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If I Should Die before I Wake: What’s beyond This Life? is unavailable, but you can change that!

According to the pollsters belief in Heaven is actually on the increase. Although the thought of Heaven may be popular, it is likely that more people worry about how to get to their favorite vacation destination than how to get into Heaven. It is only when events rudely awaken us that we are pressed into asking some of the serious questions about the place where most people expect to go....

we are justified by grace, not by what we have done? The same teaching is found in other parts of the New Testament (e.g., in Matt. 16:27; Eph. 6:8; 2 Tim. 4:14; 1 Pet. 1:17; Rev. 22:12). But there is no contradiction. Justification is indeed a gift received through faith in Christ. But God’s assessment of our justified lives is made on the basis of what we have been and done. This clearly applies to Christians as well. Their lives, forgiven as they are, will be evaluated by God on the basis of what
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