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Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Church With a Pulse - #5268
That's the standard to measure your church by. Is there a powerful appetite for the Lord? Are you expecting God to do the supernatural? Are you looking for and taking care of people's needs? Are you totally committed to each other? Are you talking up Jesus? If it's not that way, be a thermostat that helps set that temperature, not just a thermometer that reflects the chilly reading. Jesus loves His church. Jesus is counting on His church. Let's do all we can to help the church be the church!
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/Church-With-a-Pu...

Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Right Words, Wrong Heart - #3811
It doesn't take long to learn the right church answers, does it? I mean even a four-year-old boy can do it! And many of us who've been around a lot longer as well. The danger is that you can really fool yourself spiritually, just because you know all the right words, and go to all the right meetings, and do all the right things. Tragically, a full Christian vocabulary can mask a dangerously empty heart.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/Right-Words-Wron...

Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Avoiding Shark Attacks - #3855
We know from 1 Peter 5:8 that you and I have an enemy - the devil - who is "looking for someone to devour." And I'm convinced that he operates much like those sharks - he looks for someone who's off on their own - and pounces on them. You're a lot less vulnerable as long as you're sticking close to your spiritual brothers and sisters, to your family. The problem is that right now maybe you're allowing yourself to be isolated, distant and even cut off from people who love you and people you love. The shark from hell loves that.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/Avoiding-Shark-A...

Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - United We Stand - #3895
The followers of Jesus Christ have much to learn from what happened among America's national leaders after the terrorist attacks. Indeed, as a nation -- as the Church of Jesus Christ, "united we stand". I know you remember the rest - "divided we fall."
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/United-We-Stand-...

Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Flying Together Or Flying Alone - #3916
The bottom line on those geese from those who study them is this: they are able to fly up to 71% farther together than they could ever fly alone. So are we who belong to Jesus Christ. We're able to fly a whole lot farther together than we ever could by ourselves. It's just too bad that so many of us are more seagull than goose - we're up there soaring all by ourselves, doing our thing, but missing the power of flying together with other brothers and sisters.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/Flying-Together-...

Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Going Back To Where It Started - #3951
Something renewing happens when we go back to where our marriage began - you're reminded of the wonder of your relationship. That may be the kind of touch your relationship with the Lord Jesus needs right now. And right now He may be calling you back to where it all began.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/Going-Back-To-Wh...

Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Fix It Before the Final - #3962
It's definitely a good idea to stand back, see what's wrong, and then fix it before it goes to the final print. Especially if the audience for the final print is God Himself; as He looks at how you've been living and passes judgment on it. In a sense, He has given us some ways to look at how we're doing, to see what you're doing wrong - and to fix it before it goes to the final print.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Relationships/Fix-It-Before-the-Final-3962

Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Turf Wars - #3963
This all sounds strangely familiar for someone who's listening - maneuvering for position, for dominance, establishing turf, fighting for turf. Except it's not a horse pasture we're talking about in this case. It may be your church, your office, your ministry - pushing for turf. It may be turf issues, ego issues, control issues that threaten to divide your church - or that are keeping churches and ministries from working together in Jesus' name.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/Turf-Wars-3963

Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Level Ground - #3972
That's exactly the way God intended for it to be in His family, in His church - a level playing field where all that external junk the world judges people by just doesn't matter. It's the kind of environment in which people can blossom and unleash all the beauty and giftedness God has planted in them.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Personal-Power/Level-Ground-3972

Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - The End of the Maze - #3984
Now, there's a much bigger, much more important maze out there these days - the one that offers all kinds of paths to get to God. If you're an honest seeker, sincerely wanting to experience God for yourself, to know Him here and to be with Him when this life is over, frankly, there's a confusing assortment of roads out there.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/The-End-of-the-M...

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