Jim Novell

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

If you ask a Bible study or Sunday School class of either adults or children “Who here wants to go to Heaven?”, you can almost always expect all hands to enthusiastically be raised.  However, when you ask about the primary reason why they want to go to heaven, the answers are not as enthusiastically given,

By Faith Theologian J.C. Ryle, in his book Home at Last writes “The earth is not our rest; it cannot be; there breathes not man or women who ever found it so.  Go, build your happiness on earth if you are so disposed; choose everything this world offers to make this life enjoyable, Take money,

Most people do not find it irrational or unrealistic to believe that there is, or will be one day, a world, a reality, a realm, a state of being in which life will be significantly more interesting and exciting, much more fulfilling, wherein we will experience substantially greater joy and delight, pleasure and satisfaction, free

This post was written by one of my brothers at Five Points Community Church, Ben O’Shea, and I am publishing it with his permission.  I found it clear, concise and relevant to addressing the present day identity crisis in our culture, and even, unfortunately, in many churches. One of the most fundamental questions in life is