Randy Alcorn

Апостол Павло вважає, що нам надзвичайно важливо знати, що відбувається після смерті: «Не хочемо, щоб ви, брати, не знали про померлих, аби не сумували, як інші, котрі не мають надії» (Солунян 4:13).

Бог наказує нам у Своєму Слові налаштувати свій розум на Небеса, де є Христос (Колосян 3:1). Ми зосереджуємось на реальному місці, де живе вічно втілений, воскреслий Христос.   

In June 2020, Tim Keller was diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer. Last Sunday The New York Times published a interview with him, and he explained how the solid hope of the resurrection impacts his and Kathy’s lives (and his cancer). As I read, I thought about how Nanci and I would both agree 100% with what Keller says in answer to every question.

God’s main concern is conforming His children to the image of Christ. And He works through the chal­lenging circumstances of our lives to help develop that Christlikeness in us. We can be assured that whatever difficulty He has allowed in our lives has been Father-filtered, through His fingers of wisdom and love.

When we receive our glorified bodies and relocate to the New Earth, it will culminate history, not erase it. And nothing will negate or minimize the fact that we were members of families here on Earth. 

A reader, Tammy, sent me this touching message about her dad, and the pictures. 

Death is like a great ocean, and we are on this shore seeing people depart. But every ocean has two shores, and every person we see depart is seen as arriving on that other shore. Death is not the end. Just as birth was our ticket to this world, so death is our ticket to the next. It is less of an end than a beginning.

Contemplating Heaven is where my heart is at right now. In this excerpt from my novel Deception, I picture one of the characters entering Heaven.

In this clip Randy talks about a current writing project.