Paul David Tripp offers insight into Forever

The Evidence Is Everywhere. . . . . . . . .1
1. Who Stole Forever?. . . .
2. The Pack-It-All-In Mentality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3. The Bad News You Can’t Escape. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4. The Dark Side of Forever. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5. Grace Frees Us to Live with Eternity in View. . . . . .
6. Why Is Faith Sometimes So Miserable?. . . . . . . . . .
7. Hope Can’t Live without Forever . . . . . . . . . . . .
8. Suffering Is Harder When You Have No Forever. . .
9. Forever and Your Relationships . . . . . . . . .
10. Forever and Parenting. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
11. Forever and Your Job. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
12. Forever and Your God. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
13. My Forever Story. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
14. The Joy of Forever, Right Here, Right Now. . . . . .

Why is it so hard for us to be satisfied?
Why do so many of our marriages struggle over the long run?
Why do we have such a hard time getting along with family and friends?
Why do we carry around so much debt?
Why do we stand in front of full closets and say we have nothing to wear?
Why do we look into fully stocked refrigerators and say we have nothing to eat?
Why do so many of us consistently spend more than we earn?
Why do we struggle so much with envy?
Why does our culture tend to be overdrugged and oversexed?
Why do we spend so much on making sure that we are incessantly entertained?
Why do our trials paralyze us more than they should?
Why do people disappoint us so easily?
Why does life in the here and now never seem to deliver what we hoped it would deliver?

Overview of the consequences of eternity amnesia on our lives.
1. Living with unrealistic expectations.
2. Focusing too much on self.
3. Asking too much of people.
4. Being controlling or fearful.
5. Questioning the goodness of God.
6. Living more disappointed than thankful.
7. Lacking motivation and hope.
8. Living as if life doesn’t have consequences.

"Most of us find it very difficult to want “Heaven” at all — except in so far as “Heaven” means meeting again our friends who have died. One reason for this difficulty is that we have not been trained: our whole education tends to fix our minds on this world. Another reason is that when the real want for Heaven is present in us, we do not recognize it. Most people,if they really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely, something that cannot be had in this world. There are all sorts of things in this world that offer to give it to you, but they never quite keep their promise." --C. S. Lewis --


“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.” --C. S. Lewis --


Paul Tripp is a gifted and sought after speaker and the author of many popular books, including What Did You Expect? Redeeming the Realities of Marriage, The Age of Opportunity, and Instruments in the Redeemer’s Hands. President of Paul Tripp Ministries, he also serves as Professor of Pastoral Life and Care at Redeemer Seminary in Dallas, Texas, and as the Executive Director of the Center for Pastoral Life and Care in Fort Worth, Texas. He and his wife, Luella, have four grown children.