Journey RVA Podcast

For thousands of years, the Bible has contained the best financial principles to help people achieve financial freedom. These principles worked thousands of years ago, and they're just as effective today - they are timeless financial truths.

We make investments in life to provide for something in our future. But have you ever thought about how you can invest in your eternity? Is that even possible? You may be surprised!

By it's very definition, eternity it timeless. And when we think about eternity, we think about Heaven. The popular misconceptions about what Heaven is like hinder our pursuit of a truly significant life. Why? Because we tend to tend to prioritize the temporal things of this life over what has eternal value. At the end of the day, we're not convinced that eternity is going to be much different than the here and now. And yet, the opposite is true. When we understand what the Scriptures teach about Heaven, it not only gives us a greater and grander vision for eternity, it also gives us a greater and grander vision for the next seven days.

We're all headed somewhere. Arriving at our new destinations requires change. For most of us, change creates stress. Sometimes you know what's coming next—graduation, wedding, new baby, new job, retirement. But there's no correlation between knowing what's next and being prepared for what's next. So, how do you prepare for the next season when you can see what's coming?

We're all headed somewhere. We're all moving toward a new season. And none of us has been where we're going. Yet it's up to us to figure out what we need to pack in our bags so that we're prepared for that coming season. But how can you know what you'll need when the coming season is a mystery? How can you know what you don't know?

We're all headed somewhere. Arriving at our new destinations requires change. For most of us, change creates stress. Just like when we travel on a boat, plane, or in a car, traveling through life can give us motion sickness. We're knocked off balance. The ground beneath our feet doesn't feel solid. So how do you prepare for what's next when the anxiety of transition has you fighting motion sickness?

Life is full of change. Transitions can be both exciting and stressful. That's because we can't see into the future. We can't tell what comes next. But what if there was a way to prepare for the next season? What if you could do something now to influence where you end up then?

Eschatology (es·cha·tol·o·gy) is a Christian term that references the biblical teachings about the study of the "last things," including the second coming of Jesus. While Christians hold to a wide variety of beliefs about the details surrounding the second coming of Christ, there is one central truth on which there is broad agreement: Jesus is coming again, and he will come in a literal and visible manner. The return of Jesus is necessary to bring redemptive history to its ultimate conclusion where God sets all things right and restores his created order.

When the church launched, it began to grow quickly. A quick survey of the first several chapters of Acts will show that they kept track of how many people were embracing the message of the Gospel. What was the focus of the early church? What led to its rapid growth?

After his resurrection, Jesus spent 40 days with his closest disciples pouring into them and teaching them from the Scriptures. At the end of that period of time, he gave them a mission: take the message of the Gospel to every nation on earth and make disciples for and of Jesus. But what is a disciple? What exactly was the message of the Gospel? How were they to accomplish this mission?