Randy Alcorn

আমাদের সকলকে ঈশ্বর তাঁর কাহিনীতে লিখেছেন। আমরা এমন একটা কিছুর অংশ, যেটি আমাদের নিজেদের থেকে অনেক বড়। ঈশ্বর আমাদের আহ্বান করেন যেন আমরা তাঁর উপরে বিশ্বাস রাখি যে, তিনি আমাদের সেই কাহিনীতে এমন ভাবে বুনবেন, যেন যে কাহিনীর কোন শেষ হবে না সেই কাহিনীতে অবশেষে, যখন তিনি কিভাবে তাঁর কাহিনীর রেখাগুলি বুনেছেন, তাঁর সেই প্রচণ্ড প্রতিভা দেখে আমরা হাঁ হয়ে গিয়ে তাঁর উপাসনা   

God refines us in our suffering and graciously explains why: “See, I have refined you, though not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction. For my own sake, for my own sake, I do this” (Isaiah 48:10). For emphasis, God repeats the reason.

G.K. Chesterton’s character, Father Brown, said, “We are on the wrong side of the tapestry.” How true. We see the knots, the snarls, and the frayed underside. But God is on the right side of the tapestry—the side He is weaving into a beautiful work of art.

When spirit, soul, and body are used, spirit and soul emphasize different aspects of the one unified nonphysical aspect of humanity.

We received this thought-provoking letter from a reader named Richard Higby. As you read, consider what it might look like for your family and church to implement his idea of a day celebrating and looking forward to Christ's return and the coming New Earth.

In April, Pastor John MacArthur made some comments about PTSD, OCD, and ADHD that have created a firestorm of discussion among Christians about the subject of mental health. Some believers strongly disagree with him; others agree. I think this is a good opportunity for Christians to think critically about this subject, and have honest conversations about mental health and where our approach needs adjusting.

One of the many problems facing Western society is that we worship youth and make the elderly disposable. God’s perspective on the elderly is vastly different. 

Before my mother would make a cake, she used to lay the ingredients on the kitchen counter. One day I tasted the individual ingredients for a chocolate cake. Judging by the taste of each component, I never would have believed cake could taste so good! In a similar way, the individual ingredients of trials and apparent tragedies taste bitter to us.

I have often wished I could call up recordings of conversing with people I’ve met at churches, conventions, airports, and many more places. I suspect we will be able to recall conversations and “chance” meetings when we see those people again in Heaven.