Today's devotional: speaking with grace and gentleness... about politics?
Does the way you talk about politics reflect the grace, patience, and humility of Jesus Christ?...
Today's devotional: too proud to accept God's grace
Is pride a sin you struggle with? Most of us try our best to steer clear of the most commonly...
Today's Devotional: Our Patient God and the Golden Rule
At the heart of the Golden Rule is reciprocity: when we do good, others will do good back to us....
The Return of Ted Haggard
Ted Haggard has once again found himself in the limelight—this time not for his very public...
Today's devotional: extending grace on game day
The worlds of college and professional sports are not always marked by gracious and sporting...
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The Ultimate Battlefield Tragedy - #6078
Your brother, your sister - they're not the real enemy. And wrestling with them isn't the real battle. Don't waste any more bullets on one of your own. In the army of God, "friendly fire" is not only the ultimate tragedy, it's an enemy victory.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/the-ultimate-bat...
When You're Tired of Love With Strings - #6071
We couldn't make it home to a sinless God with a lifetime of sin. The only way your sin and mine could be forgiven was for someone to pay the penalty for it, and someone did. God's Son did. Only He could. Picture in your mind that awful scene of Jesus on that cross, suspended by three nails, bleeding and dying in anguish. Then say these two words, "For me. He's dying there for every lie I've ever told, every hurt I've ever inflicted, every dirty or selfish thing I've ever done."
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/when-you-re-tire...
How to Go From the Basement to the Penthouse - #6064
One of the secrets of peace in the midst of great stress, of poise when everything is up for grabs, of perspective when you could be freaking out - the secret is to start celebrating the kind of God you have. Remember, you enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise, not just with prayer requests. The great prayers of the Bible are like two-thirds about the greatness of God and maybe one-third about the need.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/how-to-go-from-t...
How to Carry the People You Need to Carry - #6063
Long-haul carriers learn the strange secret of what I call compassionate distance; offering yourself lovingly and wholeheartedly to a hurting person when you're with them, but leaving them completely in God's hands then, and especially when you're not with them. You're not supposed to carry them all the time. And they'll never learn to walk on their own if you get a "messiah complex" and act as if you're their Savior. That's co-dependency, not burden-bearing.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/how-to-carry-the-people-you-ne...
When You've Been Hurt By Friendly Fire - #6052
Let go of the resentment instead of letting it grow. Ask the God who has forgiven you so much to give you His grace to forgive those who've hurt you. The feelings you harbor aren't hurting them at all, but they're killing you!
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/when-you-ve-been...
God's Super Glue - #6009
race doesn't just come to you automatically. You have to go for the grace that this moment requires! And so often we don't. We struggle and worry and scheme, never going to the Grace Throne for the answers or resources we need. We could be rich, but we live in unnecessary poverty.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/gods-super-glue-...
How to Miss What You Were Made For - #6006
There comes this day in your life when Jesus goes by, offering Himself to you to be your personal Savior from your personal sin. There comes this day when He moves your heart to care about the sin in your life, to see that it will cost you heaven, and to understand that His dying on that cross was to pay the awful price for your sin.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/how-to-miss-what...
Strange Words For a New Mom - #5991
So you've had your Christmases, you've celebrated Jesus' coming. Have you ever had your Good Friday where you stand at the foot of that cross and say the two words that are the difference between heaven and hell, "For me. Jesus, what You did here was for me. And I'm giving me to You." That is the only way you can receive the gift of eternal life that He died to give you.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/strange-words-fo...
The Illusion of Being Covered - #5980
So many of us are thinking we're going to be okay with God, that we'll make it into heaven because of all our religion, all the good we've done - fig leaves. The best we can do, but nowhere near enough to satisfy a perfect God. Hebrews 9:22 says, "Without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness." It took the shedding of the blood of the sinless Son of God to cover your sin and mine. And your only hope is putting all your trust in Him.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/the-illusion-of-...
The Wave and the Warning - #5973
The people who survived the tsunami were the people who ran to the higher ground where the waves couldn't come. The only way you can be safe and beyond the reach of God's judgment is to go to the high ground of a place called Skull Hill where God's judgment for your sin already fell on His Son. The judgment of God can't reach you there; but only there. No other ground is high enough.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/the-wave-and-the...