4. Living with a Heavenly Perspective (Sunday Morning) | Peter Churness

4. Living with a Heavenly Perspective (Sunday Morning)

If you knew that you’d win a billion dollars tomorrow, it would change the way you live today. So how can Christians—who have the greatest hope for the future that there is—live lives shaped by the hope of Heaven? This final message offers seven truths that can anchor us daily as we pursue a heavenly perspective.

This message was given by Peter Churness, pastor of One Hope Church in Gig Harbor, WA. Scripture passages cited (or alluded to) in this message include Ephesians 6:12; 2 Timothy 2:3-4; 2 Corinthians 1:8-9; 4:18; 5:7; 10:4-5; Hebrews 4:15; Romans 6:11; 8:1; 1 John 1:9; 3:1; Galatians 5:1; John 15:5; 17:3; Hosea 6:6; and Colossians 1:16.

3. What Jesus Said About Heaven (Saturday Night) | Peter Churness

3. What Jesus Said About Heaven (Saturday Night)

Jesus promised His followers a home, rewards, and a wedding in Heaven. This message looks at these three promises and unpacks how we ought to live if they’re really true.

This message was given by Peter Churness, pastor of One Hope Church in Gig Harbor, WA. Scripture passages cited (or alluded to) in this message include John 14:1-3; Matthew 5:11-12; 6:1-4; 10:42; 19:21, 27-29; 24:42; 25:5; Luke 10:20; 17:21; 19:11-19; Revelation 21:2, 9; Philippians 3:20; 1 Corinthians 1:7; 1 Peter 1:13; Romans 8:19-21; Ephesians 1:3, 18-21; 2:6; and 2 Peter 3:11-14.

2. What the Bible Says About Heaven (Saturday Morning) | Peter Churness

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2. What the Bible Says About Heaven (Saturday Morning)

Many Christians fear Heaven will be boring and uninteresting. But the Bible's depiction of Heaven is anything but. Heaven is a place of ever-increasing glory, wonder, and delight as God's redeemed people enjoy His presence forever on a renewed physical earth. Focusing on what the Bible says about Heaven, this message unfolds seven truths about the future home awaiting the people of God.

This message was given by Peter Churness, pastor of One Hope Church in Gig Harbor, WA. Scripture passages cited (or alluded to) in this message include Revelation 20:4; 21:1-5; Luke 16:19-31; 22:4-5; 23:43; Matthew 17:1-5; Acts 3:21; Colossians 3:1-2; 2:16-17; Hebrews 9:23-24; Ephesians 2:6-7; 2 Timothy 2:12; Philippians 3:20-21; 1 John 3:2; and Romans 8:31-32.

1. The Hope of Heaven (Friday Night) | Peter Churness

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.