2012-12-20T09:50:44-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/penalty/ http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/the-gift-he-didnt-want-6769 2012-12-20T09:50:44-05:00 This Christmas, you've got to decide what you're going to do with this greatest gift of all. To reject that gift is to reject God's great sacrifice for you, is to spurn this ultimate act of love from the God who made you, and to turn your back on the heaven that you want to go to when you die. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/three-words-on-your-bill-6747 2012-11-26T12:05:08-05:00 A man I know stamped three incredible words on a huge debt, and Jesus wants to stamp those words on your bill with God: "Paid In Full." You don't ever have to carry the weight of your sin again, because Jesus said, "It is finished!" http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/spending-it-all-on-the-one-he-loves-6741 2012-11-12T09:59:28-05:00 Romans 8:32 says this: "He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how will He also with Him not freely give us all things?" Delivered up His own Son for us! There was nothing more valuable God had than His Son. How do you know how much He loves you? He spent the best He had. He spent His Son to get you back. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/the-beacon-from-the-graveyard-6636 2012-06-19T10:43:30-05:00 If you've never committed yourself to the King who died and rose again from the dead for you - then let this be your day to trade your guilt for His forgiveness and your death penalty for His eternal life. 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. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/pardoning-turkeys-6538 2012-02-02T10:12:48-05:00 You know, you have to accept the pardon Jesus died to give you. You can ignore it, you can postpone it. Many do. You can choose to keep running your own life. You can try to depend on your religion or your goodness. But then, you'll pay a death penalty you don't have to pay. Jesus already paid it. http://hutchcraft.com/blogs/ron-hutchcrafts-blogs/pardoning-turkeys 2011-11-21T11:05:56-05:00 Many to whom God has granted this "act of grace" called a pardon - based on the death of His Son for them - refuse to accept it. They either ignore it, postpone it, or choose to keep running their own life or depend on their religion and their goodness. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/answers-in-the-graveyard-6345 2011-05-06T10:12:13-05:00 The biggest question of all - where you'll spend eternity - can be answered this very day at the feet of Jesus, who is alive; who's waiting to love you. Your search of a lifetime is almost over. http://hutchcraft.com/blogs/ron-hutchcrafts-blogs/a-precarious-planet 2011-03-14T15:56:03-05:00 The high ground is on a hill with a cross on it. Millions of people have fled to that cross and found safety. And Jesus stands there today, lovingly extending His invitation: "Come to Me" (Matthew 11:28). A precarious planet. A fragile life. An appointment with God. A way to be ready. It's a good day to run to Him. http://hutchcraft.com/christmas-moments/christmas-2010/bombshell-birthday 2010-12-21T11:20:35-05:00 There really is a definite moment when you move from "B.C." to "A.D." - it's when you tell Jesus, "I'm Yours from this day on."