Why do we get caught up in good but less significant questions about heaven? - Resources - Eternal Perspective Ministries

Why do we get caught up in good but less significant questions about heaven?

By Randy Alcorn

April 13, 2010

Randy Alcorn discusses the topic of Heaven on the Janet Mefferd Show. March 2010.

Randy Alcorn (@randyalcorn) is the author of fifty-some books and the founder and director of Eternal Perspective Ministries.

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Heaven

Is It Right to Long for Reunion with Loved Ones Who Have Died?

Is It Right to Long for Reunion with Loved Ones Who Have Died?

article March 29, 2010

I am struck by the compulsion we have to speak words of kindness and impact and grief and consolation about those who have left this world. Where does this deep-seated sense of attachment come from?

Answered by Randy Alcorn

It comes from God. He 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 ...

Heaven: Dreading It or Anticipating It?

Heaven: Dreading It or Anticipating It?

article March 1, 2004

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.