Catching a Glimpse of Heaven

by E.M. Bounds

Clean. Never read. Minimum shelf ware.

Genres: Christian

150 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1985

About the author

Edward McKendree Bounds was a Methodist minister, revivalist, author and lawyer.

Unsuccessful in the California gold rush of 1849, E.M. Bounds returned home to Missouri and became the state’s youngest practicing attorney at age 19. In his early twenties he was deeply impacted by the Third Great Awakening, and at age 24 he was ordained for ministry. During his lifetime he pastored churches, traveled as an evangelist, served as a Civil War chaplain, edited a Christian periodical and was a devoted husband and father. But E.M. Bounds is best known for prayer. His daily habit was to spend the time between 4 am and 7 am praying. His writings on prayer are widely acclaimed to be among the finest of any author before or since.

Reviews

[Debbie Wentworth Wilson · Rating 3 out of 5]

E. M. Bounds takes us into scripture to see what God teaches us of heaven and how to set our hearts on heaven, rather than on this earth. I have great respect for Mr. Bounds, but, for some reason, this book was not meeting my needs at this time. My favorite quotation is below:

"Earthly attachments lessen our heavenly attachments. If our hearts indulge themselves in great earthly loves, we will cheat heaven. God's great work (and often his most afflictive and chastening work) is to unfasten our hearts from earth and fasten them to heaven. He must destroy our infatuation with our earthly homes so that we seek a home in heaven."

I think the problem was much less with the book and with my not being to this point yet.

[Lois]

It was interesting to hear about death from a nurses point of view