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4e99016	Don't forget that the most effective form of child abuse is giving a child everything they want.		Randy Alcorn
2967688	Abundance isn't God's provision for me to live in luxury. It's his provision for me to help others live. God entrusts me with his money not to build my kingdom on earth, but to build his kingdom in heaven.	money poverty wealth heaven christianity god provision stewardship sharing riches luxury help kingdom	Randy Alcorn
d8e4bd1	Am I getting braver, or just getting accustomed to being terrified?		Randy Alcorn
9710c3d	Real gold fears no fire.		Randy Alcorn
aaff25d	God comes right out and tells us why he gives us more money than we need. It's not so we can find more ways to spend it. It's not so we can indulge ourselves and spoil our children. It's not so we can insulate ourselves from needing God's provision. It's so we can give and give generously (2 Corinthians 8:14; 9:11)	money spoil less spending more excess stewardship giving sharing generosity selfishness	Randy Alcorn
ffb5300	The best of life on Earth is a glimpse of Heaven; the worst of life is a glimpse of Hell. For Christians, this present life is the closest they will come to Hell. For unbelievers, it is the closest they will come to Heaven.		Randy Alcorn
c0be49c	Tolstoy said, 'The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed either by a change of life or by a change of conscience.' Many of us have elected to adjust our consciences rather than our lives. Our powers of rationalization are unlimited. They allow us to live in luxury and indifference while others, whom we could help if we chose to, starve and go to hell.	compassion change stewardship tolstoy indifference rationalization starvation conviction hunger conscience power guilt hell	Randy Alcorn
b883d88	The most tragic strain in human existence lies in the fact that the pleasure which we find in the things of this life, however good that pleasure may be in itself, is always taken away from us. The things for which men strive hardly ever turn out to be as satisfying as they expected, and in the rare cases in which they do, sooner or later they are snatched away.... For the Christians, all those partial, broken and fleeting perfections which..	heaven god inspirational	Randy Alcorn
793c75a	Too often we assume that God has increased our income to increase our standard of living, when his stated purpose is to increase our standard of giving. (Look again at 2 Corinthians 8:14 and 9:11).	bonus raise standard-of-living christianity god corinthians increase excess stewardship giving income sharing scripture	Randy Alcorn
739196e	Are we truly obeying the command to love our neighbor as ourselves if we're storing up money for potential future needs when our neighbor is laboring today under actual present needs?	current present future compassion love hoarding stewardship labor sharing selfish neighbor saving need justice	Randy Alcorn
28f6785	When I save, I lay something aside for future need. If I sense God's leading, I will give it away to meet greater needs. When I hoard, I'm unwilling to part with what I've saved to meet others' needs, because my possible future needs outweigh their actual present needs. I fail to love my neighbor as myself.	present future compassion hoarding stewardship needs sharing saving protection	Randy Alcorn
deb76d3	Nothing is more often misdiagnosed than our homesickness for Heaven. We think that what we want is sex, drugs, alcohol, a new job, a raise, a doctorate, a spouse, a large-screen television, a new car, a cabin in the woods, a condo in Hawaii. What we really want is the person we were made for, Jesus, and the place we were made for, Heaven. Nothing less can satisfy us.		Randy Alcorn
e85ec0e	For the Christian, death is not the end of adventure but a doorway from a wold where dreams and adventures shrink, to a world where dreams and adventures forever expand.	heaven death inspirational	Randy Alcorn
3f956cf	The vermin explain their sin with sanctimonious language like, "We've prayed about it and sought counsel, and we feel it's the right thing to do." Don't let it down on them that to the Enemy what they feel is inconsequential. His moral laws don't give a rip about how any of them feel. The sludgebags have no more power to vote them in and out of existence than they have power to revoke the law of gravity."		Randy Alcorn
b50fcc6	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 nonmaterialistic, it's actually selfish when I could earn enough to care for others as well.	money family more earning stewardship others needs selfish enough scripture materialism	Randy Alcorn
670f923	I could feel the baby being torn from my insides. It was really painful....Three-quarters of the way through the operation I sat up....In the cylinder I saw the bits and pieces of my little child floating in a pool of blood. I screamed and jumped up off the table....I just couldn't stop throwing up....	anti-abortion pro-life	Randy Alcorn
7b60acb	tithing isn't something I do to clear my conscience so I can do whatever I want with the 90 percent--it also belongs to God! I must seek his direction and permission for whatever I do with the full amount. I may discover that God has different ideas than I do.	money tithing stewardship obedience	Randy Alcorn
377c2a6	In the truest sense, Christian pilgrims have the best of both worlds. We have joy whenever this world reminds us of the next, and we take solace whenever it does not. C. S. Lewis		Randy Alcorn
dc098a7	Parents who spoil their children out of 'love' should realize that they are performing acts of child abuse. Although there are no laws against such abuse--no man-made laws anyway--this spiritual mistreatment may result in as much long-term personal and social damage as the worst physical abuse.	affluenza child-abuse materialism	Randy Alcorn
