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Thursday, November 20, 2014 • Randy Kilgore • General
Hearts are turned, not by the angry voices of the convinced shouting their convictions, but by the surprising sweep of the awe-inspiring, bigger-than-us realization that "Jesus loves me"; and the heartbreakingly simple message He asks us to pass on that.....
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Friday, December 10, 2010 • Randy Kilgore • God's love
One of my favorite ways to kick off adult retreats-especially men's retreats-is to have them sing the children's song Jesus Loves Me. Grins and groans always greet me when I try this, but I know a secret: Most of the adults in the room no longer feel like Jesus loves them, if they ever did.
It isn't that these adults (including, probably, most of you reading this devotional) doubt Jesus, or the Bible; it's that they feel too hypocritical or too unworthy or too distant or too flawed or too sinful to believe Jesus could love them. From the front of the crowd it's truly amazing to watch as the song's simple truth plows through years of stress and hurt, leaving some even fighting back tears.
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Monday, November 2, 2009 • • God's love
Lakeside, sounds carry unfathomable distances, making things said in private not-so-private. Add the incredibly quieting effect of new-fallen snow, and you can just about be sure everything everybody says will be heard by more than the people who were supposed to hear it.
On just such a night, I stepped out of my cabin to watch a full moon burst over a nearby mountain in northern New Hampshire.