Best of 2024: Finding Heaven: Knowing God and His Love (Part 1 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 5 December 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The thought of heaven is exciting and something for believers in Christ to look forward to. Pastor and researcher John Burke offers a better glimpse of the God of heaven—the Creator of the universe and the Lover of our souls. He shares some amazing stories of near-death experiences that highlight an understanding of who God is and His unconditional love for all people…including you! You’ll hear how evidence supports the concept of life after death. John also explores a variety of attributes of God, pointing to the beautiful mystery of the Trinity. It’s an exciting and encouraging conversation!
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| 0:00.0 | As a young pastor, Ryan thought he was ready to get married, but soon after the wedding, he had a big problem. |
| 0:07.0 | When I'm doing counseling, I tell people oftentimes that I had the worst beginning six months of a marriage that I know of, |
| 0:13.0 | and so I'm a qualified counselor for them. |
| 0:17.0 | And what really began to give me a 180 in my marriage and understanding my role as a husband was just the |
| 0:24.1 | ministry of focus on the family. Now, Pastor Ryan points his congregation to all the resources we |
| 0:31.1 | provide for families because we're still helping them today. Focus on the family empowers me in my |
| 0:37.1 | marriage because I can understand |
| 0:39.2 | that other people have gone through the same thing that I'm going through and I'm not alone |
| 0:42.8 | in the struggles that I face and my wife and I can gain hope from the stories that are shared |
| 0:48.3 | on air. I'm Jim Daly. Help us give families hope today. Donate and your gift will be doubled at |
| 0:56.1 | Focus on the family.com slash gift. |
| 1:04.0 | And this is the thing that's just, it's hard to imagine, but it's important to imagine. What people say |
| 1:12.9 | in God's presence is that every relationship we have on earth is just a metaphor of this |
| 1:19.6 | relationship we were meant to have with the one who created us. That makes perfect sense. |
| 1:23.7 | Even, I mean, not only child to parent, friend to friend, best friend who knows you and gets you and does things with you, but also spouse to spouse. |
| 1:36.2 | Well, that's John Burke, and he's with us today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly as we take a look back at our best of 2024 episodes. John will be talking about |
| 1:45.8 | the hope of heaven that we have as followers of Christ. Thanks for joining us. I'm John Fuller. |
| 1:51.1 | John, I don't know about you, but the thought of heaven excites me. It does me, yes. Yeah. |
| 1:56.8 | You know, it's how we should be as believers. I mean, I'm looking forward to it. And I love the promise in the New Testament. |
| 2:04.2 | It right there in the book of Revelation chapter 21, verse 4, he will wipe away every tear from their eyes and death shall be no more. |
| 2:12.9 | Neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore for the former things have passed away. |
| 2:20.0 | That's something to look forward to. I think it's even difficult to perceive that because this |
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