Most of us have been taught that heaven is where we go. The Bible says heaven is what comes here. The destination is not escape. The destination is renewal.

In this letter

- The inherited picture of heaven as escape

- What the Bible actually teaches — bodily resurrection, renewed earth, descended city

- 1 Corinthians 15:58 — your labor is not in vain

- Living like resurrection people

- The continuity between this life and the next

- The honest question — what are you walking toward?

- The wiping of tears as God's intimate, hands-on response to grief

Scripture

- Revelation 21:1-5

- Revelation 21:24 (the nations bringing their glory into the city)

- 1 Corinthians 15:58

The question to sit with

How would you ...