Randy Alcorn
@randyalcorn
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Author of over sixty books, founder and director of @epmorg ; love Jesus, my wife Nanci (now with Jesus), daughters, sons and five grandsons!
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Nanci is with Jesus. So happy for her. Sad for us. But the happiness for her triumphs over the sadness. Grieving is ahead, and it will be hard, but these last years and especially this last month have given us a headstart on the grieving process.
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A timely prayer request: on Saturday my wife Nanci told me she felt she didn’t have much time left in this world. This morning, 11 a.m. PT, my daughters and their families will all gather at our house.
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Nanci’s ready to be with Jesus. But she wanted, and of course I concur, to speak into the lives of our kids and especially our grandkids. I would deeply appreciate your prayers for her and for this unique and I suspect unforgettable family gathering.
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On Easter my beloved Nanci won't have to say, “He is risen.” She can look right into His eyes and say, “YOU are risen!” ♥️
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Thank you to everyone who prayed for our family yesterday. I seriously can’t imagine any family having a more Christ-centered sendoff and short-term goodbye of a loved one then we had. It was truly all I could’ve hoped for and prayed for.
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“My dear friend, when grief presses you to the dust, worship there.” —Charles Spurgeon
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Giving a teen boy unfiltered Internet access in his room or his pocket is like filling his closet with pornographic magazines and saying, “Don’t look at them.” If that seems harsh, you don’t understand how many young men are becoming enslaved to porn in their own homes.
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If Nanci is right that not much time remains, then this will likely be the final gathering IN THIS WORLD of our tribe of 11. Thankfully, eternal life transcends the grave. This world now under the Curse is a broken world waiting and longing to be redeemed (Romans 8 ).
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Sickness, loss, grief, and death will find us in life. But we can trust that Heaven’s joys will compensate for our present sorrow.
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"Live slowly enough to be able to think deeply about God." —J.I. Packer
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Don’t feel your prayers were not answered, Many of them were, and many others were answered in a better way than we could ever ask.
Overwhelmed with gratitude to the One full of grace and truth, Randy
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“I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away.” —C.S. Lewis
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All God’s children really will live happily ever after. This is not a fairytale, it is the blood-bought promise of Jesus.
What a great and kind God He is. As of a few hours ago, Nanci now lives where she sees this firsthand, in the place where Joy truly is the air she breathes.
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Nanci got the results of the MRI she had last week: all clear, no evidence of cancer. Yesterday her surgeon inspected the original location of the cancer. Again, no evidence remains!
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We live in a world that sells false happiness at newsstands, websites, and big-box stores. But God offers us authentic happiness in Jesus.
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I am so proud of my wife for her dependence on Jesus and her absolute trust in the sovereign plan and love of God. Nanci is and always will be an inspiration to me.
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“Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.” – Tim Keller
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“I will be ready to die when my time comes because my Shepherd will give me His joy, peace, and readiness. …my God will fight the battle for me! It will be His perfect ministering Spirit who will carry me peacefully—jubilantly—into God’s arms.” —Nanci Alcorn
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In Heaven, some will reunite with parents they’ve not seen for decades; some will meet for the first time children who died before birth.
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“Because I am not God, I should never question why things go the way they go. …I am not omniscient, all-wise, or totally just. I don’t even love myself nearly as much as God loves me! So why would I ever second guess God?” —Nanci Alcorn
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“In your presence is fullness of joy, at your right hand are pleasures forevermore” (Psalm 16:11). Thank you so much for all your prayers, some of you for four years of praying consistently for Nanci. My heart is full of gratitude to you.
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@BenjaminSWatson
I stand with my brother Ben Watson in decrying celebrating the cutting to pieces of innocent human lives. I read the pushback against his position and weep at the blindness of those who profess to believe in justice, yet withhold it from the most vulnerable children. God help us.
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Death will not have the last word. Life will. Suffering will not have the last word. Happiness will. Sin will not have the last word. Righteousness will. Satan will not have the last word. God will.
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I am with family and friends now, thanking God for His grace and the promises of Jesus that we will live with Him forever in a world without the curse, and He will wipe away all the tears and all the reasons for the tears.
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Christians grieve differently, yet honestly and openly, precisely because we look forward to a New Heaven and a New Earth.
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I listened to this video with a recording of
@RaviZacharias
and astronomer Hugh Ross. It was recorded in 1994, but what both of them have to share and how they answer questions from callers, many of them antagonistic, is timeless.
