Resources by Topic: Heaven

But thanks be to God, all who repent of their sin and follow Jesus Christ will someday be in the “land of the LIVING”!

People are made for the eternal and therefore cannot be ultimately satisfied by the temporal. 

In Hamlet, Shakespeare called what lies beyond death “the undiscovered country.” People have given much thought to this country—and adopted remarkably different attitudes toward it.

Discerning Christians with a strong biblical theology can pick out the good and toss the bad. Unfortunately, most who read the book (and see the movie) will not do that.

By removing eternal risk, Christ calls his people to continual temporal risk. For the followers of Jesus the final risk is gone.

“A Theology of Heaven” will explore biblical indications of what happens at death; the intermediate state, as distinguished from the final state; the resurrection and final judgment; the nature of the new earth-centered heaven; the judgment seat of Christ; eternal rewards; and reigning with Christ.

Scriptures Relevant to the Doctrines of Death, the Afterlife, Heaven, Hell, Resurrection and Eternal Rewards.

You go from loving and being with Christ here, to loving and being with Christ there.

I am writing you this letter so that I will never forget a single part of your short little life within me. Because of you I will never be the same. 

I’m concerned that your treatment of the doctrine of hell is an attempt to choose between grace and truth rather than embracing both. 

Set your sights on the realities of heaven, where Christ sits at God’s right hand.…. Let heaven fill your thoughts. Colossians 3:1-2

In my book In Light of Eternity I tell several stories related to my mom’s death, the death of my closest friend, and my father’s death...and mind just sort of moved over to this arena of what really does happen on the other side of death.

As Nanci, Karina & Angela and I, and my brother Lance, were with him, while I was reading Scripture from Revelation 20-22, Dad went home to be with the Lord.

What awaits the believer after death? We all know the answer—heaven.