Yearning for Heaven: Shifting Our Paradigm
Heaven is wonderful because of the presence of Jesus, reigning in glory.
You Are Right – This World Is Not Enough
This world is not enough. Yes, it’s the name of a not great 1990’s Bond film with Pierce Brosnan, but it also how we are all living now. We live like this world is not enough. It’s why we all want more—more experiences, more satisfaction, more love, more sex, more success, with more purity, more abs, more glutes, more status and more. If we were content, enough would be enough. We aren’t content and, yet, despite, Christianity’s call for contentment I want to argue that this lack of contentment is right. The existence of our discontent, tells us we were...
Think About Death While You’re Young
During the Middle Ages, people were obsessed with the idea of having a “good death”. Sudden, unexpected death was terrifying—you wouldn’t have the opportunity to confess your sins to a priest on your deathbed, or receive the last rites. They feared this would jeopardise their entry into heaven. Only a century after the end of the medieval period, Puritan pastor Richard Baxter wrote his book Dying Thoughts[1], an extended meditation on Philippians 1:23: “For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ, which is far better” (KJV). Baxter suffered poor health...
Mansions In The Sky? Rethinking John 14:2
It’s one of our most loved Bible verses. It’s a staple of many funeral services. It’s proven a wonderful comfort in times of grief. I’m speaking about our Lord’s promise to his distressed and confused disciples that he is going away to prepare a place for them. Where is Jesus going? To his Father in heaven, of course. And what will Jesus be doing when he gets there? Well, he’ll be very busy. Because he will “prepare a place for you” (John 14:2)—and since there will be lots of “you”, that’s an awful lot of preparation. Then, “I will come...
Heaven Now (3)
(This is third of our Heaven mini-series. See post 1 and post 2) I finished my last post by arguing that Christ has made heaven our home. He has given us confidence to enter the heavenly tabernacle and citizenship in the heavenly Jerusalem. But is this a permanent thing? Is heaven our future or simply an interim reality until the restoration of the earth? Previous generations of evangelicals might have been quick to answer that heaven is our eternal home. Their hymns look forward to a “sweet by and by;” to “soaring through worlds unknown.” But many of us today...
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