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2025-11-04T13:23:12-08:00

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Being with God Is the Heart and Soul of Heaven

Last updated on: November 4, 2025 at 1:23 pm By Randy Alcorn

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The 1998 movie What Dreams May Come portrays Heaven as beautiful but lonely, because a man’s wife isn’t there. Remarkably, someone else is entirely absent from the movie’s depiction of Heaven: God. That movie’s viewpoint mirrors numerous contemporary approaches to Heaven which either leave God out or put Him in a secondary role. The Five People You Meet in Heaven, a best-selling novel by Mitch Albom, portrays a man who feels lonely and unimportant. He dies, goes to Heaven, and... Read more

2025-10-13T08:44:28-08:00

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Five Truths about Image vs. Character

Last updated on: October 13, 2025 at 8:44 am By Randy Alcorn

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The more famous someone becomes, the harder it is to cultivate and retain virtue. The bigger your image, the more it tends to eclipse your character. In today’s social media world, instead of building character, many people just build image. A celebrity is known for what he does in one area of life, while God looks at who we are in all areas of our lives. The most important part of our lives is the part that only God sees... Read more

2025-10-13T08:47:31-08:00

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Being with God Is the Heart and Soul of Heaven

Last updated on: October 13, 2025 at 8:47 am By Randy Alcorn

2025-10-13T08:41:28-08:00

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How Do We Develop a True Love for Christ?

Last updated on: October 13, 2025 at 8:41 am By Randy Alcorn

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Spurgeon wrote in his classic Morning and Evening devotional: Many can only say of Jesus that they hope they love him; they trust they love him; but only a poor and shallow experience will be content to stay here. No one ought to give any rest to his spirit till he feels quite sure about a matter of such vital importance. We ought not to be satisfied with a superficial hope that Jesus loves us, and with a bare trust that we love him.... Read more

2025-10-13T08:38:03-08:00

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Finding Yourself Is Not the Solution to Life’s Problems

Last updated on: October 13, 2025 at 8:38 am By Randy Alcorn

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“Find yourself” is common advice. But in the end, people who follow it find only ugliness, brokenness, and unhappiness. They pursue dreams, and find nightmares. I don’t need to find myself. I do need to go to God’s Word. It will act as a mirror to show me my true reflection, one very different than what I would like to see. Scripture tells me that I’m a sinner, and that sin brings death. Sin, the original killer of happiness, is... Read more

2025-10-13T08:34:57-08:00

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Remembering My Friend John Kohlenberger

Last updated on: October 13, 2025 at 8:34 am By Randy Alcorn

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I’m reposting this blog in honor of the 10-year anniversary of my friend John’s homegoing. I love (not just loved, he is more alive than ever) this brother very much. Some of you knew John; others knew of him. His life and story are worth knowing. I’m writing an unusually long blog in honor of an old and precious friend. On September 29, 2015 John R Kohlenberger III went home to be with Jesus, after a thirteen-year battle with cancer.... Read more

Christians Past and Present

2025-10-13T08:31:54-08:00

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Heaven, a Death-Row Prisoner, and the Wonder of God’s Grace

Last updated on: October 13, 2025 at 8:31 am By Randy Alcorn

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Years ago in the Midwest, a woman was looking for a way to reach out. She made contact with a death-row prison ministry, and began writing to a man named Durlyn who’d been convicted of horrible crimes. For years she witnessed to this man, but never met him until sixteen years went by, and Durlyn’s execution was scheduled—for November 19, 1997. She felt it was time then for her and her husband to make the ten-hour drive to meet him.... Read more

2025-10-13T08:28:19-08:00

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For Those Who Love Jesus, Death Is a Temporary Separation

Last updated on: October 13, 2025 at 8:28 am By Randy Alcorn

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While my book Heaven centers on the New Earth, the eternal Heaven, we often receive questions about what it’s like for believers who die now and go to the present Heaven (what theologians call the “intermediate state,” a transitional period between life on Earth and the future resurrection to life on the New Earth). A reader asked me, “In your book you state that when a Christian dies part goes to the grave and part goes to the feet of Jesus Christ. Where... Read more

2025-09-19T13:35:12-08:00

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The Gift of Discernment Displays the Fruit of the Spirit

Last updated on: September 19, 2025 at 1:35 pm By Randy Alcorn

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I read comments from someone who thought they had the gift of discernment and lamented that no one talks much about this spiritual gift. I agree that it’s often avoided. This might be in part because many spiritual gifts, such as teaching, giving, encouraging, and serving, seem simpler to understand. And it might be in part because this is a sensitive subject to address with those who feel they have this gift, which is described in 1 Corinthians 12:10 as... Read more

2025-09-19T13:30:32-08:00

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God’s Limits Are a Sign of His Power

Last updated on: September 19, 2025 at 1:30 pm By Randy Alcorn

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In this YouTube short video, Sean McDowell explains that God’s limits are a sign of His power: I love the way Sean McDowell thinks and communicates. When he spoke at our church, it was powerful, great for young and old alike. These are some supplementary thoughts that I would add to what he said in the video. Some of them make the same points, but I develop them differently and cite pertinent Scripture. 1. God cannot contradict His own... Read more

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