2012-08-13T09:54:37-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/authority/ http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-mission/not-so-secret-service-6674 2012-08-13T09:54:37-05:00 If we selfishly, carelessly drift from Jesus, we pull others with us, risking their destruction. Forever. Off duty? As the face of Jesus to people whose eternity depends on believing in Him? God, help me to always - always - leave the light on for them. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/whatever-it-takes-love-6634 2012-06-15T10:35:21-05:00 It may have looked like Roman soldiers were taking Jesus' life, but He said He was giving His life to pay for all the sinning you and I have ever done. He is the Son of God. No one can take His life. He gave it for you. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/pardoning-turkeys-6538 2012-02-02T10:12:48-05:00 You know, you have to accept the pardon Jesus died to give you. You can ignore it, you can postpone it. Many do. You can choose to keep running your own life. You can try to depend on your religion or your goodness. But then, you'll pay a death penalty you don't have to pay. Jesus already paid it. http://hutchcraft.com/blogs/ron-hutchcrafts-blogs/pardoning-turkeys 2011-11-21T11:05:56-05:00 Many to whom God has granted this "act of grace" called a pardon - based on the death of His Son for them - refuse to accept it. They either ignore it, postpone it, or choose to keep running their own life or depend on their religion and their goodness. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/wired-for-worship-6425 2011-08-26T11:00:11-05:00 Let me recommend that we begin our day getting overwhelmed by Jesus Christ; focusing all of our worship-ness, our fan mail so to speak, on Him. Evaluate...maybe are you a little too excited about some earthly star? See, you're wired for worship, but save it for the only One who deserves it. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/the-myth-of-the-honorary-chairman-6398 2011-08-08T11:45:14-05:00 Jesus paid with His life, not to have the title of Lord, but the have the authority. Authority that is daily expanded through giving Him new ground from that 24-hour period of your life. You make Him Lord of the stuff of that day and you do it again tomorrow. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/the-need-to-need-what-you-know-6305 2011-03-11T16:05:32-05:00 Get out on a limb where you're taking some risks for your Lord serving Him so you get beyond yourself; because you'll meet Him there in a way you can't meet Him anywhere else because now, you need to need what you know. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/the-beautiful-truth-about-lifes-ugliest-words-6102 2010-06-01T16:18:43-05:00 Great faith can trigger miraculous outcomes, even when you're living one of life's ugliest words. And great faith - the kind that amazes Jesus - is faith that lives as if Jesus is going to decide this! Because, for a child of God, life's ugly words do not have the final word. Jesus does! http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/a-killer-storm-and-a-calm-captain-6039 2010-03-04T10:47:55-05:00 There is not one thumb-breadth of this universe that is not under His control! And whatever has come into your life has had to pass through His hand first. He's either sent it or allowed it. And He loves you and He knows what you need and what you can handle, so long as He is at the wheel. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/taking-it-to-the-boss-5922 2009-09-22T09:09:15-05:00 Authority is really the decisive factor in getting anything done; putting it in the hands of the person who is in charge. Now that's a fundamental secret of getting things done when you pray! Those who understand that mountain-moving faith is about realizing who's in charge are people who pray with power and who get results.