A biblical theology of heaven's hope on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Dale Johnson and you're listening to Truth in Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified

Biblical Counselors, where we seek to provide biblical solutions for the problems that people

face. And this week I am delighted to have with us Dr. Jim Hamilton on the podcast, and he is

teaching pastor at Kenwood Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky. He also serves as a professor

of biblical theology at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Also there in Louisville, many of you may know him from that ministry as well.

He's written a small book that I think would be helpful for you on the topic of biblical theology.

I would encourage you to get that and to read that.

It may be even helpful for a bit of our conversation today.

As I was talking with Dr. Hamilton, one of the key things that I think so important as we move

into this topic, thinking about heaven's hope and taking all that the Bible has to bear on

what we long for and look forward to.

So often today in counseling, we're tempted

to look for immediate and imminent fixes for all the things that ail us with our human suffering.

And Dr. Hamilton, I think it's so important for us to not forget the dominant theme in

scripture that we see, that we're longing for a

city that's to come. We're awaiting a time when all that has caused the suffering that we endure,

where Jesus, because of his overcoming death and resurrection, he will wipe all of that curse away.

And we long for that. Before we get into talking about heaven's hope, I think it's important as we wed these two things together.

Maybe give us a brief definition of what are we talking about when we speak about biblical theology?

Well, thanks for that.

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