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A few days ago a friend asked me to meet with her non-Christian family and share the gospel with them.

I had mixed feelings about this movie.

What we usually think of when we hear “Heaven” is the intermediate state.

Mystery concerns the 450-year-old Temple of Heaven complex in Beijing, China.

Parents have to balance their responsibility to govern their children’s lives with their teenagers’ need to develop independence and freedom. Parents have to maintain that tension. 



In this clip from the 50 Days of Heaven audiobook, Randy discusses how there will always be more to discover about our God. In his new universe, there will always be more beyond.

The city’s exact dimensions are measured by an angel and reported to be 12,000 stadia, the equivalent of 1,400 miles or 2,200 kilometers, in length, width, and height (Revelation 21:15-16).

In Revelation 22, those who are outside the city mean those who are outside the city in Hell.

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

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.

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.

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.