Resources by Topic: Heaven

. . .passages that speak about people sleeping when they die are likewise to be interpreted as simply a metaphorical expression to teach that death is temporary. . . In my mind this is not a central doctrinal issue.

I believe Scripture clearly suggests that your father, who’s now in Heaven, is witnessing God’s unfolding plan on earth.

Asking how rats and spiders and insects could possibly be on the New Earth is like asking how they possibly could have been in Eden. The point is, they were, and it didn’t diminish Eden, but somehow enhanced it.

Picture a single breath escaping your mouth on a cold day and disappearing into the air. Life here is brief. It is like a dot, which begins and ends and is brief. But from that dot proceeds a line that will go on forever. Death is not a wall but a doorway.

Full length video of Randy Alcorn's Heaven Q&A session with John Mark Comer at The Way, at A Jesus Church (formerly Solid Rock Church) in Portland, Oregon.

In this four minute video clip, Randy Alcorn answers the question,"How did you come to this realization about Heaven?" and explains how his mother's death played a role in that realization, on the Herman and Sharron show.

Pastor Greg Laurie interviews Randy Alcorn. Taken from the message, "Big Life Issues", by Pastor Greg Laurie.

Q&A: Randy Alcorn and Pastor Greg Laurie at Harvest Christian Fellowship discuss the question, "What will our new bodies be like?"

Q&A: Randy Alcorn and Pastor Greg Laurie at Harvest Christian Fellowship discuss the topic of death.

Randy Alcorn answering the question, "Is there time in Heaven?" Q&A with Pastor JohnMark Comer at The Way, A Jesus Church's (formerly Solid Rock Church) ministry to "twenty-somethings." See Randy's book Heaven for more information.

Randy Alcorn answers the question, "How has the philosophy of Plato affected our view of Heaven?" Q&A about Heaven at The Way, A Jesus Church's (formerly Solid Rock Church) ministry to "twenty-somethings." See Randy's book Heaven for more information.

In this six-minute video, Randy Alcorn and Pastor Greg Laurie at Harvest Christian Fellowship discuss the question,"Do people in Heaven know what is happening on earth?"

There was something magnetic, something special about how she faced death.

Consider the fantastic words contained in Romans 8:19-23: The sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that will be revealed in us. The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration [curse]... in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God....We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Not only so, but …