828c307	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
3ad241e	What you do with your resources in this life is your autobiography.	resources stewardship legacy	Randy Alcorn
2930647	The conflicting missions of the two armies seemed to have no fog, no gray, only black-and-white clarity. I had lived my life in terms of compromise, rule-bending, trade-offs, concessions, bargaining, striking deals, finding middle ground. In these two great armies, there was no such thing. Good was good, and evil was evil, and they shared no common ground.		Randy Alcorn
5d5ed95	It's always easier to avoid temptation than to resist it.	sex fornication price cross porn purity immorality redemption lust	Randy Alcorn
563eb11	Earth is a in-between world touched by both Heaven and Hell. Earth leads directly into Heaven or directly into Hell, affording a choice between the two. The best of life on Earth is a glimpse of Heaven; the worst of life is a glimpse of Hell.	inspirational	Randy Alcorn
124c0db	it's my responsibility to cultivate the man in my son. I can't be passive about that.	maturity parenthood	Randy Alcorn
ceddf1a	Good for you Woods. You're not as dumb as you look. Come to think of it, no one's as dumb as you look.	insults-and-slander insults	Randy Alcorn
43bd0d7	When men know they cannot hope in a country, in a political belief, or in themselves, they become free to hope in God.		Randy Alcorn
980c98b	God doesn't make us rich so we can indulge ourselves and spoil our children, or so we can insulate ourselves form needing God's provision. God gives us abundant material blessing so that we can give it away, and give it generously.	money s wealth heaven help kingdom	Randy Alcorn
966553e	A disciple does not ask, "How much can I keep?" but, "How much more can I give?" Whenever we start to get comfortable with our level of giving, it's time to raise it again."	comfort faith trust disciple give stewardship share keep giving discipline obedience	Randy Alcorn
007e535	Heaven isn't an extrapolation of earthly thinking; Earth is an extension of Heaven, made by the Creator King.	inspirational	Randy Alcorn
54b1f36	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.	greed stewardship giving sharing scripture need	Randy Alcorn
bf78738	Unless we learn how to humbly tell each other our giving stories, our churches will not learn to give.	example stewardship giving encouragement stories	Randy Alcorn
f90a27d	Someday this upside-down world will be turned right side up. Nothing in all eternity will turn it back again. If we are wise, we will use our brief lives on earth positioning ourselves for the turn.	upside-down christianity change life eternity	Randy Alcorn
f8b22a3	Real gold fears no fire		Randy Alcorn
611238c	He's spilled the beans. He's poured out His intentions, allowing us full access. The humans put the Forbidden Book on display tables and shelves. But we actually read it; indeed we must no matter how loathsome.		Randy Alcorn
dc08992	If economic catastrophe does come, will it be a time that draws Christians together to share every resource we have, or will it drive us apart to hide in our own basements or mountain retreats, guarding at gunpoint our private stores from others? If we faithfully use our assets for his kingdom now, rather than hoarding them, can't we trust our faithful God to provide for us then?	economic-catastrophe fiscal-cliff gunpoint faith trust provision survivalism resources hoarding stewardship sharing protection	Randy Alcorn
60eac65	If we come to see the purpose of the universe as God's long-term glory rather than our short-term happiness, then we will undergo a critical paradigm shift in tackling the problem of evil and suffering. The world has gone terribly wrong. God is going to fix it. First, for his eternal glory. Second, for our eternal good.		Randy Alcorn
1c1dc72	Fiction is not the opposite of truth--indeed, it is sometimes the most persuasive vehicle for it.		Randy Alcorn
e871917	Jesus' miracles provide us with a sample of the meaning of redemption: a freeing of creation from the shackles of sin and evil and a reinstatement of creaturely living as intended by God.	inspirational miracles redemption	Randy Alcorn
600ef0c	Christians are God's delivery people, through whom he does his giving to a needy world. We are conduits of God's grace to others. Our eternal investment portfolio should be full of the most strategic kingdom-building projects to which we can disburse God's funds.	investment-kingdom stewardship giving grace need	Randy Alcorn
7c180da	No pretense or wearing masks. No cliques. No hidden agendas, backroom deals, betrayals, secret ambitions, plots, or schemes.		Randy Alcorn
e18265d	To turn the tide of materialism in the Christian community, we desperately need bold models of kingdom-centered living. Despite our need to do it in a way that doesn't glorify people, we must hear each other's stories about giving or else our people will not learn to give.	models christianity learning modelling example stewardship giving encouragement community materialism humility kingdom stories	Randy Alcorn
37a3286	By eroding their sense of shame we've made immorality normal, not only in the world but also in the forbidden squadron. ...their new Christian friends recommended some of the movies Fletcher had been wondering if he should now avoid. I was delighted one of them said, "This is a great movie--only one sex scene, and the f-word's only used a few times." 'Titanic' is one of my favorites. How many Christian young people have watched it in thei..	sex television faith truth entertainment movies	Randy Alcorn
d3d19f1	Wealth is a relational barrier. It keeps us from having open relationships.	wealth relationships honesty stewardship openness transparency communication	Randy Alcorn

