2013-03-12T10:39:19-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/trouble/ http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/flash-gordon-rescues-6827 2013-03-12T10:39:19-05:00 You've been to the edge of desperation, but remember the Lord rescued you out of them all. Maybe you're in a perilous or a painful place again. This time it looks like there is no way out of this, Flash, but then it's looked like that before at the end of other episodes and you're still here. Get some perspective. Stand back. Remember a lifetime of the Lord's rescues. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hindrances/the-place-to-complain-6575 2012-03-23T12:36:42-05:00 The Throne Room of God is the complaint department of the universe. So, let God deal with your complaints. You won't get action by complaining to all the employees. Skip them and go straight to the top. http://peggiesplace.com/helpnow.htm 2010-08-02T17:54:12-05:00 Need help in a spiritual crisis? Find helpful resources for health, troubled families, emotional needs, spiritual questions and more! http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%2016:33&version=NIV 2009-09-25T10:23:20-05:00 God doesn't promise us freedom from earthly troubles--in fact, just the opposite. Here Jesus warns that trouble lies ahead for his followers. But he follows this with a reassurance that God has already triumphed over sin. http://hutchcraft.com/a-life-that-matters/radio-program/dangling-in-the-dark-8294 2009-09-18T14:11:30-05:00 It started out as one of the scarier experiences of my wife’s childhood. Her grandfather had dropped his valuable pen into the well in their yard, and there was only one way it could be retrieved: if someone was lowered down there on a rope…someone small…like a little four-year old girl. Soon my wife found herself with a rope tied securely around her, being lowered into the darkness of that well, sort of dangling in the dark. She got the pen and she shed a lot of the fear as she did it. She told me, “I knew I’d be OK because my father was holding the rope.” If you belong to Jesus Christ, so is yours. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/tick-bites-5873 2009-09-11T10:46:27-05:00 Scripture warns us, "See to it that no one misses the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many." Bitterness and resentment always begin just as this little root. But bitterness never stays a little root. It keeps growing into a poisonous plant that ends up hurting us and hurting others. A root of bitterness has destroyed marriages, churches, friendships, and ministries because it wasn't pulled up when it was small. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Life-That-Matters/Radio-Program/Parable-In-An-Olympic-Pool-8137 2008-11-07T11:57:18-05:00 Now I love that idea that deep water absorbs turbulence. You swim faster and faster when the water’s deeper. Well that works for you and me in our relationship with God too. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Life-That-Matters/Radio-Program/Increasing-Your-Bench-Press-8136 2008-11-07T11:55:32-05:00 ... that may explain the heavy load that you’re having to lift right now. It’s all about increasing your bench press. Here’s God’s strength program for His players. It says, “Blessed are those whose strength is in You. They go from strength to strength ‘til each appears before God” (Psalm 84:5, 7). How does God build you to a spiritual champion? http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hard-Times/Dispelling-the-Fog-3850 2008-07-30T16:15:18-05:00 n Job 2:10, he asks, "Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?" And in chapter 13, verse 15, Job says, "Though He slay me, yet I will I hope in Him." Stubborn faith that still believes that the sun is shining even when you can't see it for the fog. The kind of faith that looks for things to praise God for at a time when it hurts so bad. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Life-That-Matters/Radio-Program/The-Trouble-With-Sandcastles-8054 2008-07-24T15:41:56-05:00 I guess you could define sandcastle this way—something you put a lot of effort into that doesn’t last—like a relationship maybe, a career, a marriage, a goal that meant a lot to you. Maybe you’ve watched the tide take out something that you put a lot into. You know that makes us keenly aware of our need for something—well actually, Someone that you can’t lose.