What makes heaven heaven? This article answers in no uncertain terms that heaven means being with Jesus Christ.

Do you think much about heaven? This article pleads for heavenly-mindedness, as a way for believers to grow in hope.

What place do Christians go to when they die? This article discusses the intermediate state in heaven, identifying it as a temporary dwelling place.

The goal of this paper is to weigh in the light of Scripture the best arguments set forth by annihilationists, those such as John Stott who argue that we should understand the Bible literally when it speaks of the damned as "perishing" or suffering "destruction." Stott assumes that these words speak of annihilation.

What happens between death and the resurrection? What happens when a Christian or an unbeliever dies? This article answers those questions by looking at Scripture's teaching on the intermediate state. Exploring the meaning of death for a Christian and the separation of body and soul, the author gives hope to those who rest in Christ. Judgment day is a day they can look towards with courage.

What happens between death and the resurrection? This article answers this by looking at the intermediate state. In exploring the meaning of death for a Christian and the separation of body and soul, the author points us to the hope that belongs to those who rest in Christ.

What happens after death? While other religions think that life ceases to exist upon death, the Scriptures teach us about the continuation of life after death.

What happens after death? Here are ten things you need to know about the intermediate state. 

What is heaven? Heaven is a place where God makes all things right in relation to himself. Here are four reasons which should compel you to believe in the reality of heaven.

What happens between death and the resurrection? What happens when a Christian or an unbeliever dies? This article looks at the false teachings of naturalism, modernism, and soul sleep.

Heaven is not the final destiny of the believer. It is the intermediate state in which the soul of the believer will be with Christ in heaven before the bodily resurrection. How can the believer have this hope? This article shows how this hope is grounded in the work of Christ and the Holy Spirit.

When we think about eternity to come, is it unspiritual to long for a reunion with loved ones? This article shows the deep affection that the apostle Paul had for those to whom he wrote his letters, which indicates the appropriateness of longing for such a reunion.

What happens to you when you die? This article focuses on the intermediate state, looking at the difference between body sleep and soul sleep, and how the biblical teaching on the intermediate state determines how believers bury their dead.

This article explains the teaching of soul sleep ("psychopannychism"), and follows up with why this teaching is not biblical. The believer who dies is immediately with the Lord Jesus.

This article addresses the notion of soul sleep after death, and what John Calvin had to say about it. He said that the soul is immortal, and after death waits consciously for the resurrection.

What is heaven? Heaven is where God is, and where God is there is happiness and unending worship.

This is the last of six articles about the intermediate state, death, and what happens when Christians die. This article discusses whether the soul is mortal or immortal ("immortality of the soul").

This is the fifth of six articles about the intermediate state, death, and what happens when Christians die. This article argues against the concept of purgatory.

This is the fourth of six articles about the intermediate state, death, and what happens when Christians die. This article maintains that after death believers have uninterrupted covenant communion with Jesus Christ. Christians must guard this doctrine under the threat of naturalism and modernism.The article also looks at the idea of soul sleep.

This is the third of six articles about the intermediate state, death, and what happens when Christians die. This is about the Old and New Testament witness to the intermediate state, and what happens to the unbeliever after death.

This is the second of six articles about the intermediate state, death, and what happens when Christians die. Christians have the hope and knowledge that after death they live in their soul with Christ in heaven. The article looks at the resurrection of the soul and judgment after death.

This is the first of six articles about the intermediate state, death, and what happens when Christians die. This article looks at the separation of body and soul, "body-sleep", burial and it discusses the comfort Christians can have.

What will be your identity in heaven? This article speaks of the continuity between this life and the next.

This article argues the case that we will recognize each other in heaven, given the post-resurrection appearances of Christ and the words of the apostle Paul.

In this final article to the series, the author provides answers to more objections to the teaching of the existence of a separate state of souls between death and the resurrection. Predominant in these answers are the subjects of death, reward, and punishment.

In this continuing argument for what is called the separate state of souls, which occurs immediately after death, the author now sets out to refute arguments against it. Pertinent to the refutations here is the matter of the nature of the soul.

In continuation of this topic, the author now examines Scripture texts that present firm evidence for a separate state of the soul immediately after death. In doing so, the author also refutes other explanations that have been provided to argue against the separate state.

As a continuation of this topic, the author produces a number of scripture texts that may be taken as arguments that there is a separate state to which the soul goes after death and before the final judgment.

This article seeks to establish that there is a separate state that souls undergo between the death and resurrection of a person.