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

I believe the discussion itself is divine.

So when people ask, “What will we do in heaven?” one possible answer is to simply ask: “What do you love to do now that will go on in the world to come?”

the fate of billions of people, not totally great. Sort of great. A little great.

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.

How great is God? Great enough to achieve what God sets out to do, or kind of great, medium great, great most of the time, but in this,

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.

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

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

When we baptize, we lower people into the water, and then bring them back up out of the water. The water signifies death; being raised up out of it signifies life. Lowered like Christ in his death, raised like Christ in his life.