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| Heaven | 
 enlarge | Author: Randy Alcorn
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (145 reviews)
Sales Rank: 1448
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 560
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.6
ISBN: 0842379428
Dewey Decimal Number: 236.24
EAN: 9780842379427
ASIN: 0842379428
Publication Date: October 1, 2004
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What will heaven be like? Randy Alcorn presents a thoroughly biblical answer, based on years of careful study, presented in an engaging, reader-friendly style. His conclusions will surprise readers and stretch their thinking about this important subject. Heaven will inspire readers to long for heaven while they're living on earth.
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 Heaven August 28, 2008
It is amazing how little we consider the topic of heaven. We are so tied up in earthly cares and concerns that we do not spend the time to consider the specifics of our eternal destination.
In this regard, Randy Alcorn has put together a tremendous book on the subject that is both well researched in terms of biblical truth and well thought out in terms of the challenges and distractions that we each face.
I strongly urge you to buy this book. It will help you focus your life differently. It will help you to do what we are commanded in Colossians 3:1-2 ... "Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things." Read it, learn it, know it - you won't regret it!
 I have to say "The Heaven" is indeed a worth reading and definitely inspiring book to read August 16, 2008
Alcorn has written a terrific book on the topic of "Heaven". One of the wonderful experience when reading "THe Heaven" is that I feel my understanding about heaven and life after death is being challenged. "The Heaven" gives me an opportunity to rethink about my understanding and interpretation in the scriptures on this particular topic. Alcorn has made some sound exegesis and used some very good examples from the scriptures to support his view and argument. Alcorn mindfully explains and elaborates his point of view on heaven. Alcorn is able to turn heaven as described in the scriptures into a 3 dimensional picture allowing audience to visualize what the actual life of heaven will "possibly be like". He makes heaven such a very interesting topic to think about. Indeed, it needs to acknowledge Alcorns's insight into the topic of "Heaven" and his effort in putting this book together. However, it will also be true and fair to say that many of Alcorn's views on heaven are speculations and personal opinions. It needs to be read with cautions and tested with the golden standard, the bible. Anyhow, I have to say "The Heaven" is indeed a worth reading and definitely inspiring book to read.
Excellent book August 7, 2008
I learned a lot from this book, and recommend it to everyone. Mr. Alcorn goes to great lengths to show the Scripture behind his writing.
Heaven August 1, 2008
I purchased 8 copies of this book, Heaven, by Randy Alcorn, for my Bible Study group in the United Methodist Church. We have been very impressed with the information. It has answered a lot of our questions about what is Heaven really like - where is it, etc.
 Have any of you read The Bible all the way through? July 29, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
So, have any of you read The Bible all the way through? Are you reading this book, and not The Bible? Are you waiting for somebody else to tell you what it says, again. (Get a good NIV you can read). And yes, I have read The Bible through quite a few times, since I never stop, and read at least a chapter a night. I realized several years ago that I was taking other's word for what it said, and in the case of this book, it scares me. It sure sounds like other reviewers just read other's thoughts, and have none of their own?
I found some reviews on another site, and they sum up what I think about this book, almost exactly: It cheapens heaven down to the same STUFF we have. I include those reviews below.
anoninva, on April 2nd, 2006 at 4:34 pm Said:
I read most of this book, and I felt the first part was good. But somewhere past the middle, I stopped reading it for this reason: To me, Alcorn is too wrapped up in this world. He seems to be saying (I am paraphrasing), "Hey, you love Doritos? Then there will be Doritos in heaven. Do you love your dog? then your dog will be in heaven. Do you love sports? Then there's no reason why you can't have that in heaven too!" I feel like he trivializes heaven. By the time he finished portraying his version of heaven, I felt like I was envisioning Mayberry, USA, instead of the heaven described for us in the Scriptures. Instead of focusing the believer's heart and eyes on the Lord Jesus as our great treasure, he seems to want to comfort us by telling us that everything on earth that we love will be in heaven (short of sin).
It's almost as if heaven and the Lord are not enough, but we Americans, in order to really desire heaven, have to have every earthly pleasure promised to us as well. Though those things may very well be there (Scripture is silent) I really am not drawn to such a heaven, personally. If you are interested in reading about heaven, I would instead recommend any book or essay written by the puritans on the subject of heaven. They draw the believer's heart to heavenly joys, not earthly ones.
Baseball may be in heaven, but it really doesn't make me desire heaven more, or make heaven more beautiful to me if it is. And the Lord didn't promise us these types of manmade things, either. It's Him and the wedding supper of the Lamb and worship that the Lord expounds upon in His word. This to me is heaven.
Anonymous, on April 20th, 2006 at 7:02 pm Said:
anoninva - well spoken. I know a lot of folks that insist on earthly pleasures being a part of heaven. I have a suspicion that my glorified body will not crave Doritos.
I appreciate your insight.
Dan Traxler, on October 11th, 2006 at 7:26 pm Said:
Heaven is not a place to play, it is the eternal GLORY OF GOD. We will glorify God in heaven which by the way is the reason we are here in this earth today.
Chips and cheese eating, if it glorifies God, my be on the plate but one has to wonder if this is what our God requires of us.
Dan Traxler
Just another sinner in California
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