Resources by Topic: Heaven

Two and a half years ago, it was the eleventh anniversary of the day my mother went home to be with Christ. I was headed to the airport, to go to Philadelphia, and I dropped by to see Jerry, my best friend from childhood. He was dying of cancer.

God’s people are described as aliens and strangers, looking for a country of their own (Hebrews 11:14). This world, under the curse, is not our home. In fact, our real home is a place we’ve never lived.

I am leading a group studying Heaven, and I really want to get people excited about studying it. Do you have any suggestions of questions I could ask the group to encourage conversation and get people thinking about Heaven?

I spent a few hours with Carol King (see picture), who was dying of cancer. She joked that imminent death had changed her shopping habits.

Pastor Greg Laurie interviews Randy Alcorn on the subject of evil and suffering, and Heaven.

Sunday morning, March 7, I was with Greg Laurie and Harvest Fellowship in Riverside, California. Greg interviewed me about Heaven, and evil and suffering, and we opened the Word together. We did something similar last Thursday night in Orange County.

We do not long for non-body, non-earth and non-culture, but for new body, New Earth, and new culture—without sin and death. This is all part of longing for the resurrection, which is at the heart and soul of the Christian faith (1 Corinthians 15).

In this video clip, Randy Alcorn talks about our new bodies in Heaven.

In this video clip, Randy Alcorn answers the question, "What Is Heaven?" See Randy's book Heaven for more information.

Many of us habitually think and act as if there is no eternity—or, as if what we do in this present life has no bearing on eternity.

It’s common to hear people say, “We don’t understand now, but in Heaven we’ll know everything.” One writer says that people in Heaven can “easily comprehend divine mysteries. Is this true? Will we really know everything in Heaven?

The present Heaven is completely different than what Catholics believe in as purgatory, as it has nothing to do with punishment or suffering.

Can we really know in advance where we’re going when we die? The apostle John, the same one who wrote about the new heavens and New Earth, said in one of his letters, “I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life” (1 John 5:13, emphasis added). 

Revelation 3:11 says, "Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown."