http://www.madetomatter.org/apps/articles/default.asp?blogid=4631&view=post&articleid=A-Truman-Doctrine-for-Christians&link=1&fldKeywords=&fldAuthor=&fldTopic=0
Wednesday, May 8, 2013 • Randy Kilgore • Self-control
Jesus walked the earth during times of great national and international turmoil, and then he picked a team of regular men and women to build His Kingdom when He returned to heaven to advocate for us at the Father's right hand. Those regular men and women of faith changed the world in one generation. How? By looking and sounding and acting like the Prince of Peace.
http://www.madetomatter.org/apps/articles/default.asp?blogid=4631&view=post&articleid=83081&link=1&fldKeywords=&fldAuthor=&fldTopic=0
Tuesday, December 18, 2012 • Randy Kilgore • Strength in Despair
While angels weep for Sandy Hook, God and the rest of heaven has already embraced heaven's newest souls. When the little ones reached heaven, they found God waiting, having raced to greet them.
http://www.madetomatter.org/apps/articles/default.asp?blogid=4631&view=post&articleid=81424&link=1&fldKeywords=&fldAuthor=&fldTopic=0
Thursday, September 6, 2012 • Randy Kilgore • Overcoming Perfectionist Tendencies
Nobody needs to tell us we're hypocrites; we know it better than they do. During those times, our whole life seems wasted. We wonder if all that's left to us now is "playing out the string"; quietly slipping in heaven's side door without hearing the words we long to hear: "Well done, good and faithful servant. In other words, we're paralyzed by the myth of perfection.
http://www.madetomatter.org/apps/articles/default.asp?blogid=4631&view=post&articleid=78129&link=1&fldKeywords=&fldAuthor=&fldTopic=0
Friday, February 3, 2012 • Randy Kilgore • Hope
Francis lived his entire life focused on eternity. He plowed fields, painted barns, pounded pulpits, preached Jesus, and lived life as fully as any man I've ever known, but he did it all with his eyes on Jesus. Because he did, he could hold the hands of a dying friend and tell them it would be better soon. He could comfort the poor and suffering, and give hope to the hopeless, all because He knew the One who could fix it in the end.
http://www.madetomatter.org/apps/articles/default.asp?blogid=4631&view=post&articleid=77556&link=1&fldKeywords=&fldAuthor=&fldTopic=0
Monday, December 19, 2011 • Randy Kilgore • Evangelism
I'm sure an army of angels was chuckling at Tina that night. I'm also certain God was pleased by Tina's tender heart-
http://www.madetomatter.org/apps/articles/default.asp?blogid=4631&view=post&articleid=72052&link=1&fldKeywords=&fldAuthor=&fldTopic=0
Monday, January 31, 2011 • Randy Kilgore • Work as service to God
"We were created to be careful keepers of the place where God puts us, whether that place is ten square feet of assembly line or ten square feet of cubicle or ten thousand square feet of a manufacturing facility. We were also created to enjoy the work we do because we're doing it alongside God."...
..."As Christians, our problems begin when we think we're smarter than God. When we think old rules (the Bible) don't work in new cultures. When we think getting our share of the pie comes before making sure everyone else has enough. When we think the world exists to make us comfortable, happy, and prosperous."...
..."On this side of heaven we work to fix the things our sinful natures broke. We work to fix lives physically, emotionally and spiritually. We work to fix Creation environmentally, economically and spiritually. We work to fix ourselves and our families and the tiny place where God has us laboring."
http://www.madetomatter.org/apps/articles/default.asp?blogid=4631&view=post&articleid=68168&link=1&fldKeywords=&fldAuthor=&fldTopic=0
Sunday, July 25, 2010 • Randy Kilgore • Change agent
Though there are terrible struggles in the world today, it is important to remember there are other times in history when the world has been equally distressed--perhaps even times that were worse. Because we don't know when God's marvelous grace and patience with humanity will end, it is imperative we remain hopeful--primed and ready for revival and renewal if God allows it. to happen. With history as our guide, we find evidence for how best to prepare for those revivals and awakenings. Here are ten keys--3 beliefs, 4 traits and 4 actions--Christian history shows are necessary for anyone to be agents of renewal in our cultures. How many do you possess? What are you prepared to to let God accomplish in and through you?
http://www.madetomatter.org/apps/articles/default.asp?blogid=4631&view=post&articleid=67951&link=1&fldKeywords=&fldAuthor=&fldTopic=0
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 • Randy Kilgore • Hope
A thousand strands of time-each with its own collection of sights, smells and sounds-spin themselves to form it, this thing called place. When we're most troubled, our souls tend to find some way to carry us back to it. Those thousand strands-moments, we call them-form a tapestry of remembrance that serves as an anchor to our soul.
http://www.madetomatter.org/apps/articles/default.asp?blogid=4631&view=post&articleid=62076&link=1&fldKeywords=&fldAuthor=&fldTopic=0
Thursday, November 19, 2009 • Randy Kilgore • Caring for the Poor
Off the coast of Nova Scotia wild horses roam this "Island of Lost Ships", where hundreds of shipwrecks claimed thousands of lives. Breathtaking ridgelines and lung-gasping sunsets mask Sable Island's terrible traps: Shoals and reefs so deceptively shallow a ship is trapped before it knows it's in danger; and breakers so deadly mariners have long called this place the "graveyard of the Atlantic". As each storm gathers, wild ponies-remnants of a herd left or lost by John Hancock's brother-lift their mighty manes, stamping their hooves as they cut the herd into the lee behind a dune. There, frail and feeble ponies are packed tightly in the middle of a circle as the stallions and the strong use their own bodies to shield the weak from the storm's relentless pummeling. It is the clearest picture one can imagine of how God expects His children to behave.
http://www.madetomatter.org/apps/articles/default.asp?blogid=4631&view=post&articleid=58463&link=1&fldKeywords=&fldAuthor=&fldTopic=0
Friday, July 10, 2009 • • Evangelism
"I'm canceling my devotional subscription because you refuse to tackle the important issues; you're no longer relevant. In fact, I think you're a coward." "I'm canceling my devotional subscription because you refuse to lower your standards about what gets people into heaven." "I'm canceling my devotional subscription because you keep saying I have to share my faith."
In order, these are the three biggest reasons people write to tell us they're no longer reading Madetomatter. How should we respond? How should Christians behave in today's culture, which seems to invite us to war with unbelievers, and with each other?
