Author: Eric Glover

I am Eric Glover, the creator of this site and the leader of the Doubtless Living Bible study group at ClearView Baptist Church in Franklin, Tennessee. I am married to Tina Glover and we have two grown children and one wonderful grandson. I have taught Bible study classes to adults of all ages for more than 25 years and teaching God’s Word is one of my greatest passions in life. I am an ordained Southern Baptist minister and I attended Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. I have served churches in many capacities over the years, but I am called by God to teach His Word and that is what I love doing most of all. Professionally, I serve as the Vice President of Retail Operations for LifeWay Christian Stores, one of the largest Christian retailers in the world with 160 stores across America. I have a Masters of Business Administration degree from the University of Connecticut and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree from Missouri Southern State University. I am also a Certified Public Accountant, although I have not practiced public accounting for many years.

I am Eric Glover, the creator of this site and the leader of the Doubtless Living Bible study group at ClearView Baptist Church in Franklin, Tennessee. I am married to Tina Glover and we have two grown children and one wonderful grandson. I have taught Bible study classes to adults of all ages for more than 25 years and teaching God’s Word is one of my greatest passions in life. I am an ordained Southern Baptist minister and I attended Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. I have served churches in many capacities over the years, but I am called by God to teach His Word and that is what I love doing most of all. Professionally, I serve as the Vice President of Retail Operations for LifeWay Christian Stores, one of the largest Christian retailers in the world with 160 stores across America. I have a Masters of Business Administration degree from the University of Connecticut and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree from Missouri Southern State University. I am also a Certified Public Accountant, although I have not practiced public accounting for many years.

Heaven-Influenced Living

Heaven-Influenced Living

by Lisa Coleman

Believe it or not, a large number of people have chosen to be reminded five times a day via a smartphone app that they are going to die. The app, called WeCroak, has more than 10,000 downloads and there are 30,000 monthly users. More than 25 million reminders are sent annually. Most of the messages are simply “Don’t forget, you’re going to die.” Others are equally as somber, “The grave has no sunny corners” and “Those who are afraid of death will carry it on their shoulders.”

The messages are sent “at random times and at any moment just like death.” The founders of the app were inspired by a famous Bhutanese folk saying, which asserts “to be a truly happy person, one must contemplate death five times daily.” The basic idea is that the more we are reminded about the inevitability of death, the more we will “smell the flowers,” and appreciate every moment of life.

Co-founder Hansa Bergwall elaborates:

One of the things that makes us most unhappy is we tend to get caught up in things that don’t matter. We tend to get caught up in minutiae or in stress or in tons of things that ultimately aren’t that important to us. And when we remember our mortality, we can take a deep breath and just go, “Oh, I don’t have to think about this. I don’t have to engage. I don’t have time for this.” And move on.

Bianca Bosker, “The App That Reminds You You’re Going to Die” The Atlantic (January/February, 2020); Eric Johnson, “You’re going to die someday. WeCroak’s Hansa Bergwall says remembering that will make your life better,” Vox (4-24-19).

Tim McGraw sang a song “Live Like You Were Dying”.  The lyrics include these lines:

And I loved deeper
And I spoke sweeter
And I gave forgiveness I’d been denying.
And he said
“Someday I hope you get the chance to live like you were dying
Like tomorrow was a gift”

We all know the death rate is 100% down here.  We are all dying.  Only our timing will vary.  The question is what do we do in the meantime?

Should we simply focus on our bucket lists?  Relationships?  Can we do anything to prepare for death?  Where do we gather intel on what’s next? Can we get ready and what does that look like? What can we take with us?  Can our understanding of heaven affect our activities, ambitions, recreation, friendships, and the way we spend our money and time?  Should it?

So many questions!  Join us as we wrap up our Heaven series discussing the Great Adventure ahead.

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Please feel free to click one of the links below to download Bible study materials from this session for your personal use:

PowerPoint Slides

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To assist with your independent study, you can find the Zoom audio/video recording of this session on our YouTube Channel by clicking here.

More information about this Bible study series can be found at HEAVEN: Peace for Today, Hope for Tomorrow.  You can also follow this link to find materials for several additional Bible Studies that are free to download for your personal use.

May God bless you and your study, as you seek to know Him better through the study of His Word.

Yours in Christ,

Eric