Watch Randy's workshop session

PowerPoint Presentation on Continuity & Discontinuity 

Randy's top five recommended books on Heaven 

Authors and books cited by Randy in his workshop

• Anthony Hoekema, The Bible and the Future
• Wayne Grudem, Systematic Theology
• Albert Wolters, Creation Regained
• Isaac Watts, The World to Come
• George Eldon Ladd, A Theology of the New Testament
• Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Great Doctrines of the Bible
• Anthony Buzzard, Our Fathers Who Aren’t in Heaven
• Greg Beale, Eschatological Conception of N.T. Theology
• Bruce Milne, The Message of Heaven and Hell
• Herman Bavinck, The Last Things
• Erich Sauer, The King of the Earth
• Paul Helm, The Last Things
• René Pache, The Future Life
• Henry Berkhof, Christ the Meaning of History
• Peter Marshall, Heaven Is Not My Home
• A.A. Hodge, Evangelical Theology
• Henry Alford, Greek New Testament
• N. T. Wright, Surprised by Hope
• Cornelius Venema, The Promise of the Future
• Edward Donnelly, Biblical Teaching on the Doctrines of Heaven and Hell

Resources

• Will the Old Earth be Destroyed or Renewed? (Chapter 15 in Heaven)
• Christoplatonism;s False Assumptions (Appendix A in Heaven)
• Literal and Figurative Interpretation (Appendix B in Heaven)
• Three Eras of Earth and Mankind
• What Many Assume About Heaven vs. What The Bible Says About Heaven
• Worldview and Textual Criticism in 2 Peter 3:10 by Al Wolters (Westminster Journal, 1987)
• Why is Resurrection so Important?
• What will our glorified bodies be like?
• What will the New Earth be like?

Videos

• Continuity between our current and future lives
• The Continuity of Resurrection
• Will There be a physical continuity between this Earth and the New Earth?
• What comes to mind when you think of the New Earth?
• Is God going to abandon the Earth? Ephesians 1:9-10
• Why Isaiah 65 is primarily New Earth and only secondarily millennial
• Is it possible that parts of Isaiah 65 apply to the New Earth and other parts to the millennium?
• Isaiah 60 and God’s promise of a New Earth
• Isaiah 60 and the new Jerusalem
• God’s Kingdom involves the Earth
• Why Life Matters Now
• Ezekiel 47’s references to the New Earth
• Oceans on the New Earth?
• Continuity between our current and future lives
• New Heavens and New Earth in 2 Peter 3;13

Randy Alcorn blogs about popular books in which people claim to have visited Heaven

• “Heaven Is for Real,” “90 Minutes in Heaven,” and other books about visits to Heaven or Hell
• To Heaven and Back: Another Visit to Heaven Book 
• Dialogue with Publisher about Mary Neal's To Heaven and Back 
• Proof of Heaven and the Dangerous Downward Spiral of My-Visit-to-Heaven Books

Books about Heaven by Randy Alcorn

Non-fiction

• Heaven 
• TouchPoints Heaven
• Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Heaven
• Heaven Booklet
• Eternal Perspectives

Devotionals

Fiction

• Deadline
• Dominion
• Deception
• Safely Home
• Edge of Eternity
• In Light of Eternity
• Eternity Graphic Novel