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The New Heaven and the New Earth

Heaven and earth, now separated, will be merged in the glorious and final consummation of God’s plan. In the ultimate story, we won’t go “up”...

The situation and circumstances we are in are never accidental. God has and will always have a plan.

“Nothing impure will ever enter, nor will anyone who does what is shameful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of...

Judging by what’s said at most funerals, you’d think everyone is going to heaven. One of our greatest dangers is to assume that heaven is...

Satan is enraged that God has entitled us to the home that he was kicked out of (Is. 14:12-15). Knowing that God has set eternity...

The most quoted verse on heaven is perhaps 1 Cor. 2:9: “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has...

Consider the words of the famous athlete who attempted a fifteen-hour swim in the fog but came up a half-mile short: “I think if I...

Ministry flows from our rest. Rest does not come naturally to us. We have to trust that while we are still, God is not. Moreover,...

In God’s Word, we find everything we need for life. Nothing can replace the importance and necessity of regular intimacy with God through His Word.

In God’s Word, we find everything we need for life. Nothing can replace the importance and necessity of regular intimacy with God through His Word.

Gospel conversations are a means to an end, not the end in and of themselves. Following the example of Paul, who became “all things to...

God is working on both sides of the “curtain” to bring about the salvation of the lost.