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If you don't know how to swim, it's not cool to let your friends know that, right? Well, let me tell you, it's just not smart not to tell them, especially if you're going into the lake with them to swim. The scene was Lake Michigan. This ten-year-old boy was me. I couldn't swim and I was too proud to tell my friends. Suddenly, as I waded deeper and deeper, I lost my footing and I began drinking the lake. I can remember the terror of it to this day. My friends thought I was just trying to be funny. I'd gone under for the second time, and man, how I remember! I was helpless. I could not contribute a thing to getting back to shore. Thankfully, someone saw me, jumped in and that rescuer did it all!

I'm Ron Hutchcraft and I want to have A Word With You today about "The Hand That Is Your Hope."

That day in the lake I had one hope - a rescuer. Only one person jumped in to save me, and I'm literally here today because of him.

Our word for today from the Word of God comes from 1 Timothy 2:3-6. "God our Savior...wants all men to be saved...There is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself as a ransom for all men." Now the saving that God is talking about here is from the effects and the punishment for the way we've run our lives. The Bible makes it clear that we are drowning in the guilt of our sin and in the death penalty that God attaches to sin.

And God says that when you and I were drowning spiritually, His own Son, Jesus, jumped in to rescue us. He loved you so much He couldn't stand to lose you. In God's words, "He gave Himself a ransom." A ransom...that's paying the price to get someone back. For Jesus, that was a high price. It meant absorbing all the hell and all the punishment for your sin and mine as He died on that cross.

But you can still go under. You can still drown, if you won't let Jesus rescue you. Maybe it's hard for you to admit that you can't somehow swim to God on your own. In fact, you've done some very good things to make it to Him - but not good enough to meet the perfect standard of a perfect God. In Romans 3:10, God includes every person when He says that by His standards, "There is no one righteous, not even one." Not even you. Not even me. Like me that day at the lake, there's nothing you can contribute to your rescue. Your only hope is a savior. And only one person jumped in to save you. That is Jesus Christ.

All that any religion can offer you is a book of swimming instructions - their way to swim to God. But it doesn't matter if they're Protestant swimming instructions or Catholic swimming instructions, or Jewish, or Moslem, or Buddhist, or New Age or whatever. Swimming instructions won't rescue a drowning man or woman. Only the Savior can do that. And only Jesus did the dying it requires to get rid of your sin and to get you into a relationship with your Creator.

Even now, through these few minutes, Jesus is coming to you, offering to do for you what you could never do for yourself, and that is save you from your sin. All you can do is grab the Rescuer as if He's your only hope, because He is! You can't rescue yourself. Won't you finally put your pride aside and all the religion and the goodness you thought would get you to heaven, and just reach for Jesus? He would have never died on that cross if your goodness could get you to heaven. It took His death! That was the only way.

Tell Him right now, "Jesus, I believe that when you were dying on that cross my sins were some of those sins you died for. And I have no hope but You. I'm glad You're alive from the dead and I'm asking you to come in to be my Savior from my sin."

It would be a great time for you to go to our website because it has, there, the information you need to be sure you belong to Him. It's ANewStory.com

This hour, we visit with Dr. George Barna, Director of the Cultural Research Center at ACU. He will share the latest findings from the American Worldview Inventory that reveal the American biblical worldview crisis is worse than most people realize. Then Clint Lyons, Executive Director of iReachGlobal, will update us on the unrelenting persecution of Christians in Nigeria.

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God has a purpose for each of us, and no detour can cancel it. Dr. Tony Evans explains how to recognize the destination God has designed for you and make the most of the journey.

Is it possible to have everything—and still be missing the one thing that matters most?

That’s not just a philosophical question. Scripture gives us real-life examples of people who appeared successful by every measure, yet walked away empty. On today’s episode, Bob Shank—founder of The Master’s Program—joins us to help unpack how Jesus challenges our definition of wealth and invites us into something far greater.

Across cultures, generations, and economic backgrounds, one desire seems to unite us all: the desire for more.

According to Bob Shank, that longing isn’t inherently sinful—it’s actually part of how God designed us.

From the beginning, God created humanity with a mindset of multiplication (Genesis 1:28). We were wired to grow, build, and increase. But sin distorts that desire, redirecting it toward the wrong things.

The problem isn’t the desire for more—it’s what we define as “more.” God calls us to pursue more of what truly satisfies: His presence, His purposes, and His Kingdom.

Even when people pursue wealth responsibly and achieve their financial goals, something often still feels incomplete.

Why? Because, as Bob explains, redemption reshapes our desires.

When the Holy Spirit renews our hearts, we begin to long for something this world cannot provide. What once satisfied us begins to feel insufficient. That lingering dissatisfaction isn’t a flaw—it’s a grace.

It’s God’s way of reminding us that we were made for more than material success. As Ecclesiastes 3:11 says, “He has put eternity into man’s heart.”

Few stories capture this tension more clearly than the account of the rich young ruler (Matthew 19:16–22, Mark 10:17–22, Luke 18:18–23).

Here was a man who had everything—wealth, influence, and moral discipline. Yet he approached Jesus with a revealing question: “What must I do to inherit eternal life?”

On the surface, it sounds like a spiritual question. But beneath it was something deeper—a longing that success had failed to satisfy.

Jesus’ response is both familiar and often misunderstood:

“Sell your possessions, give to the poor… and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.” (Matthew 19:21)

Most people focus on what the man was asked to give up. But just as important is what Jesus was offering: treasure in heaven.

Jesus wasn’t condemning wealth—He was redirecting it.

Bob Shank highlights a key insight: the word “treasure” in this passage points to abundance—something stored, secured, and lasting.

Jesus wasn’t asking the man to lose his wealth, but to relocate it.

Instead of storing up treasure in an uncertain, temporary world, Jesus invited him to invest in something eternal—something protected and secure. As Jesus teaches elsewhere:

“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth… but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven.” (Matthew 6:19–20)

The issue wasn’t possession—it was placement.

At the heart of this encounter is a foundational question: Who really owns your wealth?

Many of us live as though what we have is ours now, and someday it will belong to God. But Scripture paints a very different picture:

“The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it.” (Psalm 24:1)

Everything we have already belongs to Him. We are not owners—we are stewards. And what we do with God’s resources in this life has eternal significance.

This truth is reinforced in another parable: the rich fool (Luke

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