Randy Alcorn
Founder and Director, Eternal Perspective Ministries at Freelance
Author of over sixty books, founder and director of @epmorg; love Jesus, my wife Nanci (now with Jesus), daughters, sons and five grandsons!
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3 days ago |
patheos.com | Randy Alcorn
In the first two chapters of Genesis, God had no competition for the affection of His creatures. Humanity found its meaning, purpose, and happiness in God. God was God; everything else wasn’t. And the only two humans knew it. The Fall tragically changed that. Ever since, every member of the human race has been an idolater. What began in Eden won’t end until Jesus returns and all idols crumble under His feet.
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1 week ago |
epm.org | Randy Alcorn
My mom grew up in the Dalles, Oregon, and worked at Charles F. Berg clothing store in Portland, and then became a full-time mom for me and my brother Lance. (This picture is from her days as a model for the store; one of my favorite photographs of her.) I can’t imagine having had a better mom.
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1 week ago |
patheos.com | Randy Alcorn
To be godly is to resemble God. If God were unhappy, we’d need to pursue unhappiness, which sounds as fun as cultivating an appetite for gravel. Fortunately, however, God doesn’t condemn or merely tolerate our desire to be happy; He gave us that longing. Through the Cross, He granted us the grounds and capacity to be happy forever. He encourages us here and now to find happiness in the very place it comes from—Him. In one sense, the idea that happiness began with God isn’t exactly right.
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1 week ago |
epm.org | Randy Alcorn
We grasp the horror of human evil only when we focus on God’s standards and on the atonement necessary to satisfy them. Anything that violates God’s nature is evil. Sin is not merely a minor deviation from a negotiable standard. It is, in the eyes of a holy God and the holy angels who serve Him, a despicable aberration from God’s nature. The clearest indication of our evil’s depth is what it cost to redeem us. Some talk as if God’s bighearted love for us is sufficient to save us.
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1 week ago |
theaquilareport.com | Randy Alcorn
I wonder how many dads have failed to protect their daughters and sons because they craved their approval. When speaking on sexual purity, I once asked a class of 125 Christian college students, “Looking back, how many of you wish your parents had given you less freedom in your high school years to go where you wanted to and hang out with whomever you wanted to?” Over 100 hands shot up.
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If we don’t spend time with the Lord or read to our children or call our parents, life goes on. These things are not emergencies. In neglecting them we don’t neglect something urgent. We neglect something important. https://t.co/44JYSm7Y0o
We’ve all been touched by church people who were instruments of Jesus in our life. Let’s thank God for them! And humbly seek to be Christ-centered instruments of grace, truth, and encouragement in others’ lives, both online and in person. https://t.co/Qhi5XYTrUm
“Heaven is where our inescapable sense of loss and incompleteness is overcome. It is the one thing large enough to answer our deepest longings and console our deepest griefs. Our hunger for perfect justice…mercy…joy and perfect peace—all is met there.” – Mark Buchanan https://t.co/10sqAzTPba