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Friday, July 25, 2014

Hi ___________ in fifth grade.

You asked a very good question.   You asked, “Where is heaven?”    The Bible talks about heaven being “above” us, just like the sky is above us.   But the Bible also talks about God as being all around us.   This probably means that heaven is all around us too, just like the air is both high above us but is also all around us.    It is interesting that the Bible also tells us that God and Jesus will always be with us.   This means that God and Jesus must be close to us.     I don’t think Heaven is far way, but none of us can see heaven until Jesus opens heaven up to us.   Here’s a verse for you to remember.

“I will be with you always”   Matthew 28:20

Hope this helps __________!

God bless,   Pastor Jeff  

 

Hi ___________ in third grade

Thanks for asking a great question!   This is the question that you asked, “What is heaven like?”  That’s a hard question to answer, but I’m sure it will be so beautiful that you won’t be able to stop staring at everything you see.   Have you ever gotten up really early on a beautiful spring day and noticed how the darkness outside slowly gets brighter and brighter until the sunshine shines on the tulips and daffodils and flowering trees and the morning mist and coolness goes away and suddenly the day is so beautiful you almost can’t stand it?

Our world right now is kind of like the early spring morning while it’s still partly dark.   Heaven will be like the wonderful beautiful day that is there when the sun burns away the coldness and mist.   It will be wonderful.

Here’s a verse for you.

“no eyes have ever seen,

no ears have ever heard,

and no mind has ever imagined what (great things) God has prepared for those who love him!!!!”    1 Corinthians 2:9  

Here’s another verse that tells us that heave will be a joyful place where all the bad things that happen now won’t happen there.
 

“I heard a loud shout from the throne, saying, “Look, God’s home is now among his people! He will live with them, and they will be his people. God himself will be with them.
He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. All these things are gone forever.”
And the one sitting on the throne said, “Look, I am making everything new!” And then he said to me, “Write this down, for what I tell you is trustworthy and true.”   Revelation 21:3-5 (NLT)  

One day Jesus will come down to earth and bring heaven with him and heaven will the fill the earth and everything will be big and great and beautiful and wonderful and loving and we will feel very, very happy and very, very alive!!!  

Hope this helps, ___________.

God bless,
Pastor Jeff  

 

Hi _________in kindergarten

You have asked a very interesting question.   Here it is.  “Can you go to church when you are in heaven?”   The answer to your question is that when Jesus brings heaven to earth and heaven and earth are merged into one thing then God will be filling the whole earth!    The whole earth will be God’s church and it will be like we are in church all the time!   Except we won’t be in a church building but all the rocks and trees and lakes and streams and mountains and oceans and all of nature will be the church and we will be full of happiness and joy and we will feel all the time just like you feel after you have had a swim on a hot summer day or like you feel when a cool breeze refreshes you after a playing really hard in the heat.   It will be wonderful.  Here is a verse for you.

 “I heard a loud shout from the throne, saying, “Look, God’s home is now among his
  people! He will live with them, and they will be his people. God himself will be with
  them.   He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death or
  sorrow or crying or pain. All these things are gone forever.”   
                                                                                 Revelation 21:3-4 (NLT)  

Hope this helps, ________________!  

God bless, 
Pastor Jeff  

 

Hi _________ in fourth grade,

The question you asked is this one.  “How can you be a good Christian?”  Notice this verse.  Jesus said,

“Stay joined to me, and I will stay joined to you. Just as a branch cannot produce fruit unless it stays joined to the vine, you cannot produce fruit unless you stay joined to me”.   John 15:4 (CEV)

The most important thing to do be a good Christian is to stay connected to Jesus by talking to him, listening to him, doing your best to obey him, believing that he forgives you when you ask him to forgive you, and by serving other people.   Jesus loves it when you serve other people because that’s what Jesus did himself.   Also it is important to stay in church with other Christians and to read your Bible a lot.   It’s in the Bible that we learn about Jesus and his follower.

Hope this helps,  ____________!

God bless,
Pastor Jeff

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