Randy Alcorn

hand in Hand Small Group Discussion Questions

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Use the following questions to stimulate your personal reflection as well as for group discussion. A PDF version with space for writing answers is available as a free download.

Turning Bad into Best

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C. S. Lewis, in The Great Divorce, wrote that “both good and evil, when they are full grown, become retrospective… Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory.”

Speaking Up for Christ in the Classroom

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One of the most difficult challenges for a Christian student is to be in a classroom with a professor who is openly hostile to faith in Christ. 

“O My Soul”: Engaging in Biblical Self-Talk

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We all talk to ourselves. Whether or not this is a good practice depends largely on what we are saying, and whether it is true and helpful.  

The Poison of Prosperity Gospel

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The popular “name it and claim it” teaching—also called the health and wealth gospel—is not limited to certain congregations, but has worked its way into mainstream evangelical churches where it gets subtly woven into many Christians’ worldviews.

Praising God with Music, and a Powerful A Cappella Video

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I love the transcendence of great music, a gift from our Creator who is, no surprise, creative! 

My Latest Book: “hand in Hand: The Beauty of God’s Sovereignty and Meaningful Human Choice”

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Of all the questions we confront in life, none is larger and more perplexing than the question of God’s sovereignty and human choice.   

Why You Can Live Free from the Burden of YOLO, “You Only Live Once”

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The expression YOLO, “you only live once," rightly recognizes you will die, but assumes that you will never live again after you die. The Good News is radically different.

Six Reasons to Live More Simply—and Give More Generously

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Someone has said, “Live simply that others may simply live.” Of course, there is no automatic relationship between my simple living and someone else being rescued from starvation or reached with the gospel.

Surf Like a Pig

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Most people you meet are partial to dogs or cats. Some, as in the case of the man in this video, are even partial to pigs.