Great stuff here.  This will be invaluable for all of us in the workplace.  The great asset and attribute for these studies is that they can teach and challenge across the spectrum of Christian experience.  There is, of course, a great deal of substance for the brand new believer.  But there is no real "drop-off" for the older Christian.  I find that to be quite unique.  Most studies end up targeting one segment to the exclusion of others.  Yours do not. 

Know that through you lives are being touched, workplaces are being changed, and God Himself is being glorified in wonderful ways.

These are awesome.  We've started using them as the basis for weekly small group discussion in my workplace.  It's been very profound to discuss these devotionals and the related scripture in the context of a group of people who all work in the same place.  Thanks!

I look forward with eager anticipation to each devotion. I go back and reread them to refresh the lesson God has taught me through your writing. My mother introduced me to your website quite a long time ago and I am so grateful.  God has used your messages to guide me as I strive to allow God to shine through me so that others will see Him in all I do. Our office is challenged with more work than can possibly be done, constant traffic in and out, and phone calls that never end. But I'm learning that my response to the stress makes a difference in other's lives. I am not able to directly share with my office personnel the actual lessons I learn from your devotions, but I am blessed that I can act upon those lessons and be the Jesus others may never see. Your message today was affirmation of what God has been teaching me. You are an encouragement to me, I am blessed by your obedience to Him.

This is good!

Your words of encouragement help lighten the load and will keep me from hiking out of the canyon and throwing in the towel. 

 I don't know what you're eating for breakfast, but keep eating it!  You're feeding us.  This is two weeks in a row where I've been very much moved by what you've written.  In the midst of a business start up, church start up, being a dad to young kids and a husband, it's all to easy to be about doing.  I justify that many times by knowing that those things can have a kingdom impact.  I don't want to sacrifice my relationship with my Father at the altar of doing stuff for him.  Thanks for the Grace reminder!

Just when I think I am the only one with troubles and not doing well, your Moments reminds me I am not alone. This really touched me today and gave me more strength to keep pushing on and reminded me that Jesus is always there for me day and night. At all times, even work.       

This blessed me to the point of tears as I read while on a plane on my blackberry.  I have wanted to run from the responsibility of the small business I own -- so many trials and problems lately.  Thank you for a great word.

We use your devotionals as a springboard for discussion in our weekly workplace group.  They've been a terrific resource for us and I'm very grateful for your obedience in using the gifts He's given you to bring inspiration and true learning to us. 

You have a great ministry here; I look forward to your wise and Spirit-led insight every week.

 May God continue His blessings on you, your staff, and your endeavors.   

I like these devotionals.  They are the first thing I do on Mondays.   

I've been wanting to tell you for a while how much I appreciate your devotionals. Well I may have been wanting but I haven't done it. It's intimidating you realise sending an email to a writer - easily put off. But it's the new year and I've just been going through my inbox cleaning up some old messages and there were a number from Madetomatter that I hadn't yet sorted into their folder and seeing your messages en masse forced my hand to tell you now. So please accept my appreciation for your words although I realise that they are not yours alone but ones you feel inspired to share. Your ministry is much needed and challenges me and for that I once again say thank you. I wish you and your family all the best for the new year and look forward to your continued emails throughout the year ahead. I know God will richly bless you and provide you with insights that you will then inturn be able to share with others all over His planet.

This is a classic! Write on Brother! Write On!

Thank you so much. Thank you for listening to what God had to tell you and passing it along to us all. This was a much needed.

Your missives are always filled with love and deep gratitude for what God has done for us.  Thanks for the weekly reminders.  I NEED them so desperately.

Just a quick note to say THANK YOU for bringing us the truth again. I really appreciate your note this week.  I've collected quotes over the years that say this, but all of them paled in the last year as I read the Bible all the way through for the first time. Knowing that life is not easy, I still catch myself hoping for it.  One of my lessons through the struggles of this past year has been to ingrain this truth even more and to learn to persevere, enjoy and prosper even in tough times. Please keep bringing us God's truth from His word.

This was especially classic! Your tranparency is wonderful and we are blessed by this message.

I just want to thank you and tell you what a "word in due season" these devotionals have been. I lead a bible study of young business people. My focus has been on the foundations of the faith but lately many of them are being faced with living out their new found faith in the business world. Your devotionals which have always encouraged me have become so important for these young believers. I want to encourage you and thank you for "feeding them"!

