2008-08-13T15:30:35-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/abandonment/ http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/Abandoned-No-More-4194 2008-08-13T15:30:35-05:00 There are a whole lot of folks who had a mother and father - but have felt orphaned, in a way, for much of their life; abandoned, left behind, misunderstood, left alone. Maybe you know the feeling. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Relationships/Never-Home-Alone-5085 2008-08-06T12:31:46-05:00 Life is never secure until you know you belong to Christ. That begins the day you get your sin erased by putting your faith in what Jesus did when he died on the cross for that sin and then you're in his arms to stay. Nothing in heaven, or earth, or hell can take you away from Him. Not because you're so good at hanging on, but because He's so good at hanging onto you. http://sermonindex.net/modules/articles/index.php?view=article&aid=9818 2008-01-28T21:41:22-05:00 Our Lord replies in effect, that abandonment is for Himself, and not for what the disciples themselves will get from it. Beware of an abandonment which has the commercial spirit in it - "I am going to give myself to God because I want to be delivered from sin, because I want to be made holy...