In this two-minute video, I talk about Deuteronomy 28:47, which says, “Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart…”

Blaise Pascal said that, like a dethroned monarch who craves for the influence he or she lost, we often feel a similar impotence to accomplish great things for God. Though the fall has diminished our ability to accomplish as much as may want to, we don't have to wait for heaven to operate within a God given sphere of influence. Randy Alcorn reminds us that God has given us a sphere of influence and we should serve Him faithfully in it. This video clip was excerpted from Randy's Eternity 101 DVD class.

Serving God is our joy. But Randy Alcorn quotes Jesus who said that God our Master serves us. This doesn't make Him our servant. But how great is His love for us that He would serve us by saving us to let us be with Him? This video clip was excerpted from Randy's Eternity 101 DVD class.

Is it simply just our job to serve God? Is He delighted by us merely doing our duty to Him? Randy Alcorn uses a family illustration to show that it is not the moral high ground to reject God's rewards and serve Him just out of a sense of duty. Though we shouldn't demand rewards of God, we should delight to receive what He chooses to give us. This video clip was excerpted from Randy's Eternity 101 DVD class.

For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that Day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing.  —2 Timothy 4:6-8, ESV Paul’s letter to Timothy wasn’t the first he wrote from prison in Rome, it was his last. Final letter, final prison. The time …

God has his people everywhere. Many vocations are more important than football. But regardless of what it is, when God gives His people a platform to stand on, and a voice that can be heard, He expects them to represent Him faithfully.

I appreciate John Piper’s view of retirement as an opportunity to serve God in another season of life.

USAID estimates there will be nearly three million orphans (2,886,000) in Malawi and Zambia by the end of 1999.