2008-09-29T11:55:07-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com http://www.gospel.com/feeds/topics/temptation http://bibleforchildren.org/PDFs/hebrew/The%20Start%20of%20Mans%20Sadness%20Hebrew.pdf 2008-09-29T11:55:07-05:00 Hebrew: Eve is tempted by Satan through the serpent. She takes fruit from the forbidden tree & gives some to Adam, who eats it. This 1st sin brings death. Adam & Eve are sent out of the Garden of Eden, & an angel with a flaming sword guards it. Their 1st son, Cain, kills their 2nd son, Able. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hard-Times/Flash-Gordon-Rescues-5647 2008-09-12T14:58:29-05:00 Remember, Jesus is your Savior, and Savior means Rescuer. He's already accomplished the toughest rescue of all. He rescued you from the clutches of sin and hell. Surely, after that, He can save you from this comparatively small crisis. He will change the situation or He will enlarge you to deal with it, but He will always rescue you! He always has. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Life-That-Matters/Radio-Program/Scrambled-Price-Tags-8081 2008-09-05T13:29:16-05:00 There’s one important key for a life that matters, and that’s keeping the price tags straight. There’s a deceiver in this world who keeps switching the tags. See, he tries to make things that won’t last or deliver look like they’re worth a lot, and things that will last forever and will deliver look like they’re not worth much. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Life-That-Matters/Radio-Program/The-Cost-of-Compromise-8085 2008-09-05T13:25:41-05:00 See, temptation never tells you where the first compromise is going to ultimately take you. Moral explosions and marital explosions and integrity explosions usually start with just a small compromise… http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Personal-Power/Fool-s-Gold-5642 2008-08-29T09:53:54-05:00 It's so easy to buy the values of a world that measures worth by success, by how much of the glittery stuff you have - to spend major life-energy going after more house, more car, more wardrobe, more position, more prestige. It's gold - but it's fool's gold. Notice the words God uses to describe the pursuit of more: a trap, foolish desires, harmful desires, ruin and destruction, wandering from the faith, grief. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Personal-Power/Out-of-Control-Heading-Downhill-5638 2008-08-29T09:43:42-05:00 You're in the greatest danger if you're slipping and you can't even see it. Satan seldom destroys us through explosion; he does it through erosion - just slowly getting you to compromise a little bit more, to lower your guard, to get closer and closer to the flame. It's getting harder and harder maybe to resist what you know is wrong. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hard-Times/The-No-Regrets-Alarm-4535 2008-08-28T16:18:49-05:00 Now the day you put your trust in Jesus as Savior, God planted in your soul a sin alarm. Somebody planted a gluttony alarm in our refrigerator. There's this noise that makes you stop and think before you reach for something. It's annoying, but that pig can keep you from doing something you will regret later - like tomorrow on the scale! Now we need some noise inside of us when we are about to reach for something that we are going to later regret. And God delivers us from evil if we will listen to the inner alarms He triggers when we are about to sin. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hard-Times/Nothing-to-Hide-4360 2008-08-27T16:08:11-05:00 Our word for today from the Word of God comes from Romans 13 beginning at verse 12, and it encourages us to live with those three words as our life motto. Nothing to hide. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hard-Times/The-Royal-Switch-4382 2008-08-27T15:40:21-05:00 Our word for today from the Word of God comes from 2 Corinthians 10:4-5. It says, "The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds." We take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ." http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hard-Times/Always-There-To-Catch-You-4385 2008-08-27T15:38:21-05:00 That man going over the edge, arms flailing, out of control - that could be a picture of David's condition in our word for today from the Word of God. It's in Psalm 94 beginning at verse 17. In fact, it could be a picture of your condition right now.