Heaven - Hope Lake Country Church

Heaven Part 3 Hell No

August 27, 2023 • Zach Thwaits

Every year, fewer and fewer Americans believe that Hell is a real place. It is understandable why. Usually, Hell’s most vocal advocates are questionable at best, saying that anything from watching Harry Potter to playing Pokémon gives you a direct ticket to everlasting torment. It doesn’t help that books, movies, and television shows have often displayed cartoonish depictions of Hell led by a guy dressed in red with a pitchfork. Then there are hard theological questions to wrestle with. If Jesus is all about love, if God is really good, how can there be a Hell? Would God really send people there? Why would He? Thankfully, Jesus has a lot to say about Hell. The question is, will we trust what Jesus has to say about it?

Heaven Part 2 Heavenly Healing

August 20, 2023 • Sean O'Connell

Heaven | Episode 2 Heaven is not a place where our spirits float around in this ethereal realm while angels strum harps around us. Heaven will be a physical place of joy and delight. While we can’t experience that in full now, we can create glimmers of it when we work for the healing of this world. It is a rehabilitation of the Genesis curse. Heaven waits to come down and make a new earth.

Heaven Part 1 Good Enough

August 13, 2023 • Sean O'Connell

Heaven is a place for good people, right? Well, if it is a place for good people, then how good do the people have to be to go there? Are there rules you have to follow? All the time? Is there a checklist you have to cross off? Do you have to make up for your bad deeds? What if you miss out by only one good deed? How good is good enough to go to Heaven?