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Thursday, October 24, 2013 • • General
God protects us by strictly reserving judgment and condemnation as His domain. This frees us to show to even the most broken among us just what grace feels like in Christ.
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012 • Randy Kilgore • Forgiveness
Forgiveness is one of the most powerful acts we humans can muster. When offered unexpectedly and unconditionally, it reshapes--if even for an instant--the lives of all who see or experience it, almost always cementing in both the forgiver and the forgiven the closest possible picture of the moment God receives us as His children through grace.
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=78821&link=1&fldKeywords=&fldAuthor=&fldTopic=0
Monday, April 2, 2012 • Randy Kilgore • Deliverance
The email sounded like many others we get. At its heart was a statement most of us can identify with, going something like this: "Chaplain," the carpenter said, "it's like I can't help myself sometimes. The very things I wish I would stop doing are the things I keep doing, and the things I wish I would do-and that I know God wants me to do-are the very things I can't seem to get to or to do."
Sound familiar?
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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.
http://www.madetomatter.org/apps/articles/default.asp?blogid=4631&view=post&articleid=70013&link=1&fldKeywords=&fldAuthor=&fldTopic=0
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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Thursday, September 2, 2010 • Randy Kilgore • Humility
Even saints have their limits, right? Apparently not.
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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?
http://www.madetomatter.org/apps/articles/default.asp?blogid=4631&view=post&articleid=51173&link=1&fldKeywords=&fldAuthor=&fldTopic=0
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:
