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2009 SUMMER SERIES: EMBRACING THE MYSTERY OF HEAVEN

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SERMONS

Quiz:

http://heaveniq.com/books/heavenQuiz2.asp

Quotes:

“We want to reach the kingdom of God, but we don't want to travel by way of death. And yet there stands Necessity saying: "This way, please."
Do you hesitate, man, to go this way, when this is the way that God came to you?”
Augustine of Hippo, Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations (Baker, 2000), p. 251

“I had far rather walk, as I do, in daily terror of eternity, than feel that this was only a children’s game in which all the contestants would get equally worthless prizes in the end.”
                                                                                                -T.S. Elliot

“If you read history, you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next.”
                                                                                                -C.S. Lewis

"Soon you will read in the newspaper that I am dead.  Don’t believe it for a moment.  I will be more alive than ever before."
                                                                                                            -D.L. Moody

"There have been times when I think we do not desire heaven but more often I find myself wondering whether, in our heart of hearts, we have ever desired anything else."
                                                                                                            -C.S. Lewis

"We tend to start with Earth and reason up toward Heaven, when instead we should start with Heaven and reason down toward Earth."
                                                                                                            -Randy Alcorn

"When I was a boy, the thought of Heaven used to frighten me more than the thought of Hell.  I pictured Heaven as a place where time would be perpetual Sundays, with perpetual services from which there would be no escape."
                                                                                                            -David Lloyd Gorge

"[Christ’s resurrection] is not a matter of a “spirit appearance,”  but the utterly unprecedented, unique, world-transforming, heaven-anticipating, sovereign action of the Creator in the first installment of remaking the world."
                                                                                                            -Bruce Milne

"Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither."
                                                                                                            -C.S. Lewis

Books & Articles

Heaven By Randy Alcorn

The Glory Of Heaven By John Macarthur

Pastor and author Rick Warren in an interview with Paul Bradshaw in 2005

http://www.preachingtoday.com/illustrations/weekly/09-01-05/7010509.html

http://www.preachingtoday.com/illustrations/weekly/05-04-18/15880.html

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