- Fri, Oct 15, 2010
- Randy's Books
What’s the difference between The Goodness of God and If God Is Good?
The Goodness of God is a specially focused condensation of If God Is Good.
The Goodness of God is a specially focused condensation of If God Is Good.
1. Truth must touch both heart and mind.
Though I write personally, from the heart, and tell stories of great courage and perspective, I must also present a case from Scripture and appeal to logic. But remember this: you are a whole person, and the path to your heart travels through your mind. Truth matters. To touch us at the heart level-and to keep touching us over days, months, years, and decades—truth must work its way into our minds.
2. God’s truth about Himself.
In writing his magnificent story of redemption, God has revealed truths about himself, us, the world, goodness, evil, suffering, and Heaven and Hell. Those truths God reveals to us teem with life. The blood of man and God flows through them. God speaks with passion, not indifference; he utters fascinating words, not dull ones. To come to grips with the problem of evil and suffering, you must do more than hear heart-wrenching stories about suffering people. You much hear God’s truth to help you interpret those stories.
Randy Alcorn's interview on the Debbie Chavez show, in which he discusses the goodness of God in the midst of suffering and evil.
Randy Alcorn talking about evil and suffering on Family Life Today. This is a three part series that aired June 16-18, 2010.
Randy Alcorn discussing If God is Good on Mid-Morning with Lynne Ford.
Prosperity theology teaches that God will bless with material abundance and good health those who obey him and lay claim to his promises. “We don’t have to wait for God’s blessing in the life to come,” it promises. “He’ll send it to us here and now.”
Sunday, June 14, 1987, had been an ordinary, but enjoyable day for us.
Randy discusses evil and suffering and his book If God is Good.