2013-09-24T14:38:12-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/Hebrews/ http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/heavens-laser-6967 2013-09-24T14:38:12-05:00 When you pray specifically, in faith believing, you focus the healing, heart-changing, mountain-moving power of God on something or someone that you care about. So expect a miracle! http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/storming-home-6896 2013-06-18T09:22:15-05:00 The Bible says in Hebrews 6:19, speaking of Jesus, "We have this hope as an anchor for the soul firm and secure." And it often is not until things are out of our control that we understand we were never meant to run our lives. We were created by Jesus, for Jesus. He died to bring us back to Him, and maybe He is right now using your storm to blow you right into His loving arms. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/storm-surge-6778 2013-01-03T11:24:04-05:00 Battered and confused, we finally open our soul to the love that we've been looking for all our lives. And we find in Jesus what the Bible calls "an anchor for the soul, firm and secure" (Hebrews 6:19). The howling winds leave us, not lost, but found and finally at peace. In the arms of the One who speaks "Peace, be still!" to the storm in your soul. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/a-personal-thanksgiving-6748 2012-11-26T12:07:58-05:00 God sees it all. And He knew that what was hidden in my dark places would blow up my life and my eternity. So He acted to defuse it with the most extreme act of sacrificial love in history. He absorbed the "blast" Himself so I could board the flight to His heaven and be with Him forever. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/cameras-everywhere-6736 2012-11-05T09:22:51-05:00 Jesus does what no one else in the universe can do. He hits the delete button that erases a lifetime of sin. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/remove-your-mask-before-you-enter-6733 2012-10-31T10:54:23-05:00 When you come to God honestly, and you admit your need, and you begin your relationship with Him, well you'll enter His presence lost. But you'll leave found, and you will finally know that you belong to Him for real. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/someones-been-talking-about-you-6727 2012-10-24T10:57:42-05:00 You are not traveling this road alone. Someone's talking about you. Jesus is talking to His Father about you. Man, that's good to know. That makes all the difference. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hindrances/what-keeps-your-father-from-helping-6661 2012-08-06T09:56:02-05:00 Your Father is standing there ready to help as only He can, but you've got to release that bitterness that's making your burden so much heavier. Why carry that load too? Your Father wants to trade your bitterness for His energizing grace. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/the-final-exam-6646 2012-07-05T15:37:15-05:00 Jesus' death on the cross is your only hope of getting into heaven, because you can't get into heaven with your sin. It can only be forgiven by the One who paid the penalty for it. That's Jesus! http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/the-survivor-tree-6620 2012-05-29T10:04:14-05:00 Our only hope is clinging to the tree where God's judgment fell on His Son. Or, more importantly, to cling to the One who died on that tree, which means abandoning all other hopes: our pride, our religion, our self-reliance. And realizing we are as desperate and as helpless as a man being swept out to sea, and then clinging to the One whose death on that tree for us is literally our only hope - your only hope.