Category: Heaven
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Heaven Is Not the End of the Story
Often when people think about heaven, they imagine it as the closing chapter of life — a peaceful resting place after years of joy and sorrow, faith and struggle. Yet Scripture presents something far greater than a quiet ending. Heaven is not where our story stops; it is where God’s redemptive story reaches its glorious…
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Matt McCullough On Why Heaven Matters for Today
What comes to mind when you think of heaven? Whether you realize it or not, your view of what is yet to come is shaping the way you live right now. This week on The Great Stories Podcast, David is joined by Matthew McCullough for a new series called Why Heaven Matters for Today —…
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When Worry Will Be No More
Most of us carry nagging worries that never go away. Some are obvious, but many stay carefully hidden beneath the surface: a medical test result we’re waiting on, financial pressure that doesn’t ease, a child who has spiritually drifted, a body that doesn’t work quite the way it used to. Even when life looks stable…
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7 Takeaways From The Little Black Funeral Dress
Are you grieving? Or are you looking for ways to help someone who is grieving? Shirley Thiessen has written a practical book to bring hope to those in grief and to those who companion them. Born out of her own unimaginable experience of the loss of her son, Shirley’s genuine heart desire is to leverage…
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The D-Day for Our Souls
Did you first believe in Jesus Christ because of C.S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity? Me too. The more people I talk to over the years, the more I’m surprised at how many lives God has used this book to change. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised, considering the circumstances in which Lewis wrote it—or rather, spoke…
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Where is your home?
I’m home visiting my family in Seattle for a time. The only problem is, I’m a little homesick for Virginia. These days, when I think of home, I think of the near-constant drizzle of rain in the Pacific Northwest and the taste of steamed blue crabs in the Mid-Atlantic. But there’s also the sight of…
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Heaven IS For Real
He was three years old and on the brink of death. His appendix had ruptured and he was enduring hours of surgery when he had what many would call an out-of-body experience. When he awoke, Colton Burpo told his family he had seen his miscarried sister. He had seen Jesus. He had been to heaven…
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The King’s Once and Future Blessings
In 2012, when my wife and I moved to Walkerton, Indiana, so that I could pastor a church, we bought a 125-year-old house. While we were excited to have a house, we were more excited to turn it into the Barker Home: a place of joy for our family and a place of safety for…