Randy Alcorn
Randy Alcorn
Randy Alcornis an American Protestant author and director of Eternal Perspective Ministries, a non-profit Christian organization. He has written several novels, including Deadline, Dominion, and Deception. He received a Gold Medallion Book Award in 2003 for his novel Safely Home. He has also written a number of non-fiction books, including Heaven, The Purity Principle, and The Treasure Principle. Eternal Perspective Ministries owns the royalties to his books and 100 percent of them are given away to support missions, famine relief,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth23 June 1954
CountryUnited States of America
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God gives us abundant material blessing so that we can give it away, and give it generously.
Jesus' miracles provide us with a sample of the meaning of redemption: a freeing of creation from the shackles of sin and evil and a reinstatement of creaturely living as intended by God.
Given our abundance, the burden of proof should always be on keeping, not giving. Why would you not give? We err by beginning with the assumption that we should keep or spend the money God entrusts to us. Giving should be the default choice. Unless there is a compelling reason to spend it or keep it, we should give it.
God loves a great story, and all of us who know Him will recall and celebrate and continue to live in that story for all eternity.
If we were to gain God's perspective, even for a moment, and were to look at the way we go through life accumulating and hoarding and displaying our things, we would have the same feelings of horror and pity that any sane person has when he views people in an asylum endlessly beating their heads against the wall.
Ironically, many people can't afford to give precisely because they're not giving. If we pay our debt to God first, then we will incur His blessing to help us pay our debts to men. But when we rob God to pay men, we rob ourselves of God's blessing.
If I try to make only enough money for my family' immediate needs, it may violate Scripture. ...Even though earning just enough to meet the needs of my family may seem non materialistic, it's actually selfish when I could earn enough to care for others as well.
O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water" (Psalm 63:1). We may imagine we want a thousand different things, but God is the one we really long for. His presence brings satisfaction; his absence brings thirst and longing.
Something nonhuman doesn’t become human by getting older and bigger; whatever is human is human from the beginning.
Wealth is a relational barrier. It keeps us from having open relationships.
If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers.
Jesus didn't tell us not to store up treasures. On the contrary, he commanded us to. He simply said, "Stop storing them up in the wrong place, and start storing them up in the right place."
You are made for a person and a place. Jesus is the person. Heaven is the place.
By trusting Christ's redemptive work for us, we can enter into what we long for: the happiness found only in God.