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Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - So Beautiful, So Dead - #5471
Just like those artificial flowers that are so beautiful but so dead, it's so easy to look like someone who belongs to Jesus but not really know Him. Especially if you've been around Jesus most of your life. You know the words. You believe the beliefs. You try to do the right things. You go to the right meetings. You give to the right things. And, quite possibly, everyone around you assumes you belong to Him except Jesus. And He's the only one who matters.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/So-Beautiful-So-...
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Outlets Without Power - #5490
Your spirituality, your religion may give you some spiritual experiences, but that's not the power we really need. We need spiritual power that changes the things about us that we have never been able to change; to beat the things that have always beaten us.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/Outlets-Without-...
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - The Light in Your Night - #5491
It's easy to go busily about the routines of your life and never really see that cross - until it's suddenly night time. Something happens to your health, to your family, to your job, or to whatever you've counted on for security. And none of your answers, none of your fixes are enough. That's when a lot of people look up and finally see the cross, shining in their night, showing them where hope is.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/The-Light-in-You...
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Missing the Light You Can't Afford to Miss - #5495
It's estimated that more than two-thirds of the people in the United States and Europe cannot see their home galaxy from their backyard because of all the other light in their world. We're actually blinded to God's real light by the artificial light around us. We are. There's so much distraction all around us that we can miss the one light that we can't afford to miss. For you, today could be the day that God wants to help you take a step away and see that light for yourself, and your life will never be the same.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/Missing-the-Ligh...
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Where to Start Rebuilding - #3799
They knew where to bring the broken pieces. They brought them to Jesus. That's where the rebuilding of a life begins. In fact, let me suggest that you look for answers where they kept the rebuilding plans for those old cathedrals - beneath the cross.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/Where-to-Start-R...
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Needless Pain - #5504
Maybe you're harboring resentment and disobeying your Lord's command to forgive. Or maybe you're just going down a sinful road, hanging onto some sinful choices, trying to justify them all the way, but bottom line, you're disobeying God. And things are not going to work until you turn from your way and surrender to doing it God's way.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/Needless-Pain-5504
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - One Solid Beginning - #5541
The good news is if you've told the Lord you're turning from your sin and pinning all your hopes on Him, you have the relationship. You can quit trying to get it! You have passed over - past tense - it's settled!
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/One-Solid-Beginn...
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - The New Engine Difference - #5570
Actually, a lot of us have some emissions coming out of our lives that aren't too pleasant either. Maybe you know some of those feelings - too often there is anger spewing out - or self-pity because we feel like a victim - or negative, critical attitudes. We say what we later regret we said - we do what we later regret we did - we're hooked on what we wish we could stop - we leave a trail behind us of people who have choked on the smoke we put out. And it's not that we haven't tried to fix it.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/The-New-Engine-D...
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - The Unsinkable Myth - #5575
If you can't become humble and dependent, you'll never see heaven! Why? Well, a lot of us are human Titanics steaming along through life feeling unsinkable. Our motto is "I can handle it." We think that spirit of independence and self-effort will somehow also help us make it with God. That is a tragic miscalculation. My evaluation of me does not matter. I'm not the judge; it's only God's that matters.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/The-Unsinkable-M...
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Your Personal Eclipse - #5588
The reason for the eclipse is something between you and the Light. Something is blocking His blessing on you right now. And David nailed it; he said, "It's my sin." You may have looked everywhere else for an explanation of this dark time, but the light won't return until you quit covering up that sinful attitude, action, relationship, or habit, and you bring it to Jesus' cross in personal repentance.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/Your-Personal-Ec...