Tag: Randy Alcorn

What Would Happen If We Prayed Before We Spent Money?

Setting a waiting period gives God the opportunity to provide what we want, to provide something different or better, or to show us that we don’t need it and should use the money differently.

There Is Still Great Opportunity to Serve Jesus, After Age 70 and Beyond

I love to be around older people—that is, older people who have sweetened with age, not those who have soured. Choose which you’d rather be.

What Do Secular Studies on Happiness Have in Common with the Bible?

A naturalistic worldview that embraces randomness, ultimate meaninglessness, and survival of the fittest doesn’t lend itself to happiness.

When One Day Your Present Life Is Forgotten on Earth, God Will Forever Remember and Care

The Bible tells us that although others may not remember us or care what our lives here have been, God will remember perfectly, and he cares very much—so much that the door of eternity swings on the hinges of our present lives.

Christ and His Kingdom, Not Politics, Should Be the Central Fixture of Our Focus

This year, we can choose where to fix our eyes. Instead of locking them on the short-term things we can see, we are called to turn our gaze, by faith, to what is eternal.

Tell Your Children and Grandchildren About Yahweh, That One Day They May Remind You

Perhaps one day your children will speak back to you what you have written and spoken and lived.

We Are Called to Persevere and Finish Well, to God’s Glory

Endurance requires patience, because reward for today’s right choices will come, but it may be months or years from now, or not until we leave this world.

The Best Is Still Yet to Be

Think of it: millions of years from now, in the presence of the happy God who will never tire of us, we’ll still be young.