2012-05-04T11:24:56-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/difference/ http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/hold-high-the-power-6605 2012-05-04T11:24:56-05:00 Are you leading the people around you to make prayer their first resort, not their last resort? Are you modeling for them, asking big with great faith in a great God? Do you model that prayer is a power lifestyle for your family? Do you model to your family that prayer is your primary method of getting things done? Do you pray with people; not just for them, but with them? http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/mans-forest-and-womans-trees-6526 2012-01-16T10:28:50-05:00 It's dynamite when you put men's and women's perspectives together. A man has this objective distance - created by God for that big picture, and there's nothing wrong with that. Put that with a woman's sensitive closeness, where she says, "You've got to come and look at the smaller picture with me." Put us together; we've got the whole story. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hindrances/worth-the-wait-6460 2011-10-17T11:16:17-05:00 Probably there's nothing that's cost more people the perfect will of God than impatience. So, don't jump to the high-speed line. Remember that the longer line may very well lead to the better view. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/the-kidney-miracle-6403 2011-08-08T11:50:19-05:00 Don't limit God. He will send you what you need to get through this. Maybe He used to send it through someone else; but now He'll send it directly to you instead of through someone else. So, draw deeply on His strength. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/always-time-for-a-time-out-6371 2011-06-13T14:59:44-05:00 When you exercise the faith to take your time out each week, your judgment improves, your energy goes up, your creativity is greater, your confidence is greater, your personality's better to be around, and you return to your responsibilities a better you. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-mission/where-s-the-beef-6295 2011-03-11T16:07:11-05:00 If you have a Christ who just makes rules, or even just makes sense, that probably won't be enough to attract the people you care about. People will notice a Christ who makes a difference. Well, is He? There are a lot of hungry people out there asking, "Where's the beef?" They want a life-changer. Show them a life-changing Jesus. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-mission/your-time-to-shine-6167 2010-08-31T11:00:44-05:00 When God asked, "Who will go for us?" Isaiah answered, "Here am I, send me" (Isaiah 6:8). Maybe you've been holding back saying, "Here am I, send him." Well, God is summoning you to step up for this one - like our grandson on that soccer field, making a greater difference than he'd ever made before, because he knew it was up to him this time. And this assignment from God is up to you. Even if there are defiant giants standing in the way. It's your time to shine! And you will. Because the battle is the Lord's. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/your-stabilizer-when-you-re-crashing-6155 2010-08-13T09:53:02-05:00 Jesus has been the Flight Controller for my wife and me through our most painful times. When we lost a baby, Jesus was the difference. When the finances were caving in, Jesus was the difference. When the accident was nearly fatal, when the loss of a loved one was very sudden and very painful, when they said my wife might not make it, when the doctor's news was awful; always, Jesus was the difference. He wants to be that for you. http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/590 2010-08-09T15:30:17-05:00 Each time a new medium arrives, Christians may well adopt it reasonably quickly, but tend to perceive and use it in the way they used a previous medium. One example is Christian radio. For many years (and this approach is not extinct even today), the tendency was to transfer the medium of communal church worship directly to radio: hymns, prayers and sermons. http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/312 2010-08-08T17:37:53-05:00 Grainger Community Church have produced this effective video clip.