Randy Alcorn

This is the Eternity 101 DVD class, which was filmed during Randy's Heaven course taught at Corban University in Spring of 2012. His goal in teaching this is to help you gain a better understanding and biblical perspective of our eternal dwelling place. Click the links below to view all 12 sessions.

Jesus het aan sy disippels gesê, “kom Ek weer en sal julle na My toe neem, sodat julle ook kan wees waar Ek is” (Johannes 14:3).  Hy maak gebruik van ruimtelike terme om die Hemel te beskryf.  Die woord “waar” verwys na ʼn plek.  Net so word beweging en fisiese bestemming aangedui met die frase “kom Ek weer en sal julle na My toe neem”.

For some of our brothers and sisters in Christ, Christmas 2024 meant persecution and grief. Open Doors Canada Reports, “The Week of Christmas 2024 brought with it multiple fatal attacks on Christians in parts of Sub-Saharan Africa.” My Nigerian friend Samuel Kunhiyop keeps our ministry updated with what is happening in Nigeria.

A reader of our blog kindly wrote us, “Thanks for the resources and articles over the years. God used your website to draw me to faith and help me grow.” Words like those really encourage both me and our EPM staff as we share resources that point readers to an eternal perspective.

Throughout the difficulties and joys that 2025 will bring, you’ll find abiding happiness as you go back to God’s Word again and again. One Bible reading program to consider is the Bible Recap, a chronological readthrough with Tara-Leigh Cobble. Several of our EPM staff did it in 2024, and highly recommend it. 

Some people say it really doesn’t matter since it’s all God’s Word anyway, but I do think that we should try to figure out which human being actually said the words of God.

Regardless of our expectations or resolutions, this new year, like every year since we were evicted from Eden, will bring both wonderful and profoundly difficult moments. What we need is a perspective on our coming year that’s hopeful, yet grounded in eternal certainties. 

Nanci’s death, and grieving our temporary separation, has given me many opportunities to write and speak about grief and share an eternal perspective. Here are some notes we’ve received from readers who have been helped by EPM’s resources on Heaven and grief.

John 3:16 is one of the best-known Bible verses: “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” In short, love gives. Love gives time. Love gives money. Love gives what others might consider ours but what we know to be God’s.