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hymn by Helen H. Gates

When you get to heaven You will likely view, Many folk there Who’ll be a shock to you. But don’t act surprised, Or even show a care, For they might be a little shocked To see you there.[1] [1]J. Vernon McGee, Thru the Bible commentary [computer file], electronic ed., Logos Library System , (Nashville:…

Americans Believe in Heaven and Hell I believe John Lennon was wrong. I believe that heaven and hell are real places and that each of us will spend eternity in one place or the other. Interestingly, recent polls show that I'm not alone in that belief. A 1991 survey commissioned by U.S. News and World…

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Just as people in a foreign land that love their country always are glad to have plenty of letters from the country, I hope we have much communication with the old fatherland. We send our prayers there as letters to our Father, and we get His letters back in this blessed volume of His Word. You go into…

Perhaps there is a wife whose husband has accepted an appointment in India. He has been long away, and the years of his forced absence have been weary to her. She has had loving messages from him and kind letters, but often has she sighed, and her heart has looked out of the windows toward the east,…

Christ has gone to heaven to put in an appearance on our behalf. As in a court of law, when a man appears by his attorney, or legal representative, he is in the court, even though he may be miles away. So are we, today, in possession of our eternal inheritance through Him, who has put in an appearance…

In olden times, when men bought estates, it was customary for the seller to give to the purchaser a tuft of grass and a leaf from one of the trees on the land, signifying that the purchaser then had what was called seizin of the property. They were proofs that it belonged to him. When God gives true…

When the Portuguese captain first went by the Cape of Storms it was a venturous voyage, and he called it the Cape of Good Hope when he had rounded it. When Columbus first went in search of the New World, his was a brave spirit that dared cross the unnavigated Atlantic. But there are tens of thousands…

When I was visiting one of our sick friends he uttered a sentence that stuck to me. He said, “I have had some education for heaven in attending the Metropolitan Tabernacle.” “How is that?” “Because I have been used to worship with a great company of godly people, used to join in the songs of great multitudes,…

In some of the houses not far from here, I noticed some linnets in cages, in which there were tufts of grass or small branches of trees as perches for the poor prisoners; yet they were singing away right merrily. I suppose that grass and those fragments of trees were meant to remind them, in this great,…

If you have been in a piano factory, did you go there for the sake of music? Go into the tuning room, and you will say, “This is a dreadful place to be in; I cannot bear it; I thought you made music here.” They say, “No, we do not produce music here. We make the instruments, and tune them here, and in…

A “richly supplied” entrance has sometimes been illustrated in this way. You see yonder ship. After a long voyage, it has neared the haven, but is much injured; the sails are rent to ribbons, and it is in such a forlorn condition that it cannot come up to the harbor: a steam-tug is pulling it in with…

I have heard it said, I believe in heaven but I’m not in any hurry to get there. This feeling became real for Stanley Heerboth and his wife after they attended the funeral of a good friend. When the service concluded the Heerboths decided to go to a Chinese restaurant for a little Szechuan pick-me-up.…

Psychiatrist Jessi Gold said that “A major cause of anxiety during the coronavirus pandemic is the uncertainty about what the near future will hold.” https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/watch-live-psychiatrist-takes-your-question-on-coping-during-covid-19 While there is uncertainty about the near future…

An Ohio minister and former football coach is planning to sue the NFL over its racy Super Bowl halftime show. Dave Daubenmire claims Shakira and Jennifer Lopez’s “soft-porn performance” may prevent him from “getting into the Kingdom of Heaven.” The Week, February 21, 2020 p.6 https://www.complex.com/music/2020/02/ohio-minister-dragged-for-threatening-to-sue-nfl-over-shakira-jennifer-lopez-halftime-show…

A German multimillionaire has invited 10 “nice people” to live with him on his 550-acre property in New Zealand. International businessman Karl Reipen placed an ad in the New Zealand Herald two times inviting up to ten people to share the “paradise” he has created. The property features horse stables,…

An Arizona woman, Tina Hines went into cardiac arrest and appeared close to death. Her heart had to be restarted with a defibrillator five times. When she finally regained consciousness she asked for a pen and a piece of paper and wrote, “It’s real.” As she wrote she began pointing upward with tears…

North and South Korea agreed to allow some families to meet with family members who were separated at the end of the Korean War in 1953. Eighty-nine South Koreans traveled into the North for the reunion. 92-year-old Lee Keum-seom embraced her North Korean son, 71-year-old Ri Sand Chol. He showed his…

Ben Bender is 93-years-old and has been playing golf for 65 years. At one point he got pretty good, as low as a 3-handicap. While playing his last round, he was on the third hole, when did something he had never done before. He made a hole-in-one. It was a crowning achievement. He played a few more holes…

Shortly before she died, Barbara Bush was talking with her son Jeb. In a response to a question from Jeb she replied, “Jeb, I believe in Jesus and He is my Savior. I don’t want to leave your dad, but I know I will be in a beautiful place.” This is the calm assurance that a person who has trusted Jesus…

Cryogenics is a growing industry because of the number of individuals who believe that science will eventually eliminate all disease and provide a means of reanimating a deceased human being. True believers of cryogenics pay up to $200,000 for their entire bodies or heads to be frozen in temperatures…