2008-11-25T11:37:11-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com http://www.gospel.com/feeds/topics/redemption http://hutchcraft.com/A-Life-That-Matters/Radio-Program/-24-Jack-Bauer-s-Biggest-Battle-8148 2008-11-25T11:37:11-05:00 A major national magazine carried an interview with the man who plays Jack Bauer. The title: “Heart of Darkness: Drinking to forget with TV’s hottest action hero.” That’s sad to read. Kiefer Sutherland said: “I should be able to wake up in the morning without going, ‘Oh, no! Where’s my boot?’ Or ‘Where am I?’ Or ‘One of your friends didn’t happen to bring my car home, did they?’ I don’t want to live like that.” He said, “I have a few drinks and I’m not so worried about tomorrow and not thinking about yesterday. Then the next day, I go, ‘Oh God, don’t let me do that again.’ So why do I do it again? And again? And again?’” A man with so much going for him and a losing battle with a darkness that keeps dragging him down. http://intothyword.org/apps/articles/default.asp?articleid=46258&columnid=3803 2008-10-29T18:03:37-05:00 The Blood of Christ! Now Christ presides as our High Priest. He comes before the Father as our Advocate to mediate on our behalf. http://70030.netministry.com/apps/articles/default.asp?articleid=35627&columnid=3803 2008-10-27T17:55:41-05:00 If God is so gracias in His forgiveness, then I should sin more or lead a life of debauchery to receive more grace from Christ? http://70030.netministry.com/apps/articles/default.asp?articleid=35626&columnid=3803 2008-10-27T17:52:55-05:00 Our heredity of sin! This is the passage that tells us about the universal sinful nature of humanity: Original Sin. We placed ourselves under sin, http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/God-s-Wooden-Magnet-4319 2008-08-27T16:48:17-05:00 Jesus said in John 12:32, our word for today from the Word of God, "'But I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to Myself.' He said this to show the kind of death He was going to die." Strip away all the Christianity, and all the rituals, and all the steeples, and all the creeds and you're down to what this is really the issue - the God who hung on the cross. Jesus, God's one and only Son, pouring out His life to absorb all the hell of all the sin of all the people who have ever lived. Including you. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Personal-Power/Trashing-The-Treasure-4329 2008-08-27T16:41:25-05:00 That was a costly mistake - trashing treasure because of the container it was in. It's a mistake many people are making. Except the treasure is themselves. And maybe we needed to talk about this today because you may be throwing away a treasure - called you. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hindrances/The-Smell-You-Should-Never-Get-Used-To-4335 2008-08-27T16:35:58-05:00 Our word for today from the Word of God comes from Ezekiel 9:2, and it describes a kind of person God was looking for back then -- and the kind of person He is looking for right now, where you are. God is showing His prophet Ezekiel how repulsive the sin of God's ancient people is to Him and how He intends to bring judgment and clean house. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/The-Ugly-Beneath-The-Beautiful-4179 2008-08-14T12:21:22-05:00 Most of us have some ugly that we would just as soon not have anyone see. There's ugly stuff in our past, in our heart, in the closets of our life. The secrets that we don't want anyone to know about - the dark side we try to conceal. Those weaknesses, those failures, and the mistakes that betray the wonderful view that we portray to the world. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/Your-Recycling-Miracle-4181 2008-08-14T12:16:45-05:00 Actually, I believe that God invented recycling. See, He has this amazing ability to recycle the garbage of our lives into something beautiful, something useful, something that can really make a difference. It happens through a process that God describes in our word for today from the Word of God. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hard-Times/The-Shower-Of-A-Lifetime-4064 2008-08-01T15:55:08-05:00 So many of us carry inside the awful burden of the mistakes we've made in the past, or the people we've hurt, the wounds we've inflicted, the damage we've done. There are regrets and guilt that weigh us down - maybe for some destructive choices we've made or some compromises or some sin we wish we could go back and erase. Sometimes it can feel disgusting - like all that dirt that covered our son that day. We wonder if there's any way to get clean, to finally be free of the weight, the dirt, the guilt, the shame.