Resources by Topic: Christian Life

I find, today, that there are a lot of women who really do have a heart for the Lord. Yet their clothing is communicating something far different than what’s in their hearts.

Randy Alcorn, John Piper, George Verwer, and Dwight Perry answer questions at the Desiring God 2004 National Conference. 

Years ago I put together a number of Scriptures on the power of our words. Their cumulative weight is stunning. I encourage you to read them and meditate on them, and examine your heart and habits.

I begin with five assumptions. Without them, what I have to say about counseling and suffering will not stand.

Lord, your no answer to physical healing meant yes to a deeper healing

By removing eternal risk, Christ calls his people to continual temporal risk. For the followers of Jesus the final risk is gone.

In 2003, Randy Alcorn spoke to a group of writers at the Christian Writers Conference on the subject of grace and truth. In this clip, he talks about honesty in writing.

“My sheep listen to my voice,” Jesus said. Have you been listening to his voice lately? Have you been putting your ear to his Word and asking him to speak to you?

One of my joys as a pastor is to guide people through God’s Word and explain its implications on their lives.

The purpose of this assignment is to see in overview what the Bible says about desire. As you look at each passage, in the space provided jot down key phrases, observations (e.g. who’s doing the desiring and what they desire) or principles.

Our underlying beliefs—right or wrong—about what will bring us happiness, what will satisfy our deepest desires, largely determine the lives we will live.

The following is the class syllabus from a class Randy Alcorn taught during the Summer of 2002 at Western Seminary (5511 SE Hawthorne, Portland, Oregon 97215, 503-517-1800).

It’s like the tip of an iceberg, a sharp, damaging, external protrusion that, no matter how much pain it inflicts, only represents the much bigger problem beneath the surface. What is so fierce that it can sink the seemingly hardiest of men, or at least flood a chamber of his heart and debilitate him for life? Abortion.

Scripture reminds us first that our citizenship is in heaven, not here on earth (Philippians 3:20).