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As I close out the series Dirt and Stone for Flesh and Bone, I need your help wrapping things up. If this series has impacted you in some way—such as radically changing your understanding of heaven and/or encouraging you in some big way—let me know in the comments with the details. It will be a huge encouragement to me, and it might make it into my message!
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I cannot express how much I’ve appreciated this series. For years I wrestled with the borderline cognitive dissonance between a spiritual heaven and a physical new earth. The lack of mainstream teaching made me feel like an outlier, even though it’s plainly biblical. Add to that the tired ‘eternal worship service in the clouds’ cliché, and it became tough to answer secular pushback and the mocking portrayals of faith. This series has been a game-changer. It’s shone a front and center spotlight on the tragically neglected truth of the new earth as a “real” and thrilling future. Life with flesh and bone Christ and our flesh and bone brothers and sisters in a fully restored dirt and stone creation. It’s not just about being saved from hell as true as that may be, but being saved to and for something incredible. Thank you for making this important and encouraging doctrine clear.
This was a great series and very encouraging! I found the post about the difference between heaven/ paradise and hades/hell especially fascinating and helpful for understanding previously confusing passages, like the story of Lazarus and the rich man in Luke 16. Excellent work!