Today's devotional: do you know who you are?
Today's devotional, written by Anabel Gillham, asks a straightforward but unusual question: do...
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Paper Trunks and Permanent Wardrobe - #6483
Life is a series of new starts. What happens after the children are gone? Those new starts last from starting kindergarten, to college, to marriage, the empty nest, job changes, retirement. And we wear those identities for a period of time. But if you're ever going to find personal security, you need a transcendent identity—someone you can be forever. And Paul gave it to us, "In Christ."
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/paper-trunks-and...
What the Quake Exposes - #6409
Jonah revealed the high price of diverting our trust from the true God to another god. He said, "Those who cling to worthless idols forfeit the grace that could be theirs" (Jonah 2:8). If we only knew all we could have from God...but for the idol.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hindrances/what-the-quake-exposes-6409
A Parent's Hardest Job - #6338
We're assigned to nudge our children slowly but surely toward the gate. The gate's called personal responsibility. And if we do it well, they'll one day rise up and call us blessed. We just don't dare need them too much for our own identity. See, we're supposed to be getting them ready to leave. And that's a parent's hardest responsibility, but it's also one of our most important jobs.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/a-parent-s-hardest-job-6338
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries, Inc. - Undervalued - #8283 | Radio Program | A Life That Matters
One newspaper said, “Susan Boyle is a Disney movie waiting to happen.” Well, maybe so. She was a contestant on England’s Britain’s Got Talent TV show. She was described as unglamorous, unfashionable, unknown, and when she walked on stage the judges just rolled their eyes. And then she sang, and she blew everyone away! A YouTube clip of her singing attracted over 40 million hits. Nobody realized the treasure she had inside her.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-life-that-matters/radio-program/undervalued-8283
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries, Inc. - Our 'Many Flavors' God - #9183 | Radio Program | A Life That Matters
My friend turned me loose after hours one night in the store he owns. It’s a Baskin-Robbins ice cream store with all those flavors—lots of flavors. That’s actually how God feels. ... I’m Ron Hutchcraft, and you can tell that just by looking at us…God likes variety in the people He’s created. He’s made many flavors—a rainbow of colors. You know the song’s right, “Red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in His sight.”
http://hutchcraft.com/a-life-that-matters/radio-program/our-many-flavors-god-9183
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries, Inc. - Mary's Un-stealable I.D. - #8169 | Radio Program | A Life That Matters
I’ve got to tell you, I am really challenged by how this teenage girl understands who she really is.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Life-That-Matters/Radio-Program/Mary-s-Un-stealable-ID-8169
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Forgetting Who You Are- #8135
I am convinced that so many of the damaging choices we’ve made in our life are because of one fundamental amnesia issue. We forget who we really are. We start believing we are who our critics say we are, or our friends, or our culture, or our feelings, or the devil. A life that matters is anchored in the identity given us by the God who made us, who sent His Son to die for us.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Life-That-Matters/Radio-Program/Forgetting-Who-You-Are-8135
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - The Homeless Feeling - #8126
You don’t have to be without a home or a memory to need those same answers, “Who am I and who do I belong to?” Those soul questions are bottom-line for living a life that matters, and they’ve driven people to look in relationships and recognition and even religion to find answers, only to leave us still haunted by that homeless feeling.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Life-That-Matters/Radio-Program/The-Homeless-Feeling-8126
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - As Long As You're Following - #4012
Following is exactly what Jesus has commanded those of us who belong to Him to do. His often-repeated command is, "Follow Me." To the extent that we are following the One who's supposed to be in front of us, the happier we are. To the extent we're unhitched and off on our own, we're not very happy. Things work as long as we're following.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/As-Long-As-You-r...
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - The Same Old Baggage - #5610
Why does Jesus ask us if we want to get well? Because sometimes we're afraid to change. We've gotten used to playing the victim role, the loser role. We've settled into an identity that revolves around that same old baggage. Notice the man didn't just say "Yes." He responded with a nobody cares complaint. He's gotten used to being the guy with the problem, he was stuck in his victim identity, but Jesus acts miraculously and that man walks away carrying what had been carrying him for years.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/The-Same-Old-Bag...
