• Sin
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• Your Hindrances
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• Anger
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• Romans
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• Ephesians

When It Hurts to Copy Your Father - #5751
There are things our father and mother did, things they said, that we were determined not to repeat when we had kids. Well, so much for that good intention. All too often, the longer we live, the more we sound like or act like our father or mother in ways that we never wanted to repeat. We know how much those things hurt us, and in spite of ourselves, they are now hurting our children: that same temper, that same critical spirit, that same manipulating, guilt tripping, harsh words, withdrawal or selfishness.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hindrances/when-it-hurts-to-copy-your-father...

Ron Hutchcraft Ministries, Inc. - Attacking the Acid That's Attacking You - #5693
The acid of bitterness has done enough damage. Jesus stands ready to neutralize that bitterness with a heavy dose of His forgiving love and grace. You'll find it at the cross where you were forgiven.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hindrances/attacking-the-acid-thats-attackin...

Violence - a Christian perspective
When Jesus was arrested, one of his followers tried to defend him through violence. While that might seem a natural human reaction, Jesus rebuked him with the famous saying that those who employ violence against others will themselves die by violence.
http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2026:51-52&version=NIV

Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Volcano Scars - #4532
When we're angry, we're a lot like a volcano. We erupt, we spew out our lava, and we often blow away a piece of the other person - if not ourselves. And every one of us carries around parts of us that have been mortally wounded by something someone said to us in anger. They may well have forgotten it; we can't ever forget it.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hindrances/Volcano-Scars-4532

Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Firing Too Soon - #4542
We start shooting before we really understand what a person is feeling; where they're really coming from. We may listen long enough to hear their words, but how about their heart? To hear the surface issue maybe, but not long enough to hear the real issue. We make some of our most hurtful mistakes, and we say some of our most damaging words when we just react to a person's deeds instead of stepping back and looking for the need that is causing the deed.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hindrances/Firing-Too-Soon-4542

Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - The High Price of a Little Ice - #4438
Now, it doesn't take much ice on the wings to cause an airplane to start losing altitude. It doesn't take much ice in your soul to cause you to start losing altitude - to start going down spiritually.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hindrances/The-High-Price-of-a-Little-Ice-4438

Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Everybody's Got a Story - #4555
Don't say things that will tear a person down, only things that will build that person up. Why? Because you're focusing on their needs, not just their deeds. You may hate their deeds, but God's asking you to develop His compassion to respond to the needs that drive their deeds. Whether that person is your child, your spouse, your parent, your friend, your coworker, someone at church.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hindrances/Everybody-s-Got-a-Story-4555

Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - The Smell You Should Never Get Used To - #4335
Our word for today from the Word of God comes from Ezekiel 9:2, and it describes a kind of person God was looking for back then -- and the kind of person He is looking for right now, where you are. God is showing His prophet Ezekiel how repulsive the sin of God's ancient people is to Him and how He intends to bring judgment and clean house.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hindrances/The-Smell-You-Should-Never-Get-Us...

Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Disease Prevention - #4347
Quick action at the first sign of infection - that's the secret of preventing major damage. Not only from an infectious disease, but from the most highly contagious virus of all - the sin virus. If we nip it in the bud, we can avoid it's spread and a whole lot of suffering.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hindrances/Disease-Prevention-4347

Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Something's Wrong - #4354
Increasingly, a lot of us watch the news and think something like this, "Boy, something's wrong. Something's very wrong!" We hear about violent murders in a top-ranked high school, people doing things to other people that are unspeakable, families ripped apart, just an awful lot of garbage. It just feels like something's wrong in our world. But even closer to home - with the people we love most - sometimes it feels like something's wrong in our family, in our friends. In fact, we look at how we act ourselves all too often and think, "Something's wrong in me."
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hindrances/Something-s-Wrong-4354