Neighborhood Church
Big Bag of Questions: What Happens When I Die?
Forrest Jenan & Jordan Brokaw
Locations & Times
Neighborhood Church
5505 W Riggin Ave, Visalia, CA 93291, USA
Sunday 8:00 AM
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https://clr.cm/AXb4TODAY'S QUESTION
What happens when I die?
What happens when I die?
MEMENTO MORI
Remember you must die.
Remember you must die.
Every day ought to be regarded as bringing us closer to death.
Seneca the Younger
Seneca the Younger
THANATOPHOBIA
the fear of death
the fear of death
POEM IN THE ÉVORA'S CHAPEL OF BONES
Where are you going in such a hurry, traveler?
Pause...do not advance your travel.
You have no greater concern than this one:
That which is now before your eyes.
Recall how many have passed from this world,
Reflect on your similar end.
There is good reason to do so;
If only all did the same.
Ponder, you so influenced by fate,
Among the many concerns of the world,
So little do you reflect on death.
If by chance you glance at this place,
Stop ... for the sake of your journey,
The longer you pause,
The further on your journey you will be.
Where are you going in such a hurry, traveler?
Pause...do not advance your travel.
You have no greater concern than this one:
That which is now before your eyes.
Recall how many have passed from this world,
Reflect on your similar end.
There is good reason to do so;
If only all did the same.
Ponder, you so influenced by fate,
Among the many concerns of the world,
So little do you reflect on death.
If by chance you glance at this place,
Stop ... for the sake of your journey,
The longer you pause,
The further on your journey you will be.
What did Jesus think about life after death?
Heaven v. The Heavens
Heaven in the bible is not usually a reference to a future state, but to God’s dimension of present reality, that dimension which is normally hidden from our gaze but where God’s purposes are stored up.
N.T. Wright
N.T. Wright
If you were to die tonight, do you know for sure you would go to heaven?
The vision of reality in the scriptures is not even of heaven and earth as separate spaces but as overlapping spaces. The main storyline of the Bible is about heaven and earth interacting with each other.
Tim Mackie
Tim Mackie
What We’ve Thought
• Heaven as a Distant Place
• Heaven & Hell
• Rescue
What Jesus Thinks
• Heaven as God’s Dimension of THIS Reality
• Heaven & Earth
• Restore
• Heaven as a Distant Place
• Heaven & Hell
• Rescue
What Jesus Thinks
• Heaven as God’s Dimension of THIS Reality
• Heaven & Earth
• Restore
The Book of Acts
In 8 sermons, going to heaven or hell after you die is never mentioned once.
In 8 sermons, going to heaven or hell after you die is never mentioned once.
There is life AFTER life after death.