Don't forget that the most effective form of child abuse is giving a child everything they want.

Randy Alcorn

2967688

Abundance isn't God's provision for me to live in luxury. It's his provision for me to help others live. God entrusts me with his money not to build my kingdom on earth, but to build his kingdom in heaven.

money poverty wealth heaven christianity god provision stewardship sharing riches luxury help kingdom

Randy Alcorn

d8e4bd1

Am I getting braver, or just getting accustomed to being terrified?

Randy Alcorn

9710c3d

Real gold fears no fire.

Randy Alcorn

aaff25d

God comes right out and tells us why he gives us more money than we need. It's not so we can find more ways to spend it. It's not so we can indulge ourselves and spoil our children. It's not so we can insulate ourselves from needing God's provision. It's so we can give and give generously (2 Corinthians 8:14; 9:11)

money spoil less spending more excess stewardship giving sharing generosity selfishness

Randy Alcorn

ffb5300

The best of life on Earth is a glimpse of Heaven; the worst of life is a glimpse of Hell. For Christians, this present life is the closest they will come to Hell. For unbelievers, it is the closest they will come to Heaven.

Randy Alcorn

c0be49c

Tolstoy said, 'The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed either by a change of life or by a change of conscience.' Many of us have elected to adjust our consciences rather than our lives. Our powers of rationalization are unlimited. They allow us to live in luxury and indifference while others, whom we could help if we chose to, starve and go to hell.

compassion change stewardship tolstoy indifference rationalization starvation conviction hunger conscience power guilt hell

Randy Alcorn

b883d88

The most tragic strain in human existence lies in the fact that the pleasure which we find in the things of this life, however good that pleasure may be in itself, is always taken away from us. The things for which men strive hardly ever turn out to be as satisfying as they expected, and in the rare cases in which they do, sooner or later they are snatched away.... For the Christians, all those partial, broken and fleeting perfections which..

heaven god inspirational

Randy Alcorn

793c75a

Too often we assume that God has increased our income to increase our standard of living, when his stated purpose is to increase our standard of giving. (Look again at 2 Corinthians 8:14 and 9:11).

