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2. Creation Made New
What if your most treasured memories, most beautiful places, and even lost loved ones weren’t gone forever—but waiting to be restored? In this session of All Things New, John Eldredge shares the deeply moving promise of the renewal of the earth itself. This isn’t escapist theology—it’s the gospel hope Jesus offers in Matthew 19: the palingenesia, the recreation of the world. Through poignant personal stories and biblical teaching, John invites us to relocate our ultimate hopes in the coming restoration of all things. When you understand that heaven comes to earth and nothing is truly lost, your longings begin to make sense, and hope becomes an unshakable anchor for your soul. This message reframes our understanding of grief, memory, and the goodness we’ve said goodbye to—and reveals that it all has a future in God’s story. Everything we love is being held for us and will one day be given back, renewed and made whole.→ To go deeper, read All Things New (book) and use the All Things New Study Guide.→ Read more on this promise in “Nothing is Lost”, “Including the Animal Kingdom”, and “Redemption, Not Destruction”.
3. Your Story Told Rightly
What will it be like to be fully restored? In this session of "All Things New", John Eldredge explores the breathtaking promise of our personal renewal—body, soul, and story—at the coming of God’s kingdom. With Scripture’s assurance that creation itself is waiting for the revealing of the children of God (Romans 8), we discover that our restoration is central to the great renewal of all things. Every wound healed. Every loss redeemed. Every story told rightly.From physical healing to the internal freedom we long for, John paints a vivid picture of what it will mean to be you, fully alive. With powerful imagery and deeply personal reflections, this session invites us to hope again—for vindication, for reward, and for the life we were always meant to live. Imagine seeing your loved ones whole. Imagine being unburdened of fear, shame, and sorrow. This is the anchor hope meant to carry us through life’s hardest battles.The restoration of all things includes your story. Nothing is lost. Every secret act of love, every faithful choice, will one day be celebrated. And when you see Jesus crowned as King—vindicated after centuries of being misunderstood—you too will be vindicated. Your story matters. And it will be told rightly.Related resources: • Book: All Things New by John Eldredge • Study guide: All Things New Study Guide • Daily Reading: “Nothing is Lost” • Daily Reading: “Our First Love” • Daily Reading: “Including the Animal Kingdom”
5. The Power of Our Hope
In the final session of "All Things New", John Eldredge brings us into the heart of our deepest longing: the return of Jesus and the coming restoration of all things. Based on chapters 9 and 10 of the book, this session invites us to set our hopes fully on the breathtaking promise of the Kingdom—where nothing is lost, justice is done, and love endures forever.This isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the anchor of the soul (Hebrews 6:19), and it changes everything. When we know our hearts, our relationships, and our lives will be fully restored, we can live with courage, joy, and endurance—even in the face of loss. John encourages us to let go of the cynicism and dullness that cloud our vision and instead ask Jesus to awaken our imagination with pictures of the life to come. Heaven isn’t the end of the story. The return of Christ ushers in the beginning of the most beautiful chapter yet.What are the first three things you’ll do when you enter the Kingdom? You were made to hope—and your hope is safe.Related resources: • Book: All Things New by John Eldredge • Study guide: All Things New Study Guide • Daily Reading: “The Restoration of Everything” • Daily Reading: “An Anchor for the Soul” • Daily Reading: “Nothing Is Lost” • Daily Reading: “Confident Expectations”
The World – Part 2
John and Sam Eldredge look at the toxic effects when "self" becomes the epicenter of our existence and people demand greater freedom with less responsibility.
4. What We'll Do in the New Earth
What will we actually do for eternity? This session shatters the common myth of heaven as an endless, static worship service and opens our imagination to the biblical promise of reigning, creating, and living fully on a restored earth. John Eldredge explores chapters 7 and 8 of All Things New, revealing that eternity is not a cloudy afterlife but a tangible continuation of God’s story—with us fully restored, evil vanquished, and the Kingdom made real on earth.Drawing from Revelation 19–22 and Isaiah 65, this session gives fresh meaning to eternal life. God’s promise isn’t the obliteration of this world but its renewal—where evil is judged, justice is done, and we take our place as sons and daughters, co-ruling with Christ. You’ll discover that your gifts, passions, and longings were never random. In the coming Kingdom, you’ll create, build, lead, and celebrate—doing everything you were made to do, in a world made new.From crafting music to planting vineyards, from preparing feasts to ruling cities, the new earth is bursting with purpose. The story doesn’t end—it continues, gloriously.Related resources: • Book: All Things New by John Eldredge • Study guide: All Things New Study Guide • Daily Reading: “Redemption, Not Destruction” • Daily Reading: “Choose the Kingdom” • Daily Reading: “Including the Animal Kingdom”
53 | Bart Gavigan: How to See Miracles and Keep your Day Job
We’re stoked this week to bring you a conversation with Bart Gavigan. Bart is screenwriter, mentor, Holy Spirit-following firebrand. One week, Bart might be hanging with the higher-ups of the BBC, working with the Hollywood A-list, or passing up on a conversation with David Oyelowo at the pub. The next, he might be helping nonprofits with tiny film projects. Best of all, he’s had a chatty relationship with God his entire life, a relationship that’s taken him, as he puts it, into worlds of beauty and worlds of horror. In this wide-ranging conversation, we talk about Bart’s youth in slums in Ireland and London, his experience visiting 60 countries in 5 years to make films—during which he witnessed a deaf and dumb school healed en masse, met child soldiers in Sierra Leone, and entered the worst orphanages in the world—and his life passing up on fame to pursue intimacy with God. Sometimes, it takes a storytellers eyes to help you see your own story afresh. This is a conversation to give you a new vision of the world.
