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
I wrote my first novel, 'Deadline,' in 1994 as an experiment.
What is good about Good Friday? Why isn't it called Bad Friday? Because out of the appallingly bad came what was inexpressibly good. And the good trumps the bad, because though the bad was temporary, the good is eternal.
Not only will we see His face and live, but we will likely wonder if we ever lived before we saw His face!
Selfishness is when we pursue gain at the expense of others. But God doesn’t have a limited number of treasures to distribute. When you store up treasures for yourself in heaven, it doesn’t reduce the treasures available to others. In fact, it is by serving God and others that we store up heavenly treasures. Everyone gains; no one loses.
This is one of the great paradoxes of suffering. Those who don't suffer much think suffering should keep people from God, while many who suffer a great deal turn to God, not from him.
Countless mistakes in marriage, parenting, ministry, and other relationships are failures to balance grace and truth. Sometimes we neglect both. Often we choose one over the other.
We are all theologians, either good ones or bad ones. I'd rather be a good one. Wouldn't you?
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.
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.
Am I getting braver, or just getting accustomed to being terrified?
Whenever we have excess, giving should be our natural response. It should be the automatic decision, the obvious thing to do in light of Scripture and human need.