Resources by Topic: Heaven

First, for His glory; second, for our good.

Last week I took a trip to Little Rock, Arkansas to record three programs about my book If God Is Good with Family Life Today radio. 

This heaven-focused book provided me more earthly applications than I could handle-from what to teach my children and how to spend my money, to what to dream about as I lay my head down at night. 

PDF version of Discussion Questions for In Light of Eternity.

I studied verse 10 and clearly, whatever is being spoken of in verse 9 is also being spoken of as being revealed to us by the Spirit in verse 10. I also went to the beginning of the passage....

Let me share with you some relevant excerpts from my book Heaven, related to a New Universe, other planets, aliens and space travel.

Jesus described heaven as having many rooms or dwellings (John 14:2-3). Like earthly cities or countries, heaven includes individual dwelling places.

In the same way that bones aren’t included in flesh and blood explicitly, likewise blood isn’t included specifically with flesh and bones, but may be implied.

We will have an eternal perspective, we will know that God has been just in his judgments, and will not be plagued by doubt.

It is not forever—we will be reunited in Heaven and never have to worry about leaving each other again, and my dad will be able to walk by me with no pain.

Eventually all believers will have resurrection bodies (Job 19:25-27; Is. 26:19; Dan. 12:2-3; 1 Cor. 15:12-58; Phil. 3:21; 1 Thess. 4:16-17; Rev. 20:4-6).

Scripture gives no indication of a “memory wipe” that will cause us not to recognize our loved ones and others we’ve known.

When a Christian dies, he or she enters into what theologians call the intermediate state, a transitional period between our past lives on Earth and our future resurrection to life on the New Earth.

The Bible treats this judgment of believers with great sobriety. It’s not a meaningless formality, but a monumental event in which things of eternal consequence are instituted.