What would make Heaven, Heaven for You? What is it hard to imagine Heaven not having? I imagine most of us have something: a pet, a person, a pleasure, a place. I mean we are sure Heaven is good and wonderful and all, the whole streets of gold thing; but if we are honest, it is just hard to imagine Heaven being all that is promised if found out that something wasn’t there. Could Heaven be missing something? What makes Heaven, Heaven? I can say the answer, already have said the answer in this series; and you know the answer and believe it, understand it, but . . . It is God that makes Heaven, Heaven.

What would make Heaven, Heaven for You? What is it hard to imagine Heaven not having? I imagine most of us have something: a pet, a person, a pleasure, a place. I mean we are sure Heaven is good and wonderful and all, the whole streets of gold thing; but if we are honest, it is just hard to imagine Heaven being all that is promised if found out that something wasn’t there. Could Heaven be missing something? What makes Heaven, Heaven? I can say the answer, already have said the answer in this series; and you know the answer and believe it, understand it, but . . . It is God that makes Heaven, Heaven.

Todd and Veronika Gallagher with their three children are missionaries in Ukraine. As war broke out their plans changed, but they continued to minister to refugees and the church in Ukraine from their home base in Brasov, Romania.

Todd and Veronika Gallagher with their three children are missionaries in Ukraine. As war broke out their plans changed, but they continued to minister to refugees and the church in Ukraine from their home base in Brasov, Romania.

A disturbing concept in Christianity is the prospect that one day vast numbers of people will go to hell. Some of them we know and love; because we all have people we know and love that will not come to Christ. It is such a disturbing idea it’s just easier to ignore or only refer to in the vaguest of terms. The great majority of Christians can go to church for years and never hear about hell. It is just easier to not talk about, but is that helpful? As we see what God has said about hell; let’s keep in mind that our comfort and understanding is not the standard by which this is measured. Let’s keep in mind we do not have a greater idea of love or what is fair than God. Our love and fairness are so far from God’s that it is closer to wrong. We have never come close to loving someone like God does.

A disturbing concept in Christianity is the prospect that one day vast numbers of people will go to hell. Some of them we know and love; because we all have people we know and love that will not come to Christ. It is such a disturbing idea it’s just easier to ignore or only refer to in the vaguest of terms. The great majority of Christians can go to church for years and never hear about hell. It is just easier to not talk about, but is that helpful? As we see what God has said about hell; let’s keep in mind that our comfort and understanding is not the standard by which this is measured. Let’s keep in mind we do not have a greater idea of love or what is fair than God. Our love and fairness are so far from God’s that it is closer to wrong. We have never come close to loving someone like God does.

We are a physical people in a physical world, and we were made that way by God. And it is in these physical, concrete images of the world that heaven is described to us in Revelation 21. Don’t dismiss these descriptions as having some indefinable, mystical idea. Hear it for what it is. Let’s read Revelation 21.

We are a physical people in a physical world, and we were made that way by God. And it is in these physical, concrete images of the world that heaven is described to us in Revelation 21. Don’t dismiss these descriptions as having some indefinable, mystical idea. Hear it for what it is. Let’s read Revelation 21.

Why is it so important to study Heaven and Hell when it costs $50, $60 dollars or more to fill my gas tank, when we just learned that our kids are on average 1-2 years behind in their education due to Covid, when we have such a polarized nation, when home is becoming more frustrating, when . . . and where does the list stop of more pressing needs than day dreaming about a Heaven or Hell? What if I were to suggest that clarity and conviction about Heaven and Hell may be the focus we need to navigate our current personal and cultural issues?

Why is it so important to study Heaven and Hell when it costs $50, $60 dollars or more to fill my gas tank, when we just learned that our kids are on average 1-2 years behind in their education due to Covid, when we have such a polarized nation, when home is becoming more frustrating, when . . . and where does the list stop of more pressing needs than day dreaming about a Heaven or Hell? What if I were to suggest that clarity and conviction about Heaven and Hell may be the focus we need to navigate our current personal and cultural issues?