If you're considering going into student debt, I encourage you to seek the Lord's will through the reading and study of His Word, prayer, and the wise counsel of others before you make the decision to take out a loan. Randy Alcorn More Quotes by Randy Alcorn More Quotes From Randy Alcorn Teach your children gratefulness. Do all you can to deliver them from our culture's poisonous entitlement mentality. Randy Alcorn gratefulness culture children If you're a child of God, you do not just "go around once" on Earth. You don't get just one earthly life. You get another-one far better and without end. You'll inhabit the New Earth! You'll live with the God you cherish and the people you love as an undying person on an undying Earth. Randy Alcorn earth children people Christ offers us the incredible opportunity to trade temporary goods and currency for eternal rewards. Randy Alcorn rewards incredibles opportunity Messin with me, is like wearing cheese underwear down rat alley. Ollie Chandler in Deception Randy Alcorn underwear deception rats My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts. Randy Alcorn challenges heart thinking If we were to gain God's perspective, even for a moment, and were to look at the way we go through life accumulating and hoarding and displaying our things, we would have the same feelings of horror and pity that any sane person has when he views people in an asylum endlessly beating their heads against the wall. Randy Alcorn wall views people If I try to make only enough money for my family' immediate needs, it may violate Scripture. ...Even though earning just enough to meet the needs of my family may seem non materialistic, it's actually selfish when I could earn enough to care for others as well. Randy Alcorn selfish trying needs You and I are characters in God's Story, handmade by Him. Every character serves a purpose. Randy Alcorn purpose stories character Giving is the safety valve that releases the excess pressure of wealth. Randy Alcorn excess safety giving Stewardship isn't a subcategory of the Christian life. Stewardship is the Christian life. After all, what is stewardship except that God has entrusted to us life, time, talents, money, possessions, family, and his grace? In each case, he evaluates how we regard what he has entrusted to us and what we do with it. Randy Alcorn stewardship grace christian When our eyes are set on eternity, the news that someone has come to know the Savior means a great deal more than the news of a salary raise or the prospect of getting the latest high-tech gadget. Randy Alcorn salary eye mean God is grooming us for leadership. He's watching to see how we demonstrate our faithfulness. He does that through his apprenticeship program, one that prepares us for Heaven. Christ is not simply preparing a place for us; he is preparing us for that place. Randy Alcorn doe heaven christ Are you winning the battle against materialism? Randy Alcorn materialism battle winning Grace and truth are spiritual DNA, the building blocks of Christ-centered living. Randy Alcorn block dna spiritual Something nonhuman doesn’t become human by getting older and bigger; whatever is human is human from the beginning. Randy Alcorn getting-older bigger humans Whenever we have excess, giving should be our natural response. It should be the automatic decision, the obvious thing to do in light of Scripture and human need. Randy Alcorn obvious-things light giving Heaven isn't an extrapolation of earthly thinking; Earth is an extension of Heaven, made by the Creator King. Randy Alcorn kings heaven thinking What we love about this life are the things that resonate with the life we were made for. The things we love are not merely the best this life has to offer—they are previews of the greater life to come. Randy Alcorn preview this-life made Why ask for your daily bread when you own the bakery? Randy Alcorn daily-bread bakeries bread The greatest deterrent to giving is the illusion that this earth is our home. Randy Alcorn earth home giving
