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Tuesday, November 22, 2005 • Randy Kilgore • General
And when they saw the star, they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy. --Matthew 2:10
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Friday, March 21, 2014 • • General
It was early in my career, and I was eager to make a mark, so I approached the first round of employee evaluations I did with great care. I already knew that nothing I said in the evaluation should be new information; that if I hadnā?Tt pointed out something during the course of our past year of working together, then springing it in an evaluation for the first time was damaging and unhelpful. No one, in any area of their life, enjoys being blindsided.
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011 • Randy Kilgore • Strength in Despair
George Lacy was a public school teacher when he and his wife Minnie decided to take their vocational skills to the mission field. In 1903, the couple and their five children journeyed to Saltillo, Mexico to organize and operate a school for girls, the Madero Institute.
Joy turned to sorrow in December, 1904, when a daughter fell ill with Scarlet fever.
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011 • Randy Kilgore • Hope
Shortly before 10 a.m. on Saturday, May 21, the sun burst out of the clouds, blessing the courage of a risky decision by Gordon College's leadership to host their graduation ceremonies outdoors. Given the nearly unbelievable stretch of sunless, rain-swept days of the prior month, it seemed incredibly brave. But indoor graduations severely restrict who may attend, and this was to be a celebration unfettered by those restraints.
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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."
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008 • • General
Likely you've been there many times before; perhaps you're there even now. Ahead of you are the very things you've longed for, worked for, and even sacrificed a part of yourselves to reach: The joy of the closed deal, the lure of the dream job, the freedom of not having money woes anymore. Or maybe those things are more personal; maybe what you see before you is the comfort of the perfect mate, the settled joy of that dream home, or even just the end to all those lonely or loveless hours.
