Alcorn, Randy C.
Summary: We all have questions about what heaven will be like. Randy Alcorn helps answer some of these questions by sharing his extensive research on the topic--all from a biblical perspective. His writing will surprise readers and stretch their thinking beyond anything they've imagined heaven to be like. And Heaven will help readers strive for eternity while they're living on earth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2004
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Summary: A groundbreaking and accessible history of heaven--from the earliest biblical conceptions of the afterlife to the theologians who frame our understandings, to the convictions and perceptions of everyday people. Drawing on history and popular culture, biblical research and everyday beliefs, religion journalist Lisa Miller offers a new understanding of one of the most cherished ideals of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 202.3 MILJeffress, Robert
Summary: "If any of us learned we were going to move to a foreign country, we'd do everything we could to learn about that place so that we'd be prepared when moving day arrived. As Christians, we know some day we will leave our familiar country and be united with God in heaven. And yet many of us know very little about this place called heaven. In this enlightening book, bestselling author Dr. Robert...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BakerBooks, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 236 JEFBurke, John
Summary: John Burke compares gripping stories of near-death experiences (NDEs) to what Scripture says about our biggest questions of Heaven. The author shows how the common experiences shared by thousands of survivors--including doctors, college professors, bank presidents, people of all ages and cultures, and even blind people--point to the exhilarating picture of Heaven promised in the Bible.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baker Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 236 BURCrandall, Chauncey W.
Summary: How a doctor's glimpses of eternity confirmed everything he believed about God, suffering, life on earth, and what happens after death. Dr. Chauncey Crandall knows his patients well. When they are dying, he sits at the bedside with them and holds their hands. He prays with them. Sometimes he can feel what they feel and see what they see. At other times his patients have near-death experiences...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Faith Words 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 230 CRACox-Chapman, Mally
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tide-Mark 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.9013 COXNeal, Mary C.
Summary: Recounts the author's life, including her death and experiences in Heaven.
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Publisher / Publication Date: WaterBrook Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Rel NealAlexander, Eben.
Summary: The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Proof of Heaven teams up with the sages of times past, modern scientists, and with ordinary people who have had profound spiritual experiences to show the reality of heaven and our true identities as spiritual beings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 202 ALEPiper, Don
Summary: Offers a glimpse into a very real dimension of God's reality. It encourages those recovering from serious injuries and those dealing with the loss of a loved one. The experience dramatically changed Piper's life, and it will change yours, too.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell 2004
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Summary: "A smart and thought-provoking cultural history of heaven. What do we think of when we think about heaven? What might it look like? Who or what might be there? Since humans began to huddle together for protection thousands of years ago, these questions have been part of how civilizations and cultures define heaven, the good place beyond this one. From Christianity to Islam to Hinduism and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 202 WOLBurpo, Todd.
Summary: Todd Burpo shares his son Colton's experiences having visions of heaven after a near-fatal illness, describing what Colton saw in heaven and the lessons he has learned about faith and love after listening to Colton's stories of his time with Jesus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grupo Nelson 2011
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Contents: Guided tours of heaven and hell -- The fear of death -- Life after death before there was life after death -- Will justice be done? : the rise of postmortem rewards and punishments -- Death after death in the Hebrew Bible -- Dead bodies that return to life : the resurrection in ancient Israel -- Why wait for the resurrection? : life after death right after death -- Jesus and the afterlife --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 236 EHRDawidoff, Nicholas
Summary: "A landmark work of intimate reporting on inequality, race, class, and violence, told through a murder and intersecting lives in an iconic American neighborhood. One New Haven summer evening in 2006, a retired grandfather was shot point-blank by a young stranger. A hasty police investigation culminated in innocent sixteen-year-old Bobby being sentenced to prison for thirty-eight years. New...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.9746 DAWHarvey, Miles
Summary: In 1843, James Strang, a charismatic young lawyer and avowed atheist, converted to a burgeoning religious movement known as Mormonism. He persuaded hundreds to follow him to Beaver Island in Lake Michigan, and declared himself a divine king. He controlled a fourth of the state of Michigan, practiced plural marriages, and established a pirate colony where he perpetrated thefts, corruption and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B STRANG HARLucado, Max.
Summary: Collects the author's responses to often-asked questions about life and faith, heaven and hell.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2010
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Summary: Compiles letters, essays, diaries, and excerpts about heaven, hell, sinners, and saints.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Wit TwainOwen, Ruth
Summary: Trees grow in a plethora of shapes and sizes, and sometimes their branches are bare while other times they have colorful leaves. Readers explore the numerous components of trees--from their leaves and bark to their rings--and more in this volume, as their outer and inner workings are broken down in concise text. Young readers are also able to strengthen their vocabulary skills with the help of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishers 2024
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J 745.5 OWERichards, David Alan
Summary: "Secret societies have fundamentally shaped America's cultural and political landscapes. In ways that are expected but never explicit, the bonds made and lessons learned through the most elite of secret societies have helped make their members senators, governors, ambassadors, CIA directors, Supreme Court justices, and even presidents. At the apex of these institutions stands Yale University...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 366 RICWaldron, Melanie
Summary: "Leaves carry out a vital job for all flowering plants, they enable plants to make food. This book provides readers with a complete and comprehensive understanding of the role of leaves, their structure and how they are brilliantly designed to do this job. Clear diagrams, engaging text, and stunning photographs are used to explain what leaves are for, photosynthesis and how leaves work, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Pr Inc 2014
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Summary: Already a frequent contributor of well-crafted stories to The New Yorker when he turned to the larger canvas of the novel, John OHara wrote with unusual acuity about the power of status and class in American life. His reputation as a novelist rests largely on four extraordinary books published from 1934 to 1940. These early novels, like those of his contemporaries Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2018