Christians Wrong About Heaven says NT Wright in TIME

“Much of “traditional” Christianity gives the impression that God has these rather arbitrary rules about how you have to behave, and if you disobey them you go to hell, rather than to heaven. What the New Testament really says is God wants you to be a renewed human being helping him to renew his creation, [...]

The Way It’s Supposed to Be

I love this video.  It’s a little taste of heaven, right?  It’s almost like a modern day parable.  What’s heaven like?  What’s it like when the god of heaven has his dreams come true?  What’s it like when humans act genuinely human?  It’s a bit like an autistic man who starts singing the national anthem [...]

Heaven is a Place on Earth

“The new earth will be an exciting, interesting place to be. We will be always growing, always learning more about ourselves, the world, and God. We will never bottom out and become bored, for we will never know as much as God knows. There will always be some new joy to discover, [...]

Rob Bell: God wants to come down

For many people, entire theological systems are built around us getting out of here. And so many presentations of the gospel are, “Do you wanna know how you can get outta here?” And yet the Scripture is the story not of people going up, the Bible is the story of God coming down. God wants [...]