2026 Conference Theme
The Age to Come
We live in a fallen and finite age. But we were made for more than temporary pleasures mingled with pain. We were made for God and the glory of the age to come.
Heaven and hell are not relics of a bygone age or footnotes to the gospel. They are its blazing horizon. Join us for a Christ-centered conference designed to lift our eyes above the noise of fleeting moments and fix them on forever. With warmth, clarity, and reverent joy, we will explore how the everlasting realities of heaven and hell are essential to a right understanding of God, the gospel, and the redeemed life lived by faith. Join us to reflect on realities that will sober us without despair, stir us without sensationalism, and stimulate our lives in the present with an enlarged view of the future.
Heaven and hell will forever make much of Christ. Both will glorify God but only one will enjoy Him forever. Come ready to think deeply, be stirred in heart, and leave making much of Christ, to God’s glory and man’s joy.
Forgotten Glory
One of our greatest problems is preoccupation with things temporary and tiny. We easily become absorbed in matters inevitably insignificant. We invest, spend, and waste life on things that will be forgotten. We tend to forget in the here and now what cannot be forgotten in the there and then. True and lasting significance is coming with tremendous weight.
We have largely forgotten the gloriously terrifying reality of God’s justice. We have largely forgotten the gloriously tremendous reality of God’s grace in Christ.
The Age to Come points to Heaven and Hell
In the age to come, good and evil will forever be separated. Heaven and hell will be fixed.
The created order is destined for a coming age of fixed alignment with the nature of its glorious Creator.
Hell
Hell is a subject of unparalleled gravity and grief. Yet, few things will reveal our view of God like a clear view of hell. Likewise, few things will prove our perspective on the nature of man, sin, morality, ethics, justice, and the gospel. The reality of hell has largely disappeared from the thoughts of men—even in the church. Popular perspectives on hell often have more to do with perverted misconceptions and portrayals than biblical truth. The church must rediscover with clarity that hell is preeminently about God’s justice. There is no monstrous sadism in hell; God has no delight in the death of the wicked. “His judgments are true and just” (Revelation 19:2)—this is the theme of hell. People are judged for injustice not ignorance. God does not punish people for not knowing the gospel—God only punishes sinners according to their sin. Nobody will be in hell who does not deserve to be there. We are called to behold the awe-awakening glory of God’s justice. We are called to know and make known the truth about hell to make much of Christ in all His glory.
Heaven
We were made for more than this life. We were made for glories and joys that utterly exceed the capacity of this world (1 Corinthians 2:9). We were made for forever. The desire to live is not man-made. It was God who put eternity into our hearts (Ecclesiastes 3:11). But the duration factor is only secondary. Eternity is a facilitator of our greater purpose, namely that we were made for God—to glorify and enjoy Him forever. This is only finally possible in a realm of complete restoration and renewal. God calls this realm the new heavens and the new earth (Revelation 21:1). We often refer to it simply as heaven.
The Glory of the Gospel
Christ and His gospel are at the heart of the subject of heaven. The glory of the gospel holds out promises profoundly larger than the temporary happiness of a dying life. The goal of both creation and redemption finds its center here. The gospel is vastly more than we often suppose. Heaven rightly considered demands grasping the far reach of redemption. It is integral to the Christian worldview and witness. Heaven’s gospel gives color to our perception and interpretation of the world around us and the hope within us. Each of its facets directly touch our condition with intense explanatory power.