I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now... Come further up, come further in!” ― C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle

We’re continuing our series on Heaven this Sunday, and I want to introduce you to a familiar idea, with what is perhaps a new word for describing it: liminality.  It’s from the Latin word, which means “threshold.”...

Our worship of God should serve as a foretaste of what is to come for us, who are followers of God. The greatest thing about heaven is that God is there. As we attend church this Sunday, we should remember that we are entering the glorious presence of the King of Heaven and Earth.

“We’ve fallen for the devil’s lie. His most basic strategy, the same one he employed with Adam and Eve, is to make us believe that sin brings fulfillment. However, in reality, sin robs us of fulfillment. Sin doesn’t make life interesting; it makes life empty. Sin doesn’t create adventure; it blunts it. Sin doesn’t expand life; it shrinks it. Sin’s emptiness inevitably leads to boredom. When there’s fulfillment, when there’s beauty, when we see God as he truly is—an endless reservoir of fascination—boredom becomes impossible.” ― Randy Alcorn, Heaven

In the truest sense, Christian pilgrims have the best of both worlds. We have joy whenever this world reminds us of the next, and we take solace whenever it does not.  - C. S. Lewis