Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

who grew up in a Christian church and then walked away when they got older? Often pastors and parents and brothers and sisters are concerned about them and their spirituality—and often they should be. But sometimes those individuals’ rejection of church and the Christian faith they were presented with as the only possible interpretation of what it

Heaven is both the peace, stillness, serenity, and calm that come from having everything in its right place—that state in which nothing is required, needed, or missing—and the endless joy that comes from participating in the ongoing creation of the world.

he’s up to—except demons, who know exactly who he is and what’s he doing.

Taking heaven seriously, then, means taking suffering seriously, now. Not because we’ve bought into the myth that we can create a utopia given enough time, technology, and good voting choices, but because we have great confidence that God has not abandoned human history and is actively at work within it, taking it somewhere.

So when we hear that a certain person has “rejected Christ,” we should first ask, “Which Christ?”

Do you know any individuals

That’s why wealth is so dangerous: if you’re not careful you can easily end up with a garage full of nouns.

The problem, however, is that the phrase “personal relationship” is found nowhere in the Bible. Nowhere in the Hebrew scriptures, nowhere in the New Testament. Jesus never used the phrase. Paul didn’t use it.

Or are they referring to the very life source of the universe