Resources by Topic: Heaven

I want them to be able to do, in most cases for the first time, exactly what Peter assumes all Christians are doing: “looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, the home of righteousness” (2 Peter 3:13).

PDF version of The Law of Rewards Book Discussion Guide.

Randy Alcorn answers the question, "Is cremation biblical?" at the Billy Graham Training Center.

Randy Alcorn discusses Heaven on Worldview Weekend radio show.

Here are several key articles selected and written by Randy Alcorn on the subject of Heaven. “Dual Citizenship” “Earth's not our home...or is it?”

Randy Alcorn speaks on having an eternal perspective.

Near-death experiences have become important because many people have developed a variety of conflicting views of death and eternity based on these incidents.

"Heaven is the place where God will bring good out of bad." Randy Alcorn shares a message on Heaven, suffering, and the solid hope of eternity at Oak Hills Church in Texas, April 2010.

Resources pastors and group leaders can use on the subject of Heaven.

I heard a pastor make a startling confession. He said, ‘Whenever I think about heaven, it makes me depressed. I’d rather just cease to exist when I die.’

Bara is used of man’s creation, which is not ex nihilo but out of the earth (Gen. 1:26, 5:1, etc.). So the word is NOT restricted to making something out of nothing (as is often stated), but includes making something out of what already exists. 

I once heard a pastor make a startling confession: “Whenever I think about heaven, it makes me depressed. I’d rather just cease to exist when I die.” I tried not to show my shock as I asked him, “Why?” “I can’t stand the thought of that endless tedium. To float around in the clouds with nothing to do but strum a harp—it’s all so terribly boring. Heaven doesn’t sound much better than hell. I’d rather be annihilated than spend eternity in a place like that.”

I was a pastor for fourteen years. My closest friends are pastors. I’m delighted to talk to pastors about Heaven.

Finney was intoxicated not by mere feelings of joy, but by joy itself, a billion burning quasars of pure joy. All joy he had known on earth was like drinking from the contaminated lower waters, far from the source of the stream. Now he was drinking from the Source itself, the fountain-head of Joy.