One day you will stand before God and give an account of your life. The most important question you can ask yourself now is, will you be ready? Most Christians know their response to the cross determines where they will spend eternity. But did you know that how you’ll spend eternity is determined by what you do in this life? God wants you to discover your calling—He’s not trying to keep you in the dark. In fact, He longs for you to find the meaning and purpose that comes with knowing why you’ve been placed on this earth. In Driven by Eternity, best-selling author John Bevere uses an eye-opening allegory and extensive Scripture to unveil how our daily choices shape our eternal existence. Life beyond the final breath is much more than a destination. Don’t wait until it’s too late. Discover your God-given destiny and make your life count both today and forever.
"I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am." John 14:3 The Final Chapter From Billy Graham. Experience the glory of heaven as Billy Graham, the beloved evangelist, shares from his past, and his present, the reality of eternity. As our nation and world travail in the midst of political, economic, and cultural uncertainties, we can find comfort in the hope that comes from the unchanging truth of God’s Word. Whether talking with a US president, a world leader, or the common man or being interviewed on network television, Billy Graham has always begun his answers with “The Bible says…” In Where I Am, Mr. Graham shares what the Bible has to say about eternity from all of its sixty-six books; messages of truth, warning, love, and the certainty of the future, all gleaned by a man who would like to be remembered solely as a preacher of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The greatest promise ever given to the human race came from the lips of our Redeemer when Jesus said, “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me...I go to prepare a place for you...I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also” (John 14:1–3). Just after his ninety-fifth birthday, Mr. Graham proclaimed with resolve, “When I die, tell others that I’ve gone to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ—that’s where I am.”
From its opening 'Our Brilliant Eternity' anchors its pages to words spoken by Christ two thousand years ago, that ... heaven is within, and all around us. It asserts that heaven doesn't just exist in some future time or place, but is present, now. Like the sports elevation referred to as being "in the zone", the book affirms in its prelude that there is a heaven zone, a parallel reality, one can physically experience here. And that once felt, whether for days, hours or even minutes, many questions about life disappear in the enveloping beauty of that phenomenon.Following this, 'Our Brilliant Eternity' unfolds its central premise, that life on Earth delivers an essential portion of the soul's climb, in its potential reach toward Enlightenment - and how our planet in this journey is a Schoolroom, not a courtroom - to which we return again and again, as we meet and re-meet each other and grow in stature and spiritual understanding. Across its eight chapters the book's Christian author is unwaveringly assertive, sometimes humorous, always firm in his challenges to questionable religious notions and doctrines.Independent thinking and unique chapter openings give harbor to this work, with some of the most poignant writing found in its Preface, where the author takes aim at the familiar teaching of One & Done Theology: That we have just one Earthly chance to save our eternal soul, and that this outcome is unavoidable. It is a human projection the author asserts and confronts with this irrefutable sentence: "What a hurtful tender would be the gift of free will from God's heart if, in its giving, eternal suffering for many souls was foreknown."These headings from the book's Table of Contents portray its gentle scope best: A Mountain Miracle and Remembered States of Beauty; The Merit & Equity of Reincarnation - and, conversely, the cruel unfairness of eternal confinement for billions of souls; on Universal Salvation and The Precision of Mercy; in The Matchless Chambers of the Heart; and, NDEs (near death experiences) and the New Age of Reason.In its thrust, 'Our Brilliant Eternity' joins other inspired books by Christian writers and clergy currently riding the surge of reform, that gives this traditional faith a more embracive and appealing image - affirming that a place in Heaven is, in the end, every soul's ultimate destiny.That everyone has a brilliant eternity, as a child of God: An assertion the author secures in these words from the Old Testament, also cited by the captain of his faith, the carpenter from Nazareth: "I have said, ye are gods, and all of you are children of the Most High."'Gloria in Excelsis Deo' are the concluding words to this inclusive and inspired work, as evidenced in its Appendix of God-given sonnets.
