Preaching Heaven to Help Your People Fight Materialism
By Ryan Fullerton | 9Marks Journal: Heaven: Rejoicing in Future Glory | 12.22.2020Here are four ways we can preach about heaven that will help both our people and ourselves put off an unhealthy desire to treat the material things of this life as our ultimate treasure.
On Earth as in Heaven: A (Very) Brief Biblical Theology of Heaven
By Sam Emadi | 9Marks Journal: Heaven: Rejoicing in Future Glory | 12.22.2020Does Scripture offer more than a few scattered references to heaven? Even more, does heaven play any part in the Bible’s storyline?
Do We Get Rewards in Heaven?
By Brian Vickers | 9Marks Journal: Heaven: Rejoicing in Future Glory | 12.22.2020Christians should never think of obedience, love, or service in terms of earning some future pay-off.
Crumbling Homes on Earth, Established Kingdom in Heaven
By Dieudonné Tamfu | 9Marks Journal: Heaven: Rejoicing in Future Glory | 12.22.2020Sometimes, I ask myself: How can I live and serve Christ in such a crumbling place?
Thank God for the “Pie in the Sky”: Why the Heavenly Minded Do the Most Earthly Good
By Aaron Menikoff | 9Marks Journal: Heaven: Rejoicing in Future Glory | 12.22.2020The older I get, the more I long for heaven. But this longing isn’t tempting me to curl up on the couch, cover my eyes, and simply wait for this terrible world to go away.
The Other Christ-Centered Joys of Heaven: An All-Things Vision of the Christian Afterlife
By Jared C. Wilson | 9Marks Journal: Heaven: Rejoicing in Future Glory | 12.22.2020What joy it will be to finally see, hear, touch, and taste things as God truly and eternally intended!
God Can’t Wait for You to Get to Heaven: A Reflection on Ephesians 2:7
By Dane Ortlund | 9Marks Journal: Heaven: Rejoicing in Future Glory | 12.22.2020Ephesians 2:7 is telling you that your death is not an end but a beginning. Not a wall, but a door. Not an exit, but an entrance.
The Hope of Heaven at the Beginning of Ministry
By Omar Johnson | 9Marks Journal: Heaven: Rejoicing in Future Glory | 12.22.2020On your worst day, or during your worst week, or after what may feel like the worst possible start to ministry you can imagine, there’s reason to rejoice, reason to hold out hope. Your name is written in heaven.
The Church Should Sing for Heaven’s Sake: When and Why We Stopped Singing about Heaven, and How to Start Again
By Matthew Westerholm | 9Marks Journal: Heaven: Rejoicing in Future Glory | 12.22.2020Churches that neglect heaven don’t serve their members well because they make promises they cannot keep.
Three Ways Our Deeds Relate to Our Salvation
By John Piper | 9Marks Journal: Heaven: Rejoicing in Future Glory | 12.22.2020The biblical texts relating to this issue are many and diverse, but not contradictory. If you take any one of them and treat it as the whole picture, you will almost surely lead people astray.
Hallelujah Over Hell? How God’s People Rejoice While Their Enemies Perish
By David Mathis | 9Marks Journal: Heaven: Rejoicing in Future Glory | 12.22.2020While we may struggle now with how the eternal destruction of the wicked could be a cause for joy, we won’t struggle forever.
Matthew 1–2: On The Virgin Mary, a Hail Mary, and Casper the Friendly Ghost (A Special Christmas Episode)
By A. Duke, J. Hamilton, S. Emadi | 12.21.2020To be sure, the Old Testament prophesies the birth of Jesus. But that may not mean what you think it means . . .
On The Preaching Moment (Preachers Talk, Ep. 15)
By D. Helm, J. Meeks, K. Edward Copeland | 12.17.2020When God’s people gather for corporate worship to sit under God’s Word, it’s different than a Bible study or a Sunday School class. It is—or at least it should be—transcendent.
Genesis 42–43: On Joseph’s Brilliant, Premeditated-ish Plan for His Bowed-Down Brothers (Bible Talk, Ep. 15)
By A. Duke, J. Hamilton, S. Emadi | 12.16.2020In Genesis 42–43, Joseph has a brilliant plan to see if his brothers have been humbled, or if they’re still as wicked as they were when they threw him into a well and sold him into slavery.
Genesis 40–41: On Joseph’s Rise from “Gen Pop“ to the Second in Command (Bible Talk, Ep. 14)
By A. Duke, J. Hamilton, S. Emadi | 12.09.2020At the beginning of Genesis 40, Joseph is living in the belly of the beast: an Egyptian prison. By the end of Genesis 41, he’s Pharaoh‘s second-in-command. But no matter his station, God’s favor remains on Joseph.
