CHAPTER 1: “YOU DO THE TRUSTING; I’LL DO THE TAKING”
1. John MacArthur, The Glory of Heaven (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 1996), 118.
2. Titanic Live, broadcast on the Discovery Channel, 16 August 1998; PrimeTime Live, 13 August 1998.
CHAPTER 3: THE CRADLE OF HOPE
1. Jack Canfield and Mark Hansen, Chicken Soup for the Soul (Deerfield Beach, FL: Health Communications, 1993), 273–74.
2. John R. W. Stott, Basic Christianity (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1971), 50.
CHAPTER 4: INTO THE WARM ARMS OF GOD
1. Taken from Bob Russell, Favorite Stories (Louisville, KY: The Living Word Ministries), audiotape.
2. Anthony Hoekema, The Bible and the Future (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1979), 104. Analysai (to depart) is an aorist infinitive, depicting the momentary experience of death. Linked to analysai by a single article is the present infinitive, einai (to be). The single article ties the two infinitives together so that the actions depicted by the infinitives are two aspects of the same thing, like two sides of the same coin. Paul is saying here that the moment he departs or dies, that very moment, he will be with Christ.
CHAPTER 5: THE BRAND-NEW YOU
1. Unless, of course, you are alive when Christ returns, and then you will also get a new body. Paul says this in 1 Corinthians 15:51.
2. Hans-Joachim Kraus, Charisma der Theologie, as quoted in John Piper, Future Grace (Sisters, OR: Multnomah Books, 1995), 370.
3. Joni Eareckson Tada, Heaven: Your Real Home (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1995), 39.
4. Luke 24:13–35; John 20:10–18; John 21:12–14.
5. John 20:14; John 21:1–4; Luke 24:16; John 20:26.
CHAPTER 6: A NEW WARDROBE
1. David Danner, “Rock of Ages.”
2. Edward Mote, “The Solid Rock.”
CHAPTER 9: THE LAST DAY OF EVIL
1. I wrote about this more fully in The Great House of God. For a more in-depth treatment of this truth, see pages 143–55.
2. Joe Beam, Seeing the Unseen (West Monroe, LA: Howard, 1994), 230.
CHAPTER 10: ITEMIZED GRACE
1. J. C. Ryle as quoted by John Blanchard in Whatever Happened to Hell? (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 1995), 184.
2. Donald Bloesch, Essentials of Evangelical Theology (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1978), 229.
CHAPTER 11: LOVE’S CAUTION
1. C. S. Lewis, as quoted in Larry Dixon, The Other Side of the Good News (Wheaton, IL: Victor Books, 1992), 45.
2. For two contrasting views on the duration of hell, consider Blanchard, Whatever Happened to Hell? and Edward William Fudge, The Fire That Consumes (Carlisle, UK: The Paternoster Press, 1994).
3. Blanchard, Whatever Happened to Hell?, 130.
4. C. S. Lewis, The Great Divorce (New York: Macmillan, 1946), 66–67. As quoted in Blanchard, Whatever Happened to Hell?, 151.
5. C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain (New York: Macmillan, 1967), 127. As quoted in Blanchard, Whatever Happened to Hell?, 152.
CHAPTER 12: SEEING JESUS
1. Peter Kreeft, Heaven: The Heart’s Deepest Longing (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1980), 49.
2. Eugene Peterson, Reversed Thunder (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1988), 36–37.