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More Than a Launch - #3501
True worship results in repentance. So you say, "Lord, I'm a mess." Like Isaiah, you see the ugliness of specific sin - in his case, it had something to do with his mouth - but you melt into repentance. And then, because He shed His blood to pay for that sin, Jesus comes and cleans you up for this new day.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/more-than-a-launch-3501
Life-Saving Pain - #5921
The longer you refuse to repent of your sin, the more God is going to turn up the pain, and the higher price you're going to pay. Not because He doesn't love you, but because He does; too much to let you keep going down a road that's destroying you.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/life-saving-pain...
Convert in the Bible - a Christian perspective
What should our response be upon hearing the news of our sin and spiritual helplessness? We ought to respond by repenting and converting--turning our lives over to Christ.
http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%203:19&version=KJV
Going Back To Where You Went Wrong - #2823
Biblical repentance always goes hand-in-hand with restitution - making things right at the point where you went wrong. That might be restoring money to someone, undoing some lies or some damage you did to someone's reputation, maybe asking forgiveness of those who you sinned against sexually, sinned with sexually, or maybe of those who have been hurt by you anger. Whatever the sin, the Holy Spirit of God will make it clear what needs to be made right.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hindrances/going-back-to-where-you-went-wron...
The Verdict and the Penalty Are Already In - #5917
There's one verdict, and one sentence we don't have to wait for - yours and mine. The verdict and the penalty are already in. Not from a jury, but from the Judge. The Judge we must all face - God Himself. Deep down inside, we know that on the other side of our last heartbeat, which He decides by the way, we'll face our Creator. The Bible gives us a sobering warning about that: "Prepare to meet your God."
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/the-verdict-and-...
Front Lines Surrender and Front Lines Victory - #5910
The battle looming ahead of you is not the battle that will decide what happens to you. It's the battle inside you. The battle that can be settled today as you quit fighting God and walk into the arms of Jesus, the strongest arms in the world.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/front-lines-surr...
The Deepest Cry of the Human Heart - #5899
It's possible to believe in God, to do God's things, and to still miss the deep experience of His love. And without that love, the emptiness and loneliness in our heart is never satisfied, no matter how many human loves we experience.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/the-deepest-cry-...
Go When the Gate Is Open - #5882
The Lord may not always be able to be found. He won't always be near. That's why you have to come to Him while He is. The gate to get to God could not be clearer. It's not a religion - no religion including Christian religion. It's a person. Jesus said, "I am the gate; whoever enters through Me will be saved."
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/go-when-the-gate...
Woe to you - a Christian perspective
When cities that had witnessed his miracles continued to reject Jesus, he predicted a grim fate that lay in store for them: unless they turned from their wickedness, they would experience a fate even worse than that suffered by the notoriously wicked city of Sodom.
http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2011:20-24&version=NIV
No Such Thing as Mission Impossible - #5860
I can't imagine anyone in the world of the early Christians whom they would have considered a greater "mission impossible." But there's no such thing when it comes to God, including that person in your life who seems to be so hard, so far from God, so antagonistic, so impossible to get through to
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/no-such-thing-as...