You don't know me, but thanks so much for nailing my bad attitude.  God really used this message to mortify flesh that needs to die. Thanks for persistently pursuing Him in your ministry, and exercising the gift He has given you of words of exhortation.

I just had to write today and tell you how much I enjoyed your lesson.  Having the opportunity to meet you and know your heart makes me appreciate it even more.  I just wanted to let you know. 

OK, as much as you're emails cut me deeply with God's truth, I must say OUCH.  But ....THANK YOU for blessing me with truth in the midst of a busy work week.  I am so thankful that you are faithful.

Boy did I need that.  I feel I've been facing my Separation Canyon lately.  Your words of encouragement help lighten the load and will keep me from hiking out of the canyon and throwing in the towel. 

Thank you for another good one.  Of course, your columns are all "good", but somehow, some way, some of your columns really hit home.   This reflects how God's grace touches each of us so uniquely, yet I think most of us can connect to how God's grace can be (and I believe IS) in the middle of the turbulence of a seemingly endless "white water" journey. This is a story I intend to share with my four children, ages 11,6,7 and 4.  What a great example for patience and persistence.  Question - Have you, or will you, publish your columns in a single volume?  I would welcome the chance to secure a collection of your work.

This was the first time that I felt tempted to commit plagiarism - Randy has just described me and my calling to a 'T'... but I was able to resist the temptation!!! Thanks Randy.     

Thanks for your weekly articles!  

You wrote: "In fact, even many men and women who follow Christ have decided "Jesus is enough", This is so true. Yet I sense that among my greatest challenges is to be humble and courageous enough to seek a clear, honest understanding of my own blind spots, my own default patterns, my own biases that interfere with my true usefulness in the here and now.  Thanks again, for your astute and challenging observations.

I just got an email from my good friend xxxxx - he was forwarding your devotionals from Monday.  Someone at the xxxxxxxx Church is apparently on your list and he forwarded it to a group of 600+ folks yesterday (including xxxxx).  I'm not surprised - you touched on something here.    

I don't know if this will get back to you but I had to try anyway.  This article, Incredibly Average, is such an answer to a prayer I have had for some time now.  This is the key piece to what has been a puzzle for me.....what IS His purpose for me??  It has always seemed whatever I did/said never went very far.  God has spoken to me very clearly in what you have said so well.....I am printing this piece and keeping it in view as I apply it to my life.  Thank you, thank you......you are often in my prayers.    

Thanks, from another "just average" person! 

I just now read your weekly devotion "Incredibly Average," and heartily applaud you, admire you, and appreciate you all the more for your honesty.  You struck a chord in me, and in many, I'm sure. (Of course I'll be the first to protest your "averageness," because in my mind you are one of the stronger, wiser, smarter, better ones.) But, I know what you mean, and I think there's such a freedom in accepting the gifts God gives us. Thank you for being all our guides, for those of us with you on the road and those blowing past us up the mountain. I think you're just plain incredible.  God bless you richly, brother, as you do us each week.   

Well done oh good, faithful and average servant!  I enjoyed your thoughts. 

Wow. I'm going to be chewing on that piece for a few days.  I struggle much with where my worth lies.  Although in my head I know it lies only within Christ, my actions betray that knowledge.  Average is painful. No one celebrates average.  We tell "losers" Christ loves them anyway. We tell "winners" not to rely on themselves or to become proud.  But we ignore the average ones.  

Good afternoon, As a graduate student who is currently beginning to search for employment, this article was very timely.

I enjoyed reading through the article Wrestling with God and Unemployment. It reflected on my personal experiences and that of many of my friends who graduate out of university and seem to not find a job anywhere. I would like to receive additional resources which I can print and give to my pals for encouragement.

Thank you. This is beautiful - just the right words - God's message through you - for today is not the usual day. More often, we just need to be still.

Spot on!!!

This excellent article is "time sensitive."  You should offer it to Christianity Today or other publications, not necessarily Christian. 

Hats off.

Thank you for being such a blessing to many down here in Sydney Australia. We used the Moments Volume 1 & 2 at our church for the Young Adults ministry, and found it very well received. We feel there is still a great need for good practical & biblical small group study material, and the Moments series are probably the best available today. Thank you also for the devotions that we often circulate and encourage members to join. It has been an encouragement for so many.

Thank you, dear brother, for putting a voice to the profound sorrow we all surely feel this week. 

