Heaven, Series to change our thoughts
I will be honest. I am tired of this world and I long for a perfect place. I will do a many part series on the topic of heaven according to the Bible. Maybe you feel as if you're passed your peak, physically or emotionally and that your best opportunities are behind you. Perhaps you're burdened, discouraged, depressed or even traumatized. Perhaps your dreams-your marriage, career or ambitions-have crumbled. Perhaps you're become cynical or have lost hope. An understanding of the true Christian teaching about Heaven (not the popular caricatures of Heaven) can change all that. God's people in ages past had a source of strength and perspective largely unknown to us today: Heaven. It was their central reference point, the North Star by which they could navigate their lives. But in contemporary culture, Heaven has fallen off our radar screens. "Whenever I think about Heaven," a man said to me, "it makes me depressed. I'd rather just not cease to exist ...