Facebook and Twitter

For those who do Facebook and/or Twitter, I'm posting on both most days. Already over 2,000 access Facebook and over 500 follow on Twitter.

On Facebook you can find me at www.facebook.com/randyalcorn. I've enjoyed posting some short devotional thoughts and Scripture references on my wall and seeing the responses from readers. For instance, one day last week I posted this:

We should come to God's Word to examine truth-claims (Acts 17:11). If we're more eager to watch a sitcom, American Idol, a ball game, or the evening news than to ...

Facebook and Twitter: Are They Worth It?

As many of you know, I am on both Facebook and Twitter, where I frequently post short updates and devotional thoughts. Some people may ask if as a Christian, being on Facebook and Twitter and other social networking sites is really worth it, or just a waste of time.

John Piper addressed this in an article called Why and How I Am Tweeting:

I see two kinds of responses to social Internet media like blogging, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, and others.

One says: These media tend to shorten attention spans, weaken discursive reasoning, lure people away from Scripture and prayer, disembody ...

Family snow photos, and some Funny Pics on file

Two of our grandsons are in southern California visiting their other grandparents. They and their parents made it out of town before the snow and ice.

Meanwhile we've spent a few days with our other grandsons, Jake and Tyler Stump, who live just up the road from us. We were on the sled, threw snowballs and built a snowman in our side yard. You can't often do that in our part of Oregon, and we've had a blast.

Then tonight Nanci and I took out Steve and Sue Keels for Steve's 53rd birthday. Mexican food, a ...

February Giveaway: The Promise of Heaven

This month, three randomly drawn winners will receive a copy of the new book The Promise of Heaven, which combines solid biblical teaching gleaned from Randy’s best-selling book, Heaven, with the awe-inspiring photography of John MacMurray to create a gift book to be treasured. (If you're reading this post on Facebook or Amazon or elsewhere, please visit Randy's blog to leave your comment and enter.)

Randy writes, “I hope that John MacMurray’s stunning photographs serve as a foretaste of eternal delight in the resurrection, on God’s New Earth. As Martin Luther put it, ‘Our Lord ...

Financial Challenges, Worry and Giving

Recently I was interviewed for a segment that aired on the Coral Ridge Hour, called "How now should Christians live in today's current economy?"


(Click here if you're unable to view the video.)

I'm speaking next week at a Generous Giving conference in Scottsdale, Arizona. As I'm working hard to finish up final revisions of my book If God is Good... Faith in the Midst of Suffering and Evil, I'm also thinking about giving and stewardship in light of the financial challenges so many people are facing. Many people find themselves worrying.

Worry has a ...

Four Blessings from Above: The Joy of Grandchildren

It’s been a while since I showed pics of our grandchildren. Many of you have endured sleepless nights wondering when I was going to get back to them. Now you can relax and breathe again.

Four Things You Cannot Recover...

A few months ago I happened to see this on The Heart of a Pastor Wife's blog, and thought these pictures were profound.

Four things you cannot recover....

Francis Chan’s Erasing Hell: a response to Rob Bell’s Love Wins

I spoke about Mark Galli’s God Wins in the previous blog. (The ebook is now available on Amazon.) Today I’ll deal with Francis Chan’s Erasing Hell, another response to Rob Bell’s Love Wins. Then I’ll compare Chan’s book to Galli’s.

Francis Schaeffer: Intellectual and Christ-lover

Friday, May 15, is the 25th anniversary of the home-going of Francis Schaeffer, intellectual and Christ-lover. When I was a new believer, I was profoundly influenced by what he wrote; Schaeffer's philosophical and apologetic writings, among them He Is There & He Is Not Silent, shaped my thinking in the seventies. (For those unfamiliar with Schaeffer, you can find excerpts from nearly all of his books at www.rationalpi.com/theshelter/sitemap.html)