Pastor's Corner: For the healing of nations

"What's heaven like?"

As a pastor, that's not an uncommon question to receive. My answer tends to veer toward Isaiah and his vision of the mountain of the Lord, where the Lord will swallow up death forever and when he will wipe away the tears from all faces. That's what John of Patmos clings to, as well, when he writes in Revelation: "God will wipe every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; mourning and crying and pain will be no more" (Revelation 21:4). Heaven is where God wipes away our tears. Where God wipes away the source of our tears.

In this Easter season, some of our Sund...