Resources by Topic: Heaven

When I first answered this question a few years ago, a friend was holding her eighteen-month-old son in her arms, waiting for him to breathe his last. She was praying over him, reading Psalms aloud, trying to comfort and prepare him—and herself—for what was to come.

Genesis 2:18: The Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is just right for him."

With the deaths of several celebrities on the forefront of people's minds, I want to focus this week's question and answer on Heaven. 

Coach Joe Gibbs talks about Heaven and his visit with Randy Alcorn, one of the contributors to the Game Plan for Life book: www.gameplanforlife.com.

People often ask me whether animals will be in Heaven. Their second question is whether they’ll ever see their pets again.   

Readers might like to check out this article about Randy, which appeared on the front page of The Oregonian newspaper on Easter Sunday. 

The first time I picked up a book by Randy Alcorn was when I was a sophomore in a theology class at Corban College and we were reading Heaven.

Here in our part of Oregon, the snow is melting off as quickly as it came. But we had about ten days in the middle when it was a winter wonderland—making December 2008 our snowiest month since January 1950, four years before I was born.

Readers of my books often question whether the doctrine of eternal rewards is biblical. They say, It seems self-centered to do good works so I will be rewarded.

Just as Jesus promises satisfaction as a reward in Heaven, he also promises laughter as a reward. Anticipating the laughter to come, Jesus says we should leap for joy now.

Since many have told me how much they appreciated the video with Christian the Lion, I'm going to do something a little different over the next 12 days or so. I'll post four videos that I think will be well worth your time. I'll put them in four separate blogs. 

You may have seen the video of Christian the Lion being reunited with two men who raised him as a cub. If you haven't, you're in for a treat. And if you have, you may want to watch again.

I first learned of Eliot Mooney maybe a year ago, but when someone else forwarded the video again recently, I thought it was time to feature it on this blog.  

If we get it wrong about Jesus, it doesn’t matter what else we get right.