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2025-09-05T09:53:36-08:00

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How Can We Avoid “Believing” the Bible While Denying it?

Last updated on: September 5, 2025 at 9:53 am By Randy Alcorn

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Psalm 1 reminds us just how important delighting and meditating on God’s Word is. Here’s how the CSB renders it (note the use of “happy” in verse one for the Hebrew asher, often translated “blessed”): 1 How happy is the one who does not walk in the advice of the wicked or stand in the pathway with sinners or sit in the company of mockers! 2 Instead, his delight is in the Lord’s instruction, and he meditates on it day and night. 3 He... Read more

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2025-09-05T09:48:33-08:00

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The Best Part of the New Earth, Enjoying God’s Presence

Last updated on: September 5, 2025 at 9:48 am 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

2025-09-05T09:44:32-08:00

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The Happiness of Knowing Christ Accomplished My Redemption

Last updated on: September 5, 2025 at 9:44 am By Randy Alcorn

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If my redemption depended on me, I would be constantly anxious, worried, and distraught. I would be proud whenever I held up my part, and devastated when I saw my imperfection, knowing I have fallen short again and wondering whether this chance was my last, since one day my failure would be my final failure. Heaven would be unattainable for me. I am too small to bear the weight of my sins, too bad to atone for my sins. This... Read more

2025-09-05T09:38:29-08:00

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Why Thinking Accurately about the Future Heaven Is Vital

Last updated on: September 5, 2025 at 9:38 am By Randy Alcorn

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Jonathan Edwards, the great Puritan preacher, often spoke of Heaven. He said, “It becomes us to spend this life only as a journey toward heaven . . . to which we should subordinate all other concerns of life. Why should we labor for or set our hearts on anything else, but that which is our proper end and true happiness?” In his early twenties, Edwards composed a set of life resolutions. One read, “Resolved, to endeavor to obtain for myself as much... Read more

2025-08-05T13:31:16-08:00

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Biblically Responsible Investing

Last updated on: August 5, 2025 at 1:31 pm By Randy Alcorn

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Investing doesn’t simply bring profits to the investor (sometimes it doesn’t even do that). It also profits the business in which we have invested. A Christian should avoid investing in any enterprise that makes its profit from people doing what they shouldn’t. For example, in most cases I believe people shouldn’t take out a second mortgage on their home. Consequently, for me to invest in high-yield second mortgages would be an attempt to profit from others’ poor decisions. I would... Read more

2025-08-05T13:21:01-08:00

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Find Your Identity in God, Not Your Suffering

Last updated on: August 5, 2025 at 1:21 pm By Randy Alcorn

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We live in a time when we are defined as disabled, bipolar, alcoholic, ADHD, victims of lupus, cancer, Parkinson’s disease, and nearly everything else. Our condition easily becomes our primary reference point. I am an insulin-dependent diabetic, but my disease doesn’t define me. I learn what’s necessary, take care of myself, and live. I shouldn’t become preoccupied with a disease any more than with a career, a hobby, possessions, or a retirement program. I want Jesus Christ first, and my... Read more

2025-08-05T13:16:42-08:00

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Our Unforgettable Family Gathering before Nanci’s Death

Last updated on: August 5, 2025 at 1:16 pm By Randy Alcorn

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In March 2022, after four-plus years battling colon cancer, and praying for healing daily, Nanci and I decided it was time to end the treatments, which weren’t effective anymore. We planned a final vacation together. Nanci was excited to make that last journey, but God had another journey in mind. She took a turn for the worse, and nine days before she died, Nanci told me that she felt she didn’t have much time left in this world, and she... Read more

2025-08-05T13:11:27-08:00

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The Love and Trust of a Horse, and John Wesley’s Horses

Last updated on: August 5, 2025 at 1:11 pm By Randy Alcorn

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In Creatures Like Us, Lynne Sharpe explores the awareness and sensitivity of horses to their environment and the emotions of people around them. She’s found that horses possess a phenomenal ability to decipher human emotional cues and read body language. Friends can discuss with one another over a cup of coffee what seems to be going on in the life of a mutual friend. Obviously, the horse cannot do this. (In fact, horses probably don’t even like coffee.) But their... Read more

2025-07-17T08:34:12-08:00

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Charles Spurgeon’s Surprising Thoughts on Aliens

Last updated on: July 17, 2025 at 8:34 am By Randy Alcorn

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This may be to many readers one of the most surprising blogs I’ve ever written. And if you follow the links at the end to what I and others have said on this subject, you may be doubly surprised! I’ve read a lot by Charles Spurgeon, but the 63 volumes of his sermons alone come to 25 million words, equivalent to the 27 volumes of the ninth edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Then his 140 books and hundreds of articles in The... Read more

Christians Past and Present

2025-08-12T04:58:45-08:00

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The Showdown Moment in Western Civilization

Last updated on: August 12, 2025 at 4:58 am By Randy Alcorn

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I have the greatest admiration for Os Guinness, a brilliant author and social critic who’s written or edited more than 30 books. I first came to appreciate Os when he worked with one of my favorite authors Francis Schaeffer at L’Abri in Switzerland. While there, living with Francis and his wife Edith, Os wrote his remarkable book The Dust of Death. When Os and I were both speaking at a C. S. Lewis conference in Oxford years ago, Nanci and I had... Read more

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