Setting Our Sights on Heaven: Why It's Hard and Why It's Worth It (Paul D. Wolfe)

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In Setting Our Sights on Heaven, Paul Wolfe brings out the Bible’s teaching about heaven, addressing the various factors that tend to push heaven out of our minds, and provides gospel remedies that help us push it back to where it belongs.

Endorsements

'Wolfe is two for two. He is not a one-book wonder. He tackles the question of heaven in a down-to-earth fashion that steers clear of the sentimentalism and vague theology so often associated with the subject. This book helps me not only to fulfill my pastoral duty in preparing my people for death but, more importantly, to prepare myself. I am more interested in going to heaven now having read this book!' — ALISTAIR BEGG

Table of Contents

Foreword ix

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction xvii

PART 1: THE WORLD TO COME The Bible’s teaching about heaven and heavenly-mindedness 1

1 From Beginning to End Heaven’s past, present and future 3

2 Show Me the Way To Go Home How we get to heaven, and how heaven gets to earth 21

3 Set Your Minds What heavenly-mindedness entails 45

4 Down to Earth The difference heavenly-mindedness makes now 61

PART 2: THE CURE FOR WHAT AILS US Why we struggle to be heavenly-minded, and what to do about it 77

5 Mourning into Dancing Dispensing with doubts about our destiny 81

6 Face Forward Breaking free from obsession with the past 93

7 Harps and Clouds Clearing away confusion about what heaven will be like 107

8 This Vanishing Vapor Living in light of the shortness of life 117

9 Get Wisdom Answering the question, ‘What is God’s will for my life?’ 129

10 Love Your Loved Ones Living so as to prepare others for our dying 141

11 If It’s Sunday, It Must Be Heaven Grasping the heavenliness of the church’s Sabbath assembly 151

12 The Whole Counsel of God Coming to grips with the Bible’s teaching about hell 165

13 Wayfaring Strangers Nurturing a pilgrim mindset 179

CONCLUSION: THE SUBURBS OF HEAVEN 193

Product Details

Title: Setting Our Sights on Heaven: Why It's Hard and Why It's Worth It

Author: Paul D. Wolfe

Publisher: Banner of Truth

Pages: 216

Binding: Paperback

Size: 21.5 x 13.7 x 1.5 cm

ISBN: 9781848711433