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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.

On Choosing Wisely When to Say No and When to Say Yes

By Randy Alcorn | September 5, 2018
When we’re asked to do worthless or unprofitable things, it doesn’t take much wisdom to say no, does it? Especially not when you do one of those things and think, “Okay, that was a waste…I’m never doing that again.” The real problem is all the good things we’re asked to do.

Our Problem, God’s Solution

By Randy Alcorn | September 3, 2018
The problem of how we could possibly be reconciled with a God who hates evil is the greatest problem of history. Before we can see God in Heaven, something must radically change. This calls for no less than the greatest solution ever devised. 

God’s Happiness Is Good News for Our Eternal Future

By Randy Alcorn | August 31, 2018
Does it really matter whether we believe that God is happy? Yes—it matters more than anything has ever mattered, or ever will. Upon it hinges, for instance, whether or not we can believe God’s promises, like those found in Romans 8.

Why It’s Biblical, Not Just a Fad, to Care for People from Other Cultures

By Shauna Hernandez | August 24, 2018
On the New Earth we’ll never celebrate sin, but we’ll celebrate diversity in the biblical sense (though never in the twisted sense that celebrates sin in the name of diversity). So let’s get a head start now, by loving and serving people of different cultures and races. This article by EPM staff member Shauna Hernandez is an excellent reminder of why we should do so. 

Four Aspects of Your Identity in Christ to Focus on

By Randy Alcorn | August 22, 2018
We tend to let our jobs, relationships, material possessions, abilities, and other things define who we are, when they shouldn’t. Here are four aspects of our identity captured in Scripture, followed by some resources you might benefit from.

God Wondrously Displays His Greatness When He Brings Good out of Bad

By Randy Alcorn | August 20, 2018
Sin and death, the Fall and the Curse, Satan and his demons, the Hell we deserve—what powerful obstacles for God to overcome. But the biggest obstacle was the satisfaction of His own holiness. For God to demonstrate His greatness, He had to overcome all these obstacles.