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The most striking thing that’s happened,” she said, “is that I find myself totally uninterested in all the conversations about material things.

When logic would tell you the church would not be able to grow under government restrictions, it has grown at a phenomenal rate.

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

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).

Recommended books on Heaven for children.

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

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.

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

There is a gift God has given his people in all ages that has enabled them not just to hold on, but to experience fulfillment even in times of great difficulty. This gift is hope.

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.

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

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

I would like to see a church become so godly, so Spirit-filled that it would have a spiritual influence on all of the churches in the entire area.

A message preached by John Wesley November 30, 1781
(With inserted comments and summaries by Randy Alcorn)