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Sunday, November 8Ecclesia Houston

Heaven Is A Place of Reunion

Heaven is where love continues and the people we have lost are not as far away as they seem; it is a home Jesus has prepared where we will be fully known and reunited with those we love.

What was preached

• Hebrews 12:1–2
• Genesis 2:18
• John 14:1–6
• 1 Corinthians 13:8–13
• Luke 24:36–43
• 1 Thessalonians 4:17
• Ephesians 2:8–9
• Matthew 17:20
• John 3:16–17
• John 20:11–16

• Why does the writer of Hebrews point to the crowd of witnesses and then tell them to fix their eyes on Jesus instead?
• Why does Jesus answer the terrified disciples by showing them his hands and feet and then eating fish in front of them?
• Why does Paul say that being fully known belongs to the day when we see face to face?

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Earlier sermons

1. Sunday, November 1

   What is Heaven Like?

   Jesus answers the question of what heaven is like with a parable about a landowner who pays everyone the same, and Ericka Graham says the kingdom runs on a love available to all rather than on scorekeeping, something we are called both to build and to receive.

2. Sunday, October 25

   The Body God Refuses To Abandon

   God made our bodies on purpose, raised Jesus in a body, and promises us a resurrected body too, so the body you have now is a gift to accept and care for rather than a flaw to shame.

3. Sunday, October 18

   The Active Ingredient is Love

   Heaven is not primarily about golden streets but about being fully known and fully loved by God, and that same love is what makes life here work. Chris walks through Colossians, 1 John and 1 Corinthians to say that love is the active ingredient in heaven and in us.

4. Sunday, October 11

   As It Is In Heaven

   Leroy Barber preaches that setting your heart and mind on heaven is not an escape from the world but the thing that lets you survive it and carry something of heaven back down into it, especially when the heat is on.

5. Sunday, October 4

   Set Your Mind on Heaven

   Paul tells a church to set their minds on things above, and Chris argues that imagining heaven well is what makes a person live, grieve, and care for others differently here and now.

6. Sunday, September 27

   Making The Invisible God Visible

   Chris invites the church to stop letting culture or loud voices define what a Christian is, and instead to follow Jesus as the unique person God made them to be, so that through their ordinary love and welcome the invisible God becomes visible to the people around them.

7. Sunday, September 20

   The Miracle of Imagination

   Ezekiel's valley of dry bones shows that the first miracle is imagining what God could do with what is dead, and then joining God in it even when we will not see the end of the story.

8. Sunday, September 13

   Learning to See

   Jesus was constantly seeing the people in front of him, and Pastor Chris invites us into that same attentiveness: we look all the time but rarely see, so we practice presence, listening, and laying down our assumptions about one another.

9. Sunday, September 6

   Losing Our Life To Find Our Life

   Jesus tells his disciples that the hard parts belong to the story too, and that the life we are trying hardest to save is often the one keeping us from new life. Ericka Graham asks what we need to surrender so that we can actually find ours.