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Wednesday, June 13, 2012 • Randy Kilgore • Work as service to God
Thomas Alva Edison opened the world of music to millions when he invented the phonograph, but his near-deaf state sentenced him to...biting into a piano or phonograph...allowed the vibrations to reach his inner ear, making it possible for him to "hear. Imagine the hunger behind his willingness to dent his dignity so.
http://madetomatter.org/apps/articles/default.asp?blogid=4631&view=post&articleid=79735&link=1&fldKeywords=&fldAuthor=&fldTopic=0
Friday, May 25, 2012 • Randy Kilgore • Science and faith
It is no accident the century after the Enlightenment saw more deaths by genocide than all of history to that date. Humankind separated from God is humankind separated from its moral compass.
http://madetomatter.org/apps/articles/default.asp?blogid=4631&view=post&articleid=79468&link=1&fldKeywords=&fldAuthor=&fldTopic=0
Friday, May 11, 2012 • Randy Kilgore • Faith and Work
In a work world that values efficiency and action, that places great emphasis on busyness and productivity, that wrestles to squeeze the most out of every action, one of the byproducts is often loneliness. It's a disease as prevalent in the senior reaches of a firm as it is in the bowels of the operation.
http://madetomatter.org/apps/articles/default.asp?blogid=4631&view=post&articleid=79335&link=1&fldKeywords=&fldAuthor=&fldTopic=0
Wednesday, May 2, 2012 • Randy Kilgore • Rest
Christians were created to be in the world without being consumed by it. In fact, we're not simply bit players in the drama of nature, work and life; we're the part of Creation around which all else flows.
http://madetomatter.org/apps/articles/default.asp?blogid=4631&view=post&articleid=79204&link=1&fldKeywords=&fldAuthor=&fldTopic=0
Monday, April 23, 2012 • Randy Kilgore • Theology of Work
Anything that distracts us from complete dependence on God becomes an immensely destructive force in our life. In today's culture, the biggest culprit is work. In a total reversal of what God intended, we've managed to make work the place where we're least aware of God. Genesis teaches us work was intended to put us in touch with Him!
http://madetomatter.org/apps/articles/default.asp?blogid=4631&view=post&articleid=79059&link=1&fldKeywords=&fldAuthor=&fldTopic=0
Thursday, April 12, 2012 • Randy Kilgore • Suffering
Rarely are the lines from trial to triumph marked by straight lines; more often they are zigzags and loops---along trails littered with our tears---over obstacles that mark us with bruises, scratches and scars as we nevertheless press on.
http://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?
http://madetomatter.org/apps/articles/default.asp?blogid=4631&view=post&articleid=78612&link=1&fldKeywords=&fldAuthor=&fldTopic=0
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=78448&link=1&fldKeywords=&fldAuthor=&fldTopic=0
Friday, March 2, 2012 • Randy Kilgore • Discipleship
Who will answer Varley's call?
http://madetomatter.org/apps/articles/default.asp?blogid=4631&view=post&articleid=78332&link=1&fldKeywords=&fldAuthor=&fldTopic=0
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 • Randy Kilgore • Caring for the Weak
"Survival of the fittest" may be an earthly principle resulting from sin's introduction into a fallen world, but it doesn't fit into God's economy.
