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Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - A Sunrise, Sunset Savior - #8146
During praise and worship, we were led in singing that great old hymn, “It Is Well with My Soul”. The verses talk about “when sorrows like sea billows roll…whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say, ‘it is well with my soul.’” I glanced over at that precious lady with Alzheimer’s who had appeared pretty unresponsive most of the weekend. Her lips were moving. She was mouthing those words! ”It is well, it is well with my soul.” It was hard for me to sing after that. Then she mouthed the words to the next song, ”My Jesus, I love Thee, I know Thou art mine…If ever I loved Thee, my Jesus, ‘tis now”. What a testimony to the kind of Savior we have. He’s our sunrise Savior, early in our life. He’s our sunset Savior when the darkness is closing in, and through every hour in between.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Life-That-Matters/Radio-Program/A-Sunrise-Sunset-Savior-8146
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - My Father Is Missing
Do you have a hole in your heart that you long for your father to fill? Maybe you haven't had a real relationship with your father, and you wish you could be close to him.
http://hutchcraft.com/Life-Issues/Loneliness/My-Father-Is-Missing
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - No One to Welcome
It's a pretty sad feeling when you prepare a big welcome and the one you did it for never comes. You've gone through so much to make it perfect just for them. ... Jesus knows that feeling. He's prepared a welcome home, an expensive welcome, for some people who have never come.
http://hutchcraft.com/Life-Issues/Loneliness/No-One-to-Welcome
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - In Search of the Anchor
People everywhere are searching for something to fill a void in their lives. They are searching for something to count on that will provide an anchor in an increasingly uncertain and unpredictable world. ... An author named Faith Popcorn writes, "The search for life's anchor is a must for filling the void that so many are feeling. We're looking for ourselves, our lost souls. A relationship with the Divine may be the ultimate expression of anchoring."
http://hutchcraft.com/Life-Issues/Loneliness/In-Search-of-the-Anchor
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Bridges to Nowhere
In our age of pluralism, tolerance, and eclectic spirituality, those are pretty loaded words about Jesus. We must be saved by His Name. We have the Protestant bridge to God—with good works that are supposed to take us to God—, the Catholic bridge—with good Catholic things to do—, the Jewish bridge, the Muslim bridge, the Buddhist bridge, the Hindu Bridge, and the bridge of New Age Spirituality. Our human nature wants to believe that all those bridges end up the same place with God.
http://hutchcraft.com/Life-Issues/Loneliness/Bridges-to-Nowhere
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Believing in Spring
Hope is hard to come by during the "winter" seasons of your life, like the loss of someone you love. Sometimes someone close to you dies suddenly, and the grief is almost unbearable. You are overwhelmed. ... You are able to talk about the hope factor when your life is anchored to a personal relationship with the one who created you. You can know that death cannot ultimately win. Death is reduced to being a painful interruption. It can be very painful, but only an interruption.
http://hutchcraft.com/Life-Issues/Hope/Believing-in-Spring
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - One "Unloseable" Hope
It's hard to think of a more devastating feeling than losing what you had put all your hope in. It's a feeling you may know if you've lost your health, the love of your life, your job, an anchor person in your life, the thing you've invested so much in, or the person that's been the glue sort of holding your life together. Many have been told by their marriage partner of decades, "I don't love you anymore" and are left to feel crushed inside.
http://hutchcraft.com/Life-Issues/Hope/One-Unloseable-Hope
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Not Guilty
There are verdicts given in court rooms all over the country every day, but most of them don't affect you. One verdict that really does affect you is the one that determines where you’ll spend eternity. ... It's God's verdict. You ask: "Was I good enough? Will I make it to heaven when I die? Was I guilty or not guilty with God?” The verdict is not in a sealed envelope. It's in an open book, and you don't have to wait to find your verdict from God.
http://hutchcraft.com/Life-Issues/Forgiveness/Not-Guilty
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - The Place to Say "Yes"
Every once in a while, comic strips have something really good to say. Have you ever seen “B. C.”? He is this little scraggly-haired caveman that makes some fairly modern observations. The best one appeared one Easter and began with B. C. outside a tomb with a rock next to it. Then, in the next panel, he goes in the tomb and looks around. In the third panel, he finds the tomb empty. Finally, in the last panel, he comes out, stands outside the empty tomb, and shouts one word: “Yes!”
http://hutchcraft.com/Life-Issues/Forgiveness/The-Place-to-Say-Yes
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - The Steady Light
At some time in our lives we're all scared of something whether it's the dark or something we fear is close. It may be that kind of time in your life right now. ... You need a steady light that gives you something that you can count on in the darkness. ... The Word of God in John 8:12 says, "Jesus said, 'I am the light of the world, whoever follows Me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of Life.'" Jesus said, "I am the light." Here is a secure guarantee, "If I'm your light you will never walk in darkness."
http://hutchcraft.com/Life-Issues/Fear/The-Steady-Light
