2008-07-21T10:40:41-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com http://www.gospel.com/feeds/topics/wilderness http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hard-Times/Hero-School-5607 2008-07-21T10:40:41-05:00 In fact, nothing increases your strength and your character like the wilderness does. That's why the launching pad for Jesus' public ministry was 40 days in the wilderness - the training for Moses' powerful leadership of God's people was 40 years in the wilderness - and maybe why you are serving your time in the wilderness, right now. You may be asking, "What's wrong?" God's answer may very well be, "Nothing's wrong! Something's right!" He believes in you, He wants to build a warrior out of you, He wants to bless you more, use you more, make you more like His Son Jesus, but that will take the heat and the hurt and the stress of the wilderness! http://sermonindex.net/modules/articles/index.php?view=article&aid=4513 2008-01-06T13:00:27-05:00 The figure here is of a beautiful, fruitful enclosure, not a wilderness. Garden soil is cultivated soil, very different from the roadside or wilderness. The idea of a garden is culture. The ground has to be prepared, to be broken up by ploughing, to be mellowed by harrowing. All the stones have...