Resources by Topic: Heaven

In 2014, Randy Alcorn was interviewed on the John Ankerberg Show, talking about the subject of Heaven.  

Question from a reader: I will be attending a memorial service for a dear friend’s mother who was not a Christian. Her father is devastated, even though she had battled cancer for nine years. How can I offer hope at such a time?  

The thinking is that since there is no marriage in Heaven (Matthew 22:30; Mark 12:25), there will be no procreation and the human race will be fulfilled in number.

When asked if we would recognize friends in Heaven, George MacDonald responded, “Shall we be greater fools in Paradise than we are here?”

Do you think it’s possible that in Heaven the Holy Spirit could come upon women like He did with Mary and allow them to conceive? What a joy that would be for all the women who longed to conceive but never did.

Death is a relocation of the same person from one place to another. The place changes, but the person remains the same. 

My favorite Christmas song is “Joy to the World,” because as my wife Nanci pointed out to me years ago, it’s the Christmas song that looks forward to Christ’s return and the New Earth.

Having an eternal perspective is in so many ways the key to living out a true Christ-following life. 

My point in this blog is not to put anyone in distress or have them second guess past decisions. Rather, this is only for those who are interested and are thinking about future decisions.

Randy Alcorn discusses Heaven, earth and an eternal perspective in this 6-minute clip from a podcast of The World and Everything in It, an audio news magazine produced by WORLD News Group, hosted by Nick Eicher and Joseph Slife.

Question from a reader: My wife died two months ago and I’ve heard a preacher say that when you die “you don’t go home alone”, and that two angels go with you. What does the Bible say about this?

In the world to come, will we experience rainfall and snowfall? Some have never thought about it, because they don’t think of Heaven as a real place or don't understand the doctrine of the New Earth, where we’ll live as resurrected people. 

Our churches and communities, our nation and our world, are filled with grieving people—numb, broken, bitter or simply exhausted. 

Randy answers the question, "Will we be ghosts in Heaven?", speaking in a radio interview, July 2013.