Increased Persecution in China, and What China’s Digital Dictatorship Could Mean for Christians

By Randy Alcorn | September 28, 2018

Recently a number of reports coming out of China indicate that persecution of Christians is increasing.

Understanding Who God Is, and Who We Are, Makes Pride Unthinkable

By Randy Alcorn | September 26, 2018

When we’re prideful, we make God our opponent: “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble. Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time” (1 Peter 5:5-6). There are many things wrong—not to mention ludicrous—with making God our opponent, but the most obvious one is this: it’s a battle we can never win.

Why We Don’t Need to Be Anxious and Worry

By Randy Alcorn | September 24, 2018

Jesus asked, “Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to your life?” (Luke 12:25, NIV). Nothing is more impotent than worry, and nothing so robs us of happiness in Christ.

Scripture Invites Us to Praise God through Singing

By Randy Alcorn | September 21, 2018

Recently, feeling a weight about Nanci’s fight with cancer, I also felt a great need to sense God’s presence and joy. The Lord led me to Psalm 100. When I read verse 2, which says “come before Him with joyful songs,” I realized I rarely sing to Him in my quiet time.

A Dice Game, a Harley Davidson Motorcycle, and a Delightful Story about Generosity and God’s Providence

By Diane Meyer | September 19, 2018

Today’s guest post is by our dear friend Diane Meyer, who tells a great and fun story that really fits with the character of our generous, delightful God. Most giving stories I hear don’t involve a dice game and a Harley Davidson motorcycle. But that’s what makes this one so unique.

The Problem with “Speak Your Truth”

By Dan Franklin | September 17, 2018

My son-in-law Dan Franklin is teaching pastor at Life Bible Fellowship in Upland, California. Dan is married to my daughter Karina, and the father of three of my grandsons, but that’s not the main reason he’s one of my favorite teachers. In this video, Dan talks about the problems behind the phrase, “Speak your truth.”  

Grace Means Christians Should and Can Live Differently than the World

By Greg Morse | September 14, 2018

This article by Greg Morse is vitally important. Its message, which has been on my heart a long time, is this: on the one hand, it’s true that we are sinners saved by grace, meaning for now we are still sinners. On the other hand, when we talk about how normal sin is, suggesting it’s inevitable that we as Christians sin, we are really missing something vital about Christ’s empowering grace.

Charles Spurgeon and the Importance of Consistency with Scripture in Theology

By Randy Alcorn | September 12, 2018

I think Charles Spurgeon comes as close as anyone I’ve read to articulating what Scripture as a whole reveals. Sadly, though I attended both a good Bible college and a good seminary, I never read Spurgeon or learned anything about him. I’d been a pastor for ten years before I discovered him, and then I couldn’t get enough of him.

Cultural Relativism, Even in the Face of Human Sacrifice

By Randy Alcorn | September 10, 2018

Relativism dominates the thinking of most educated people (which means sometimes that uneducated people are morally smarter). The “it all depends” morality, controversial fifty years ago when called situational ethics, denies the existence of any objective standards of right and wrong. What’s wrong for one person, so it insists, may be right for another. One uses internal, not external, standards to judge morality.

Will We Work and Have Jobs in Heaven?

By Randy Alcorn | September 7, 2018

Because work began before sin and the Curse, and because God, who is without sin, is a worker, we should assume human beings will work on the New Earth. We’ll have satisfying and enriching work that we can’t wait to get back to, work that’ll never be drudgery.