#ThankYouRavi
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“It is a terrible thing when a man who is right, is right in such a wrong spirit that he does more harm than good by being right.” —attributed to Martyn Lloyd-Jones
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“I came to [Jesus] because I did not know which way to turn….I came amid the thunderous cries of a culture that has three hundred and thirty million deities. I remain with Him knowing that truth cannot be all-inclusive. Truth by definition excludes.”
@RaviZacharias
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A friend sent me this photo of the word PRIDE prominently displayed outside a church. Wow, this is scary. Pride is the root of all sins, but historically most people have been ashamed of their sins, not proud of them. And that gives the hope of repentance and turning to Christ…
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We live in a culture that doesn’t believe in truth anymore. Or, people feel free to redefine truth to make it whatever is currently most appealing or convenient. So instead of recognizing we’ve come up short (sin), we try to change the standard to redefine right and wrong.
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When someone asked my friend Ron Blue, a well-known Christian financial advisor, “How would you sum up your life’s message in a single sentence?” he said, “God owns it all.” That may be the most important, biblically grounded four words of financial advice ever given.
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Thank you, King Jesus, for answering prayer in an even more powerful way then had you answered our prayer to cure her cancer. And we believe you will soon remove the cancer whenever you choose to take her home.
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“The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 a.m. for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access [to God].” —Tim Keller
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Just as birth was our ticket to this world, so death is our ticket to the next. It is less of an end than a beginning. If I told you I would move you from the slums to a beautiful country estate, you would not focus on the life you were ending but the life you were beginning.
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Part of what makes us strangers on Earth is that our Father and most of our spiritual family live in Heaven. For Christians, death is never the end of a relationship, only an interruption followed by glorious reunion.
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This will be my first Christmas without Nanci since 1968, the year we met. It will also be her first Christmas in the direct presence of Jesus. Writing that just filled my eyes with tears of overwhelming joy.
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In Heaven we’ll learn “the rest of the story.” We’ll be stunned to learn how God orchestrated the events of our lives to influence people.
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Heaven is the place where we’ll be fully at home—where everything is as it ought to be and where we find, undiminished, that mysterious something we never fully found in this life.
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“The further I go on in life, the more convinced I am that every Christian is a struggling Christian, dependent on help from brothers and sisters who know their needs and vulnerabilities…We’re simply not designed for solo flight.” —Rebecca McLaughlin
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Atheist physicist and cosmologist, Dr. Stephen Hawking said, “Religion is a fairytale for those afraid of the dark.” But mathematician, bioethicist, and Christian apologist Dr. John Lennox says, “Atheism is a fairy tale for those afraid of the light.”
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Since Nanci died, I have felt profound pain of loss, but I feel no despair, no loss of hope, no distance from my sovereign Maker. As I have wept, I have thought about His tears for His mother, for Jerusalem, for His friends Lazarus, Mary and Martha. “Jesus wept” (John 11:35).
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Nanci and I met 55 years ago today, December 7, 1968. This photo was taken exactly one week earlier on her 15th birthday. The night we met, Nanci was wearing that same outfit. I remember her exactly as the photo portrays, including that impish look on her face. It fills my heart…
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Tozer: “Listen to no man who has not listened to God.” Seek God’s face and listen to Him daily. Ps 27:8
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Nanci was determined not to waste her cancer. I am determined not to waste my grief. Nanci saw God bring great things into her life through her cancer. I am asking Him to bring great things into my life through my grief.
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Author, speaker, and apologist
@RaviZacharias
went home to be with Jesus last week. There have been several excellent tributes, including an article by
@SamAllberry
sharing three lessons he learned from working with him. May these be true of us, too.
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Death is like a great ocean, and we are on this shore seeing people depart. But every ocean has two shores, and every person we see depart is seen as arriving on that other shore. Death is not the end.
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Conservativism is not the Gospel. Liberalism is not the Gospel. Patriotism is not the Gospel. Only the Gospel is the Gospel.
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Happiness in God is ours today, because Christ is here; tomorrow, because Christ will be there; and forever, because He’ll never leave us.
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Years ago I turned off talk radio to listen to the Bible. I have no regrets; why listen to another human voice when you can listen to God?
