2008-11-24T15:41:03-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com http://www.gospel.com/feeds/topics/purity http://hutchcraft.com/Life-Issues/Sex/Keep-Your-Fire-in-the-Fireplace 2008-11-24T15:41:03-05:00 Are you looking for satisfying sexual enjoyment in the right place? Sometimes sex can end up being very dangerous, like a fire outside of a fireplace. ... Proverbs 5 of God’s Word deals with the fire of sexual passion, a fire which God placed in our lives to bring warmth and love when you keep it in the right place. Two sexual relationships are described here. http://hutchcraft.com/Life-Issues/Sex/Super-Glue 2008-11-24T15:40:22-05:00 Did you realize that sex is emotional and spiritual super glue? It deeply bonds people to each other whether they are aware of it or not. ... You will bond even if you never meant to. It is painful to separate when you have done something that permanently bonds. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hindrances/Viruses-in-Your-Computer-4452 2008-08-29T01:37:13-05:00 There are wrong desires that literally start a war in your soul. And whatever feeds those destructive desires is a virus in your mind and heart that you cannot afford - no matter how exciting; no matter how interesting it appears to be. That's why God says the strategy for keeping your soul from being poisoned is simple - abstain. Stay away from sinful desires and the influences that feed them. In fact, as 2 Timothy 2:22, says, run away from them! http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Relationships/Spiritual-Snowmen-4442 2008-08-28T16:49:06-05:00 Sadly, what happens to snowmen seems to be happening to more and more of God's people. They're slowly going soft, melted by the heat of a culture that applies heavy pressure to compromise both Christian convictions and Christian lifestyles. And some of us are becoming so melted that you can hardly tell the difference between us and the lost people around us. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Relationships/The-Stink-Takes-Over-4538 2008-08-28T16:09:30-05:00 You may feel a little defensive about the input that you like, but just ask yourself a few questions about what you watch, and what you listen to, what you read, what you laugh at, and who you hang around with. Is it making me a little harder inside than I was? Am I having more sinful fantasies than I used to? Am I becoming a little more tolerant of sinful things than I ever used to put up with? Am I flirting mentally with some of the things that I know are wrong? Am I finding the good things less interesting and more boring? Is my heart getting a little colder toward Jesus? http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Relationships/Linus-Minus-his-Blanket-4434 2008-08-28T14:14:20-05:00 Now, maybe we shouldn't be so amused by Linus and the security blanket he can't do without. Because most of us, maybe all of us, have a blanket of our own. Not literally, of course. But we're all pretty attached to something or someone that we really, really need. Maybe someone or something that to a significant extent defines who we are. Unfortunately, there comes a time in all our lives when we can't hang onto that blanket anymore. Sometimes, it's literally stripped from our hands. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Relationships/The-Deepest-Cry-Of-The-Human-Heart-4414 2008-08-28T11:40:57-05:00 I don't know about you, but that cry for love in Mrs. O'Hair's diary touches something inside of me. In a way, her cry is the cry of every human heart, "Somebody, somewhere, love me." And for many who do believe in God, there is still that awful vacuum. It's possible to believe in God, to do God's things, and to still miss the deep experience of His love. And without that love, the emptiness and loneliness in our heart is never satisfied - no matter how many human loves we experience. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/Standing-Against-The-Tide-4307 2008-08-27T16:56:43-05:00 Some great places have been really damaged by the slow process of erosion. So have some great people. That's why you've got to make the choices that will stop the erosion in your life. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/Silent-Guys-4308 2008-08-27T16:55:49-05:00 Now if you ask most women, that's part of the problem in our relationships. This guy thing called "not much talking." Or at least not much talking about what's really going on inside us. Oh, we'll talk about work and sports and cars and "stuff." But too many men just don't talk much about what they're feeling ... about what they need ... about what's hurting, what they're hoping for, what's wrong. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Relationships/Never-Too-Old-For-His-Lap-4331 2008-08-27T16:39:34-05:00 Maybe you've been wounded in a relationship lately, you've experienced a very painful loss. Maybe a security blanket you've depended on has been taken away. Someone who's listening today is feeling very lonely, broken, confused, maybe unlovable, or even unloved. When you were little and felt like this, you may have had a parent's lap you could run to for safety and comfort. But you're all grown up now, and you're really hurting inside.