2013-10-02T10:00:53-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/your+most+important+relationship/ http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/man-of-steel-wheres-superman-6973 2013-10-02T10:00:53-05:00 I have to agree with that guy in the Bible who said, "I really want to do what is right, but I don't do it. Instead, I do the very thing I hate. Who will free me?" You can't be rescued until you admit you can't save yourself; until you're willing to pin all your hopes on somebody who can rescue you. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/unloseable-6965 2013-09-20T09:51:51-05:00 Jesus is the unloseable person we've looked for all our lives. Actually we're built to belong to our Creator. If it weren't for Jesus, we would never have the possibility of that heart-satisfying relationship because of the gap between God and us. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/storm-chaser-chased-by-the-storm-6962 2013-09-17T12:40:13-05:00 The Bible says, "Man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment" (Hebrews 9:27). For everything we've ever done that was wrong in God's eyes. Which leaves me no hope of heaven, except one. If I know somehow I won't face God's judgment. And, thank God, I know my sin has been erased by a sinless God because His Son, Jesus, took my judgment when He died on that cross. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/where-were-you-on-september-11-6958 2013-09-17T12:35:51-05:00 To be ready for eternity, to know you're going to heaven when you die, means to know that you have had every sin of your life - the sin that would keep any of us out of heaven - it has been erased from God's Book forever. Only one person can do that; the man who paid the penalty for it, Jesus, when He died on the cross. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/storming-home-6896 2013-06-18T09:22:15-05:00 The Bible says in Hebrews 6:19, speaking of Jesus, "We have this hope as an anchor for the soul firm and secure." And it often is not until things are out of our control that we understand we were never meant to run our lives. We were created by Jesus, for Jesus. He died to bring us back to Him, and maybe He is right now using your storm to blow you right into His loving arms. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/me-too-wont-make-it-6879 2013-05-23T09:57:57-05:00 Maybe it's time for you to step out of the false security of a nice Christian environment. You need a Christian in-vironment. You need Christ in you, not around you. You don't need to rebel against your parent's commitment just to prove your individuality, you've got to find your own commitment to Christ...personal, powerful, and stronger than your parent's. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/the-dumbest-order-in-history-6839 2013-03-28T10:43:58-05:00 Jesus is this very day, healing families that nothing else can heal, crushing Satan, lifting up the oppressed, protecting the vulnerable, reshaping nations, steering history, He's shattering addictions, He's defying disease, and He's making sinners like me into living proof that He is alive. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/someone-else-shuts-the-door-6832 2013-03-19T09:51:14-05:00 Today the door is open! God paid with the blood of His Son for you to go to heaven, but you've got to come while He's calling. You can meet Jesus at His cross today. He's been waiting for you there. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/lance-lies-and-a-look-in-the-mirror-6820 2013-03-01T09:53:33-05:00 We may think lying is no big deal. It is to God, and we're going to answer to Him some day. On the Bible list of "six things the Lord hates," lying is the only one that appears twice in Proverbs 6:16-19. And in our word today from the Word of God in Psalm 101:7, He bluntly declares that "no one who practices deceit will dwell in My house." God is a God of truth. Lying sets God against me. Dishonesty is a very big deal. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/royal-babies-6807 2013-02-12T10:20:30-05:00 We never really understand our worth until we have a personal relationship with the One who gave us our worth in the first place. Jesus came and died because that relationship was broken by our sin; by our self-willed running of our own life; our way instead of God's way.