As someone who has remained sexually pure, how do I forgive my girlfriend, who lost her virginity in the past?

Your desire to marry someone who has remained pure is a great goal. However, because we are sinful by nature, some people do have sex outside of marriage, maybe even before they became a Christian.

The Grace and Truth Paradox: Responding with Christlike Balance (Christian Book Summaries)

THE BOOK’S PURPOSE

• Establish grace and truth as the essential building blocks of Christian spirituality
• Point out the difficulties of manifesting both qualities simultaneously
• Deepen our understanding of the relationship between these two virtues
• Demonstrate the power of grace and truth working in tandem

THE BOOK’S MESSAGE

Grace and truth found their perfect union in Christ, but the rest of us tend to gravitate toward one or the other. Truth without grace breeds self-righteousness and legalism. Grace without truth breeds deception and moral compromise. The key to true Christian spirituality is to integrate these two qualities into life ...

Why We All Need Christ

Note from Randy: In response to a question in a college application form, my seventeen-year-old daughter Angela wrote the following. I asked her if we could print it. Nanci and I praise God that both our daughters, by His grace and to His glory, are walking closely with Him. What Angela says here cuts to the heart of the Bible’s teaching about our need for the Savior.

“I can do this. I don’t need any help. I can make it on my own.”

“Strength comes from within. If you believe in yourself, anything is possible. Trusting in anyone ...

Westley Allen Dodd’s Eternity

I couldn’t sleep the night of January 4, 1993, so I turned on the coverage of the execution of Westley Allen Dodd. He was the man who tortured, raped and murdered three young boys in Vancouver, Washington, about twenty minutes from where I live.