Randy Alcorn
Tyndale House
Gresham, OR, United States
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Does God Want Us to Be Happy?
New York Times bestselling author Randy Alcorn offers a series of short, easy readings on one of life's biggest questions: Does God want me to be happy? → Read More
What Does It Mean That We’re “Hidden with Christ in God”?
Our intimate link with Christ in His redemptive work makes us inseparable from Him, even now. As we walk with Him and commune with Him in this world, we experience a faint foretaste of Heaven’s delights and wonders. → Read More
Am I Sinning If I’m Not Happy as a Christian?
If the happiness in our walk with Christ is consistently gone, we’re wise to ask God and ourselves what needs to change. We should join David in praying, “Restore to me the joy of your salvation” (Psalm 51:12). This is a prayer God is always eager to answer. → Read More
The Benefits and Pitfalls of Multilevel Marketing in the Christian Community
Hundreds of thousands of Christians have at one time or another been part of multilevel sales organizations....In sharing potential pitfalls, I’m sure to tread on sensitive territory, and no doubt some readers will be offended by what I share. Nevertheless, I ask that you consider what I have to say with an open mind. → Read More
Are Prolifers Exaggerating the Reach of New York’s Reproductive Health Act?
After we posted the link to my recent blog about New York’s Reproductive Health Act on Facebook, an EPM board member and one of our staff had exchanges with commenters claiming we were sharing false information and exaggerating the law’s effects. ... What is true and what isn’t? I hope this dialogue is helpful to you. → Read More
What If God Calls You to Give the Shirt off Your Back?
Several years ago, Mary Clayton Wood shared at a Generous Giving Conference. ... It fits with something I’ve been thinking about lately: how God desires for us to live a life of generosity that includes the people we encounter in person each day. → Read More
The Good We Never Ask For: What God Does for Us in Suffering
Throughout the centuries and around the world, many suffering believers affirm that God uses hard times to draw us to Him, to give us a profound happiness in Him, and to build greater Christlikeness and dependence. → Read More
The Man Who Shared Jesus with Chuck Colson—and Changed Eternity for Him and Countless Others
Earlier this month, Tom Phillips, who led Chuck Colson to Jesus in 1973, went to be with his Lord and Savior. ... The following article by Emily Colson, Chuck’s daughter, shares about how Tom’s quiet faithfulness impacted her dad’s life, and how that in turn changed her life and the lives of countless others → Read More
How Should We Respond to Those Who Reject Jesus Because Some Christians Are Hypocrites?
We need to explain to our unbelieving friends that it makes no sense at all to reject Jesus because some of His followers, including us, can sometimes be hypocritical. What, after all, is the gospel all about? Is it about us? No! → Read More
Isabella Chow and Standing up for What God’s Word Says Even When It’s Unpopular
Last month, 20-year-old Isabella Chow, a student senator at the University of California, Berkeley, became the center of a controversy when she chose to abstain from a pro-LGBTQ vote. → Read More
Jesus Changes Everything
By a miracle of grace, Jesus touched me deeply, gave me a new heart, and utterly transformed my life. Forty-nine years later, He’s still unveiling Himself and changing me into His image and likeness. → Read More
We’re Not Just God’s Servants, But Also His Children, Heirs, and Friends
I love to read Scripture, but I also love to listen to it on audio. I was listening to David Suchet reading Galatians, and I kept hitting the reverse button on my Audible app to go back and listen to this verse again and again: “So you are no longer a slave, but God’s child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir” (Galatians 4:7). → Read More
Increased Persecution in China, and What China’s Digital Dictatorship Could Mean for Christians
Recently a number of reports coming out of China indicate that persecution of Christians is increasing. → Read More
Our Problem, God’s Solution
The problem of how we could possibly be reconciled with a God who hates evil is the greatest problem of history. Before we can see God in Heaven, something must radically change. This calls for no less than the greatest solution ever devised. → Read More
Why It’s Biblical, Not Just a Fad, to Care for People from Other Cultures
On the New Earth we’ll never celebrate sin, but we’ll celebrate diversity in the biblical sense (though never in the twisted sense that celebrates sin in the name of diversity). So let’s get a head start now, by loving and serving people of different cultures and races. This article by EPM staff member Shauna Hernandez is an excellent reminder of why we should do so. → Read More
Your Suffering Can Be the Pathway to Greater Godliness
Mountain climbers could save time and energy if they reached the summit in a helicopter, but their ultimate purpose is conquest, not efficiency. Sure, they want to reach a goal, but they desire to do it by testing and deepening their character, discipline, and resolve. God could create scientists, mathematicians, → Read More
The Lord Is My Rock, My Fortress, and My Deliverer: Portions from Psalm 18
Here are portions of Psalm 18 that I meditated on recently before Nanci and I met with her doctor. (You can read an update on her health, and some good n ews we’re grateful for, on her Caring Bridge page.) God spoke to me through these verses, and I hope they speak to you too: I love … → Read More
Will Our Bodies Shine in Heaven?
Some people have asked me if our resurrected bodies will shine. They cite two passages: “The righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father” (Matthew 13:43) and “Those who have insight will shine brightly like the brightness of the expanse of heaven, and those who lead the many to righteousness, like … → Read More
Three People Who Through Suffering Became Extraordinary
Seeing positive outcomes of some suffering should lead us to trust that God can bring good from all suffering. Consider three people who through suffering became extraordinary. → Read More
When It Comes to Knowing God, Are You a Traveler or Just an Observer?
On my bike rides I’ve been listening to the wonderful audio version of a book that deeply affected me when I was a young teenage Christian in the 1970s. It’s J. I. Packer’s classic, Knowing God. → Read More