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“Evangelism happens most naturally not when we’ve psyched ourselves up with motivational sermons on evangelism, but when we have fallen so in love with Jesus that the gospel pours out of us. Because we like to talk about whatever we love.” —Mack Stiles
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“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The one thing it cannot be is moderately important.” —C.S. Lewis
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Today is the second anniversary of Nanci's Homecoming. My loss is Nanci’s gain, and she is Heaven’s gain. And my loss, big though it is, really is temporary. My gain of Jesus is eternal. Nothing will ever take away from the fact that Nanci and I walked this earth together and one…
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When marriage becomes difficult, the answer is not finding a new person, but a fresh appreciation of the “old” person.
http://ref.ly/Mk10.9
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So great to see two of my favorite brothers in Christ praying next to each other after yesterday’s playoff game:
@BenjaminSWatson
of the Saints and
@NickFoles
of the Eagles. To read more about both men, written two days before the game, see my blog at .
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Augustine: “Trust the past to God’s mercy, the present to God’s love, and the future to God’s providence.”
http://ref.ly/Ps139.5
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“The problem of race is deep and wide and requires seismic change….The problem of race is… ‘in here,’ in the human heart. And though there is no task in heaven or on earth more difficult than changing the human heart, I believe in the One who can do it.”
@BenjaminSWatson
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"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him." —G.K. Chesterton
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In the category of ugly Christmas sweaters, this is my favorite! 😂
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I am so incredibly proud of her. She is so weary, and for her sake we can't help but release her completely to God and ask Him to take her sooner rather than later. But of course, we will trust Him and thank Him for every day that we still have her on this earth.
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It’s true that I haven’t lost Nanci because I know where she is. I’m not concerned about her safety or well-being because she is safely home, and better off than she ever was in this world under the Curse. But I miss her so much.
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“Your affliction is not wasted. It is doing a kind of healing that will last for eternity. Jesus is with you. Not even the worst pain is wasted in his hands.” —John Piper
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Christ is not just going to fix our spirits. He’ll fix our bodies. He’s not just going to fix individuals, He’ll fix human society: our relationships, work, recreation, arts and culture. And He’s going to fix the earth itself—nature, forests, the animal kingdom, all of it.
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“When I’m dying, I’m not going to be wishing I’d bought myself something else. I’m going to be thinking, ‘I wish I would have done more for Christ.’” —Matt McPherson
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Nanci heard words of deep love and respect from her children and grandchildren, sons in law and husband. She spoke to us for maybe 15 or 20 minutes. It was remarkably clear, way longer than any period of time she has spoken with clarity since she was in the hospital.
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One of my favorite things that Nanci said several times in the months before she died was, “Jesus has got this; Jesus has got me.” Say to yourself, “Jesus has got this; Jesus has got me.”
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God’s truths are not bricks to throw at people—they are bread to feed people.
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Some of these team members could potentially die in the process of serving people in Italy. This is what it looks like sometimes to follow Jesus. I'm proud of them. Today
@epmorg
is sending $10,000 to support their efforts, and we will be sending more to them or other ministries.
This morning, the first patients will be seen by our medical team in
#Cremona
, Italy. Please continue to pray as we serve in Jesus’ Name.
#coronavirus
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I believe God has raised
@BenjaminSWatson
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“No man ever said at the end of his days, ‘I have read my Bible too much...I have prayed too much’…The people of God always say, ‘Had I my life over again, I would walk far more closely with God…’ The way of Christ…is a way of pleasantness, and a path of peace.” J. C. Ryle
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As a young Christian I believed going to Heaven instead of Hell was all that mattered. But as I read the Bible, I saw that to be called to God’s purpose is to be conformed to the character of Christ. God’s purpose for our suffering is Christlikeness. That’s our highest calling.
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“We cannot help it if the truth offends people, but we must always make sure that it is the truth that is offending them and not us.” —attributed to Martyn Lloyd-Jones
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“Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!” (John 1:29 ESV)
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“We have not lost our dear ones who have departed from this life, but have merely sent them ahead…we also shall depart …to that life where they will be more than ever dear as they will be better known to us, and where we shall love them without fear of parting.” —Augustine
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One day, in Heaven, God will liberate His children from all the results of the fall, so all their desires will be right ones.
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“It is altogether doubtful whether any man can be saved who comes to Christ for His help with no intention to obey Him.” ―A.W. Tozer
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I encourage people not to give up on local churches but to find one and invest themselves in helping it become more Christ-centered.
