![]() ![]() ![]() Ridgecrest Conference Center is located less than a day’s drive from over 15 states, sitting conveniently just off Interstate 40 outside bustling Asheville, but once you enter the gates, you’ll feel like you’re miles away from the rest of the world. Your stay is completely free! Questions and references needed upon calling. The cottage only has one bedroom, but they can set up additional cotts in the living room area for your children. You may come alone or with your wife, or with your children (limit 4, due to the space in the cottage). They also understand the importance of coming together, either as a couple, or as a family, and this can be a wonderful place for that, too. And everything said will be confidential. Fellowship: If there are any issues that you are going through, or just need to talk to another man of Christ, Jeff is available during your stay to meet with you, with Bible in hand, for everything should be backed by and grounded on the Word of God. We're hoping, rather, that it's an advance. This is for men who are in the ministry as a pastor, evangelist or a missionary. Come home today.Draw Nigh Ministries is a place and time of renewal and rest for you, a rekindling of your soul and excitement for Christ Jesus and the work He has called you to do. Just come to our website, and we'll help you land. I would love to help you make it the rest of the way home. ![]() He's the One who bought you with His blood, and with His life. You have to consciously give the rest of your life to Jesus Christ and consciously put all of your trust in the One who died for your sins, and tell Him you're doing that. He's within sight, but you do have to land. "Seek the Lord," the Bible says, "while He may be found." You're almost home. Please, don't play with the possibility of crashing forever because you've circled but you've never landed. God sees you circling the airport, putting off landing. You know all about Him, but you don't know Him - 18 inches away. ![]() You've never really given yourself to Jesus Christ. But it's in your head it's not in your heart. You know the facts, you respect Jesus, you even love Him perhaps, and you know how to fit into the Christian world. It could be that you could end up 18 inches from heaven that's the distance from your head to your heart. And you're in danger if you think that close is good enough. You are not far from Him, but you're not in. That night might just describe where Jesus sees you regarding knowing Him. during take-off, and they crashed into the Potomac River with the loss of several lives. I remember there was this Air Florida flight years ago that almost cleared the bridge in Washington D.C. Like those people at O'Hare Airport, in sight of the airport, in sight of home, but they haven't landed yet. He said, "You are not far from the Kingdom of God." Interesting words: "not far" but not in. But then Jesus spoke these very sobering words to a man who had all the right answers. 'You are right in saying that God is one and there is no other but Him.'"Īnd then the man went on to express his understanding that to know God was much more than religion it was a relationship. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked of him, 'Of all the commandments, which is the most important?' 'The most important one,' answered Jesus, is this: 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.' The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' 'Well said, Teacher,' the man replied. "One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Our word for today from the Word of God comes from Mark 12 where Jesus met a man who was almost home. I'm Ron Hutchcraft and I want to have A Word With You today about "So Close to Heaven - But Not In." They're almost, but they're not in - maybe like you. They're almost home, they're in sight of Chicago, they're not on the ground. You can imagine how frustrated they were. Many of them actually ended up diverted to other destinations that night. Well, needless to say, many of us didn't go anywhere that night, and I was frustrated because I couldn't get out of the airport.īut then I thought about the people above me who couldn't land! As I went outside I saw all these lights the lights of planes that were circling the airport in what seemed like endless holding patterns. Do you know what that means? That means the flight controllers have no way to do anything mechanically to get your plane in or out, so they had to shut O'Hare down to one runway and limit themselves to visual landings. Just as I was getting ready to leave, they informed us that the radar in the tower had suddenly gone down. I once had a very exciting night at Chicago's very busy O'Hare Airport. If you cannot see the media above - download here: MP3 ![]()
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