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Heaven is Not My Home; I’ll Just Be Passing Through

January 29, 2013January 5, 2015Kirk E. Miller 2 Comments

You may be familiar with the lyrics, “this world is not my home; I’m just a passing through.” But despite its popularity, these words are not theologically accurate. Rather, as Doug Wilson suggests, we would be better off saying something along the lines of “heaven is not my home; I’ll just be passing through.”

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Kirk E. Miller (MDiv, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) is editor of digital content at Logos where he edits and writes for Word by Word and hosts What in the Word?. He is a former pastor and church planter with a combined fifteen years of pastoral experience.

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