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2025-04-08T13:40:26-08:00

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Knowing Our Ultimate Destination Changes Everything

Last updated on: April 8, 2025 at 1:40 pm By Randy Alcorn

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Two years ago, I did an interview with Davey Blackburn, who hosts the Nothing Is Wasted Podcast. Both of us have wives who died: Davey’s wife Kristi was murdered, and Nanci had passed away from cancer. (Read more about his story.) We talked about the sovereignty and love of God, as well as the New Earth, and the need to lose our faith if our faith is in the wrong God, a nonexistent God. I think because the conversation was between two... Read more

2025-04-08T13:37:04-08:00

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Finding the Balance in Financial Responsibility and Giving

Last updated on: April 8, 2025 at 1:37 pm By Randy Alcorn

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A reader wrote our ministry, “For several years my husband and I have enjoyed giving most of our discretionary income to our church and various missionaries. But lately we have been counseled that we need to be more ‘responsible’ about preparing for our future, especially since retirement is only a few years away. How do we deal with the guilt we would feel about decreasing our giving, since we still desire to meet the needs we see all around us?”... Read more

2025-04-08T13:30:29-08:00

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God Makes Much of Little Things

Last updated on: April 8, 2025 at 1:30 pm By Randy Alcorn

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God isn’t just in life’s monumental things. He’s present in the little things: rain drops, the artistry of spider webs, and the sound of an acoustic guitar. A child’s laugh, surfing songs, a swing set, sprinklers, and the smell of split cedar. Maple syrup, fresh green beans, buttermilk biscuits, and homemade strawberry jam. Ripe oranges straight off the tree. Pecan pie a la mode, chocolate chip cookies hot out of the oven and a tall glass of cold milk (in... Read more

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2025-03-14T12:55:21-08:00

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Overcoming Pornography Use and Restoring Sexual Wholeness

Last updated on: March 14, 2025 at 12:55 pm By Randy Alcorn

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I had the opportunity to be on a panel hosted by the Barna Group and Pure Desire Ministries, talking about how we can help our brothers and sisters in Christ find healing from unwanted sexual behavior and trauma. Barna also shared new research about Christians and pornography use. Christianity Report says: Majority of Christians Struggle with Pornography, Study Reveals A new study reveals a troubling trend among practicing Christians, with a majority admitting to viewing pornography. The Barna report, Beyond the Porn Phenomenon,... Read more

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2025-04-11T07:30:56-08:00

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The Forgotten Truth: Jesus Is Full of Happiness

Last updated on: April 11, 2025 at 7:30 am By Randy Alcorn

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The Glad Heart of Jesus In the first-ever gospel message of the newborn church, the apostle Peter preached that Psalm 16 is about Christ: “David says concerning him, ‘I saw the Lord always before me, for he is at my right hand that I may not be shaken; therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced. . . . For you will not abandon my soul to Hades, or let your Holy One see corruption. . . . You will make... Read more

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2025-03-14T12:38:19-08:00

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How Should We Evaluate Claims Of Visions or Dreams from God?

Last updated on: March 14, 2025 at 12:38 pm By Randy Alcorn

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It’s true that far too many Bible believers are in effect anti-supernatural. Some Christians argue against the miraculous with the same scorn of atheists and agnostics. The irony is stunning, since the Christian faith is rooted in the miraculous and dependent upon it. I believe absolutely that God does miracles today. I am completely convinced, for instance, that for decades the Lord Jesus has been appearing to Muslims in dreams and visions, bringing many people to faith. The evidence is... Read more

2025-03-14T12:28:47-08:00

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Will the New Earth Have Distinct Cultures?

Last updated on: March 14, 2025 at 12:28 pm By Randy Alcorn

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There is no need to worry about culture shock in Heaven! The cultures and nations of the Old Earth will all have their place within God’s eternal Kingdom on the New Earth. This understanding fits perfectly with Daniel’s vision of the Messiah’s return to Earth: “He was given authority, honor, and royal power over all the nations of the world, so that people of every race and nation and language would obey him” (Daniel 7:14). I interpret “every race and... Read more

2025-03-14T12:32:36-08:00

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Always Walk into, Not Away from, People’s Grief

Last updated on: March 14, 2025 at 12:32 pm By Randy Alcorn

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I experienced profound grief when my mother died when I was in my twenties. She wasn’t only my mom; she was one of my very closest friends. I had the joy of leading her to Jesus a year after I became a Christian in high school at age fifteen. I’ll never forget the Sunday morning when I arrived at our church, which my mom had also attended. Though she had died that week, I decided to preach anyway. A very... Read more

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2025-02-28T11:28:13-08:00

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Was the Bible Written by Humans?

Last updated on: February 28, 2025 at 11:28 am By Randy Alcorn

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I’ve heard critics of biblical inerrancy say, “I believe the Bible was written by human beings, not God.” This statement shows a fundamental ignorance of what people who affirm biblical inspiration and inerrancy actually believe. I’ve yet to meet anyone who believes God wrote down the words of Scripture Himself. True, He did inscribe on stone tablets the words of the Ten Commandments, which Moses later wrote in the books of Exodus and Deuteronomy. But that’s a very small portion... Read more

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2025-02-28T11:24:57-08:00

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Trust God to Write the Rest of Your Story in Eternity

Last updated on: February 28, 2025 at 11:24 am By Randy Alcorn

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In my book Heaven, I share how years ago, Nanci read me letters we’d never before seen translated, written in 1920 by her grandmother Anna Swanson to her family in Sweden. Anna suffered severe health problems. While she was in Montana, cared for by relatives, her husband, Edwin, was in Oregon, working and caring for their seven children day and night. (Anna and Edwin are with five of their children in the picture; two more were to come. Nanci’s mother, Adele,... Read more

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