if you’re like me, you tend to think about heaven far less than you should. Many days it’s completely off my radar screen. What’s more, when we do think about heaven, we have a lot of misconceptions about it. So lately, I’ve been trying to think more about heaven. As I’ve done so, several features of heaven have surprised me. Think of these as qualities we often forget about heaven — parts of the shoreline most likely to be overlooked.

The city is like a magnifying glass, bringing out both the best and the worst in human beings.

This book stands as a proven classic for developing such leadership. J. Oswald Sanders, a Christian leader for nearly seventy years and author of more than forty books, presents the key principles of leadership in both the temporal and spiritual realms. He illustrates his points with examples from Scripture and biographies of eminent men of God, such as Moses, Nehemiah, the apostle Paul, David Livingstone, Charles Spurgeon, and others.

Dallas Willard revolutionized how we think about the true meaning of discipleship. In this edited version of his popular talk on business, he skillfully weaves together biblical teaching, popular culture, business, and spiritual practice to reveal how God can be a part of the work that we do. Willard gently challenges our basic ideas about job, work, ministry and business and examines life-changing ways to think about God and business and how we can be guided by God in our daily work, resulting in a more authentic and dynamic faith.

You can't be spiritually mature while remaining emotionally immature. In this book, Peter Scazzero shares stories and principles as he outlines the signs of emotionally unhealthy spirituality. Then he provides seven biblical, reality-tested steps to become emotionally mature.

Making conscientious choices about technology in our families is more than just using internet filters and determining screen time limits for our children. In this book, Andy Crouch shows readers that the choices we make about technology have consequences we may never have considered. Anyone who has felt their family relationships suffer or their time slip away amid technology's distractions will find in this book a path forward to reclaiming their real life in a world of devices.

Many bemoan the decay of culture. But we all have a responsibility to care for culture, to nurture it in ways that help people thrive. In this book, artist Makoto Fujimura issues a call to cultural stewardship, in which we become generative and feed our culture's soul with beauty, creativity, and generosity. We serve others as cultural custodians of the future.

The key to answering the call is to be devoted to no one and to nothing above God himself… Calling is the truth that God calls us to himself so decisively that everything we are, everything we do, and everything we have is invested with a special devotion, dynamism, and direction lived out as a response to his summons and service.

Why is God allowing this? What have I done wrong? Many of us have asked these questions when life hits us hard. During a time of darkness and adversity in his own life, Jerry Bridges dug deep into the Bible for answers on God’s sovereignty. What he learned changed his life ― and it will change yours too.