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2024-05-24T11:54:35-08:00

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Imagine Meeting in Heaven Those We’ve Forgotten

Last updated on: May 24, 2024 at 11:54 am By Randy Alcorn

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Have you ever wished you had a better memory to recall the people you’ve met throughout your lifetime? I have often wished I could call up recordings of conversing with people I’ve met at churches, conventions, airports, and many more places. I suspect we will be able to recall conversations and “chance” meetings when we see those people again in Heaven, and instantly bond over what we had once completely or largely forgotten. I think that will be delightful, and... Read more

2024-06-14T20:59:37-08:00

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How to Avoid Making an Idol of Your Marriage and Spouse

Last updated on: June 14, 2024 at 8:59 pm By Randy Alcorn

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A thoughtful young man asked me: My wife and I were talking about idols, and wondering to what degree marriage, or your significant other, can become an idol? We talked about the idea that something is an idol if you would be discontent without it. But we know that marriage is such a gift from the Lord, and you are more united to that person than any other person. We thought of you, and wanted to ask your thoughts on... Read more

2024-05-17T10:50:14-08:00

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Life Is Far from Certain, But Jesus Is

Last updated on: May 17, 2024 at 10:50 am By Randy Alcorn

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Corrie Ten Boom wrote, “When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.” In her journal kept during her cancer years, my wife Nanci reflected about life’s uncertainty: Lord, I don’t know what’s ahead of me on this earth. Even the plans which are made change—almost daily. Uncertainty has always been difficult for me to handle. I like knowing what’s going on... Read more

2024-05-17T10:44:53-08:00

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God Has Continued to Use My Older Books, to My Surprise

Last updated on: May 17, 2024 at 10:44 am By Randy Alcorn

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I attempted my first novel, back in the 90s. I emphasize the word attempted because it really was an experiment. To be honest, I made more mistakes in writing Deadline than any other fiction book I’ve written, not surprisingly, because the first house built will not be his best house if someone continues to build. And yet, God has really used that novel. I think because the plot was sound and a lot of imagination went into it, people still read it. (But I would... Read more

2024-05-09T13:20:57-08:00

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Wait Until Then: A Story of Promise for Children

Last updated on: May 9, 2024 at 1:20 pm By Randy Alcorn

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I’m excited that my children’s book Wait Until Then is once again available, reprinted by our ministry. It’s been almost 17 years since it was first published, but the story is timeless—it is just as applicable now as it was then. (One of the main changes we had to make was adding all five of my grandsons’ names to the dedication. When it was first published, only the first three had been born, and even they were very young!) It’s a very... Read more

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2024-05-09T13:13:56-08:00

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Will Places We Loved Here Be Resurrected on the New Earth?

Last updated on: May 9, 2024 at 1:13 pm By Randy Alcorn

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The world says, “You can never go home again.” It means that while we were gone, home changed and so did we. Our old house may have been destroyed or sold, been renovated, or become run-down. In contrast, when this life is over—and particularly when we arrive on the New Earth—God’s children will truly be able to come home for the very first time. Because our home in Heaven will never burn, flood, or be blown away, we’ll never have... Read more

2024-05-09T13:08:45-08:00

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Trials Make Us Crave God’s Mercy and Love

Last updated on: May 9, 2024 at 1:08 pm By Randy Alcorn

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Psalm 107 begins, “Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever. Let the redeemed of the LORD say this.” The psalmist details the sufferings of God’s people, wandering in desert wastelands, without homes, hungry, and thirsty. “Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress” (verse 6). For their deliverance he says, “Let them give thanks to the LORD for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds... Read more

2024-05-02T11:10:12-08:00

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Our Skewed View of Wealth

Last updated on: May 2, 2024 at 11:10 am By Randy Alcorn

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When Zacchaeus said he would give half his money to the poor and pay back fourfold those he had cheated, Jesus did not merely say, “Good idea.” He said, “Today salvation has come to this house” (Luke 19:9). This is amazing. Jesus judged the reality of this man’s salvation based on his willingness—no, his cheerful eagerness—to part with his money for the glory of God and the good of others. Then there’s Zacchaeus’s counterpart—the rich young ruler (Matthew 19:16-30; Luke... Read more

2024-05-02T11:04:13-08:00

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What Will Resurrection Day Be Like?

Last updated on: May 2, 2024 at 11:04 am By Randy Alcorn

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What will it be like on our resurrection day, when we return with Christ to this old Earth, when we are given new bodies in the knowledge that we will together colonize a New Earth (whether that is immediately, or after a thousand years)? At the end of my novel Safely Home, I tried to catch a flavor of what it may be like: The battle cry of a hundred million warriors erupted from one end of the heavens to the... Read more

2024-04-25T09:58:51-08:00

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What Does It Mean to Live for the Line, Not the Dot?

Last updated on: April 25, 2024 at 9:58 am By Randy Alcorn

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We can think of our lives in terms of a dot and a line, signifying two phases. Our present life on Earth is the dot. It begins. It ends. It’s brief. However, from the dot, a line extends that goes on forever. That line is eternity, which Christians will spend in Heaven. Right now we’re living in the dot. But what are we living for? The shortsighted person lives for the dot. The person with perspective lives for the line. This Earth as it is... Read more

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