Randy Alcorn

I believe there’s one central explanation for why so many of God’s children have such a vague, negative, and uninspired view of Heaven: the work of Satan. Our enemy slanders three things: God’s person, God’s people, and God’s place—namely, Heaven.

There are only seven copies of Plato’s writings, the first of which was copied by a scribe 1,200 years after Plato died! Yet the vast majority of people are confident that what we have is what Plato wrote. In contrast, there are about 5,686 Greek manuscripts of the New Testament and over 19,000 in Syriac, Latin, Coptic, and Aramaic.

আমি নিচে দেওয়া বিষয়গুলি প্রস্তুত করেছি, এবং বিগত বহু বৎসর যাবৎ আমি এইগুলি যুবা ব্যক্তিদের এবং তাদের মাতা পিতাদের কাছে উপস্থাপন করেছি। আমার মেয়েরা, যাদের এখন বিবাহ হয়ে গিয়েছে, তারা যখন কিশোরী ছিল, তখন আমি তাদের কাছে, এবং যে সকল যুবকরা বিবাহ করার উদ্দেশ্যে তাদের সঙ্গে মেলামেশা করার ইচ্ছা করতো, তাদের কাছে বলার জন্য এবং তাদের সঙ্গে আলোচনা করার জন্য এইগুলিকে আরও সুন্দর করেছি।  

서구의 현대 크리스천들 사이에 놀라운 일이 일어났습니다. 많은 사람들이 마치 영생은 없다는 듯이 습관적으로 생각하고 행동한다는 것이죠. 즉, 현재의 삶에서 하는 일은 영생에 아무 영향도 미치지 않는 것처럼 행동하는 것입니다. 

Scripture says Christ gave “himself as a ransom for all people” (1 Timothy 2:6, NIV). Like many biblical terms, such as hope, love, and joy, we have to define what Scripture means by ransom.

In her journal she kept during her cancer years, Nanci quoted Charles Spurgeon: "Oh, that we may know our God—His power, His faithfulness, His immutable love. He is one whose character excites our enthusiasm. Oh, that we may know our God by familiar fellowship with Him."

Jesus tells us to lose our lives for His sake. He commands us to deny ourselves. And if self-denial and sacrifice aren’t enough, we’re to carry a cross—that dreaded instrument of execution. In terms of costliness, could Jesus have painted a more dreadful picture?

In an era dominated by superficial popular culture, there’s real value in expanding our thinking to God’s glory, and not just going broad but going deep. Deep is where the roots are, and they’re what keeps the tree or vine standing during storms that would otherwise erode and topple it.

Mungu amejumuisha kila mmoja wetu katika simulizi yake. Sisi ni sehemu ya kitu kikuu zaidi kuliko sisi wenyewe. Mungu anatuita tumtumainie kuunganisha simulizi hiyo pamoja, ili tutakapofikia mwisho ambao hautaisha, tutamwabudu, tukiwa vinywa wazi kwa mshangao kwa sababu ya ustadi wake mkubwa katika kuunganisha pamoja sehemu mbalimbali za simulizi yake.