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The reason I don’t address activities about the intermediate state is because there are not a lot of details given to it.

I would agree that our salvation is not based on our works.

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.

Recommended books on Heaven for children.

Chapter 1 excerpt from The Grace and Truth Paradox by Randy Alcorn 

Two segments from the novel Safely Home, by Randy Alcorn

The majority text (MT) really means “a statistical number larger than another text type” (i.e., called the MT = “Western Text”). The other major text type has fewer manuscripts, but they are older and some are better preserved.

The place we’ll live forever will be where God comes down to dwell with us, on the New Earth (Revelation 21:1-3).

Note from Randy: I wrote this to the men in a study group I led, based on Dallas Willard’s book, Spirit of the Disciplines.

This world is the closest thing to heaven unbelievers will ever experience, and the closest thing to hell believers will ever know. 

When our daughters were considering a college, we told them, “Judge everything you hear by the Word of God, like the Bereans in Acts 17:11.”

From Lord Foulgrin’s Letters, a novel by Randy Alcorn
(inspired by C. S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters)

I heard a pastor make a startling confession: “Whenever I think about heaven, it makes me depressed. I’d rather just cease to exist when I die.”

Choose your friends wisely. Don’t just let friendships happen by circumstance. Make them happen by choice—careful, thoughtful choice.