1. The Hope of Heaven (Friday Night)
The theme of Thrive's 2023 Fall Retreat is the hope of Heaven. It would be impossible to overstate how breathtakingly wonderful Scripture's teaching about Heaven is. Far from our culture's picture of Heaven as a boring place of disembodied spirits, the Bible presents Heaven as a resurrected world in resurrected bodies with the resurrected Man, Jesus Christ, at the center of it all.
This message was given on Friday night of the Thrive Fall Retreat by Peter Churness, pastor of One Hope Church in Gig Harbor, WA. Scripture passages cited (or alluded to) in this message include 1 Corinthians 15:35-37; 13:13; Philippians 1:21; Matthew 19:28-30; Isaiah 65:17-19; Revelation 21:5; 2 Peter 3:5-7, 13; Acts 3:19-21; Romans 8:18-25; and Hebrews 6:19.