Without an eternal perspective, without understanding the reality that the best is yet to come, we assume that people who die young, who are handicapped, who aren’t healthy, who don’t get married, or who don’t _____ [fill in the blank] will inevitably miss out on the best life has to offer. 

Why do we love great stories? Because they are pictures of the greatest story. There hasn’t ever been a story yet with people living happily ever after, since people die. But one story will come out that way. It’s a true story, and you and I are part of it.

We know that sixty-six books, those that comprise the Bible, will be in Heaven—”Your Word, O Lord, is eternal; it stands firm in the heavens” (Psalm 119:89).

Randy Alcorn's plenary address at the C.S. Lewis Summer Institute at Oxbridge July 26 to August 3, 2011. 

I believe that Lewis's The Last Battle is one of the finest portrayals of what life could be like as we enter the New Earth.

Dan Franklin with Group Think Rescue interviews Randy Alcorn, author of Heaven, on what happens when we die, the hope of a New Earth, and common misconceptions about the afterlife.

In this five-minute video clip, Randy Alcorn talks about how God’s ultimate plan is not to take us up to live in a realm made for him, but to come down and live with us in the realm he made for us.

In this 5 minute video clip, Randy Alcorn talks about our longing for the redemption of the earth.

Randy Alcorn answered a variety of questions at the 2010 C.S. Lewis SW Regional Retreat and Writers Workshop. In this clip, he answers the question, "How can finite creatures experience eternal life?"