Embed from Getty Images As I put my items on the checkout belt, the supermarket clerk called to the woman behind me and said, “Ma’am, I am sorry, but I am closing after him.” The woman rolled her eyes, mumbled something under her breath, and shrugged her shoulders as she left. The clerk and …
Author Archives: Bill Hutzel
Don’t Give Up
Background photo: Courtesy of Picjumbo.com Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. – Marilyn Vos Savant Maybe life has dealt you defeat. You don’t know what to do, and you do not know how to pray. Don’t feel like you are alone. I too have faced setbacks, and …
Lest We Forget
Time with God cannot be hurried for fear that we will forget to commune with Him and transcend time and circumstances. So often in the past, I would rush out of the house on my way to work without having had a personal time of prayer. My life was lackluster, lacking spiritual growth, and my dreams …
I’ll be happy when ….
(“Isolation” short video) Unhappiness is a condition that affects many Americans at one point or another, and isolation often a byproduct. The short film entitled “Isolation” Â (click image link above), cleverly produced, directed and acted by Joe Narciso as part of a sermon series created by Renaissance Church in Summit, New Jersey served as the …
My Hard Unhearing Heart
Those that will not wait for God’s counsel shall justly be given up to their own hearts’ lusts, to walk in their own counsel …. And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul (Psalm 106:13, 15, NKJV). Can you think of a time in your life when God allowed you to …