eternal life

'We Die to Be Raised Up'

'We Die to Be Raised Up'

We often say that someone “passed away.” Actually, the world passes away. And we are with our Father and with “a great multitude that no one could number” forever (Revelation 7:9).

Why Everyone Wants to Live Forever

Why Everyone Wants to Live Forever

The desperate race for immortality is not an attempt to reverse the effects of sin. Rather, it reflects just how desperate man – without God – is to exert complete control over the cosmos, and to have life on our own terms.

Seeking Transforming Joy That Transcends Circumstances

Seeking Transforming Joy That Transcends Circumstances

We’ve been focusing this week on ways to help people seek God who don’t believe they need to seek God: exhibit life transformation that is attractive to others, choose compassion over condemnation, and embrace excellence through dependence on God. Today let’s add a fourth dimension: demonstrate compelling joy despite changing circumstances.

Mississippi Governor Says Christians Are ‘a Little Less Scared’ of COVID-19 Because They ‘Believe in Eternal Life’

Mississippi Governor Says Christians Are ‘a Little Less Scared’ of COVID-19 Because They ‘Believe in Eternal Life’

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves asserted that Christians are “a little less scared” of COVID-19 because they believe in enteral life in Heaven.

Petitioners Want to Stop Jeff Bezos from Returning to Earth: The Quest for Relevance and the Path to Eternal Influence

Petitioners Want to Stop Jeff Bezos from Returning to Earth: The Quest for Relevance and the Path to Eternal Influence

Relevance is the currency of our culture. While Paul quoted Greek philosophers to reach Greek philosophers (Acts 17:28) and quoted the Hebrew Bible to reach Jews (cf. Acts 17:1-4), you and I live in a society that measures “truth” by its results in its adherents.

Giving Life and Offering Eternal Life

Giving Life and Offering Eternal Life

I’m confident that you would say you believe in the existence of hell. But let me ask you: Do you truly believe that the non-Christians you know will spend eternity there? Are you convinced that your neighbors who seem to be living moral lives but do not follow Jesus are in peril of eternal separation from God? If you do, what are you doing to help them choose salvation in Christ? Only 10 percent of Christian churchgoers say they share their faith with a lost person at least once a month. When last did you?

How to Experience Omnipotence Today

How to Experience Omnipotence Today

Christians around the world announced on Easter Sunday that Jesus is “risen indeed.” The grief of watching his execution and burial on Good Friday pales into the glorious sunrise of his resurrection from the grave on the third day.

Now the risen Christ wants to infuse us with this same resurrection power by the Spirit who indwells all Christians (1 Corinthians 3:16). Tragically, many of us who believe in Easter Sunday live as though it is still Good Friday.

10 Things You Should Know about Hell

10 Things You Should Know about Hell

I take no special delight in writing this article. But hell is real and people are going there. So let’s look closely at what the Bible has to say about it as well as the on-going debate over whether hell is eternal conscious punishment.

What you and I “like” is utterly and absolutely irrelevant. God doesn’t set his eternal agenda based on what we “prefer”. What we might “hope” to be true simply doesn’t matter. What does or does not make us “feel comfortable” has no bearing on the truth or falsity of this issue. The fact that we have an intuitive sense for what strikes us as “fair” or “just” plays no part whatsoever in coming to a conclusion on whether or not there is an eternal hell. The fact that we may not enjoy the thought of eternal conscious punishment doesn’t make it go away! The fact that you “feel” the existence of hell is inconsistent with your concept of God doesn’t mean there isn’t one. What we “want” or “hope” or “desire” has no relevance at all in this debate. The only important question is, “Does the Bible teach it?” And if the Bible does teach it (and Revelation 14 together with numerous other texts would indicate it does), our responsibility is to believe it and fervently and faithfully proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ as the only hope sinners have for now and eternity.

Here are 10 truths about hell that we must understand and accept.

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