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Regardless of our expectations or resolutions, this new year, like every year since we were evicted from Eden, will bring both wonderful and profoundly difficult moments. What we need is a perspective on our coming year that’s hopeful, yet grounded in eternal certainties. 

Nanci’s death, and grieving our temporary separation, has given me many opportunities to write and speak about grief and share an eternal perspective. Here are some notes we’ve received from readers who have been helped by EPM’s resources on Heaven and grief.

John 3:16 is one of the best-known Bible verses: “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” In short, love gives. Love gives time. Love gives money. Love gives what others might consider ours but what we know to be God’s.

Perhaps those who love children but never had any of their own on the old earth will have the privilege of helping raise children on the New Earth. We do know that what God has for us in eternity will be wonderful beyond comprehension!

Charles Spurgeon closed his 1854 sermon entitled "The Birth of Christ" with the following, in a Christian context that was often critical of Christmas celebration because some people embraced sin and not the Savior. May his words for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day apply to the days ahead of us.

I continue to be humbled and amazed at the ways that God has used the Heaven book. As our ministry continues to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the book’s release, we’re grateful for the notes we’ve received from readers sharing how the book has impacted their lives. Here are just a few of them. 

When a child falls off a bike, she doesn’t need her father to explain the physics of why it happened. No. The child simply wants comfort. We don’t need explanations, most of which we wouldn’t understand anyway. We need “God, who comforts the downcast” (2 Corinthians 7:6). 

Randy wrote, “I’m skeptical of much of what I see online about dark night of the soul because it’s so subjective, and the ‘Christian mystics’ who speak of it are often vague and do not ground what they’re talking about on Scripture.”

I wasn’t raised in a Christian home. No one in our family attended church or understood the meaning of the Son of God’s incarnation and redemption. Yet, somehow, my mom embodied Christmas.

Randy believes Israel holds a special place in God’s heart and plan (yet acknowledging that Jewish people, like all others, need to come to faith in Christ to be saved). He also firmly believes that God’s ultimate plan is showcased in Revelation: for people of every language, nation, and tongue to be united in praise to King Jesus.

Evangelist and author Greg Stier writes, “Behind every evil in this world there is a closely knit network of highly resourced influencers who are conspiring to take down evangelical Christians and destroy the global church.”

Countless Christians in Bible-believing churches have been held in bondage for many years by false and widespread views of Heaven and eternity. Despite the clear teaching of Scripture, the pushback against the New Earth used to be very strong.

The following is an excerpt from my novel Deadline, which portrays the character Finney, now residing in Heaven, discussing the incarnation with an angel. I hope this fictional account will help you see Christ’s birth—and ultimately His death—from a fresh perspective.

Every sacrifice we make in following Christ will always result in our long-term good—but it’s more than that. It will also most often result in our short-term happiness.