The Bible: More Than Stories

I am often hearing people say these days that God has revealed himself to us in stories, and that story, not doctrine, is the framework in which we should see our faith.

I LOVE story (which is why I’ve written and enjoyed fiction and also love good biographies). However, story is NOT everything. There is also revealed propositional truth and many other forms of communication God has taken with us in his Word.

I love this blog from John Piper on this very subject. It’s not long so I’ll take the liberty of quoting it in its ...

Book Giveaway of the Month: Dominion

The Dominion giveaway is now closed.

February is Black History Month, so we are giving away three signed copies of Randy’s novel Dominion, a dramatic story of spiritual searching, racial reconciliation, and hope.

Book Giveaway of the Month: Heaven

The Heaven giveaway is now closed. Check back on May 12 for the next giveaway.

I’ve been looking forward to featuring Heaven as this month’s book giveaway simply because of the many wonderful reader responses to the book we’ve received such as this recent one: 

On Valentine's Day 2007 my husband of 25 years died very unexpectedly on his 50th birthday. As you can imagine I was and still am devastated. His journey to our eternal home led me in search of a book so that I might study and become more knowledgeable about Heaven. At ...

Book Giveaway of the Month: Heaven book with small group DVD of Randy speaking on Heaven

The Heaven giveaway is now closed. Please check out the winners post to see if your name was drawn.

This month we’re giving away three signed copies of Randy’s book Heaven, which now includes a bonus small group study DVD in the back of the book.

The DVD is a great addition to Heaven. (It’s not available separately from the book.) It includes seven small group sessions (average length of 9-12 minutes) along with some study questions.

If you missed Randy’s recent blog on the DVD, be sure to check it out to watch a video ...

Book Giveaway: Courageous

For those of you who have been patiently waiting for a new Randy Alcorn novel, you’re in for a treat: his new novel Courageous, written with Alex and Stephen Kendrick, released August 1!

Book Giveaway: Managing God’s Money

March 1 marked the release of Randy’s new book Managing God’s Money. This month, three randomly drawn winners from this giveaway will win a copy.

God cares a great deal more about our money than most of us imagine. The sheer enormity of Scripture’s teaching on this subject screams for our attention.

Deadline Book Giveaway

It’s been a couple of months since we’ve given away a fiction book, so I’m excited to let you know that in October we’re giving away three copies of Randy’s novel Deadline.

His body hung suspended between two friends – his soul between two worlds.

Doc’s shoulder jammed into Jake as he swerved the Suburban sharply to the right, cut between a telephone pole and a billboard, then careened into a ten-foot high embankment. Sometime between the sound of Doc’s last cry and the sickening crunch of bent metal from the car’s first ...

Detective Ollie Chandler Interviews Rebecca Butler

Recently someone mentioned on my Facebook page that he was reading Deception and laughed his way through the chapter where the main character Detective Ollie Chandler interviews an eccentric lady named Becky Butler. I really enjoyed writing that scene, which I’ve included as an excerpt in this blog.

Discovering The Hole in Our Holiness

Holiness was once a central component of following Christ. But for many today, the Christian life is little more than a celebration of cheap grace and pseudo-liberty, with a high tolerance for sin. In this well-written and much-needed book, Kevin DeYoung thoughtfully points us to an unpopular yet strangely liberating truth—that God is holy and expects us to be holy.

Do you plan to write more fiction?

I just finished a short fiction project, a graphic novel (if you’re not familiar with the term, that’s an extended comic book form) that is going to be titled Eternity. It’s a story about the rich man and Lazarus from Luke 16.