Mid-Week Update for May 11, 2022

Welcome to the Mid-Week Update. This week we begin our Wednesday evening study on Heaven.  Could it be God’s timing that we’re also preparing to celebrate the lives of Marion King and Margaret Lixey.  These memorial services will provide an opportunity for us to think more about the afterlife than usual.  Everyone has some idea about heaven.  I’ve heard people talk about heaven, even those who have no belief in anything beyond the present human experience.  For them, heaven is a comfort word that satisfies a need to explain the unexplainable.  Most people in our society think of heaven as the next chapter in their eternal existence, and a glorious one at that.  They think everyone goes there.  On occasion someone will comment about a departed person whom they deeply admired saying, “if anyone deserves heaven that person does.”  All of these responses give credibility to the biblical teaching that everyone has a sense of eternity.  Solomon wrote about this in the following bible verse: