Difficult Truths & Deep Love: Pondering Sovereignty, Suffering, and the Promise of Heaven
October 12, 2010
Difficult Truths & Deep Love: Pondering Sovereignty, Suffering, and the Promise of Heaven from Randy Alcorn - EPM on Vimeo.
Randy Alcorn's 45-minute message during a Friday seminar at the 2010 Desiring God Conference, which had the theme "Think: The Life of the Mind & the Love of God."
Randy Alcorn (@randyalcorn) is the author of fifty-some books and the founder and director of Eternal Perspective Ministries.
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