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How Did You Learn to Love Reading?

How Did You Learn to Love Reading?

article - Randy Alcorn

I learned to love reading through comic books Archie and Richie, Rich and Marvel (esp. Fantastic Four). But I was a DC fan, my favorites being The Justice League of America (Green Lantern was my hero) and The Legion of Super Heroes (go, Lightning Lad). From there I dove into science fiction and fantasy, spending my nights looking through my telescope, then coming to bed freezing cold and reading science fiction by flashlight under my covers, so Mom wouldn’t see the light on. I vividly remember forty years ago looking through the kids fiction section in the local ...

How Do I Experience God as “Abba Father”?

article - Kathy Norquist

Your lack of feeling in relationship to the Lord could be related to some damaged emotions somewhere in your past. It is helpful to evaluate this area (not to cast blame, but to gain an understanding and add insight into why you may be experiencing what you are.

How Do I Know Which Translation(s) of the Bible Would Be Good to Use, Especially for a “Word for Word” Study?

article - Jim Swanson

And among those that translate word for word, the ESV is more literary and readable; the NASB is not quite as good English, but still accurate as a word for word translation. A person reading a passage looking for key terms that repeat, then a NASB would be better. If you are trying to understand the passage as a whole, then the ESV is better.

How Do I Relate to My Daughter Who Moved in with Her Boyfriend?

article - Kathy Norquist

My heart goes out to you and the pain you are experiencing. You're grieving a loss right now and I’m sure you have many mixed emotions.

How Do I Respond to My Pastor Who Thinks the Bible Is Not “Necessarily” God’s Word?

article - Randy Alcorn

I think you should do what you can to get accurate apologetic information to your pastor that shows the Bible's reliability.

How Do Medications for Bipolar Disorder Affect Pregnancy?

article - William L. Toffler M.D.

have severe bipolar disorder and am unable to go off my medication if I become pregnant. How do medications for this disorder affect pregnancy, or should I even consider having children? The situation you describe is obviously anguishing for you. I can well imagine that the advice doctors may have given you was based on their concern that any medicine you take for your bipolar disorder would cause birth defects or irreparable harm to a pregnancy.

How Do the Judgment of Faith and the Judgment of Works Differ?

How Do the Judgment of Faith and the Judgment of Works Differ?

article - Jim Darnall

The Bible speaks of two separate judgments: the judgment of faith, and the judgment of works. The judgment of faith determines our inheritance, whereas the judgment of works determines our recompense.

How Do We Know When Scripture Is Referring to the Intermediate Heaven or the New Heaven and Earth?

article - Randy Alcorn

We know by the context.

How Do We Not “Live in Sin” and How Is It Measured?

How Do We Not “Live in Sin” and How Is It Measured?

article - Randy Alcorn

While we believe in a salvation that is secure, bought and paid for by Christ alone and not by our works, we do not subscribe to the fire insurance/cheap grace/easy believism notion that all who raise a hand or repeat a prayer at one moment in their lives are automatically truly born again.

How Do We Teach Our Children About Money?

article - Randy Alcorn, Linda Jeffries

I am leading a class of young families at my church and we are presently talking about how to teach your children about money. What are your answers to the following questions?

How Do You Explain the Doctrine of Election?

article - Randy Alcorn

I believe in divine election as taught in Scripture. The "elect” are referred to in ten or so passages and the “chosen” in many others. Col 3:12 calls us “God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved.”

How Do You Find a Church That Understands There is a Spiritual Reality Beyond What We Can See?

article - Randy Alcorn

I would like to see more vibrant, Christ-exalting living, first in me, and then in my church and the Christian community as a whole. So I sympathize with what you’re looking for.

How Do You Know Whether or Not Someone Who Is Homosexual and Claims to Know Jesus Is Truly a Christian?

article - Randy Alcorn

There is a difference between being a homosexual and being a homosexual activist, just as there is a difference between having an abortion and being an abortion activist. An activist is one who publicly defends and thereby promotes the sin as a cause, who attempts to morally justify it.

How Do You Sense the Leading of the Holy Spirit?

article - Randy Alcorn

How do you sense the leading of the Holy Spirit? Is it through reading Scripture, a Scripture that comes to mind, or an idea that won’t go away?

How Does a Saline Abortion Kill a Baby?

article - Cathy Ramey

I have a friend who is not a Christian who is having triplets. The doctors are advising her to abort one of them to keep her pregnancy low risk.