Throughout the Gospels, Jesus repeatedly uses one particular phrase: “the Kingdom of Heaven.” It seems important to what Jesus was trying to teach us—that heaven and earth overlap and interlock in a number of different ways. While the Bible doesn’t give us many explicit descriptions of Heaven, there is some helpful imagination at work in the last book of the Bible, Revelation 21.

In what direction is heaven traveling? Let’s allow some of our assumptions to be challenged—instead of us going to heaven, maybe heaven is coming toward us as God renews creation.