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The Waves You're Making - #6140
Before you go speeding into what you may be considering, would you think about it and consider the waves that your life is making? Make the choices that will cause those who follow you to bless your memory and the God that you helped them find across those years.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/the-waves-you-re-making-6140
Standing Against the Tide - #6133
In the words of Psalm 4:5, "Offer right sacrifices, and trust in the Lord." Do what's right - even if it's a sacrifice - and trust the Lord for what happens after that. His greatest rewards are reserved for those who will not betray Him, even for another king. Erosion will take what you cannot afford to lose. Stand against that temptation, stand against the tide, and let God give you what you could never have any other way.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hindrances/standing-against-the-tide-6133
Spiritual Snowmen - #6127
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-hindrances/spiritual-snowmen-6127
Slowly, But Surely, Submerged - #6105
You've got to stop that killer strategy with the first look, the first date, the first lie, the first flirtation, the first thoughts of divorce, the first detour from God's Word. This is going to take you where you don't want to go - unless you stop it now. Before today's compromise gives birth to tomorrow's tragedy, run from it.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hindrances/slowly-but-surely-submerged-6105
The Prize and the Prison - #6021
The devil's basic strategy is really pretty simple: get you obsessed with the prize you might get so you're blind to the trap you're walking into. He'll convince you that "it's just this once," "just a little," "it won't hurt." Lies. All lies. Jesus exposed the devil when he said he is "the father of lies" and "there is no truth in him."
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hindrances/the-prize-and-the-prison-6021
How to Avoid a Major Mess - #6019
When I was a kid, I had this inflatable boxer who was as big as I was. When I punched him, he fell all the way backwards, but he didn't stay down. He came right back up again. That's what God has made it possible for you to do so you can begin to break that cycle of defeat and discouragement.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hindrances/how-to-avoid-a-major-mess-6019
Getting Rid of the Guilt of a Lifetime - #5987
Sin carries a heavy penalty - eternal separation from a holy God. The Bible has a name for that - that's hell. But here comes the amazing good news. "Yet God, with undeserved kindness, declares that we are righteous. He did this through Christ Jesus when He freed us from the penalty for our sins. For God presented Jesus as the sacrifice for sin. People are made right with God when they believe that Jesus sacrificed His life, shedding His blood."
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hindrances/getting-rid-of-the-guilt-of-a-lif...
Playing Offense When the Pressure is On - #3308
As long as people are trying to live like Jesus in a dirty world, there will be pressure to fit in. You probably feel it where you are - the pressure to compromise just a little on the truth, or on your purity, or on your allegiance to Jesus. Every time you compromise a little to fit in, you actually increase the pressure. They'll be back again, expecting you to give in again. But once you take a firm stand, pass a couple of tests, people will let you be what you said you'd be.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hindrances/playing-offense-when-the-pressure...
Argue in the Bible: Proverbs 25:9-10
Proverbs tells us that if it comes to the point where we are arguing with our neighbor to be careful that we don't share anyone's secret. If we do we and word gets out our reputation might be ruined.
http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2025:9-10&version=NIV
The Truth Alarm - #5844
Deceiving, lying, distorting the truth - it starts a spiritual fire that can do so much damage and actually end up consuming you. But inside you lives the Holy Spirit of Almighty God who Jesus called "the Spirit of truth" (John 15:26 ), and He is your inner alarm system to let you know when you've crossed from what's real into what's false.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hindrances/the-truth-alarm-5844