If there were no heaven and no hell, I would still want to be a Christian because of what it does for our homes and our own families in this life.
~ Billy Graham
With the breakdown of discipline in the home and with every source of amusement and instruction pouring poison into daily life, it is not to be wondered that the minds of people are ready to receive anything but the truth and that they are ready to believe lies and ultimately the lie.
The world is not a permanent home, it is only a temporary dwelling.
It is far easier to live an excellent life among your friends, when you are putting your best foot forward and are conscious of public opinion, than it is to live for Christ in your home.
The broken home has become the number one social problem of America, and could ultimately lead to the destruction of our civilization . . . it does not make screaming headlines; but, like termites, it is eating away at the heart and core of the American structure.
If you are a true Christian, you will not give way at home to bad temper, impatience, fault-finding, sarcasm, unkindness, suspicion, selfishness, or laziness.
How many homes are broken because of men and women who are unfaithful! God will not hold you guiltless! There is a day of reckoning. “Be sure your sin will find you out” (Numbers 32:23 ESV). They will find you out in your own family life here in your relationship with your mate, they will find you out in the life to come.
The home only fulfills its true purpose when it is God-controlled. Leave Jesus Christ out of your home and it loses its meaning. But take Christ into your heart and the life of your family, and He will transform your home.
When we are young and restless to be free, home is the place from which we long to escape. But if there is still a home intact when trouble arises and life becomes a battlefield, home is the place to which we yearn to return.
In some ways, Christians are homeless. Our true home is waiting for us, prepared by the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Bible takes the word home with all of its tender associations and sacred memories, and applies it to the hereafter and tells us that heaven is home.
God does not want an apartment in our house. He claims our entire home from attic to cellar.
The Lord Jesus Christ is preparing a home fit for all who live for Him, a place designed for the church triumphant. Let’s exemplify the work of His hands, for they are busy, on our behalf, building a city large enough to encompass His people of faith—an eternal home for the soul.
One final reason for choosing God’s path is of supreme importance: It leads us home.
Perhaps the greatest psychological, spiritual, and medical need that all people have is the need for hope.
For the believer there is hope beyond the grave, because Jesus Christ has opened the door to heaven for us by His death and resurrection.
Christ wants to give you hope for the future. He wants you to learn what it means to walk with Him every day. When you come to Christ, God gives you eternal life—which begins right now as you open your heart to Him.
Faith points us beyond our problems to the hope we have in Christ.
Christ’s second coming reminds us that ultimately our hope is not in this world and its attempts to solve its problems, but in Christ’s promise to establish His perfect rule over all the earth.
Man has no ability to repair this damaged planet. The flaw in human nature is too great. God is our only hope!
Earth’s troubles fade in the light of heaven’s hope.
My hope does not rest in the affairs of this world. It rests in Christ who is coming again.
Only because Jesus is God and we have confessed Him as Savior and Lord, can He bestow and we receive these benefits, this blessed assurance and hope (see Romans 10:9).
Our world today desperately hungers for hope, and yet uncounted people have almost given up. There is despair and hopelessness on every hand. Let us be faithful in proclaiming the hope that is in Jesus!
All mankind is sitting on Death Row. How we die or when is not the main issue, but where [we] go after death.
Death is not a trip, but a destination.
Someone has said that death is not a period, but a comma in the story of life.
What is heaven? It’s the home that God created and He possesses. His throne room is His headquarters from which He issues His commands, directions, and prophecies. And Jesus sits at His Father’s right hand.
The moment we take our last breath on earth, we take our first in heaven.
Heaven is a wonderful place and the benefits for the believer are out of this world!
Sometimes . . . we grow homesick for heaven. Many times in the midst of the sin, suffering, and sorrow of this life there is a tug at our soul. That is homesickness coupled with anticipation.
I [will] not go to heaven because I am a preacher. I am going to heaven entirely on the merit of the work of Christ.
My home is in heaven. I’m just passing through this world.
The Bible is clear that the Holy Spirit is God Himself.
Take care of your body, the Bible calls it “a temple of the Holy Spirit” [1 Corinthians 6:19 NIV.
The Holy Spirit illuminates the minds of people, makes us yearn for God, and takes spiritual truth and makes it understandable to us.
A life touched by the Holy Spirit will tolerate sin no longer.
As humans we have two great spiritual needs. The first is forgiveness, which God has made possible by sending His Son into the world to die for our sins. Our second need, however, is for goodness, which God also made possible by sending the Holy Spirit to dwell within us.
The Father is the source of all blessing, and the Son is the channel of all blessing, [and] it is through the Holy Spirit at work in us that all truth becomes living and operative in our lives.
The Holy Spirit not only convicts of sin but also convinces men that Jesus is the righteousness of God. He shows sinners that Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life.
