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The John Piper book When I Don’t Desire God: How to Fight for Joy is good.  Also good is John Piper’s book When the Darkness Does Not Lift, available online from the Desiring God website.

Recommended books on Heaven for children.

The reason I don’t address activities about the intermediate state is because there are not a lot of details given to it.

Chapter 1 excerpt from The Grace and Truth Paradox by Randy Alcorn 

You asked about the use of the Hebrew word for day—yom. First, let’s go back and list a few hermeneutical principles, then apply them.

Parenthood is a calling, far more important than any vocation.

There is a gift God has given his people in all ages that has enabled them not just to hold on, but to experience fulfillment even in times of great difficulty. This gift is hope.

A big one is the degree to which explicitly spiritual content can or should be woven into a story.

For health consumers and health care professionals of an orthodox Judeo-Christian or Islamic tradition, as well as those authentically concerned with the universal respect of unqualified human rights, the asserted capacity of the pill to act as an abortifacient, both in its once-a-day and ‘morning-after’ permutations, is one of significant moral weight.

I’m very pro-Israel, believing that God has a future purpose for the nation and that the U.S. should remain her steadfast ally. That doesn’t mean I believe the current nation of Israel, with its secular government, does everything right, and I think like every nation, including ours, it should be subject to evaluation and criticism.

Two segments from the novel Safely Home, by Randy Alcorn

It’s really something you have to accept by faith, trusting that a measurable result will come, even if the book isn’t read by people for another two years.

The place we’ll live forever will be where God comes down to dwell with us, on the New Earth (Revelation 21:1-3).