Jim Novell

My nephew is a big sports enthusiast. A few years ago, in trying to help him understand the Gospel, I began with the “Fall”, Adam’s and our rejection of God’s purpose for and rule over our life, and the all-pervasive, devastating consequences this had on all of God’s good creation – mankind in particular.  As […]

One of the joys we have as a Christian is to ponder, to think about with great anticipation, what life will be like, and more importantly what we will be like when God’s eternal plan of redemption is consummated in the new heavens and new earth; when we are glorified as beings of immeasurable dignity

I am anxious to begin to consider the glorious beings we will be in Heaven, and specifically in our eternal home of the “new heavens and new earth”. However, before I do, I want to follow up my previous post by looking at who we are now, as a new creation in union with Jesus

The promise of eternal life, our restoration to the glorious life with God for which man was created, but lost because of sin, is not an empty promise given to manipulate or control our lives as some would suggest, but is in fact the most certain of all promises, made by a Holy and Righteous

The present world we live in is deeply, deeply wrong in every respect.  The lives we live in it are for the most part unsatisfying and unfulfilling, marked by sadness and sorrow, anxiety and anger and ultimately death.  For many of us it is a life of quiet desperation in which we give most of

Hallelujah!  Our heavenly GPS, also known as the grace of God, has finally brought us “through the valley of the shadow of death” (Psalm 23:4). We have passed from death to everlasting life (John 5:24), to the place we longed for (Psalm 84:1-2), strived for (Luke 13:24), and most importantly trusted God throughout the trials,

The most important question a man or women must ask and must have answered correctly before they leave this world and enter eternity, is the question how a sinful man/woman can be made right with God (Job 9:1-2)?  How can we stand before a Holy, just and righteous God, the infinitely glorious creator and sovereign

In this post I will begin to look at who will be in Heaven, and why they will be there. Let’s begin with who will not be there.  We are told in the book of Revelation that Heaven will not include Satan and his angels (Revelation 12:7-9), as well as all from mankind whom he

In today’s post I will look briefly a what Heaven is and where it is located, both now and in the future. Heaven. first and foremost, is the throne room of God from which He rules and reigns sovereignly over all of His creation in loving kindness, righteousness and justice.  Nothing happens in Heaven or

“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.”  C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity I noted in a previous post that the reality of Heaven, of an extraordinarily joyful life that begins upon our physical death and extends