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

Regardless of whether we are rewarded in the same way we would have been if we'd trusted God to give it away while we were still alive, it is obviously still wise, and in that sense perhaps rewardable, to leave behind money to God’s kingdom.

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. 

I spent a lot of time with black men and women in the background research for Dominion, relying heavily on their personal accounts and paying particular attention to the recurring stories.

Andrea Doering of Crossings Book Club interviews Randy Alcorn about his book Edge of Eternity.

Question from a reader: Isaiah 65:20 says “he who dies at a hundred will be thought a mere youth; he who fails to reach a hundred will be considered accursed.” It sounds as if Isaiah is saying that in the new heavens and new earth people will die. How do you interpret this text?

PDF version of Discussion Questions for In Light of Eternity.

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.

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

It is quite amazing how often the term “legalism” comes up when there is a serious discussion about obedience or its result, holiness. 

I would dull the minds of Christians, and make them believe that prayer is not important, and that faithfulness and obedience are optional.

This is an argument I’ve heard a number of times throughout the years: “Babies will go to heaven anyway, so abortion isn’t so bad—in fact, it’s actually in the child’s ultimate best interests.” 

Only the elect can be saved; and, no one who is elect ever reaches death not having responded to God’s gift of salvation.

During the weekend, a new funeral procession arrives every 15 or 20 minutes. On one day, 52 people are buried; 43 of them were between the ages of 19 and 50. Most are Africa’s latest victims of AIDS.