The World – Part 1
This powerful new series reveals the subtle and blatant ways we try to create a world where (we think) we don't need God. In this first of six sessions, John, Morgan, and Allen discuss how a life of comfort and convenience compromises the soul.
52 | Fathering and Patience
In this episode, Sam and Blaine revisit fathering a year and a half into the game. It turns out, fathering is like most relationships, only more so. It requires a few skills everyone should have, like a method for developing patience, a thorough understanding of repentance, and the ability to pick out strands of joy in the middle of otherwise encompassing work. Sam and Blaine talk through these and other practices, as well as some basic tenants of the relational soul, like the fact relationship comes from sabbath, and the inclination of the heart to seek comfort when what it needs is intimacy.
Sorrow to Joy
Stasi Eldredge reveals the key to unlocking joy in our lives, especially during seasons of loss and despair.
51 | The Stories Our Culture is Telling, and What That Reveals
From fiction to film to television, cultures across time have been creating a narrative for the public. National identities, hopes and dreams for the future, ways of placing ourselves in history, all are woven into the simple and complex stories that we tell. What stories are we telling ourselves these days, and what does that reveal about our culture now?
5 Agreements That Are Killing Millennials – Part 2
John, Sam, and Blaine identify three more false realities that millennials need to break free from in the second half of this series.
50 | Income, Wealth, and Contentment
You've probably made some assumptions by the title alone, but this episode is around conversations that we seem to keep having. "If only I made a little more... then I would be happy" seems to be a sentiment that, if not always spoken aloud, creeps in and tries to give the verdict on our lives. Happiness, contentment, joy, hope... these are all attributes that take cultivation, rather than waiting around for them to appear because the time is right.
5 Agreements That Are Killing Millennials – Part 1
Discover five toxic social and personal agreements millennials make in the first of this two-part conversation with John, Sam, and Blaine.
49 | Sam Ainslie: The Soul at Work
Sometimes the easiest sages to miss are the ones already in your life—we work hard to avoid that mistake, and today we sat down with Sam Ainslie of the RH staff to talk about work. A career, specifically, and how to keep your heart alive in varied seasons of a working life. This conversation also dives into work stress (how much is too much), direction (do you really need to know where you’re going) and purpose (can you develop a vocation inside a career?).
The Emotional Life of Jesus
As we enter Easter week, John shares thoughts on the playful, disruptive, extravagant personality of Jesus from Scripture and his book Beautiful Outlaw.
30 – Sorrow to Joy – 3/21/2018
3/21/2018: Sorrow to Joy – Join Stasi as she shares about the victory Jesus has won for us and the key to unlocking joy in our lives in every season of life. Though one of Jesus’ names is the Man of Sorrows – let us not forget that even as he suffered for the cause of Love – it was the joy that was set before him that propelled him forward. He is the Man of Sorrows, yes, but he also the God of Joy. In the midst of the sorrows of our lives – in the midst of our travails, our trials and our celebrations, we too can have hope because everlasting joy is our inheritance and our future is assured. Video Clips Used1. https://youtu.be/0HUf68gFGEE Worship Set from March 2018Joy Will Come - (5:11) (Desperation Band; Light Up the World)I Am No Victim - (4:42) (Kristene Dimarco; I Am No Victim)Your Word (Live) - (7:00) (Hillsong Worship; Let There Be Light)Oceans (Where Feet May Fail)- (8:56) (Hillsong United; Zion)So Will I (100 Billion X) - (6:51) (Hillsong United; Wonder)You are Mine (Live) - (5:24) (Mosaic MSC; Glory & Wonder)It Is Well (Live) - (6:25) (Bethel Music; You Make Me Brave)Forever (Live) - (6:50) (Kari Jobe; Majestic)What a Beautiful Name - (5:41) (Hillsong Worship; Let There Be Light)