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As Nanci and I deal with her health issues, we are resolved to worship our God who bears on His hands the scars of His love for us. We trust His sovereign grace and see Him at work in us. May you experience the same in the challenges you face today, and in this season of life.
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This is God’s beloved and adoring creature who keeps me from coming home to an empty house. She is 16 months old, a double doodle, half Goldendoodle and half Labradoodle. Nanci and I named her Gracie.
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What an emotional yet truly unforgettable time. Two of the grandsons said they would never forget this day, and the others in their own way made it clear they felt the same. Nanci's desire was to have an eternal impact on the lives of her grandsons.
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As parents, our ultimate purpose isn’t simply to give our children food and shelter for the first twenty years of life. Our purpose is to one day present to the Lord, the church, and the world mature young adults who are good servants, good stewards, and good citizens.
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After President Trump showed up unannounced last Sunday to McLean Bible Church,
@plattdavid
posted a letter explaining why he chose to pray for him. I believe he did the right thing in the right way, and I appreciate his sensitivities to his church.
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Were we to see Adam and Eve as they were in the garden, I believe we’d be stunned at how much humanity has deteriorated under the weight of sin. When we see each other in the resurrection, we’ll be seeing untainted uncursed human beings as God intended them for the first time.
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Do you live for the culture’s approval, or the Audience of One’s? Ask yourself, “Whose judgment seat will I stand before?” Your peers’? The media’s? The church’s? Or will you stand before God’s throne, where truth, as expressed in Scripture, will be non-negotiable?
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“The Christian gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued and that Jesus was glad to die for me. This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time.” —Tim Keller
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Our sister Joni is gold. Please pray for her.
PRAYER ALERT
Having accomplished radiation treatments for recurrence of cancer, Joni Eareckson Tada has been challenged with significant pain and recent difficulty with breathing. She has been hospitalized for observation and oversight.
Read more:
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"Isn’t it interesting how in Christmas cards...we often see the words, 'Peace on earth, good will toward men'? But how seldom we see the prior words, 'Glory to God in the highest'! But there's no peace...no good will unless there is glory to God in the highest first."
@rayortlund
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True holiness isn’t cold and deadening—it’s warm, inviting, and irresistible. Those who think otherwise have only seen its caricatures.
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Three times in Matthew 6, Jesus says that “your Father who sees in secret will reward you.” We can be delivered from the burden of concern about whether others overlook our deeds, because God assures us that He will not overlook them.
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Refuse to engage in thoughts and conversations that feed bitterness. Instead, delight yourself in God, His Word, and His people.
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“I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me. His face…is transformed in intercession into the countenance of a brother for whom Christ died, the face of a forgiven sinner.” ―Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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We should teach our children to oppose abortion and racism because they love Jesus, not because they belong to a particular political party.
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“The devil cannot bear to see one of Christ’s people happy, so he tries constantly to disturb their joy.” —A. W. Pink
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Sickness, loss, grief, and death will find us in life. But we can trust that Heaven’s joys will compensate for our present sorrow.
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Sound doctrine is critically important because how we think about God is critically important. May God help us learn to think deeply and accurately about Him. “Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long” (Psalm 25:5, NIV).
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David and Nancy Guthrie told me, “It troubles us that the church’s one response to suffering is to pray that it will be taken away. Nobody’s first prayer is ‘Use this to help us become Christlike.’”
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“God always, always has my best interests in mind even when His way for me is painful, unclear, frightening, seemingly unfair, emotionally difficult, or mentally challenging. I need to trust, to believe that God does all things well.” —Nanci Alcorn
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Often God uses waning health to prepare the sick and elderly for Heaven. It is easier to let go when there is little hope that our health will improve. Now the whispers of Heaven become glad shouts of invitation: “Come here, where, for the first time, all will be right!”
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Kirsten and
@BenjaminSWatson
are committed followers of Jesus, and Nanci and I deeply appreciate both of them. Listen to what Kirsten has to say, as she speaks up for those who cannot speak for themselves.
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RT
@MattSmethurst
World: “Follow your heart.”
Jesus: “Follow me.”
World: “Believe in yourself.”
Jesus: “Believe in me.”
World: “Discover yourself.”
Jesus: “Deny yourself.”
World: “Be true to you.”
Jesus: “Be true to me.”
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