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Sexual intimacy with your marriage partner that doesn’t involve intercourse is not "masturbation". “Masturbation” means sex that involves only yourself.

Randy Alcorn addressing he questions, "Why are people afraid to die?" at the Seed Company Invitational 2007.

We Christians in American desperately need such a radical paradigm shift. A new way of seeing. We need to capture a vision for eternal treasure, to become energized by it.

Randy Alcorn talking about being God's money managers at the Seed Company Invitational 2007.

You can always tithe, even if you have no cash.

Randy Alcorn speaking at The Seed Company Invitational 2007 about how it is more happy-making to give than to receive.

While we do not regard ourselves a charismatic church, we do not wish to be known as “anti-charismatic.” What we do insist upon is a spirit of love and unity, the total sufficiency of Christ, and the final authority of the Scriptures.

So we will not be complete, fully perfected human beings until our sinless spirit is joined to a body no longer under the curse in the resurrection.

It is talking about the present Heaven, apparently, since the New Earth comes on the scene after the final judgment, and Revelation isn’t about the New Earth until Revelation 21-22. However, some aspects of the present Heaven may be shared by the future post-resurrection Heaven.

In a sense a Christian marriage and a Christian church should strive to rekindle the relational elements of Eden, unsuccessful as we may often be.

You raise some good points concerning a perhaps too casual use of the term “unconditional.” Typically a term like this is well-defined initially within a specific context, but then is repeated without the same attention to detail.

Kate Michelman, former president of NARAL, says: “We have to remind people that abortion is the guar­antor of a woman’s... right to participate fully in the social and political life of society.” But a pregnant woman can fully participate in society. And if she can’t, isn’t the solution changing society rather than killing children?

The ESV was much more thoroughly debated and uses a little better underlying New Testament Greek text.

Scripture gives us an often-neglected guideline regarding prophetic utterance that is clear and can and should be implemented in churches.