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Wednesday, September 24, 2014 • Randy Kilgore • General
One of the fastest ways to incur God's displeasure is to fail to pass on His forgiveness. It's a bigger deal than you think.
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Wednesday, November 27, 2013 • Randy Kilgore • General
...a lost soul rarely sees God in our crafted lives, the â??Iâ??m-not-a-sinner-anymoreâ? masks we hide behind because we think weâ??re supposed to be â??betterâ? now that weâ??re saved...itâ??s in the broken pieces of the real us that lost souls see Godâ??s reflection, giving them hope they too can be received while they're still broken...
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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.
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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.
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Monday, August 6, 2012 • Randy Kilgore • Forgiveness
No one comes away from a meeting with Jesus unchanged...and that's good, because no one comes to God unless they're first changed by Jesus.
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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://madetomatter.org/apps/articles/default.asp?blogid=4631&view=post&articleid=72860&link=1&fldKeywords=&fldAuthor=&fldTopic=0
Monday, February 21, 2011 • Randy Kilgore • Forgiveness
"They're never going to be able to forgive me, are they?"
--The man who years earlier murdered a neighbor in a drunken stupor;
--a recovering alcoholic whose family refuses to believe "this is the time I really mean to change";
--a daughter whose last words to her father were venomous and hateful, spoken only hours before a hemorrhage claimed his life.
What do we do when we realize someone we've wronged will not forgive us? How do we cope with mistakes we've made that destroy relationships, and even lives? How do we keep them from disabling us spiritually; how do we keep others (including Satan) from using them to disable or discourage us?
http://madetomatter.org/apps/articles/default.asp?blogid=4631&view=post&articleid=66265&link=1&fldKeywords=&fldAuthor=&fldTopic=0
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 • Randy Kilgore • Active faith
The whole world stopped, or so it seemed in that instant, to watch this woman throwing things at me in the grocery store. She screamed and cursed and cried as she vented in rage, and nothing I said sank in or slowed down the torrent. Eventually she did stop throwing things, but the yelling continued. She was telling everyone-at the top of her lungs-how I'd just fired her husband at Christmas and now she couldn't even buy groceries for her children.
http://madetomatter.org/apps/articles/default.asp?blogid=4631&view=post&articleid=65445&link=1&fldKeywords=&fldAuthor=&fldTopic=0
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.
