• Marriage
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• Your Relationships
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• Relationships
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• Sex
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• Purity

The Cleanup Imperative - #5894
God is not impressed with your abilities, with your great résumé, with your connections, your education, or your credentials. He doesn't care about your cash. He doesn't care about your charisma. All He cares about is your character! He is looking for clean! Getting rid of the dirt, staying clean, that is how you qualify to be an instrument in the hands of Almighty God.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/the-cleanup-imperative-5894

Without love - a Christian perspective
All of our good deeds mean nothing if they aren't motivated by Christlike love. We can do all the "good deeds" in the world, but if our heart isn't in the right place, they won't help us.
http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%2013:3&version=NIV

Loving by Anticipating - #5883
Anticipate when your spouse will need help, or comfort, or intimacy, or reassurance, maybe extended debriefing time, or tenderness, they need prayer together, or just some encouragement like praising small progress in an area where they've really been struggling. Usually, the love that really makes the other person feel loved means sacrifice on our part.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/loving-by-anticipating-5883

Your Answer - #5878
Jesus has dramatically declared His love for you. Look at the nail prints in His hands. He is offering to forgive every sin, to never leave you, and to take you to heaven when you die. You must give Him your answer.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/your-answer-5878

Blindness that Makes You Crash - #5877
God has sent you this way today to send you a wakeup call. Please, consider where your passions and your desires are taking you. Count the cost. Think about all you have to lose if you keep driving down this road. Think about the price that you will pay in your soul - maybe the price you're already paying. Think about the hurt this can cause.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/blindness-that-makes-you-crash...

Silent Guys - #5875
Man was never meant to be an island, keeping everything to himself. We were never meant to be some Lone Ranger, wearing a mask to cover up our identity. God made us to need a shared life. But sadly, a lot of us men have somewhere bought the lie that manhood means keeping your deepest feelings to yourself.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/silent-guys-5875

If I have not love - a Christian perspective
It doesn't matter how eloquent you are. If your words and actions aren't motivated by godly love, all your words amount to nothing more than useless noise.
http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%2013:1&version=NIV

Uncontrolled Fire - #5862
You may be playing with fire on the Internet, in magazines you look at or movies you watch, or just in the way you look at the opposite sex, or the way you push all the boundaries in what you're doing physically with someone. If you'll be honest with yourself, you will see increasing evidence that you're not controlling your passions. They're beginning to control you. The fire is spreading.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/uncontrolled-fire-5862

A Man's Lasting Legacy - #5861
Tragically, too many of us men have fallen for lies about what will give our lives significance. We go after comparatively trivial pursuits: a promotion at work, the next rung on the ladder, an award, a higher income, the acclaim of our organization, our church, or some important person, or just that bigger title. But there is no bigger title than husband or dad.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/a-man-s-lasting-legacy-5861

Hugging the Wrong Thing - #5850
Face the responsibility you have for the distance that's been developing. Put aside whatever "dolly" you've been hugging for security and wrap both arms around the person you pledged your life to. Yes, you have to work at this oneness that God created marriage to bring. But it is so worth the work; so worth the sacrifices. If you're married, God intended you to find in one another the harbor for which our hearts truly long.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/hugging-the-wrong-thing-5850