TouchPoints: Heaven

by Randy Alcorn

Touchpoints - Heaven , based on Randy Alcorn's best-selling book Heaven, puts the answers to many of your questions about Heaven, eternity, and the New Earth at your fingertips. Then, arranged by topic, Touchpoints - Heaven provides simple, clear-cut, biblically based answers to such questions as, Will animals inhabit the New Earth? Will we sleep in Heaven? Will we all have beautiful bodies? And Will we work in Heaven?

Genres: Christian Living, Christian, Theology

240 pages, Paperback

First published August 4, 2008

About the author

Randy Alcorn is the founder of Eternal Perspective Ministries (EPM), a nonprofit organization dedicated to teaching biblical truth and drawing attention to the needy and how to help them. EPM exists to meet the needs of the unreached, unfed, unborn, uneducated, unreconciled and unsupported people around the world.

"My ministry focus is communicating the strategic importance of using our earthly time, money, possessions and opportunities to invest in need-meeting ministries that count for eternity," Alcorn says. "I do that by trying to analyze, teach and apply the implications of Christian truth."

Before starting EPM in 1990, Alcorn co-pastored for thirteen years Good Shepherd Community Church outside Gresham, Oregon. He has ministered in many countries, including China, and is a popular teacher and conference speaker. Randy has taught on the part-time faculties of Western Seminary and Multnomah University, both in Portland, Oregon.

Randy is a best-selling author of 50 books including Heaven, The Treasure Principle and the 2002 Gold Medallion winner, Safely Home. He has written numerous articles for magazines such as Discipleship Journal, Moody, Leadership, New Man, and The Christian Reader. He produces the quarterly issues-oriented magazine Eternal Perspectives, and has been a guest on more than 650 radio and television programs including Focus on the Family, Family Life Today, The Bible Answer Man, Revive Our Hearts, Truths that Transform and Faith Under Fire.

Alcorn resides in Gresham, Oregon with his wife, Nanci. The Alcorns have two married daughters, Karina and Angela.

Randy and Nanci are the proud grandparents of five grandsons. Randy enjoys hanging out with his family, biking, tennis, research and reading.

Taken from the Eternal Perspective Ministries website, http://www.epm.org

Reviews

[Etienne OMNES · Rating 2 out of 5]

Les pieds sur terre, les yeux vers le ciel est un petit livre de Randy Alcorn qui parle d'eschatologie personnelle (que devenons nous après la mort?)

Son but est modeste: redonner envie aux chrétiens de désirer l'état futur, et notamment celui de la vie éternelle. Ses résultats aussi. Il atteint son objectif par des questions-réponses très courtes et bien faites, qui à coup sûr démontent efficacement l'idée de l'éternité comme un chant grégorien perpétuel et désincarné.

Cependant, j'ai tiqué avec la méthode et le biblicisme de l'oeuvre. Ce n'est pas qu'il y a quelque chose de faux (quoique: un corps dans l'état intermédiaire? Sérieux?!), c'est que le potentiel du livre aurait pu être bien mieux réalisé avec un peu de systématique et de philosophie.

Néanmoins, il atteint son objectif, et il est très facile à lire. Intéressant pour de simples frères et soeurs qui ont besoin d'une exhortation au sujet de l'eschatologie personnelle.

[Cerise Hart · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thoroughly Comprehensive

The author Wrote on a vast number of subjects relating to heaven. Some of which I have pondered and some of which never came to mind. The information is so revelatory and enlightening, It makes your heart rejoice to be a Christian and look forward to The afterlife.

[Leah Kelly · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing book!

I’m battling ovarian cancer right now and this book has been a wealth of information and inspiration for me!! I’ve read it about 3 times cover to cover and I still go back and reread sections regularly! Love all the scriptures references, which send me into scripture to investigate myself. Jason Beers and Randy Alcorn thank you for this book!

[Laurent Dv · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good presentation (very accessible) of what heaven will look like according to Bible's data. Based on neocalvinism trend (even cites Albert Wolters "Creation Regained" !) With that book, nobody will consider heaven as an annoying place according to cliché and stereotypes.

[Jim Sandman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this little book of hope and encouragement !

[Raphaël]

écouté en audiobook pendant mes sessions de running
à réécouter ou à lire en format papier/ebook pour en saisir tout le bénéfice

[Lonny Crawford · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wise and encouraging observation of the Holy Bible word of Heaven.

[Shelby · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book left me all the more excited for Heaven! Its scripture-based answers to common questions helped me gain a better understanding of Heaven.

[Jacob Sabin · Rating 4 out of 5]

I can appreciate where Alcorn was going. There is naturally a lot of curiosity surrounding Heaven and it is something indeed believers should be excited about. I believe Alcorn was trying to stay as true to Scripture as he possibly could. I don't necessarily agree on everything he had to say. I am not going to accuse him of misinterpreting Scripture, but I do sometimes wonder if he was trying to stretch something to prove his point. A lot of his answers are certainly wish fulfillment people have regarding Heaven. Which hey, I wanted most, if not everything that he mentioned, even if I do not know or think all of it will be exactly how he is writing it will probably be. And that is the thing, it is something we aren't going to know till we get to Heaven. So I can certainly appreciate what he is doing. He is trying to point to people the realities of Heaven and Hell and how one gets to Heaven and that is the most important part. He wants people to get excited about Heaven and he certainly does that. Like I said, there is nothing in the book I would consider wrong or blasphemous, I wouldn't have a problem with anyone reading this, I would just point to people even if things are not going to end exactly how Alcorn writes, it will still be amazing. Don't know if I will read again, but it was certainly worth the read the first time.

[Sylvain · Rating 2 out of 5]

Très déçu, a trop de reprise l'auteur utilise des versets hors contexte pour les situer dans l'éternité post millenium. Ce n'est pas parce qu'une chose s'est produit sur notre actuelle que la chose arrivera dans l'éternité sur la nouvelle terre.

[Chuck · Rating 4 out of 5]

Easy read. Very informative. Concise.

[Laurent Dv]

Très bonne présentation des données bibliques sur ce qu'on appelle communément le paradis (ou "les nouveaux cieux et la nouvelle terre"), à quoi il ressemblera. Très accessible et solide (se base sur le néo-calvinisme voyant la rédemption comme une re-création, Alcorn cite même Albert Wolters !). Après avoir lu ce livre, personne ne gardera cette vision cliché et stéréotypée du paradis comme un lieu à mourir d'ennui.