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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

Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - The Steady Light
At some time in our lives we're all scared of something whether it's the dark or something we fear is close. It may be that kind of time in your life right now. ... You need a steady light that gives you something that you can count on in the darkness. ... The Word of God in John 8:12 says, "Jesus said, 'I am the light of the world, whoever follows Me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of Life.'" Jesus said, "I am the light." Here is a secure guarantee, "If I'm your light you will never walk in darkness."
http://hutchcraft.com/Life-Issues/Fear/The-Steady-Light

Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - The Shadow That Scares Us
There's a big shadow that has bothered all of us at one time or another. To be honest, it can be a pretty scary shadow. You see that shadow sometimes when you're in the doctor's office, when you have a close call, or when you've been to the funeral of someone you know. It is, of course, the shadow of death.
http://hutchcraft.com/Life-Issues/Fear/The-Shadow-That-Scares-Us