USA Today Bestseller List. Many have written about Billy Graham, the evangelist. This is the first book about Billy Graham, the father, written from the perspective of a son who knew him best. As a beloved evangelist and a respected man of God, Billy Graham’s stated purpose in life never wavered: to help people find a personal relationship with God through a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. This was a calling that only increased over time, and Billy embraced it fully throughout his active ministry and beyond. Yet Billy pursued his life’s work, as many men do, amid a similarly significant calling to be a loving husband and father. While most people knew Billy Graham as America’s pastor, Franklin Graham knew him in a different way, as a dad. And while present and future generations will come to their own conclusions about Billy Graham and the legacy that his commitment to Christ has left behind, no one can speak more insightfully or authoritatively on that subject than a son who grew up in the shadow of his father’s life and the examples of his father’s love. This vulnerable book is a look at both Billy Graham the evangelist and Billy Graham the father, and the impact he had on a son who walked in his father’s steps while also becoming his own man, leading ministries around the world, all of it based on the foundational lessons his father taught him. “My father left behind a testimony to God,” says Franklin, “a legacy not buried in a grave but still pointing people to a heaven-bound destiny. The Lord will say to my father, and to all who served Him obediently, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant’ [Matthew 25:21].”
Thrills Christians about their eternal future, and shows how that future changes their present. Our view of the future affects how we feel and act in the present. Stephen Witmer excites us about where the world is heading, gives certainty about where we as individuals are heading, and thrills us about how eternity really does change everything in our daily lives. If you are worried about your future... or if your future doesn't seem to make any difference to your now... or if you simply want to get more excited about where you will spend eternity... read this book!
It’s time to fire up your imagination and rekindle a desire for Heaven in your heart! Brimming with verses, quotes, and selected passages on the topic of Heaven, the New Earth, and life after death, Eternal Perspectives is the most comprehensive collection of quotations about Heaven ever compiled. Pulling from noted authors, scholars, and theologians such as C.S. Lewis, Charles Spurgeon, Jonathan Edwards, Alister McGrath, Martin Luther, Augustine, Max Lucado, Philip Yancey, D. L. Moody, Dallas Willard, and countless others, Eternal Perspectives is the ultimate resource for anyone looking for inspirational quotes and passages on the topic of Heaven. Whether you choose to skip around or read the volume straight through, these profound and enlightening insights will help you draw closer to the One who made you for himself, and deepen your desire for the place he is making for you, and where he wants to live with you throughout eternity.
Setting the Stage for Eternity is a thrilling call to those who do not yet know Jesus Christ as their own personal Savior. It will provide blessed assurance for those who are confused about the gospel and provide clear direction for those who have lost a sense of purpose in life. It is a powerful motivation to those who have become complacent and will provide an encouraging reminder to those who have fallen away from the Lord. It will inspire those who want to bring honor and glory to God. It will bring answers to the most nagging questions about eternity and motivation to our lives.
We all wish to know whence we have come and whither we are going. In these conversations of a solitary man with the mountains, the stars, the animals, the plants--in a word, with his brothers and sisters on this earth--we learn about the meaning of death. The mighty book of Nature begins to speak and to answer our anxious questions in great images and analogies. In the spirit of the great German mystics, the author Hans Kury seeks answers to such questions as: - Why do people believe in the immortality of the human soul? - Is there a key to understanding the soul's fate after death? - To what extent is the body a reflection of the soul? - Are the animals and other creatures of the natural world messengers of the hereafter?
In bestseller after bestseller, Randy Alcorn has held readers spellbound with fast-paced, gripping fiction infused with eternal themes. Now, he responds to the widespread hunger for more insight on this subject with a straightforward, real-life look at heaven, rewards, and how to live in light of eternity. The deepest longing of your heart is for one person and one place. Jesus is that person. Heaven is that place. A thousand counterfeits vie for your attention, trying to convince you that they are what you're looking for. But you'll never find true satisfaction with what this world has to offer. What you really crave can only be found in the land of substance: Heaven. In Light of Eternity will grip your soul and open your eyes to the realities of Heaven. Far from boring, Heaven promises to be an exhilarating adventure in which every chapter is better than the one before. With clear biblical teaching and illustrative stories and reflections, Alcorn shows how your life today will impact the eternal reality that awaits you. Let this book guide you into discovering how wonderful your eternal future will be--and what you can do now to prepare for it.
