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Randy Alcorn’s life, calling, and ministry can be rolled up in one word: perspective.

Some churches today embrace truth, but need a heavy dose of grace. Other churches talk about grace, but cry out for a heavy dose of truth.

Death is not a hole; it’s a door. We don’t end; we relocate.

These are some passages to study, meditate on and memorize. Some of these aren’t new to you, but they have a cumulative force as they touch different aspects of our struggles and God’s counsel to us.

Dear Fellow Sojourner, What can I do to get you to read this book?

Note from Randy Alcorn: This is a daughter’s fictional letter to her mother in the year 2043. The author is unknown to me, and I’ve taken the liberty to edit it slightly, and add a final sentence.

This is a tough issue, and the toughest part is that we’ve grown up in a society forged by people like Margaret Sanger, and the church has largely bought into a selfish, anti-child, population-control mentality.

Who determines which lives are meaningful and which aren’t? The answer, always, is that powerful people decide whether weaker people’s lives are meaningful.

The biblical truth that we will live forever as resurrected beings in a society of resurrected beings, on a resurrected earth, with our resurrected Lord, has implications that invite speculation.

The point is that there is not one right way to teach the Bible—the Bible can and should be taught in a variety of ways (taking into account learning styles, for instance).

I would go to some of the Intelligent Design books.

We have a natural desire to be independent, but we need godly church leaders, and should seek to find a local church that has godly leaders rather than to withdraw from churches.

If logic were my authority, my belief in the other four points of Calvinism would compel me to believe in limited atonement.

This is a very difficult issue with many different takes, even by Christians who fully believe in the inspiration and inerrancy of Scripture. There are young earth creationists, and old earth creationists, and they will give him a different answer to the question of the relative age of the earth.