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Tuesday, May 20, 2008 • • General
"I remember!" she said as the nurse from China told me a story nearly five decades old. Her eyes lit up and her words rushed out as she talked about a working Christian whose legacy still echoed in her world.
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Thursday, May 8, 2008 • • General
Let me be even more frank than before. This is a brilliant document brought to its knees by injudicious phrasing and a release process which almost guaranteed a sense of conflict and discord. As we mentioned in yesterday's update, there was hope for An Evangelical Manifesto to become one of the most important documents in the recent history of the church.
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Thursday, March 13, 2008 • • General
It remains one of my favorite workplace encounters in thirty years. Dust rag in hand, she reminded me the most effective service we offer the Kingdom of God is something everyone can do.
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Thursday, February 14, 2008 • Randy Kilgore • General
This is a sample devotional. You can replace it with you first one.
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Tuesday, May 30, 2006 • • General
On September 4th, 1967, a Marine platoon stationed in Quang Tin province was in danger of being overrun by a force five times greater than itself. Hearing this, Navy chaplain Father Vincent Capodanno raced from headquarters to the site of the battle to be with his men. As the battle raged, the Marines would give ground, re-take it, give ground, and then re-take it. This meant the dead and wounded were often located in the deadly crossfire of no-man's land between the two armies. This was Father C's parish that day. Racing from soldier to soldier, he offered last rites to the dead and dying, and medical care to the wounded. Early in the battle, he suffered a bullet wound to his right hand. Still he moved from soldier to soldier, caring and comforting as best he could...
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Wednesday, March 8, 2006 • Randy Kilgore • General
"Suffer hardship with me, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus." Paul, in II Timothy 2:3
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Sunday, February 19, 2006 • • General
Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. -Romans 12:1-2
Divide and conquer.
That strategy works in very nearly every area of life. Warriors use it to overcome a larger enemy force. Parents use it to help children swamped with homework. Workers use it to make mammoth assignments more manageable.
Our work/faith journey is no different.
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Sunday, February 12, 2006 • • General
Jesus picked his own team, and every one of them failed Him. They jockeyed for position, questioned His objective, misunderstood His priorities, and failed to comprehend the central purpose of His work. In the end, one of them sold Him out for reasons we still don't fully comprehend, and every one of the others deserted Him when given the chance to be faithful.
Still, remember, it was He who picked them.
So He waded patiently through their questions, even when those questions showed how little they knew of the labor they shared with Him. He protected them from the storms that beset them, even when they should have trusted He would do so without their pleas. He trained them carefully, always focused not on the failures of the moment among His tiny band of workers, but rather on that moment in the future when the mission finally made its way from the paper of Scripture to their heads and hearts. He watched them fail on training runs, and trained them some more.
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Thursday, January 19, 2006 • Randy Kilgore • General
"He must increase, but I must decrease."---John 3:30
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Tuesday, January 17, 2006 • Randy Kilgore • General
"For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. -John 3:17
