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Wednesday, April 28, 2010 • Randy Kilgore • Active faith
The whole world stopped, or so it seemed in that instant, to watch this woman throwing things at me in the grocery store. She screamed and cursed and cried as she vented in rage, and nothing I said sank in or slowed down the torrent. Eventually she did stop throwing things, but the yelling continued. She was telling everyone-at the top of her lungs-how I'd just fired her husband at Christmas and now she couldn't even buy groceries for her children.
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Friday, March 26, 2010 • Randy Kilgore • Changing the world
"Do we hate the boss who just fired us, the collection agent who's harassing us, the customer who didn't pay us? Or is it politicians we hate, right or left? Aliens, legal or illegal? Pro or anti-abortionists? Comedians who mock Jesus? News commentators or book authors who attack Christians or Christianity? The moment we grant ourselves permission to hate even those who hate us, we become one with them and not one with Christ."
Want to change the world? Then be different when everyone expects you to be the same.
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010 • Marcia Swearingen • Work as service to God
A young Christian chemist struggles to neutralize a caustic blend of workplace personalities. Sometimes she wonders: Should I stay or should I go? Across town, a reporter pursues truth against a growing tide of political correctness and cynicism. Sometimes he questions: Is my career worth all this grief? Even in the church down the street, tension is no stranger. Staff members ask these same questions, and their answers are frightening. Since the Fall, friction has been the by-product of human interaction, and these days it's kindled white hot.
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010 • Randy Kilgore • Ten-Minute Christians
Since leaving California, this batch of troopers watched deserts turn to mountains, and mountains turn to dense Arctic forests, and then the wild would turn back to civilization somewhere shy of Denver. Nearly every soldier was seeing these American treasures for the first time, having never been more than 20 miles from home before the war.
Many were also seeing them for the last time.
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Monday, January 25, 2010 • Mike Polo • Guidance
God doesn't always take us around the storm. Often he leads us through them. There are times, though, when He intervenes in unique, circumstantial ways to guide us to a better pathway, sparing us from danger and trouble.
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Monday, December 21, 2009 • Randy Kilgore • Evangelism
The ones who've seen the darkest nights know best just how much even the tiniest flicker of hope can light that night. This Christmas, let the shepherds be the wise ones as we point our friends, neighbors and coworkers to the Light that never goes out.
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Thursday, December 17, 2009 • Randy Kilgore • Faith and Work
If you've read "Ethan's Story" in my book, Made to Matter: Devotionals for Working Christians, you know the miraculous story of our son's birth. For a time it looked as if both mother and baby wouldn't survive, but within hours my wife's condition stabilized, leaving only Ethan's life in doubt.
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Tuesday, October 4, 2005 • Randy Kilgore • Faith and Work
Every Christian is called to full-time service to God. The places where we serve will look different, but the principles that guide us are absolute, eternal and practical. Even in places where God isn't always welcome. Here are but a few ways for you to consider the influence your faith is having on your work, and the people who surround you there.
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Tuesday, October 4, 2005 • Randy Kilgore • Faith and Work
So Abram said to Lot, "Please let there be no strife between you and me, nor between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are brothers. "Is not the whole land before you? Please separate from me; if to the left, then I will go to the right; or if to the right, then I will go to the left
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Monday, November 23, 2009 • • Thanksgiving
This time of year in the South there are still leaves of color all around us and the effect is magical. No matter how busy we are, there's something arresting about the early November brilliance. A small start spreads rapidly until all the world is flaming. It's an exciting time as everything that has been previously sown comes to bountiful harvest. It quickens a thanksgiving response to the splendor and beauty of God's re-creation and redemption at work in our midst--within and without--past, present, and future.
