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Men, you are the leaders of Men, you are the leaders of your families. You might be reluctant to assume that role. You might even deny that it falls to you. Nonetheless, you are your family’s de facto leader, whether you choose to believe it or not.

The reason I don’t address activities about the intermediate state is because there are not a lot of details given to it.

When logic would tell you the church would not be able to grow under government restrictions, it has grown at a phenomenal rate.

I would agree that our salvation is not based on our works.

This world is the closest thing to heaven unbelievers will ever experience, and the closest thing to hell believers will ever know. 

Choose your friends wisely. Don’t just let friendships happen by circumstance. Make them happen by choice—careful, thoughtful choice.

The majority text (MT) really means “a statistical number larger than another text type” (i.e., called the MT = “Western Text”). The other major text type has fewer manuscripts, but they are older and some are better preserved.

I heard a pastor make a startling confession: “Whenever I think about heaven, it makes me depressed. I’d rather just cease to exist when I die.”

When our daughters were considering a college, we told them, “Judge everything you hear by the Word of God, like the Bereans in Acts 17:11.”

It’s really something you have to accept by faith, trusting that a measurable result will come, even if the book isn’t read by people for another two years.

The place we’ll live forever will be where God comes down to dwell with us, on the New Earth (Revelation 21:1-3).

I would like to see a church become so godly, so Spirit-filled that it would have a spiritual influence on all of the churches in the entire area.

Note from Randy: I wrote this to the men in a study group I led, based on Dallas Willard’s book, Spirit of the Disciplines.

Two segments from the novel Safely Home, by Randy Alcorn