Hello, Dear Brother, It's been waaaaaay too long since I've been in touch, but I just can't let another moment go by without letting you know how much your devotional, especially today's, continue to challenge and encourage me. I often forward your writings to friends who aren't on your list, and in one note attached to today's I wrote, "I don't know when I've heard/read Randy so convicted and bold. It has a prophetic tone to it that's riveting." Well, the person read it, wrote back and said, "This is absolutely Amazing!" I read it again, and agree. I'm printing it out and putting it on the refrigerator (the place I visit most often!). This is a prophetic piece, Randy. I hope you know that.

You and yours are in my thoughts and prayers. Keep serving with boldness and conviction. We in the body of Christ desperately need your words as they are direction signs pointing us to The Only Way.

Whoah! Very powerful.

Another good message... Thank you!

It reminds me of the words from the writer of Ecclesiastes: "Here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat, to drink and enjoy oneself in all one's labors in which he toils under the sun during the few years of his life which God has given him; for this is his reward." (5:18) However, I think our problem is that our attitudes often reflect the prior chapter: "I have seen that every labor and every skill which is done is the result of rivalry between a man and his neighbor. This too is vanity and striving after wind." (4:4) If we could only learn that this world is not all there is - that we have something better in store for us in the future - and therefore that we are to do "all things as unto Christ" here and now (in faith, with our eyes toward the future rewards), rather than out of a spirit of "rivalry" (or "getting ahead" as the world calls it), we would all be much better off.

This is something that the Lord has been working on with me lately - to be grateful for all that He has provided me, especially a job that both treats me and pays me well, even if it is not what I "ultimately" would love to be doing (a teaching ministry in a local church). It is not always easy to deny my desire for something more (or at least in this case, something "different"). But this is what He calls me to do and in obedience (and gratefulness) I must follow.

You hit another one out of the park.

Thanks!  That hit the spot!

This is great!  I love your question.  I'm copying this message for my file and forwarding it to my workplace friends.  

Thanks for "A Week Without Sundays".  I'm using it tonight for our "Praise & Prayer" meeting's devotional.

Thank you so much for your devotionals. I have been a long-time recipient of your weekly e-mail and now, at this moment, a first-time responder! Forgive me for not saying "Thank you!" more often. As busy as I am at work (half of our 10-person department was laid off in June), when your devotional arrives in my In Box, I take the time to read it immediately. It helps me keep things in proper perspective when, as Rudyard Kipling said, "all about you are losing theirs (heads)"!

Basically, I have been searching for the right "church" for many years. When I got married, I searched all around the area for a good Christian church that believed the right things. To me, that was an evangelical church that did not mince the words of the bible to mean whatever it wanted. The search began. I called dozens of churches, and if they passed the phone screen, I tried to set up time to visit. I visited a handful and settled on one. My wife, who was raised Roman Catholic, had been listening to the Protestant ministries on the radio with me, and we knew the type of church we wanted. So, we spent several months going to the church we selected. After a while, it became apparent that this wasn't the church for us. Something was wrong/missing. We couldn't put our hands on it, so we stopped going to that church and started attending the RC church in town. That's when our son was born. I thought to myself that it couldn't/shouldn't be this hard to find a place to worship. So, I began to question and eventually took a class on Roman Catholicism. Long story short-- I found the root of the Christian Church and became a member of the RC church. The thing that drove me there was the search- that I didn't want my family going in two different directions, and that I wanted to find out what was right and true. My struggle was that it seemed like every Protestant church had a slightly different set of beliefs, even though the evangelical churches all agreed on the most important things. So- why am I telling you this? Well, quite honestly, your weekly moments have been one of the few ties that I still have into the evangelical protestant church. I find that your writings still do inspire me, and as I continue reading them, I hope for a strengthening between evangelical Protestants and RC's in the future. The core, as always, is Jesus as our Savior.  Just thought I would share. God Bless You!

I recently used a one of your devotionals to work with a Muslim who was having massive family problems - I was able to witness to the healing power of Jesus for ANYONE who went to Him with a broken and contrite heart seeking help.  It was the perfect reinforcement to an earlier conversation we had had.  I don't know what the outcome will be for him, but he's reading a Bible I gave him.  

I look forward to reading Randy Kilgore's newsletter message.  I am convinced that each message is written by a truly prayerful and humble man that gives the glory to God.