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Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - A Transformed Heart
You know who you want to be and who people need for you to be, but you're not anywhere close to that person. It's difficult to close the gap between the two. ... When you can admit that, it is the first step to a new you. Behind your mask of having it together, is a man or woman addicted to selfishness, or unfaithfulness, or depression, or an out-of-control temper, or sexual appetite, or a bad habit. Maybe you have tried reforming, but it hasn't worked.
http://hutchcraft.com/Life-Issues/Integrity/A-Transformed-Heart
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Fallen Down but Finishing Strong
There are many today who know the disappointment, and maybe even the shame, of a serious fall. Do you give up, or do you fight back? ... Usually the most watched event of the Winter Olympics every four years is the women's figure skating competition. At the 2006 Games in Italy, a lot of America's hopes for a gold medal were riding on Sasha Cohen after she managed a thin, first-place edge after the initial short program. Then came the decisive long skating program. Suddenly, all hopes of any medal seemed to disappear with a major fall early in her program. With a major deficit in her score from her fall, Sasha Cohen could have easily lost heart, but she didn't. She fought back with a strong and impressive showing in the rest of her performance. When the rest of the world's best had all skated, the young woman who had fallen and seemed to have forfeited any hope of being a champion stood on that podium with a coveted silver medal.
http://hutchcraft.com/Life-Issues/Integrity/Fallen-Down-but-Finishing-Strong
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Believing in Spring
Hope is hard to come by during the "winter" seasons of your life, like the loss of someone you love. Sometimes someone close to you dies suddenly, and the grief is almost unbearable. You are overwhelmed. ... You are able to talk about the hope factor when your life is anchored to a personal relationship with the one who created you. You can know that death cannot ultimately win. Death is reduced to being a painful interruption. It can be very painful, but only an interruption.
http://hutchcraft.com/Life-Issues/Hope/Believing-in-Spring
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - One "Unloseable" Hope
It's hard to think of a more devastating feeling than losing what you had put all your hope in. It's a feeling you may know if you've lost your health, the love of your life, your job, an anchor person in your life, the thing you've invested so much in, or the person that's been the glue sort of holding your life together. Many have been told by their marriage partner of decades, "I don't love you anymore" and are left to feel crushed inside.
http://hutchcraft.com/Life-Issues/Hope/One-Unloseable-Hope
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Pounding on a Locked Door
Real people today are locked out of heaven—people like your neighbors, co-workers, or maybe you. People think they have everything figured out, but somehow they are missing a true personal relationship with the Savior.
http://hutchcraft.com/Life-Issues/Hell/Pounding-on-a-Locked-Door
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Reaching Through the Flames
That day, firefighter Kevin Shea landed on a pile of office room dividers, which broke his fall as well as his left knee and foot. In the fall, he lost his helmet and his face mask. The flames were coming his way. Later he said, “Rocks and cinders were falling everywhere, and I thought this is it, and I prayed to God just to take me quick.” Lieutenant Joe Ward lowered himself right into that fiery crater, and by the glow of the flames, he found Kevin Shea. He reached out a hand to rescue him, and hoisted him to safety. Someone came to where he was, faced the fire, and brought him back.
http://hutchcraft.com/Life-Issues/Hell/Reaching-Through-the-Flames
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - One of Us
The question of what God looks like is open-ended. There have been many guesses. ... There have been many who have talked about what it would be like if He was here on earth. Have you ever wondered what would happen if God became one of us?
http://hutchcraft.com/Life-Issues/God/One-of-Us
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Starting With the Architect
Maybe what you've been trying to build hasn't been going the way you hoped, or the love and the happiness that you were planning isn't working out like it was supposed to. Maybe you've been able to build your life pretty much as you wanted; the building is up, but you're not satisfied living in it. There's restlessness, confusion, disappointment, and maybe loneliness.
http://hutchcraft.com/Life-Issues/God/Starting-With-the-Architect
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Not Guilty
There are verdicts given in court rooms all over the country every day, but most of them don't affect you. One verdict that really does affect you is the one that determines where you’ll spend eternity. ... It's God's verdict. You ask: "Was I good enough? Will I make it to heaven when I die? Was I guilty or not guilty with God?” The verdict is not in a sealed envelope. It's in an open book, and you don't have to wait to find your verdict from God.
http://hutchcraft.com/Life-Issues/Forgiveness/Not-Guilty
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - The Place to Say "Yes"
Every once in a while, comic strips have something really good to say. Have you ever seen “B. C.”? He is this little scraggly-haired caveman that makes some fairly modern observations. The best one appeared one Easter and began with B. C. outside a tomb with a rock next to it. Then, in the next panel, he goes in the tomb and looks around. In the third panel, he finds the tomb empty. Finally, in the last panel, he comes out, stands outside the empty tomb, and shouts one word: “Yes!”
http://hutchcraft.com/Life-Issues/Forgiveness/The-Place-to-Say-Yes