Hey everybody, Greg Laurie here. You're listening to the Greg Laurie podcast. And my objective is to

deliver, hopefully, compelling practical insights and faith, culture, and current events from a biblical

perspective to find out more about our ministry. Just go to our website harvest.org. So thanks for joining

me for this podcast. Randy is a rare combination of a a theologian in a fiction writer. He's the author

of over 50 books. And I think it's classic. There's many classics. But the one that he's best known for

probably is his book on heaven, a large volume that I think is just an outstanding book that answers so

many of the questions that people have about the afterlife. Another one he wrote on the issues of

human suffering are, is called, if God is good. He's also written the treasure principle. Here's a

little book he just did. Everything you always wanted to know about heaven. Does God want us to be happy?

We're going to talk about that a little bit today. Giving is the good life. This is a good one.

I like this. My granddaughter was reading it. Heaven for kids. And here's this newest book. Can I have

to admit I was a little offended by the title of this book? Randy Alcorn, why did I ever agree to

let Greg Laurie interview me? What? Randy, come out here and explain this if you could. Let's welcome

Randy Alcorn. Your newest book, Randy. This is a question I have asked myself many times.

And we've done quite a few of these interviews over the years and someone just on my social media

commented and said, how much one of our conversations had helped her? Because we deal with real life

issues that people are basing right now. And things that people have a lot of questions about.

But I just thought I'd just sort of dive in with Thanksgiving coming. Any thoughts on this special

time of the year? You know, it's really amazing thing. You think in America, we have a national day

of Thanksgiving set in the motion by our first president, George Washington, ratified by both houses.

I don't think they could agree on anything today, but they agreed that we should have a national

day to give thanks to God Almighty in our country. And now when you hear Thanksgiving reference,

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