Heaven is described as a place of great joy, rest, peace, righteousness, glory and God. It is portrayed as our true home and where our hearts and treasures will ultimately lie. The document encourages running the race of life with endurance, laying aside what might slow us down, so that we may receive the prize of an imperishable wreath in heaven. Heaven is presented as a place we hope to see each other again after this life.

1. Heaven …a great homecoming awaits.

2. Heaven
This world is not my home I'm just a-passin'
through
My treasures are laid up somewhere beyond the
blue
The angels beckon me from heaven's open door
And I can't feel at home in this world anymore

3. Home
“Home is where your heart is.”

4. Home
“For where your treasure is, there
your heart will be also.”
(Matthew 6.21; ESV)

5. The Prize
“Do you not know that in a race all the
runner compete, but only one
receives the prize?”
(1 Corinthians 9.24; ESV)

6. The Prize
“So run, that you may obtain it.”
(1 Corinthians 9.24; ESV)

7. The Prize
“…let us lay aside every weight, and
sin which clings so closely, and let us
run with endurance the race that is
set before us.”
(Hebrews 12.1; ESV)

8. What Slows You
Down?
GuiltRacism
Not Loving
Apathy
Pride
Sports
Money
Self

9. The Prize
“Every athlete exercises self-control
in all things. They do it to receive a
perishable wreath, but we an
imperishable.”
(1 Corinthians 9.25; ESV)

10. Heaven…it’s the
place…of joy (Luke 15.7,10)
…of rest (Revelation 14.13)
…of peace (Luke 16.19-25)

11. Heaven…it’s the
place…of righteousness (2 Peter 3.13)
…of glory (Romans 8.18)
…of God (Revelation 21.3-4)

12. Heaven
“If you read history you will find that the
Christians who did most for the present
world were precisely those who thought
most of the next.”
(C. S. Lewis)
Morgan, R. J. (2000). Nelsons complete book of stories,
illustrations, and quotes (electronic ed.) (415). Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers.

13. Heaven
Wish me “Bon Voyage!”
As you do a friend
Whose joyous visit finds its happy end.
And bid me both “a Dieu!”
And “au revoir!”
Since, though I come no more,
I shall be waiting there to greet you,
At His door.
(John Oxenham)

14. Heaven …we hope to see you there.