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Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - The Music That's Always There - #3931
There's something very compelling about someone who refuses to be taken down by the worst of circumstances, who can still hear God's "music," who can still play God's "music" no matter what. Now, that "music" is a positive attitude -- that quality of "unsinkability" the Bible calls joy -- the "music" is conversation that keeps finding things to thank and praise God for instead of things to complain about.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Relationships/The-Music-That-s-Always-There-...
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Defiant Hope - #3942
That's what it is when you raise your flag at a time when everything seems to be collapsing - it's defiant hope. You may be in one of your "blackest hours" right now - but you still have to raise the flag that says hope in a seemingly hopeless situation.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/Defiant-Hope-3942
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Every Scar Has a Story - #3979
When God's Son left heaven and came here to earth, He was beaten, too. He got scars, too. And every scar tells a story. You and I are that story. It's about how very, very much He loves you.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/Every-Scar-Has-a...
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - It's Not Me Anymore - #5410
It's like our daughter and her seventh grade picture. She couldn't laugh at it when she was that person, but she sure could as a senior, because that photo represented who she was then, not now. That's the miracle, the "La Miracle" of being a new creation in Jesus Christ.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/It-s-Not-Me-Anym...
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - A Breath of Spring in the Cold of Winter - #5437
The problems are still there, but God's joy and God's peace are the wind beneath your wings that enables you to soar when otherwise you would be grounded. You get that joy and peace "as you trust in Him" - not in your feelings, not in what humans can do, not in what you can see, but in Him. It may be winter all around you, but it will be spring inside you!
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/A-Breath-of-Spri...
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Emptying the Cage - #5439
How is a Samaritan most likely to come to Christ? Through another Samaritan! A teacher through a teacher, a machinist through a machinist, a mother is most likely to come to Christ through another mother, a student through a student. Jesus has assigned you where you are to be His personal representative to that group of people. You're one of them. They'll listen to you. "We are Christ’s ambassadors," the Bible says.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/Emptying-the-Cag...
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - The Hole in Your Heart - #5451
But just accepting that hole in your heart is ultimately deadly. It needs to be treated. It needs to be healed by the only One big enough to fill the hole in your heart; the God who made you to belong to Him.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/The-Hole-in-Your...
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Soul Amnesia - #5477
Spiritual forgetfulness - spiritual amnesia, just like God's ancient people, we tend to forget all God has done in the past, and as a result of our memory problem, we keep wandering into rebellion, mistakes, and detours from the perfect will of God. It starts when we forget God's past deliverances and we strike off on our own to fix things or decide things ourselves.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/Soul-Amnesia-5477
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Three Healing Words - #5503
Fonzie's not the only one who has a hard time getting those words out. Most of us have a very hard time saying, "I was wrong" Hey, I did it! It's sad that we struggle so much to admit we've been wrong. So many marriages could have been saved if someone could have said those words, "I was wrong" So many children could have been saved, so many churches could have been saved that ugly split, so many friendships, so any relationships - all the victim of our unwillingness to be wrong.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/Three-Healing-Wo...
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Never a Sunset Without a Sunrise - #5508
The sun never sets without it rising again. That's not just meteorology. It's theology. It's a spiritual fact of life, and an emotional fact, that it's real easy to forget when it's been dark for a while. But the sunrise principle is the basis for hope when things around you seem hopeless. Key word: "seem" hopeless.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/Never-a-Sunset-W...