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Thursday, June 16, 2016 • Randy Kilgore • General
May the loudest voices ringing in the ears of the hurting be the compassionate and humbly broken among us, in and outside of faith.
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Friday, March 16, 2012 • Randy Kilgore • Forgiveness
What goes on inside that (detox) facility is terrible and difficult and smelly and terrifying to outsiders, but it's a battle for souls that matter. Too often, though, the battles won inside those walls are lost by what's happening outside, among friends and family and coworkers and employers and church members.
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Tuesday, June 7, 2011 • Randy Kilgore • Rest
God never honors laziness, selfishness or self-indulgence; His call to Christians is one of action and activity in sacrificial pursuit of service. Yet none of that is why we were created; nor is it how He measures our worth. For God loves us more than our most noble labors.
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010 • Randy Kilgore • Compassion
In an effort to get her boys to stop eating the core of the apples she gave them, a young mother finally told them the apple seeds in those cores were poison, and if they swallowed one of them they would die. To her delight, no more cores were consumed. Weeks later, however, one of the boys accidentally swallowed a seed while eating an apple...
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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?
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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, November 5, 2008 • • Compassion
Sometimes an act of grace passing between two people sweeps a multitude into its' wake; this was such an act. Coming as it did on the final day of the American Civil War, it remains one of the brightest moments in American history:
