2013-08-26T11:38:52-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/your+relationships/ 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/walking-too-fast-to-talk-6869 2013-05-09T12:08:12-05:00 If you're married or if you're in love, the woman you love needs time to be heard. When a woman isn't heard, she starts to talk louder, and longer, and more often. And she nags because she's not been heard. That time with her needs to be a deliberate choice you make, a sacrificial choice, "I'm all yours, Honey, and I'm yours for a while." That kind of love will create a home that is a caring place, safe place for the man who lives there. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/when-conquerors-wimp-out-6817 2013-02-26T12:58:33-05:00 Ask God for the courage to confront, even when you're young, even when you're single. Deal with issues while they're small. Face the conflict; don't try to bury it. When a conqueror on the battlefront learns to be a confronter on the home front, then he's really being a man. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/the-antidote-for-loneliness-6809 2013-02-14T14:33:35-05:00 Being single doesn't mean being alone if you'll invest in those life partnerships and not just sit there saying, "Oh, when am I going to be married?" Take encouragement from this, that the God who made you need people - will give you the people you need. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/just-the-two-of-us-6808 2013-02-13T10:04:38-05:00 I noticed my wife's beauty and wisdom the most when there was no one else around. Well, it's the same in a relationship with the Lord Jesus. When it's just the two of you, maybe like it is right now, you can see Him as you've never seen Him before. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/emotional-clearasil-6790 2013-01-18T11:07:04-05:00 When a woman feels like royalty, she starts to act like it. You won't change her by nagging, and yelling, ignoring her, name-calling, being harsh with her, attacking her, criticizing her. In fact, all you will probably do is delay the change. You change your wife as Christ changes us. And how does He do it? By patient, attentive, self-sacrificing, dying on a cross love. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/too-precious-to-waste-6773 2012-12-27T14:29:49-05:00 A day is too precious to waste. It is only to be spent for the people and for the causes that are going to matter forever. Okay, you've got a day. Invest it! http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/the-great-wall-destroyer-6745 2012-11-16T10:20:54-05:00 When we go into the Father's presence sort of distant from each other, we almost always come out of His presence closer. Prayer softens hearts; prayer helps us see people and situations through God's eyes. And prayer is the great wall destroyer. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/going-direct-6739 2012-11-08T13:06:41-05:00 One of the most disobeyed commandments of Jesus is to settle it with your brother. I think we ought to be asking each other, when someone comes to us with a problem about another person, "Have you talked to them? Have you talked to the real person involved?" Because when it comes to healing broken relationships, don't go to any more outsiders. Go direct! http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/getting-close-to-a-vip-6737 2012-11-06T09:15:29-05:00 You'll know that you're becoming like Jesus when you start to lose your fascination with people who are powerful, or those who can do something for you. You're becoming like Jesus when you feel yourself wanting to be with the people He thinks are important; not the ones the world says are important. The ones the world sees as powerless and unimportant.