Resources by Topic: Heaven

Randy Alcorn speaks on Heaven at Corban University in Salem, Oregon. This video clip was excerpted from Randy's Eternity 101 DVD class.

What is Heaven? Where is Heaven? And Where does God dwell? Randy Alcorn answers these questions in this short video filmed while speaking at Corban University in Salem, Oregon. This video clip was excerpted from Randy's Eternity 101 DVD class.  

Randy Alcorn discussed this when he spoke on the subject of Heaven at Corban University in Salem, Oregon. This video clip was excerpted from Randy's Eternity 101 DVD class.

Question from a reader: One of the pastors of my church insists that you—and I, since I agree with your view of a restoration of the present earth as opposed to its total and complete annihilation and re-creation—are "cultural transformationists.” He says that I believe it is the role of believers to transform the world into the New Earth through social reform. Could you clarify for me what you believe in regard to this topic?

Resources for the Eternity 101 Class on Heaven taught by Randy Alcorn at Corban University, and available on DVD exclusively from EPM.  

Randy Alcorn answers this question in this 6 minute video while he was speaking at Harvest Christian Church, with Pastor Greg Laurie.

This verse, taken in context, seems to be speaking generationally. Just as you and I know nothing of the situation, personalities, or daily life of our ancestors from thousands of years ago, so (if the Lord tarries) our generations hence will know (and care) little about our current lives. 

Yes and no. There is reason to believe that there will be a wide spectrum of personalities in Heaven—including extroverted and introverted tendencies, but our social interaction with others will be perfected and free of comparisons, pride, and fear. 

Question from a reader: I understand that the Lord allows His people to either enter the Intermediate Heaven or, if they have not come to the Lord in faith, to be sent to the Intermediate Hell…but I am wondering what passage of Scripture supports this statement. 

Last month I did a Q&A on Heaven at Corban University’s chapel. I enjoyed meeting students and sharing what God’s word says about our eternal home.

The idea of endlessly floating on clouds doing nothing but strumming a harp is nowhere in Scripture.

One day, God’s new center of government will be the New Earth. This will be the ultimate answer to the Lord’s Prayer, “Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven” (Matthew 6:10, KJV).

No, there is no indication that Heaven was created as a result of the Fall. Certainly it was created at some point.

Our resurrected bodies will have resurrected taste buds. We can trust that the food we eat on the New Earth, some of it familiar and some of it brand-new, will taste better than anything we’ve ever eaten here.