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

Heaven is an actual place, in a real location, designed by God with people in mind.

The offspring and descendants I understand to be the offspring and descendants of people presently alive.

When it comes to our money and resources, what Randy is trying to communicate is to be open to the needs of the people today (the poor, the hungry and needy)....

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.

Note that Paul didn’t say, “Command those who are rich to stop being rich.” The implication is that there is legitimate diversity in the amount of money and possessions held by Christians. Most early Christians weren’t people of high social standing (see 1 Corinthians 1:26-29).

Without an eternal perspective, without ­under­standing the reality that the best is yet to come, we assume that people who die young, who are handicapped, who ­aren’t healthy, who ­don’t get married, or who ­don’t _____ [fill in the blank] inevitably miss out on the best life has to offer.

Every child, no matter how young and how small and no matter where he is located, is an individual human being with a life and rights of his own.

In the long dark night of suffering on earth, Jesus being seen as the morning star means the eternal morning is about to dawn. Hence, Christ as the morning star is a picture of great promise and hope.

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

Yasmin is a combination pill that uses a progestin that can trigger an increase in potassium load in the body. As such, there are some women who may suffer serious complications if they are at risk for kidney, liver or adrenal system diseases. The added burden of potassium can upset the sodium-potassium balance in the heart bringing on a heart attack.

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?

Is this the day I die? He’d asked himself the question every day.

Randy Alcorn shares key points from his book The Treasure Principle. The Treasure Principle DVD (2004) this video is excerpted from is no longer available. See Randy's Treasure Principle study DVD (2017) for more information on this topic.