Heaven on Earth: What the Bible Teaches about Life to Come
Digital Verbum Edition
Overview
Why a book about heaven?
For all the skepticism that abounds in our time, people still want to know what happens after death. Do you know with any certainty where your conscious, thinking, self–aware, communicative self will be? And does it matter, as long as you are in ‘heaven’? But the importance of ‘heaven’ does not consist only in it being the alternative to ‘hell’. It is not just an abstract future state into which we will slip, it is a physical reality which can give us joy and hope even now as we look toward it.
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- Explors the Bible’s teaching on heaven
- Mitigates popular views of life after death
- Shows the joys of this wonderful doctrine
- We Die … Then what?
- Are You Ready?
- Falling Asleep
- The Trumpet Shall Sound
- The New Heaven and New Earth
- What Will Heaven be Like?
- Like the Angels
It’s our home and where we belong. But do we know just what it is we look forward to? Derek Thomas shows us from God’s word what we can expect in eternity. In doing so, he stirs a longing for the glories and joys to come.
—Christina Fox, Counselor, retreat speaker and author
This book's topic is vital for the Christian life. Christians need to be clear on their hope, and we won't be clear on our hope until we trust in what God in the Scriptures says is to come for all who trust in Christ.
—Ligon Duncan, Chancellor and CEO, Reformed Theological Seminary
Here is encouragement for us in a gloom-laden world. Always joyful, sometimes playful, Dr. Derek Thomas shows us what John Newton called the 'Solid joys and lasting treasures' that are the Christian's birth-right. A truly hope-full, wonder-full, joy-full book to read, treasure, and share.
—Sinclair B. Ferguson, Chancellor’s Professor of Systematic Theology, Reformed Theological Seminary, Jackson, Mississippi