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?
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Today's devotional: oil spills and the responsibility of stewardship
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Today's devotional: the corrosive power of anger
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Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - The Good News about a Cold Season - #4222
Most of us have lived long enough to see it happen - something good coming out of something that's difficult and unpleasant. If you're in a season in your life that's pretty cold right now, that may be an encouragement that would be good to remember. As you're feeling the chill of the moment, God is doing something that you're going to benefit from later on. Something that couldn't happen without this time of bitter cold.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hindrances/The-Good-News-about-a-Cold-Season...
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - The Illusion of Being Covered - #4251
The Emperor thought he was covered. It didn't change the facts. He wasn't covered. Now that's fiction. But there's a non-fiction version of that same phenomenon. And the consequences of that self-deception are not amusing. They're deadly.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/The-Illusion-of-...
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - The Liar and the Fire - #4752
God knows the temptation you're facing, the thoughts you're thinking, the pressure you're feeling, maybe even the sin you've been sinning. And He's trying to pull you back from the edge. Don't fall for the liar of sex outside of God's boundaries. Oh, it may look good, it may feel good for a short time, but it isn't worth the fire. You have too much to lose.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Relationships/The-Liar-and-the-Fire-4752
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Messed-Up Messengers - #4282
Whether or not people are interested in a product may well depend on the credibility of the messenger representing it. Not too big a deal if it's cars or Coke or clothes they're representing. It's a very big deal if it's Jesus they're representing, because accepting His offer is a matter of life or death. Forever.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Mission/Messed-Up-Messengers-4282
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - An Open Door for Locked-Out People - #4294
Unfortunately, that locked-out feeling isn't unique to a child who can't get in. Many of us grownup children know that feeling all too well. Maybe you've felt locked out much of your life - excluded, abandoned, unheard, unnoticed. You've been hurting, but no one seems to respond.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hard-Times/An-Open-Door-for-Locked-Out-Peopl...
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Tantalizing Sewage - #4296
It looked so inviting. It was so dirty - and potentially so damaging. Just like so many of the temptations that beckon to you and me, almost daily, it seems. And that's why so many have ended up in the middle of something that looked good but has left them polluted, scarred, ashamed.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hindrances/Tantalizing-Sewage-4296
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - The Trash Removal that Saves Your Life - #4775
You can't get rid of your sin by earning it doing good things. You can't inherit God's forgiveness from a Christian family or pick it up by osmosis from being around Christian things. Your only hope of getting clean, of getting to heaven, is the cleansing power of the shed blood of Jesus Christ. Not Christianity. Jesus.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hindrances/The-Trash-Removal-that-Saves-Your...
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Pretty Poison - #4789
First sin fascinates you, and then it assassinates you. And God, in His love, has come to you today to wave you away from a choice that will take you where you never wanted to and keep you longer than you ever wanted to stay, and cost you more than you ever wanted to pay. Don't walk away from that sin - run from it. Sin looks so good and it kills so dead.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hindrances/Pretty-Poison-4789
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Eye Transplants for Lovers - #4828
God could give you eyes to see your wife as you have never seen her before. There's a lot of power in being a praying husband! Most of all, when you spend time with God praying for the woman you love; you begin to see her with new eyes. You begin to see what God sees when He sees your wife. And that's the starting point for being the kind of sensitive, caring man that God made you to be. And that's the haven for which the heart of a woman truly longs.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Relationships/Eye-Transplants-for-Lovers-4828
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Joy In The Jungle - #4116
You know, we all have things in our environment that are unpleasant - people that irritate or hurt us, circumstances that get us down, little injustices, stubborn problems. But when we look at the grace that God gave Martin Burnham - and we know we have access to that same grace - I have to ask, "What's our excuse for a bad attitude?"
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/Joy-In-The-Jungl...