2008-11-20T17:23:19-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com http://www.gospel.com/feeds/topics/stress http://hutchcraft.com/Life-Issues/Peace/Running-in-the-Rain 2008-11-20T17:23:19-05:00 You're alone out in the storm, feeling unnecessary loneliness because you're living outside of a safe place. Maybe there is unnecessary stress, pain, and emptiness in your life. You're trying to make sense of life without the One who gave you your life. http://hutchcraft.com/Life-Issues/Peace/Looking-Out-the-Wrong-Window 2008-11-20T17:22:45-05:00 A lot of people are intently looking for spiritual reality. They just don't find spiritual peace, promise of eternal life, and love where they thought they would. http://intothyword.org/apps/articles/default.asp?articleid=36064&columnid=3803 2008-11-10T18:04:58-05:00 Depend on God’s Grace! Have you considered how kind God is with us (even when we are in the depths of stress and despair), how His hand is guiding, and how He will restore us for our benefit and His glory? http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hindrances/When-Charge-Beats-Retreat-5683 2008-10-24T11:38:08-05:00 Well, maybe right now you're facing a big risk, or a big job, or a big setback, or a big threat, and everything in you and around you is signaling, "Retreat!" Your fears are great, you're feeling discouraged. Remember, God's ancient people made their biggest mistake turning away from the Promised Land because they were afraid and they got discouraged. You'll probably miss God's best if your eyes are on the circumstances or your feelings. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Life-That-Matters/Radio-Program/A-Team-Without-a-Huddle-8116 2008-10-13T10:31:39-05:00 Any team that hopes to win has to have regular huddles, right? Well, so does any marriage that hopes to win. The Bible asks this bottom-line question: “Can two people walk together without agreeing on the direction?” (Amos 3:3) http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hindrances/When-Fear-isn-t-Final-4458 2008-08-29T01:27:47-05:00 When the Bible talks about rescue, it's not just referring to saving a person so they can live maybe thirty or forty more years on earth. When God talks rescue, He's talking about saving a person so they can live forever. Some of the spiritually dying people Jesus came to save work where you work, they live where you live, they go to school where you go to school, they participate in things you participate in. And He's placed a rescuer in their lives so they can have a chance at Jesus, and a chance at heaven. You probably looked at that rescuer in the mirror this morning. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hard-Times/When-You-re-at-the-Edge-4322 2008-08-27T16:45:37-05:00 For you, that might be right now. You are at one of those points we all reach several times in our life -- sometimes several times in a year! You're at the edge -- financially, with a son or daughter you don't know what to do with, or maybe in your marriage. It could be you're at the edge emotionally; you're not sure how much more you can take, or your responsibilities have gotten so heavy that they're taking you to the edge. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hindrances/Squeezed-To-Obey-4353 2008-08-27T16:13:43-05:00 Our word for today from the Word of God begins with Jesus' parting instructions to His followers in Acts 1:8. "You will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth." Now, guess which part of that they liked best? Right. Jerusalem. That was home. That was the familiar. I'm not sure they would have ever gotten beyond Jerusalem unless they were pushed, unless they were squeezed to go. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hindrances/The-Bumpy-Road-to-a-Beautiful-Destination-4361 2008-08-27T16:07:34-05:00 Actually, you may be navigating a very bumpy road in your life right now, and you're not enjoying this process much at all. And as you're having to really slow down and to absorb the shocks, it's tempting to turn back, isn't it? But God wants to remind you today of something it is easy to forget when the road is rough: there's something beautiful -- something worth it -- at the end of this difficult journey. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hindrances/No-Conquest-Without-Risk-4387 2008-08-27T15:36:44-05:00 It doesn't just apply to reaching the top of a mountain - it pretty much describes everything worth doing in life. No risk, no meaningful conquest - a triumph without glory. Low risk, low return. High risk, high return. It's a principle that defines spiritual greatness - or spiritual mediocrity.