“What is heaven like?” If you ever had children, or maybe you taught children in Sunday school, you have probably been confronted with this question: What is heaven? What does it look like? What will it smell or feel like? Who will be there? What will we do? It makes sense that children ask these questions, we say the word heaven a lot in church, we say it’s important, we might even talk about it as a goal but we don’t actually talk about it very much. If you were only to watch … [Read more...]
Teaching on Heaven and Hell
A Teaching on Staying in the Kingdom of Heaven, and slipping into the other place. Heaven and hell are mythologically vital ideas that teach you about negotiating the spiritual life now. This is not about life after death, but about life now. Jesus teaches on forgiveness as the practice which allows you to remain in a state of Grace. … [Read more...]
The nature of eternal life
Sometimes you wonder what resurrection actually looks like. Do I get a better body? A younger one? Who do I meet? I am not sure these are the right questions. It will be more like "Oh, I never would had guessed!" and "Oh, of course!" I think. But what does get raised up? My body? My soul? My last 5 minutes? My church-going side, but not my casino-going side? … [Read more...]