2011-08-08T11:40:13-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com http://www.gospel.com/feeds/topics/repentance http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hindrances/how-did-i-get-on-this-back-road-6392 2011-08-08T11:40:13-05:00 Are you tired of the back road you're on? Why not go back on God's main road? You access God's best by repentance. If your shock absorbers have absorbed about all the bumps they can, make the one turn that will help—turn away from that sin and toward God's better alternative. It's time to get back on the main road. http://truewoman.com/?id=1260 2010-11-12T13:45:24-05:00 I sensed the Spirit whisper . . . this is true womanhood, Carrie. Not a life lived perfectly, but a life that when sin is realized repents, gets back up, and keeps walking by faith. http://reviveourhearts.com/topics/downloads/index.php?id=10308 2010-08-25T16:20:18-05:00 The evangelical world boasts some of the largest and most "successful" programs and undertakings in the history of the church. Could we be in the midst of a spiritual awakening? Nancy Leigh DeMoss reminds us that genuine revival cannot be "produced" by human effort and must bear the marks of repentance, obedience, and holiness. She urges us not to settle for anything less than a true movement of God’s Spirit in our day. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/paralyzing-predicaments-6113 2010-06-16T13:32:19-05:00 The horse didn't move for hours - even though she was free. That could be a picture of someone who's listening right now, as well. Christ has given you His new identity, His forgiveness, His grace for your grief, His freedom to make your future different from your past. But you're still standing there like you're still a prisoner; like you're still a victim. You're free! You can walk, you can trot, and you can gallop. It's time to get moving again! http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/the-painful-road-to-greater-results-6111 2010-06-14T11:48:22-05:00 Pruning is actually God's loving surgery to let His light go deeper into your life than it has ever gone before. You may not enjoy the process. You probably won't enjoy the process - but you, and everybody else is going to love the results! http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/the-illusion-of-safety-6094 2010-05-20T10:48:42-05:00 The God you will face one day has told us bluntly that all our goodness will not make us right with Him. Then He explains what will. "Righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe...all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus." http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/the-choice-you-will-never-forget-6068 2010-04-14T15:19:27-05:00 On Judgment Day, it will be all about Jesus and what you did with the Man who died in your place to pay for all the sins of your life. He didn't stay dead. Three days after He died, He walked out of His grave under His own power. So He's alive, and you will see Him at the end of your journey. The only thing that will matter at that moment will be what you did with Jesus. God won't care what you did with Christianity, but He'll base your whole eternity on what you did with Jesus. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/the-cost-of-putting-off-the-repairs-6054 2010-03-25T09:41:31-05:00 Problem: the longer you wait to repair what's broken, the more expensive it's going to be. This is the easiest and cheapest it's ever going to be to make it right. One day it's going to get so bad it's un-livable that way. But the price of repairs may be more expensive than you ever dreamed. In the Bible, God is constantly urging us to get things fixed now. He says about our anger, for example, "Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry" (Ephesians 4:27). http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/the-evidence-you-are-loved-6025 2010-02-17T14:54:33-05:00 The awful punishment that Jesus submitted Himself to was, in reality, the punishment for my sin - for your sin. And the worst punishment wasn't what people could see. It was the Son of God being totally cut off from God the Father as He carried all the horror and all the hell of all our sin. 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."