The Trash Removal That Saves Your Life - #5957
You can't get rid of your sin by earning it, by doing good things. You can't inherit God's forgiveness from a Christian family or pick it up by osmosis from just being around Christian things your whole life. Your only hope of getting clean, of getting to heaven, is the cleansing power of the shed blood of Jesus Christ. Not Christianity. Jesus.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/the-trash-removal-that-saves-your...

Ron Hutchcraft Ministries, Inc. - Even Better Than Gold - #8252 | Radio Program | A Life That Matters
I’m Ron Hutchcraft, and the same day I was reading about the skyrocketing value of gold, I read in the Bible about something God says is even better than gold. You might be surprised what it is. It says, “For a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith–of greater worth than gold—may be proved genuine” (1 Peter 1:6-7 ).
http://hutchcraft.com/a-life-that-matters/radio-program/even-better-than-gold-8252

The Trouble with the Top of the Mountain - #5895
We're restless and we're searching because we're away from the One we were made for, and that is why Jesus came to die on a cross to absorb the eternal death penalty for every sin we've ever done. So to find forgiveness, to find peace, to find the only love that can truly satisfy your heart, you have to climb one more hill. It's that hill where Jesus died for you.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/the-trouble-with-the-top-of-the-m...

Accidentally on Purpose - #5865
Knocked from his horse, blinded, totally dependent - that's what it took to get Saul to turn to Jesus. It takes much the same for many of us to finally get us to come to Jesus in total dependency; getting knocked off our high horse, facing a situation we can't handle, we can't fix, we can't solve. If you've hit something that hurts, or something has hit you, it may very well be the way God is using to get your attention.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/accidentally-on-purpose-5865

Finding Your Father - #5854
So many people who have lived emotionally unanchored and painful lives have found something amazing when they found Jesus Christ: they found the Father that their heart had yearned for so long. There is so much hope for hurting people in our word for today from the Word of God in Psalm 10:14. It says, "But you, O God, do see trouble and grief; You consider it to take it in hand. The victim commits himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless."
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-mission/finding-your-father-5854

Deep Holes, Beautiful Discoveries - #5835
When things collapse you can see the faithfulness and love and power of your Lord in ways that we can only see when we're desperate and beyond what we can fix, what we can handle. This season when things are caving in can be a season of life-changing discovery, as well. You can't make the hole in your life go away, but you can go through it to discover beauty that you could never see any other way.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/deep-holes-beautiful-discoveries-...

The Shadow that Scares Us - #5798
If you don't belong to Jesus, death is a monster that should be feared. If you do belong to Him, then death becomes just a shadow because death is now your doorway to all that heaven offers you.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/the-shadow-that-scares-us-5798

The Monster In Your Closet - #5720
Your sins have been paid for. You don't ever have to pay for them if you give yourself to Jesus. And death will be just your graduation to eternal life in heaven. But if you have never totally trusted Jesus as your Savior from your sin, you have no hope of heaven.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/the-monster-in-your-closet-5720

The Painful Road to Beauty - #5719
Any person you know who reflects the radiance and the beauty of a life filled with God, I can guarantee you they have gotten that way, not primarily through their good times but through their great pain and struggle of the stripping processes of God.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/the-painful-road-to-beauty-5719

Pain in the Bible: Revelation 21:4
One of the most wonderful promises of the Bible is that when Jesus returns, he will wipe away pain and suffering. The "old order"--irretrievably bound up in sin--will be replaced and there will be no cause for grief or tears.
http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%2021:4&version=NIV