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We should not assume that the Bible describes Heaven in physical ways merely to accommodate us. It is fully possible that the present Heaven is a physical realm.

Sexual intimacy with your marriage partner that doesn’t involve intercourse is not "masturbation". “Masturbation” means sex that involves only yourself.

It will sometimes happen that where there is the most sorrow in the antecedents, there will be the most pleasure in the sequel.

In a sense a Christian marriage and a Christian church should strive to rekindle the relational elements of Eden, unsuccessful as we may often be.

I believe the New Jerusalem is right now in the present (intermediary) Heaven because of my understanding of Revelation 10.

First, for His glory; second, for our good.

God is the Father of this family we enjoy. We rightly sense that our relationship with them has not been terminated, only interrupted, and we know that some day each of us will be taken from this world, in one moment separated from some we love and in the same moment reunited with others we love, and above all with our Lord.

It is the intermediate hell that is cast into the lake of fire.(Rev. 20:14)

So we will not be complete, fully perfected human beings until our sinless spirit is joined to a body no longer under the curse in the resurrection.

It is talking about the present Heaven, apparently, since the New Earth comes on the scene after the final judgment, and Revelation isn’t about the New Earth until Revelation 21-22. However, some aspects of the present Heaven may be shared by the future post-resurrection Heaven.

In this video clip, Randy Alcorn talks about his book Safely Home. 

While we do not regard ourselves a charismatic church, we do not wish to be known as “anti-charismatic.” What we do insist upon is a spirit of love and unity, the total sufficiency of Christ, and the final authority of the Scriptures.

Young men speak on sexual purity at Randy Alcorn's home church, Good Shepherd Community Church.

In The Chronicles of Narnia, C. S. Lewis paints a beautiful picture of heaven in the final book, The Last Battle. The book begins with a near collision of a railroad train, where the children are thrust into Narnia. But when their adventure is over, the children are afraid they will be sent back to earth again.