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Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Poison Protection - #4265
Something like TV Guardian was invented for parents who realize a very important assignment that they have - to protect their children from anything that could harm them. Of course, a parent is going to protect their son or daughter from physical harm - like getting too close to the edge of a cliff or running onto the Interstate. But Mom and Dad have no less a responsibility for protecting their kids from things that can hurt their soul. And there's a lot of soul poison out there.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Personal-Power/Poison-Protection-4265
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Messed-Up Messengers - #4282
Whether or not people are interested in a product may well depend on the credibility of the messenger representing it. Not too big a deal if it's cars or Coke or clothes they're representing. It's a very big deal if it's Jesus they're representing, because accepting His offer is a matter of life or death. Forever.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Mission/Messed-Up-Messengers-4282
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - A Man's Lasting Legacy - #4100
I guess standing at my father's grave after all these years was sort of a values clarification reminder for me - and maybe for you. My dad held many titles in his life - he was chairman of our church board, he was chairman of the board of a youth ministry, foreman, plant manager. But other people held those titles before him and after him. He's the only husband my Mom ever had. He's the only father I ever had. His tombstone honors him accurately - it's what he did as a husband and a father that is the most lasting legacy of his life. That's something for any man to consider.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Relationships/A-Man-s-Lasting-Legacy-4100
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Giving Out Goodies - #4157
Those parade folks indiscriminately tossing out goodies to everyone around is actually a wonderful picture of how you and I are supposed to be living as Jesus' personal ambassadors to our personal world. Of course, it's not candy we're supposed to be giving out. It's something sweet, but it's something much more healthy.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/Giving-Out-Goodi...
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Finding Your Father - #4190
In my lifetime, I've known many people who have come from a very rough background ... sometimes a fatherless background - either because they never knew their father or the one they had never acted like one. I've known people who have come from a background where they never really felt like they belonged - and they still don't. Maybe I've just described you in some way.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Relationships/Finding-Your-Father-4190
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Punching Holes in the Darkness - #4193
What an awesome description of the reason God has placed you where you are! You're not there to shake your head and bemoan how dark it is where you work or go to school or whatever your environment. You're there to punch holes in the darkness! So, how are you doing so far?
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Mission/Punching-Holes-in-the-Darkness-4193
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Setting the Temperature - #4001
Now, in your family, or in your church, where you work, with your friends - you are either a thermostat or a thermometer. A thermometer simply reflects the temperature around them. A thermostat sets the temperature. Too often, we're thermometers, aren't we? If it's hot around us, we get hot. If people are cold, we're cold. If things are stressed, we're stressed. If things are dark, we're discouraged. If things are tough, we're defeated.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Personal-Power/Setting-the-Temperature-4001
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Human Files - #4007
Now, all the time our kids were growing up, we had this tapestry hanging up in our room - it said, "Children learn what they live." I guess. Our recent amusing experience with our grandson was only a reminder of the truth of that. Except the results of children learning what they live often are anything but amusing. Whether you realize it or not, your child, your grandchild - any child you're around very much - is listening, recording, and sooner or later reproducing what they have experienced or witnessed with you.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Personal-Power/Human-Files-4007
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - The Collapse of a Two-Legged Bridge - #4060
Our word for today from the Word of God is about life saving. It's from 2 Corinthians 5:19-20. It's about people who need life and what it takes to get that life to them. The Bible says, "God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation (bringing them together). We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making His appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God." God says here, you are the carriers of His love and His life to the people around you.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Mission/The-Collapse-of-a-Two-Legged-Bridge-...
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Lifting them Higher - #3825
When you have the spirit of Jesus, you look for those who are on the edges, who tend to be left out - and you lift them up by showing interest, including them ... by building their confidence. God also tells us to encourage the weak, the people who, on the surface, may not seem to have much going for them - but, if you give them a lift, they're the people who can find the strength to do what they're never done before.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Relationships/Lifting-them-Higher-3825