Tag: Randy Alcorn

The True Good Life Is Not Material Wealth

Every truth seeker must grasp how fundamentally flawed the worldview of material wealth is. To correct this fatal perspective, Jesus said, Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions (Luke 12:15, NIV), defining the true good life.

Gratitude Multiplies When We Give It to God

Record Gods evident goodness around you every day. When practicing giving gratitude to God, youll find that in time, youll see more and more gifts from Himnot because there are more, but because youre finally seeing what has been there all along.

How Can We Discern Between Hearing God’s Voice vs Own?

The voice many people hear above Gods is the voice of their own hurt, pain, disappointment, upbringing, bad experiences with churches, impatience with others faults, independence, a desire to do everything their way, etc., which can be mistaken for hearing God's voice vs own.

Heaven Celebrates Every Repentant Sinner

Heaven throws a party for every sinner who repents. When God celebrates in Heaven, surely His people should celebrate on Earth!

How Can We Remain Humble While Pursuing Humility?

What we need is to be so gripped by Jesus and His grace that we truly forget about ourselves. Why would we want to think about ourselves, the lesser, when we can think about Him, the infinitely greater?

We Are Thirsty for News of Heaven

I pray your heart will testify more and more that you are a citizen of another world, of a better country, with a glorious King. And I pray you will joyfully cling to His promises that He will return to restore and remake a ruined Earth with glorious news of heaven.

Gods Word and the Universal Problem of Suffering

You are a whole person, and the path to your heart travels through your mind. Truth matters. To touch us at the heart leveland to keep touching us over days, months, years, and decadestruth must work its way into our minds, especially when confronting the universal problem of suffering.

Christian Happiness: Good News Worth Sharing

The gospel is attacked on both frontson the one hand, stripped of its intrinsic joy and on the other, stripped of its holy uniqueness and ability to deliver Christian happiness.