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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.
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Thursday, April 4, 2013 • Randy Kilgore • Salvation
When Jesus went to the Cross, your name was written on His heart.
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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 2, 2012 • Randy Kilgore • Discipleship
Who will answer Varley's call?
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Monday, September 19, 2011 • Randy Kilgore • Evangelism
Trudging from my father's pick-up truck to stand as we read words over his casket, I felt as if I were once again the Stage Manager in Thornton Wilder's classic play "Our Town." In fact, some of those who shared the stage with me in our high school production were buried right there; and I felt at times as if they were whispering to each other the words of the graveyard scene in Wilder's incredibly timeless play.
http://www.madetomatter.org/apps/articles/default.asp?blogid=4631&view=post&articleid=75313&link=1&fldKeywords=&fldAuthor=&fldTopic=0
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.
http://www.madetomatter.org/apps/articles/default.asp?blogid=4631&view=post&articleid=69230&link=1&fldKeywords=&fldAuthor=&fldTopic=0
Friday, September 10, 2010 • Randy Kilgore • Active faith
The question of eternity is the most important question in the human journey, but it is the question we're afraid to ask as "modern Christians." Does Hell exist? If it does, then nothing in life is as important as warning people away from the awful eternality of its' terrible sentence. But if it doesn't, then nothing in Scripture may be counted as truth-and nothing we do, evil or good, makes much sense. Adoniram Judson learned this truth in the worst possible way...
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Monday, September 14, 2009 • • Death
An early fall breeze slipped beneath the trees, sweeping brittle, browned leaves in tiny swirls before it. The leaves scratched their protest on the sidewalk before disappearing into piles pressed up against the chapel where Jesse James' stepfather preached his sermons. The chapel's stone walls dammed the wind's efforts to create a river with leaves, so I shifted my gaze to the right.
I was stalling, of course, hoping I could will away a goodbye waiting inside the home on the grounds of this tiny church camp in Holt, Missouri. It was the summer of '76, the start of my final year of college.
