Sin: setting ourselves above God
What was so bad about Adam and Eve's sin in the Garden of Eden that it merited the judgment that...
Today's devotional: mankind, the hope of Creation?
Much discussion and debate has taken place over the meaning of mankind's God-given "dominion"...
Today's devotional: oil spills and the responsibility of stewardship
When your family gathers together during the holidays, are there certain discussion topics that...
Today's devotional: the corrosive power of anger
Few Bible stories are as well-known as that of Cain and Abel. It's the story of the first murder,...
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Cleared For Takeoff - #6608
Avoid the heartache that comes from taking off without clearance from the flight controller of your life.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/cleared-for-takeoff-6608
The Splitter-Upper - #6598
If you're a parent, you just can't afford to choose between your children. If you're a son or a daughter, you can't afford to pick one parent to be close to and the other one to kind of freeze out or ignore. In spiritual leadership you can't afford to get close to one person over another. If people work for you, you've got to treat them the same.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/the-splitter-upper-6598
The Effects of Erosion - #6569
Those flirtations are eroding you. Maybe you're walking along the sexual cliff saying, "Well, I don't plan to go all the way." Oh yeah, but you're being eroded. There are more lies in your life maybe than there used to be; recurring thoughts of sinful activity. Do you see what's happened? Slowly but surely you're going down.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hindrances/the-effects-of-erosion-6569
What Wants to Bite You - #6558
The pull of temptation may be so strong on you because you haven't burned your bridges to it. You want to beat it? Then you have to avoid the places where it is, the people who draw you into it, the props that get you into it. You can't flirt with sin; it's a vicious dog! Pedal fast! The Bible says, "Flee from it." Take a route that's nowhere near the opportunity to do that sin.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hindrances/avoid-what-wants-to-bite-you-6558
If You Rush It, You Ruin It - #6549
Make it a goal to not find your fingerprints on your future. Only one set of prints - God's. See, your involvement could well become interference. Would you let God finish His masterpiece in His time? For He promises in Ecclesiastes, "He makes everything beautiful in it's time." Impatience can, as young cooks often learn, ruin the final result.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/if-you-rush-it-you-ruin-it-6549
The Right Word For Sex - #6544
When the physical starts to be strong in a relationship, it will often mask the weaknesses in that relationship. Many people have married the wrong person because their passion blinded them. They were kept from really ever knowing the other person, and they made a life-long mistake. Remember, the Inventor always knows best, and the Inventor of sex knows best: two people in a lifetime knowing experience.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/the-right-word-for-sex-6544
Man's Forest and Woman's Trees - #6526
It's dynamite when you put men's and women's perspectives together. A man has this objective distance - created by God for that big picture, and there's nothing wrong with that. Put that with a woman's sensitive closeness, where she says, "You've got to come and look at the smaller picture with me." Put us together; we've got the whole story.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/mans-forest-and-womans-trees-6526
Fighting the Right Enemy - #6486
Somebody said, "Christians are the only army on earth that form their firing squads in a circle." Maybe the devil has succeeded in getting you to start to criticize and waste ammunition on another church, or another denomination, or another Christian movement, or an organization, or on a brother or sister in Christ.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/fighting-the-right-enemy-6486
A Rescue Mission - #6484
God often uses the wandering of loved ones to actually make us re-examine our own lives. And the good news, if you're willing to mobilize all your resources, well, listen to what happened here. It says, "Abram recovered all the goods and brought back his relative." Fight for that loved one of yours with everything you've got, and God will bring them home.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/a-rescue-mission-6484
What Your Wife Can't Get Enough Of - #6439
We can be delivered from that macho frustration that says, "I've got to meet all my wife's needs" and then run from the ones that we can't meet. Together, often, go to your knees and seek your Father for the things that you need. If you're a husband, let your wife live in the secure knowledge that you speak her name often in the Throne Room of Almighty God. She's hungry for your prayer on her behalf, and she can't get enough of it.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/what-your-wife-can-t-get-enou...