
Randy Alcorn
Randy Alcorn (@randyalcorn) is the author of over sixty books and the founder and director of Eternal Perspective Ministries.
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May 23, 1992
In 1992, my home town, Gresham, Oregon, emerged as the newest battlefield between the historic role of the Christian faith in our society, and the newer vision of the ACLU.

Accountability Groups: Men Helping Men in Their Walk With God
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December 23, 2009
To experience true accountability, we have both the right and the responsibility to ask each other hard and to-the-point questions.

Could You Explain the Name “Jesus”?
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December 23, 2009
Jesus is not a pure Greek name, as there is no "J" in Greek. Yashua's Greek name begins with an iota. The name is transliterated IESOUS and sounds like ee-ay-soos.

Abortion-Relevant References from Scripture
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December 22, 2009
"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations." (Jeremiah 1:5)

The Grace and Truth Paradox: Responding with Christlike Balance (Christian Book Summaries)
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December 22, 2009
Grace and truth found their perfect union in Christ, but the rest of us tend to gravitate toward one or the other.

Choosing and Defending Life: a Prolife Bible Study Lesson for Group Discussion
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January 18, 1997
This is a small group lesson I wrote for Good Shepherd Community Church Growth Groups. It was designed for use in groups following my message on abortion in the January 18-19, 1997 services. Pastors (or anyone else) are welcome to make use of it. — Randy Alcorn

31 Radical, Liberating Questions to Ask God About Your Giving
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December 18, 2009
When it comes to financial stewardship, God hasn’t handed each of us a standardized checklist with little boxes to mark off one by one. Rather, He has provided us His Word with principles for effective financial stewardship—principles we have to wrestle with. In the process of this struggle, God expects us to seek His face and to pursue the counsel of godly believers who have traveled further than we along Stewardship Road.

27 Common Questions About Heaven
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December 18, 2009
All these questions are addressed in Randy Alcorn's book Heaven (Tyndale, 2004). Most of them have clear, though not comprehensive, biblical answers. The others that don't have clear answers can be intelligently speculated upon, based on what Scripture does tell us.

21 Brief Observations Concerning Revelation 6:9-11
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December 18, 2009
"When [the Lamb] opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained. They called out in a loud voice, 'How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?' Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and brothers who were to be killed as they had been was completed" (Revelation 6:9-11).

From Prochoice to Prolife by Hearing the Truth About Abortion
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December 18, 2009
Years ago I was given an amazing opportunity to address three thousand people, most of them high school students, for fifty minutes on the subject of abortion.