2012-12-07T16:47:49-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/malachi/ http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/so-many-promises-6760 2012-12-07T16:47:49-05:00 You can plant both your feet on God's promises and know He will deliver. He has no unforeseen circumstances. He cannot lie. And nothing is too hard for the Lord. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/some-things-just-aren-t-negotiable-6407 2011-08-08T11:54:13-05:00 It's time that we returned with humility to an open Bible and say, "God, how do You feel about it? And whatever You say, that's it! I'll do it." Now, we have to always speak with love and humility, but always with His authority. We, who love the Bible, are the only ones with the whole story; we've got God's truth. And those things? They just aren't negotiable. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/when-marriage-is-a-multiple-choice-test-6259 2011-01-11T11:41:18-05:00 While the Christian world opens the door wider and wider for believers to choose divorce, God hasn't changed His mind. "I hate divorce" He says. When marriage becomes a multiple choice test, use every choice there is to fight for your marriage. And be sure that divorce is not one of the choices. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hindrances/spiritual-snowmen-6127 2010-07-06T13:36:26-05:00 When we let the heat of an out-of-control, spiritually uncaring world keep melting us down, making us soft, pretty soon there's nothing left but spiritual mush. If you belong to Jesus, your life is supposed to offer a choice, not an echo for a lost and dying world. We have to stand our ground. Or lose the very things that make a Jesus-follower the light of their world. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/nothing-but-the-best-6077 2010-04-27T09:45:57-05:00 There are many ways to rob our King. By giving Him your leftover time; by making Him Lord of the things that don't matter that much to you and holding onto the things that you really care about - that relationship, that child, that dream, that favorite thing - that sin. You can rob God by taking on a work for Him and just doing it halfheartedly, by being lazy or irresponsible in getting it done. http://hutchcraft.com/a-life-that-matters/radio-program/good-news-bad-news-money-news-8229 2009-09-11T13:23:08-05:00 The pastor got up to the pulpit one Sunday and made an unusual announcement: “I’ve got some bad news, some good news and some bad news for you.” He had everybody’s attention. He said, “The bad news is the roof on the church is shot; it’s got to be replaced. The good news is we have the money. The bad news is it’s in your wallets!” http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/spare-parts-5864 2009-09-10T15:08:11-05:00 It's very clear that God isn't impressed with sacrifices that cost us nothing with the spare parts of our life that don't matter that much to us anyway. But far too many of us try to get by with what I call selective Lordship. We may sing, "I surrender all," but we live, "I surrender some." And while the Christians around us may be impressed with our spirituality, God says, "You're giving me your spare parts and you're holding on to the important things for yourself." http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/the-reason-for-the-heat-5776 2009-09-10T10:35:34-05:00 God may be using the fire right now to get you to examine some corners of your heart or of your life that you've never really surrendered fully to His Lordship. He may use the oven to show you junk you've accumulated that has to go before He can take you to the next level. He wants to enlarge your view of Him and to prepare you for greater things. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/the-painful-road-to-beauty-5719 2009-09-09T14:04:02-05:00 Any person you know who reflects the radiance and the beauty of a life filled with God, I can guarantee you they have gotten that way, not primarily through their good times but through their great pain and struggle of the stripping processes of God. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/the-strongest-words-in-the-world-5697 2009-09-09T11:01:27-05:00 Satan, who is the inventor of broken promises, loves it when you join his club. God, the One who never lies, really cares if you keep your promises. If you say you'll do it, do it. Whatever it costs, keep your commitments, because it will cost you a whole lot more not to.