Randy Alcorn

May God’s words in these verses, and my wife Nanci’s reflections after each of them, encourage you to keep trusting Jesus today.

Recently, a friend turned 40, and I was reflecting on that season of my own life. I remember when I hit 40, I wondered if most of my best years were behind me. Little did I realize then that my most spiritually impactful years in this present life were still ahead.

Music is transcendent—a bridge between this world and another. That’s why people devote so much of themselves to it and gain such pleasure in it. We love the rich and varied rhythms and harmonies. In Heaven God will unleash our creativity, not confine it.

One of the strangest assumptions people sometimes make is that if we love animals, we can’t sufficiently love God and people. But love is not a zero-sum game. 

Like many people, I enjoyed hearing updates about NASA’s Artemis II, which recently completed a 10-day mission around the moon, traveling over 800,000 kilometers. The photos that commander Reid Wiseman took of the earth are stunning!

Problém toho, jak bychom mohli být smířeni s Bohem, který nenávidí zlo, je největším problémem v historii. Než budeme moci spatřit Boha v nebi, musí se něco radikálně změnit. Je zapotřebí největšího řešení, které tu kdy bylo.

Problem kako bi se uopće mogli pomiriti s Bogom koji mrzi zlo najveći je problem u historiji. Prije nego što možemo vidjeti Boga na Nebu, nešto se mora radikalno promijeniti. To zahtijeva ni manje ni više nego najbolje rješenje ikada smišljeno.

Though we asked God wholeheartedly to heal Nanci, we recognized Him as Lord and trusted Him to do His will even if it wasn’t our will. We knew what God sovereignly chose would be both for His glory and Nanci’s good.

“To this end I labor, struggling with all his energy, which so powerfully works in me” (Colossians 1:29). We must make every effort to be righteous, to obey Him. Yet all the while we must do this appealing to His strength, not our own.