bonus raise standard-of-living christianity god corinthians increase excess stewardship giving income sharing scripture

Randy Alcorn

739196e

Are we truly obeying the command to love our neighbor as ourselves if we're storing up money for potential future needs when our neighbor is laboring today under actual present needs?

current present future compassion love hoarding stewardship labor sharing selfish neighbor saving need justice

Randy Alcorn

28f6785

When I save, I lay something aside for future need. If I sense God's leading, I will give it away to meet greater needs. When I hoard, I'm unwilling to part with what I've saved to meet others' needs, because my possible future needs outweigh their actual present needs. I fail to love my neighbor as myself.

present future compassion hoarding stewardship needs sharing saving protection

Randy Alcorn

deb76d3

Nothing is more often misdiagnosed than our homesickness for Heaven. We think that what we want is sex, drugs, alcohol, a new job, a raise, a doctorate, a spouse, a large-screen television, a new car, a cabin in the woods, a condo in Hawaii. What we really want is the person we were made for, Jesus, and the place we were made for, Heaven. Nothing less can satisfy us.

Randy Alcorn

e85ec0e

For the Christian, death is not the end of adventure but a doorway from a wold where dreams and adventures shrink, to a world where dreams and adventures forever expand.

heaven death inspirational

Randy Alcorn

3f956cf

The vermin explain their sin with sanctimonious language like, "We've prayed about it and sought counsel, and we feel it's the right thing to do." Don't let it down on them that to the Enemy what they feel is inconsequential. His moral laws don't give a rip about how any of them feel. The sludgebags have no more power to vote them in and out of existence than they have power to revoke the law of gravity."

Randy Alcorn

b50fcc6

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 nonmaterialistic, it's actually selfish when I could earn enough to care for others as well.

money family more earning stewardship others needs selfish enough scripture materialism

Randy Alcorn

670f923

I could feel the baby being torn from my insides. It was really painful....Three-quarters of the way through the operation I sat up....In the cylinder I saw the bits and pieces of my little child floating in a pool of blood. I screamed and jumped up off the table....I just couldn't stop throwing up....

anti-abortion pro-life

Randy Alcorn

7b60acb

tithing isn't something I do to clear my conscience so I can do whatever I want with the 90 percent--it also belongs to God! I must seek his direction and permission for whatever I do with the full amount. I may discover that God has different ideas than I do.

money tithing stewardship obedience

Randy Alcorn

377c2a6

In the truest sense, Christian pilgrims have the best of both worlds. We have joy whenever this world reminds us of the next, and we take solace whenever it does not. C. S. Lewis

Randy Alcorn

dc098a7

Parents who spoil their children out of 'love' should realize that they are performing acts of child abuse. Although there are no laws against such abuse--no man-made laws anyway--this spiritual mistreatment may result in as much long-term personal and social damage as the worst physical abuse.

affluenza child-abuse materialism

Randy Alcorn

828c307

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

3ad241e

What you do with your resources in this life is your autobiography.

resources stewardship legacy

Randy Alcorn

2930647

The conflicting missions of the two armies seemed to have no fog, no gray, only black-and-white clarity. I had lived my life in terms of compromise, rule-bending, trade-offs, concessions, bargaining, striking deals, finding middle ground. In these two great armies, there was no such thing. Good was good, and evil was evil, and they shared no common ground.

Randy Alcorn

5d5ed95

It's always easier to avoid temptation than to resist it.

sex fornication price cross porn purity immorality redemption lust

Randy Alcorn

563eb11

Earth is a in-between world touched by both Heaven and Hell. Earth leads directly into Heaven or directly into Hell, affording a choice between the two. The best of life on Earth is a glimpse of Heaven; the worst of life is a glimpse of Hell.

inspirational

Randy Alcorn

124c0db

it's my responsibility to cultivate the man in my son. I can't be passive about that.

maturity parenthood

Randy Alcorn

ceddf1a

Good for you Woods. You're not as dumb as you look. Come to think of it, no one's as dumb as you look.

insults-and-slander insults

Randy Alcorn

43bd0d7

When men know they cannot hope in a country, in a political belief, or in themselves, they become free to hope in God.

