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Randy Alcorn

Randy Alcorn

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Oct 3, 2025

About

Randy Alcorn is the founder and director of Eternal Perspective Ministries (EPM), a nonprofit organization dedicated to teaching biblical truth and drawing attention to the needy and how to help them. EPM exists to meet the needs of the unreached, unfed, unborn, uneducated, unreconciled and unsupported people around the world.


"My ministry focus is communicating the strategic importance of using our earthly time, money, possessions and opportunities to invest in need-meeting ministries that count for eternity," Alcorn says. "I do that by trying to analyze, teach and apply the implications of Christian truth." Alcorn is the author of over 40 books, study guides, booklets, and tractsMost are also available as Audio Books. Click the link above to view all titles and covers.


Before starting EPM in 1990, Alcorn co-pastored for thirteen years Good Shepherd Community Church outside Gresham, Oregon. He has ministered in many countries, including China, and is a popular teacher and conference speaker.* Randy has taught on the part-time faculties of Western Seminary and Multnomah University, both in Portland, Oregon.


*In recent years, however, he has found it necessary to reduce the number of speaking engagements he can accept  in order to devote more time to writing, which is his primary calling. Alcorn has written numerous articles for magazines such as Discipleship Journal, Moody, Leadership, New Man, and The Christian Reader. He produces the quarterly issues-oriented magazine Eternal Perspectives, and has been a guest on Focus on the Family, Family Life Today, The Bible Answer Man, Revive Our Hearts, Truths that Transform and Faith Under Fire.


Randy resides in Gresham, Oregon with his wife, Nanci, and their golden retriever, Maggie. The Alcorns have two married daughters, Karina and Angela.


Randy and Nanci are the proud grandparents of five grandsons: Jacob Gary Stump born August 3, 2004, Matthew James Franklin born November 12, 2004, Tyler Daniel Stump born March 10, 2006, and Jack Timothy Franklin born August 23, 2007, and David Aaron Franklin, born February 17, 2012.

Posts (47)

Nov 1, 2025 ∙ 3 min
How Can We Be Generous Givers without Worrying?
There are people who reason,  If I give generously, I’ll have to worry about where the money will come from to replace what I’ve given.  But Jesus teaches that generous giving isn’t a cause for insecurity and worry. It’s a cure for it. Do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns,...
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Oct 9, 2025 ∙ 4 min
Married to Jesus in Heaven? Will Our Earthly Marriage Partners Be Important to Us?
One of the most frequent questions I’ve been asked about Heaven over the years is about the nature of marriage there. As I share in my book Heaven, there will be one marriage in Heaven, not many. That marriage will be what earthly marriage symbolized and pointed to, the marriage of Christ to His bride. So we will all be married—but to Christ. Our marriage to Him is the true Marriage, of which the best of earthly marriages was a symbol and shadow. Those who did not experience marriage or had...
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Sep 29, 2025 ∙ 5 min
The Plan of God to Redeem the Earth
The entire physical universe was created for God’s glory. When we rebelled, the universe fell under the weight of our sin. Yet God did not give up on us. The serpent’s seduction of Adam and Eve did not catch God by surprise. He had in place a plan by which He would redeem mankind—and all creation—from sin, corruption, and death. Just as He promises to make men and women new, He promises to renew the earth itself. “‘As the new heavens and the new earth that I make will endure before me,’...
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Aug 5, 2025 ∙ 9 min
100 Years of Olympic Integrity: Eric Liddell
Author Randy Alcorn pays tribute to a true hero-Olympian and missionary Eric Liddell. This is the 100th anniversary of Eric Liddell winning the gold medal in the men’s 400m. He won it on July 11, 1924, but in this year‘s Olympics that event final is scheduled for August 7. And it is in Paris exactly as it was in 1924!Today’s blog is the repost of one I first shared about Eric in 2018, with the addition of a few paragraphs and some tweaks here and there. If ever we were going to reshare a blog...
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Apr 27, 2025 ∙ 2 min
How Do We Discern If Someone Has a Vision or Dream from God?
It’s true that far too many Bible believers are in effect anti-supernatural. Some Christians argue against the miraculous with the same scorn of atheists and agnostics. The irony is stunning, since the Christian faith is rooted in the miraculous and dependent upon it. I believe absolutely that God does miracles today. I am completely convinced, for instance, that for decades the Lord Jesus has been appearing to Muslims in dreams and visions, bringing many people to faith. The evidence is...
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Mar 25, 2025 ∙ 4 min
Copy of The Role of Angels in the New Earth
Under God’s direction, angels serve us on Earth ( Hebrews 1:14 ). Michael the archangel serves under God, and the other angels, in various positions, serve under Michael ( Daniel 10:13 ;  Revelation 12:7 ). In Heaven, human beings will govern angels ( 1 Corinthians 6:2-3 ). It’s a bit difficult to know the role angels will have on the New Earth. I assume they will be visible, though even that’s not certain. Presumably, their role as servants of those who will inherit salvation (though on the...
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Mar 15, 2025 ∙ 11 min
Ephesians 4-5: God's Answers to LGBTQ
I shared the following notes with a pastor friend who was preparing a message addressing sexual immorality and gender confusion. It’s a different approach, a verse by verse brief commentary on a passage. (I started with the last part of Ephesians 4  because it’s the foundation for Ephesians 5 .) These are tough issues, and they’re not going away. Now more than ever, Christians must consider how we can communicate with those with whom we disagree. The more we speak to these issues with grace ...
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Jan 30, 2025 ∙ 4 min
What Will Angels Do in the New Earth?
Under God’s direction, angels serve us on Earth ( Hebrews 1:14 ). Michael the archangel serves under God, and the other angels, in various positions, serve under Michael ( Daniel 10:13 ;  Revelation 12:7 ). In Heaven, human beings will govern angels ( 1 Corinthians 6:2-3 ). It’s a bit difficult to know the role angels will have on the New Earth. I assume they will be visible, though even that’s not certain. Presumably, their role as servants of those who will inherit salvation (though on the...
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Oct 23, 2023 ∙ 5 min
What Does the Bible Say about Praying for the Peace of Jerusalem
Our hearts are broken for the people of Israel who have endured such great atrocities inflicted upon women and children and the elderly, slaughtered mercilessly. I also pray for those who seek peace, including believers in Jesus in Gaza, who will inevitably suffer as a result of Israel’s justified actions in defense of its people. (What else can Israel do but retaliate and try to bring justice to the perpetrators of these terrible crimes? What would the U.S. government do in the same...
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