2012-12-18T09:39:14-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/disaster/ http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/the-pregnant-pause-6767 2012-12-18T09:39:14-05:00 God has started His greater good, but right now it's just shaking up your world. Oh, He'll explain it. He'll fulfill it in the future. But now, in between, obey before you understand - like a boy jumping off a sled before his Dad told him why. Joseph discovered that the apparent disaster is actually clearing the way for a mighty work of God. You've just got to obey in the meantime. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/surfing-is-better-than-sinking-6721 2012-10-15T09:47:25-05:00 Remember, your situation is your assignment from God. Do what the great surfers do! Ride on top of this wave; surf on it. Capture it for Christ. http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/6636 2012-01-03T10:38:56-05:00 From a historical perspective, 'Christian' attempts to pinpoint the date of Jesus' return have always made us look bizarre and ridiculous, not least the supposed 'predictions' of 2011. http://truewoman.com/?id=1650 2011-04-15T10:12:11-05:00 When love has wept and worked, it must have something to say about God. It doesn’t need to have all the answers. Only God does. But it has the Bible, and the Bible is not silent on this matter. http://truewoman.com/?id=991 2010-09-08T14:15:50-05:00 Last week, one month after the devastating earthquake, Haitian President Rene Preval took the unprecedented step of canceling this year’s Carnival celebration, calling instead for a national season of fasting and prayer. http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/179 2010-08-08T17:24:04-05:00 Without wanting to sound apocalyptic, we know that we live in very uncertain days. One Christian leader has predicted serious inner city problems. Blogs provide a good forum to discuss such issues – here is some very balanced and sensible discussion about his prediction at Monday Morning Insight. It is certainly a very possible scenario – a prolonged recession, unemployment, repossions etc will bear down most on the people at the bottom of the pile, and they will not necessarily react with the patience that newsreel of 30’s soup kitchens seem to suggest. This recession will be likely be harder and longer than anything most of us have seen, and it will take many years to sort out and pay off the mess created by the kindly bankers and their mickey mouse money schemes. Spare a thought for unemployed in Japan, who have to sell nearly everything before being entitled to unemployment benefit. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/navigating-without-going-aground-6081 2010-05-03T15:15:48-05:00 It takes a real man, a real woman, a moral hero to say about an issue, "God hasn't changed His mind, and He's calling the shots. The lighthouse isn't moving, and I am navigating - not by my feelings, not by your feelings - but by the unchanging light from heaven called the Bible. Any other course means that sooner or later, we're going down!" http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/the-wave-and-the-warning-5973 2009-12-02T09:56:57-05:00 The people who survived the tsunami were the people who ran to the higher ground where the waves couldn't come. The only way you can be safe and beyond the reach of God's judgment is to go to the high ground of a place called Skull Hill where God's judgment for your sin already fell on His Son. The judgment of God can't reach you there; but only there. No other ground is high enough. http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2045:7&version=NIV 2009-09-27T21:13:03-05:00 Nothing happens outside of God's control--not blessings, and not disasters. While it's sometimes difficult to understand why God allows disasters to happen, the Bible is clear that He is in control of all things at all times. http://biblica.com/ministry/project.php?outreach=2827 2009-09-16T17:23:05-05:00 Biblica, together with a network of ministry allies, comes alongside people in their hour of need. In parts of the world where people frequently suffer disasters, calamities, and crises, we respond with hope and salvation for individuals and families.