Randy Alcorn

980c98b

God doesn't make us rich so we can indulge ourselves and spoil our children, or so we can insulate ourselves form needing God's provision. God gives us abundant material blessing so that we can give it away, and give it generously.

money s wealth heaven help kingdom

Randy Alcorn

966553e

A disciple does not ask, "How much can I keep?" but, "How much more can I give?" Whenever we start to get comfortable with our level of giving, it's time to raise it again."

comfort faith trust disciple give stewardship share keep giving discipline obedience

Randy Alcorn

007e535

Heaven isn't an extrapolation of earthly thinking; Earth is an extension of Heaven, made by the Creator King.

inspirational

Randy Alcorn

54b1f36

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.

greed stewardship giving sharing scripture need

Randy Alcorn

bf78738

Unless we learn how to humbly tell each other our giving stories, our churches will not learn to give.

example stewardship giving encouragement stories

Randy Alcorn

f90a27d

Someday this upside-down world will be turned right side up. Nothing in all eternity will turn it back again. If we are wise, we will use our brief lives on earth positioning ourselves for the turn.

upside-down christianity change life eternity

Randy Alcorn

f8b22a3

Real gold fears no fire

Randy Alcorn

611238c

He's spilled the beans. He's poured out His intentions, allowing us full access. The humans put the Forbidden Book on display tables and shelves. But we actually read it; indeed we must no matter how loathsome.

Randy Alcorn

dc08992

If economic catastrophe does come, will it be a time that draws Christians together to share every resource we have, or will it drive us apart to hide in our own basements or mountain retreats, guarding at gunpoint our private stores from others? If we faithfully use our assets for his kingdom now, rather than hoarding them, can't we trust our faithful God to provide for us then?

economic-catastrophe fiscal-cliff gunpoint faith trust provision survivalism resources hoarding stewardship sharing protection

Randy Alcorn

60eac65

If we come to see the purpose of the universe as God's long-term glory rather than our short-term happiness, then we will undergo a critical paradigm shift in tackling the problem of evil and suffering. The world has gone terribly wrong. God is going to fix it. First, for his eternal glory. Second, for our eternal good.

Randy Alcorn

1c1dc72

Fiction is not the opposite of truth--indeed, it is sometimes the most persuasive vehicle for it.

Randy Alcorn

e871917

Jesus' miracles provide us with a sample of the meaning of redemption: a freeing of creation from the shackles of sin and evil and a reinstatement of creaturely living as intended by God.

inspirational miracles redemption

Randy Alcorn

600ef0c

Christians are God's delivery people, through whom he does his giving to a needy world. We are conduits of God's grace to others. Our eternal investment portfolio should be full of the most strategic kingdom-building projects to which we can disburse God's funds.

investment-kingdom stewardship giving grace need

Randy Alcorn

7c180da

No pretense or wearing masks. No cliques. No hidden agendas, backroom deals, betrayals, secret ambitions, plots, or schemes.

Randy Alcorn

e18265d

To turn the tide of materialism in the Christian community, we desperately need bold models of kingdom-centered living. Despite our need to do it in a way that doesn't glorify people, we must hear each other's stories about giving or else our people will not learn to give.

models christianity learning modelling example stewardship giving encouragement community materialism humility kingdom stories

Randy Alcorn

37a3286

By eroding their sense of shame we've made immorality normal, not only in the world but also in the forbidden squadron. ...their new Christian friends recommended some of the movies Fletcher had been wondering if he should now avoid. I was delighted one of them said, "This is a great movie--only one sex scene, and the f-word's only used a few times." 'Titanic' is one of my favorites. How many Christian young people have watched it in thei..

sex television faith truth entertainment movies

Randy Alcorn

d3d19f1

Wealth is a relational barrier. It keeps us from having open relationships.

wealth relationships honesty stewardship openness transparency communication

Randy Alcorn