2009-11-20T09:31:09-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com http://www.gospel.com/feeds/topics/rescue http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-mission/the-light-that-weathers-all-your-storms-5964 2009-11-20T09:31:09-05:00 I know a relationship with Jesus can weather every storm. He's loved and sustained us through losing a baby, through financial crises, through all the struggles of parenting, through major medical battles, and at the casket of so many we've loved. Jesus has never abandoned, never let down anyone who's put their life in His hands. He is the one certain light that your heart needs. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-mission/daisy-chains-5965 2009-11-20T09:17:32-05:00 Sadly, too many of us are in that group sitting in the grass, doing nothing about those around us who are moving steadily toward an awful eternity. We're real busy making our daisy chains. Listen to God's warning in Amos 6:1, our word for today from the Word of God. "Woe to you who are complacent in Zion." Complacent in God's place; going to heaven but not caring much about those who aren't - making daisy chains. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-mission/orphan-no-more-5960 2009-11-13T09:10:21-05:00 We make a lot of mistakes for love. And no matter how close our family or friends may be, there's still that unexplainable loneliness deep down inside. It's cosmic loneliness. We're lonely for God. Maybe we're even pretty religious but we're still missing the only love relationship that can satisfy the heart of a spiritual orphan. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-mission/a-heart-like-his-5946 2009-10-26T09:22:29-05:00 The church you're in, the ministry you're in - is it committed to saving lives on the stretch of the beach around you, or just feeding and comforting the life-saving crew? If your ministry, your church, your Bible study isn't about rescuing those who will die otherwise, you may need to do a quick heart exam. Do you have the heart of your Savior who said His reason for coming was to seek and to rescue the lost? http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-mission/night-lights-5934 2009-10-08T09:10:37-05:00 Don't be intimidated by the darkness - you are the most important person in that dark place because you have the light of Jesus. Without you, darkness is all there is. Humbly, gently, lovingly, be the light there. You are one light that should never be turned out! http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Colossians%201:13-14&version=NIV 2009-10-06T17:06:27-05:00 Redemption is simply the forgiveness of our sins, and restoration to a relationship with God. Through his sacrifice, Jesus redeemed us and brought us into the kingdom of God, rescuing us from the kingdom of sin and darkness. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-mission/unguarded-beaches-3016 2009-10-01T10:40:34-05:00 You may think there's someone better to rescue the people around you, but God put you in the middle of them. This is your stretch of the beach. The people there are your responsibility. Don't leave your beach unguarded. Too many people are dying at unguarded beaches. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/when-swimming-can-not-help-3018 2009-10-01T10:37:40-05:00 All that any religion can offer you is a book of swimming instructions - their way to swim to God. But it doesn't matter if they're Protestant swimming instructions or Catholic swimming instructions or Jewish or Moslem or Buddhist or New Age. Swimming instructions won't rescue a drowning man or woman. Only the Savior can do that. And only Jesus did the dying it requires to get rid of your sin and get you into a relationship with your Creator. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-mission/the-power-of-the-storm-3663 2009-09-22T14:27:21-05:00 The storm that seems to be costing you so much right now - it may very well be God's means of bringing out something more powerful than you've ever experienced before. And here's the good news, long after the storm is gone, you are going to be singing one incredibly powerful song! http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-mission/the-shocking-view-through-4-d-glasses-3456 2009-09-21T15:54:41-05:00 People Jesus died for so they could be rescued from all this - people who may never know Jesus unless you introduce them to Him. He has positioned you in their life to be their rescuer. Once you see what Jesus sees, you'll rescue the dying, whatever it takes!