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Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - The Ear Before the Mouth - #4812
Listening is the key to understanding a person. If you don't hear them out, you cannot understand. You've got to hear more than their words. You've got to listen long enough to hear their heart. If you don't, you'll probably miss where they're really at when you talk and your response probably won't even really fit where they're coming from. Secondly, listening is a primary way to make the person you're with feel important. I wonder how people feel after they've been around you.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Relationships/The-Ear-Before-the-Mouth-4812
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 - Uncontrolled Fire - #4103
A man let a fire start to help meet a personal need he had. It raged out of control and did more damage than he could have imagined in his worst nightmares. Well, that is a mistake many a man has made - and even some women - with a deadly fire that the Bible calls lust.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Relationships/Uncontrolled-Fire-4103
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Unexpressed Love - #4128
No matter what the circumstances, that is one of life's deepest regrets - love that wasn't expressed. The time to remember that is right now, when folks you love are still there. And a teenage girl's tearful regret at Ground Zero is a powerful reminder to all of us that we need to be expressing our love to the people around us, at many times, in many ways. Because love unexpressed is love unenjoyed.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Relationships/Unexpressed-Love-4128
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Blindness That Makes You Crash - #4135
Fog can make you temporarily blind. So can rain or snow. And so can your hormones. It happened even to King David, who God called "a man after God's own heart." David's hormonal blindness - which led to so many devastating crashes - is described in one of the saddest chapters in the Bible.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Relationships/Blindness-That-Makes-You-Crash...
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - How You Treat a Treasure - #4138
There's another handoff taking place at a wedding besides a Dad giving his daughter to her new husband. You can't see it, but God is entrusting this woman He made into that man's hands, as well. In fact, the Bible says that "the Lord is acting as the witness between you and the wife of your youth" - and it goes on to make clear that He cares very much about how you treat the treasure He's given you. He doesn't want the "Stradivarius" He created to end up in the hands of a gorilla!
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Relationships/How-You-Treat-a-Treasure-4138
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Why There are Desperate Housewives - #4839
Each of us married men should be giving ourselves a little three-question test about how we're treating our wife. First, am I loving her in the ways that make her feel loved? Secondly, am I offering her my exclusive attention on a regular basis? Thirdly, am I building her confidence by frequently praising her for specific strengths I see in her? The man who can answer "yes" to those questions is really a man - a provider for his woman's greatest needs.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Relationships/Why-There-are-Desperate-Housew...
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Loving by Anticipating - #4164
Now, if anticipating your needs means something in a restaurant, imagine how much it means in a marriage! Actually, I saw some married friends in a local restaurant recently, friends who have been married a long time. Based on some things he had said, I made this observation, "These sound like the best years you've ever had together." He smiled broadly and said, "Yeah - because after 40 years, I'm learning not just to meet her needs, but to anticipate her needs."
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Relationships/Loving-by-Anticipating-4164
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Girl Watching - God is Watching #4186
It's actually a message the Creator of women would more than agree with. A woman is depersonalized, sexualized, trivialized by the way many men look at them - and she's the creation of a holy God; a Father in heaven. And you know how fierce a father is about protecting His daughter!
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Relationships/Girl-Watching-God-is-Watching-...
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - The Invisible Victim - #4858
Right now you may be involved in something you know is wrong - it's a compromise, it's rebellion, it's wrong. You say, "Well, it's not hurting anyone." Oh yes, it is. When Jesus' right hand man, Peter, denied him, the Bible says that Peter went out and wept bitterly over it - but only after Jesus, on His way to His trial, turns and looks straight at Peter. And suddenly Peter realized he wasn't just breaking laws. He was breaking his Savior's heart.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Relationships/The-Invisible-Victim-4858
