2013-09-17T12:39:03-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/Philippians/ http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/love-has-x-ray-vision-6961 2013-09-17T12:39:03-05:00 You can have discernment in your daily choices the same way the first-century believers did. You've got to pray for it. Ask for it often. Like Superman, you can have x-ray vision, but to see the things that are really valuable. God can give you powerful inner eyes when you open up to His discerning love. Love isn't blind; it has x-ray vision. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/your-surprising-platform-6957 2013-09-17T12:07:08-05:00 What you think is disaster today might be making you a place from which you can share Jesus with someone, and they'll listen because of what you've been through. That could be your surprising platform to change someone's eternal address. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/two-words-that-lighten-the-load-6806 2013-02-11T09:59:56-05:00 Rejoicing is really the habit of looking for God at work and acknowledging it when you see it. Thanking God is sort of like putting sweetener in a bitter drink. Negative thoughts are just going to make the drink that much more bitter. A thankful heart, a joyful heart, a heart that believes that God has said, "I know the plans I have for you. They are for good and not for evil; to give you a future and a hope." http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-mission/heroes-on-the-beach-6803 2013-02-06T09:46:52-05:00 Maybe all your friends are Christian friends. Maybe all your free time is spent in Christian places, and yet you are surrounded by people whose lives are breaking apart like those ships long ago, who will die without Christ; who will spend eternity without Christ unless there is a Rescuer. And they won't come to the Life-Saving Station. You have to go where they are and bring them back like Jesus did. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/no-name-like-this-name-6729 2012-10-25T09:37:17-05:00 The challenge is, will those who love the name of Jesus be as bold to speak that name as those who defile that name? See, they'll talk about Him openly, boldly. Unbelievers are bold; they'll talk about Jesus all day irreverently. Isn't it time we quit choking on that name? http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/jewish-sandals-6666 2012-08-06T14:31:18-05:00 Look around you. I'll bet somewhere God is meeting your need through a miracle of manna right now; just a miraculous, out-of-nowhere provision. But I'll bet somewhere you've got the modern equivalent of those Jewish sandals. Either way, every need is supplied. You're living hand-to-mouth; His hand to your mouth. Wow! Are you secure! http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/when-no-ones-pushing-6618 2012-05-23T10:05:03-05:00 You've got to develop your own discipline of time in The Word, of making Christ-honoring choices when there's nobody around to see but Him. You've got to take a stand on your own. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/making-new-memories-6616 2012-05-21T09:33:47-05:00 You can't base a relationship with Christ on a scrapbook, no matter how impressive the past is. You can't just let the old missions satisfy you. You need some new experiences with Jesus. You need to be part of some new exploits for the King, places where you experience Christ's lordship in things that matter to you now. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/a-piece-of-the-price-6612 2012-05-15T10:27:06-05:00 We just can't be content with going to our Christian meetings, giving our little offerings, holding some office, singing our songs, and serving on our committees. This is a costly faith; it's an expensive faith; one for which God's Son gave His life. What are you and I giving? We all have to sacrifice some of our earth loves to reach the people that Christ gave His entire life for. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/when-plaques-turn-to-life-preservers-6579 2012-03-29T09:58:21-05:00 When your feelings are lying to you, when your world is upside down, grab a promise off the wall of your heart and rest all your weight on it. The promises of God are life preservers.