- Fri, Jul 03, 2009
- Grandkids
Summer and Grandkids
Matt Franklin turns five in November. Loves to hike with us in the "forest" near our house. A math prodigy and a wonderful kid.
Matt Franklin turns five in November. Loves to hike with us in the "forest" near our house. A math prodigy and a wonderful kid.
Summer is here, and it’s the perfect time to relax by reading a good book (or two). In honor of these summer reading days, this month we’re giving away Randy’s fiction books, Lord Foulgrin’s Letters and The Ishbane Conspiracy.
Lord Foulgrin's Letters are written by a demon to his subordinate Squaltaint. Lord Foulgrin advises Squaltaint how to tempt and deceive Jordan Fletcher, the human "vermin" or "sludgebag" to whom he's assigned.
Imagine what a major coup of military intelligence it would be if we could place a wiretap in Hell's war room. What ...
Hi, I'm Stephanie Anderson, promotions director at EPM, and this month's giveaway is a double feature: three randomly-drawn winners will receive a fiction book of their choice, and a fiction book of their choice to give as an outreach or share with a friend! (Click here to browse and learn more about Randy's fiction books, including Deadline, Dominion, Deception, Safely Home, Edge of Eternity, Lord Foulgrin's Letters, and The Ishbane Conspiracy.)
While speaking at the Ron Blue’s Kingdom Advisors conference in Orlando last week I received a surprise endorsement for two of my new books, 90 Days of God's Goodness and Managing God's Money. Just had to share it with you.
As I point out in my book Why ProLife?, not long ago, young people seemed so immersed in moral relativism and tolerance-driven postmodern culture that it appeared they would eventually become uniformly pro-choice. People used to think the prolife movement would die of old age. But something happened.
Dwight L. Moody once said, “We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity. For in prosperity, we forget God.”
Years ago in Washington, DC, I met a woman named Gianna Jessen, then a teenager. She sang at an event I was speaking at, and we had a delightful conversation. She is musically gifted and I found her a wonderful testimony to God’s grace.
Gratitude never comes from avoiding difficulty, but from finding yourself sustained through it. The degree of joy rises to the degree of gratitude, and the level of gratitude corresponds to the level of God’s grace experienced in our suffering. God’s sustaining providence brings relief, even when life becomes unspeakably difficult.
Someone I’d never met came up to me after I spoke at a conference.
“I’ve got a problem with you,” he said, face sour.
“Take a number,” I said.
Kevin DeYoung recently linked to this video, which like, you know, is really good?