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Sunsets Should Be Beautiful - #6090
Yes, our later years can have their share of physical pain, disappointed dreams, financial strain, grievous losses, frustrating limitations, and even hurtful neglect. We can't choose our circumstances, but we can, whatever our age, choose our attitude. We can choose what kind of climate we're going to bring with us wherever we are: selfish or unselfish, gentle or harsh, praising or griping, critical or encouraging.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/sunsets-should-be-beautiful-6090
Navigating Without Going Aground - #6081
It takes a real man, a real woman, a moral hero to say about an issue, "God hasn't changed His mind, and He's calling the shots. The lighthouse isn't moving, and I am navigating - not by my feelings, not by your feelings - but by the unchanging light from heaven called the Bible. Any other course means that sooner or later, we're going down!"
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/navigating-without-going-agrou...
The Good Thing About Bad Storms - #6017
The hurricanes of God seem devastating sometimes, but He sends them to accomplish things that might not happen any other way - the cleansing that your life needs. The new priorities your life needs. He's removing what's blocked the sun so something beautiful can grow there.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/the-good-thing-about-bad-storm...
No Escape On A Dead-end Road - #6000
Actually, no religion gets you to God, including Christianity. Only Jesus can because only Jesus "gave Himself as a ransom" for us. That's ransom as in the price you pay to get someone back, because our sin has an eternal death penalty, actually described by Jesus as involving a place of fire. The price to be paid is death, and that's what you and I deserve for hijacking our lives from God.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/no-escape-on-a-dead-end-road-6000
Why It Doesn't Have To Be the Way It's Always Been - #5967
As surely as physical family resemblances get passed on from one generation to another, so do family flaws, family sins, family baggage. Except for the miracle that makes it possible for one person to say, "It stops here. I'm not going to be another one in that same old line. I'm going to be the first one in a brand new line in our family!"
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/why-it-does-not-have-to-be-the...
The Avalanche Zone - #5947
The ultimate outcome of our sin will inevitably be death, the death of our self-respect, of relationships, of people's trust, our reputation, but worst of all, our eternal separation from our God in a place Jesus called hell. But the dying for your sin has already been done by Jesus Christ.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/the-avalanche-zone-5947
Holy Hunger - #5937
ince you're farther along the line than most of the people with you, you've stopped where you are. But there is so much more God wants to serve you than you have ever sampled before. Don't be satisfied with where you are now. You go after food when you're physically hungry. Ask God to stir up that holy hunger in your soul that goes after the rest of His righteousness.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/holy-hunger-5937
Heavy On the Healthy Stuff - #5936
Crushing Satan under your feet; that's a war on two fronts. You have to be against what's bad getting into your system, but that isn't enough. You have to take daily opportunities to become smarter about what is innocent. Cut the damaging stuff out of your heart-diet and go heavy on the healthy stuff!
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/heavy-on-the-healthy-stuff-5936
The Big Plan and the Simple Choice - #2686
You really matter to God! You may have been mistreated by folks here on earth - maybe passed over, unappreciated, undervalued - but the God of the universe values you so much that He's been working on you being in His family from Creation to Calvary to your conversion
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/the-big-plan-and-the-simple-c...
Someone Else's Fault - #5913
Maybe you've honestly been hurt or wronged, and you can't do anything about the other person taking responsibility for what they've done. But you can accept the responsibility for the way you've handled it, for the wrong things you may have tried to excuse by the wrong things someone else did. Those who have been victims - and those who've been victimizers - never get free until they realize that they are now the victims of their own choices, not someone else's.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/someone-else-s-fault-5913