Putting Our Hope in God’s Ownership and Provision in Times of Financial Worry

Last updated on: March 25, 2020 at 10:00 am By Randy Alcorn

Many people, including many readers of this blog, are facing some level of financial uncertainty right now because of the coronavirus crisis. These are challenging times, and you may find yourself worrying, and wondering what the future might hold. I believe one of the best things we can do to find encouragement and perspective in times like these is to start by remembering God’s ownership. He Owns It All From beginning to end, Scripture repeatedly emphasizes God’s ownership of everything:... Read more

Tackling Some of the Tough Questions Related to the Coronavirus

Last updated on: March 25, 2020 at 9:55 am By Randy Alcorn

Twelve days ago, together with my friends Greg Cahalan and Steve Keels, pastors at my home church, Good Shepherd Community Church, we recorded two messages for our church body. In our first video, which was part of a recent blog, we talked about the need for God’s people to have an eternal perspective by focusing on and studying Scripture. In this second video, we tackled some of the difficult theological and practical questions Christians may have related to the coronavirus crisis. I... Read more

Romans 8:28 May Be Often-Quoted and Even Misused, But May We Never Grow Tired of Its Precious Truth

Last updated on: March 18, 2020 at 12:52 pm By Randy Alcorn

Is it possible to overuse a verse of Scripture? Certainly it is easy to misuse a verse, and in the process be robbed of its true riches. Romans 8:28 is one of the best known verses in the whole Bible: “All things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.” Did I say this was one of the “best known” verses of Scripture? Let me revise that statement. It is one... Read more

God’s People Need an Eternal Perspective During the Coronavirus Crisis

Last updated on: March 18, 2020 at 12:46 pm By Randy Alcorn

Last weekend I sat down with my friends Greg Cahalan and Steve Keels, pastors at my home church, Good Shepherd Community Church, and we recorded a message for our church body. For the first time in our 43-year-old history, with the exception of a few snowstorms, we were unable to physically gather. Just two days before the governor had banned all gatherings of over 250 people. Our pastors were scrambling and asked me to join them in opening God’s Word and... Read more

Dads, Your Children Need Both Quality and Quantity Time with You

Last updated on: March 4, 2020 at 11:31 am By Randy Alcorn

When our children were small, I was reading them a Bible story and an “important” phone call came from someone in the church. In fact, the call could have waited until the next day. So which was more important, taking that call, or finishing the story and praying with my children? I realized my error. From that day I determined I would never be pulled away from Bible story and prayer time with my children by anything less than a... Read more

Worry, the Coronavirus, and Corrie ten Boom on God’s Provision for Each Moment

Last updated on: March 11, 2020 at 11:30 am By Randy Alcorn

As coronavirus cases continue to crop up across the U.S., many people are struggling with fear over the future. As followers of Jesus, what should our response be? Our brothers and sisters in China have been wrestling with the answer to that question for the last two months. One Chinese pastor wrote, “We are to seek peace for this city, seek peace for those who are afflicted with this illness, seek peace for the medical personnel struggling on the front lines,... Read more

A Better Kind of Abundance

Last updated on: January 8, 2020 at 12:48 pm By Randy Alcorn

God took physician Renee Lockey completely by surprise one day while she was out running. At the height of her career, she sensed that he was planting an idea in her head: “Work like a doctor and live like a nurse.” Renee now lives on a nurse’s salary and gives away the rest of her income. She says, “When we take this idea literally—that we are His—it results in a drastically different way of thinking and living.” While Renee’s colleagues... Read more

Walking Through Cancer with a Loved One

Last updated on: March 4, 2020 at 11:40 am By Randy Alcorn

I recently had the privilege of visiting the Joni and Friends headquarters in Agoura Hills, California. I highly recommend that churches and families and individuals support this wonderful ministry, which was founded by Joni Eareckson Tada. She is the real deal, start to finish, and everyone I’ve met at Joni and Friends who serves with her is passionate about Jesus and about reaching people for Christ. It was delightful to sit beside Joni and her wonderful husband Ken, who I always rejoice... Read more

Albert Mohler on Complementarianism, Blind Spots, and the Importance of Positive Affirmations of Women in the Church

Last updated on: December 30, 2019 at 4:25 pm By Randy Alcorn

As I’ve shared in past blogs related to women and church leadership, the widespread perception among both unbelievers and believers in our culture is that conservative Bible-believing churches—especially those that are also politically conservative—are the last bastion of cultural chauvinism, dedicated to stereotyping, subjecting and minimizing the equality, worth, intelligence and gifting of women. We are thought to foster disrespect and, indirectly, abuse. Unless we intentionally show this isn’t true—and demonstrate an authentic (not merely superficial) respect for women as intelligent and... Read more

To Serve God in Heaven Will Be a Great Reward

Last updated on: December 30, 2019 at 4:20 pm By Randy Alcorn

We’re told that those coming out of the Great Tribulation will be specially rewarded by being given a place “before the throne of God,” where they will “serve him day and night” (Revelation 7:14-15). Notice that the Master rewards His faithful servants not by taking away responsibilities but by giving them greater ones. Service is a reward, not a punishment. This idea is foreign to people who dislike their work and only put up with it until retirement. We think that faithful work... Read more

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