and integrity explosions usually start with just a small compromise… http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hindrances/Slowly-But-Surely-Submerged-4524 2008-08-28T17:20:21-05:00 You've got to stop that killer strategy with the first look, the first date, the first lie, the first flirtation, the first thoughts of divorce, the first detour from God's Word. This is going to take you where you don't want to go - unless you stop it now. Before today's compromise gives birth to tomorrow's tragedy, run from it. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hindrances/Volcano-Scars-4532 2008-08-28T16:23:50-05:00 When we're angry, we're a lot like a volcano. We erupt, we spew out our lava, and we often blow away a piece of the other person - if not ourselves. And every one of us carries around parts of us that have been mortally wounded by something someone said to us in anger. They may well have forgotten it; we can't ever forget it. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hindrances/Firing-Too-Soon-4542 2008-08-28T16:01:22-05:00 We start shooting before we really understand what a person is feeling; where they're really coming from. We may listen long enough to hear their words, but how about their heart? To hear the surface issue maybe, but not long enough to hear the real issue. We make some of our most hurtful mistakes, and we say some of our most damaging words when we just react to a person's deeds instead of stepping back and looking for the need that is causing the deed. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hindrances/When-the-Devil-Pulls-Your-String-4554 2008-08-28T14:41:30-05:00 Cowardice and criticism and negativity are contagious, and they're Satan's favorite tool to discourage a believer - another believer. Don't fall for it. One other string your enemy loves to pull: lies about who you are http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/Unappreciated-Gifts-4318 2008-08-27T16:49:23-05:00 It hurts to make something special for someone you love - and then to give it and have it go unnoticed and unappreciated. God knows that feeling. There's not a day that goes by that He doesn't give us special gifts from His hand. As James 1:17 says, "Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father."