2013-10-04T14:52:24-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/friend/ http://faithgateway.com/how-to-make-mom-friends/ 2013-10-04T14:52:24-05:00 “Two are better than one because they have a good return for their labor. For if either of them falls, the one will lift up his companion. But woe to the one who falls when there is not another to lift him up.” — Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 Going at it alone is, without a doubt, one […] http://faithgateway.com/can-god-take-your-honesty/ 2013-10-04T14:45:06-05:00 You are as close to God as you choose to be. Like any friendship, you must work at developing your friendship with God. It won’t happen by accident. It takes desire, time, and energy. If you want a deeper, more intimate connection with God you must learn to honestly share your feelings with him, trust him […] http://faithgateway.com/5-ways-to-pray-for-your-kids-friendships/ 2013-10-04T14:42:35-05:00 Have you ever pondered about how to pray for your kids’ friendships? Or have you ever given thought to how God wired us for relationships? In the beginning of time, God created and formed the world of beauty, then created man to inhabit it. Each day, God viewed His creation, and said it was good. […] http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/be-prepared-to-stop-6946 2013-08-26T11:38:52-05:00 Don't let the preoccupations of your agenda, your problems, your demands, even the un-lovable-ness of the person who needs you keep you from being there for them. Don't let those things make you forget that people are most important. They're going to last forever. Please, be prepared to stop. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/something-better-than-leftovers-6491 2011-11-28T11:13:51-05:00 There's a tendency to let down on living so we won't have regrets, and won't have anything to fix, or repair, or hide. It's easy to let down at home. That's why we have to be careful to lead a blameless life. When we get home, we let down, we're careless because we think no one's watching. But the biblical priority is put on how you live at home. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/paper-trunks-and-permanent-wardrobe-6483 2011-11-16T13:32:38-05:00 Life is a series of new starts. What happens after the children are gone? Those new starts last from starting kindergarten, to college, to marriage, the empty nest, job changes, retirement. And we wear those identities for a period of time. But if you're ever going to find personal security, you need a transcendent identity—someone you can be forever. And Paul gave it to us, "In Christ." http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/the-point-of-no-return-6286 2011-03-11T16:19:32-05:00 If today you could make this the day when you give yourself consciously to the man who gave His life for you, you will never pass the point of no return. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/the-last-monster-in-the-dark-2500 2009-10-01T09:57:30-05:00 Death, that last monster in the dark pursues us throughout our life, and we know it will ultimately catch us. But you don't ever need to fear that moment again - if you have your hand in the hand of Jesus, the One who has beaten that monster once and for all. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/showing-your-relationship-5765 2009-09-09T17:03:13-05:00 Over the years, I have seen unbelievers touched by a promise that believers almost always take for granted, "I'll pray for you." If you are working on meaningful relationships with lost people around you, and how are you ever going to reach them if you're not, then you're going to know when they are struggling. http://sermonindex.net/modules/articles/index.php?view=article&aid=697 2008-01-07T18:10:46-05:00 In the above verse we have a description of God’s people according to the course of their lives and conduct. They are a people marked by two things: fear and submission, the latter being the fruit of the former. Regenerated souls obey God conscientiously out of reverence to His majesty and goodness,