Christ has gone to prepare a place for you in heaven! Examining the Scriptures that pertain to heaven, E. M. Bounds reveals how you can look forward to receiving your crown of glory, reigning with Christ forever, and reuniting with your loved ones. Get a taste of heaven here on earth, learn a true Christian attitude toward eternity, and discover how to lay up treasures for your eternal home. You can know that you are heaven-bound!
Contents:
Introduction 1. Heaven, a Place 2. Heaven, a City 3. Heaven: a Kingdom, a Crown, an Inheritance 4. Paradise and Eternal Life 5. A Truer Life 6. A Foretaste and a Pledge 7. Heaven, a State 8. Heavenly Virtues 9. The Love Principle 10. Looking to Heaven 11. Racing Down the Stretch 12. To Know Is to Love 13. Citizenship in Heaven 14. Heaven, a Home 15. Triumph through Tribulation 16. The Hope of Heaven 17. Reunion in Heaven
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.
Thoughtful reflections on the Christian's forever home -- Heaven! This book is full of what the Bible says about heaven, with numerous verses and quotations from various old-time writers like Samuel Rutherford, Richard Baxter and John Bunyan. This edition was somewhat updated, although most of the scripture was from the King James Version. My one criticism is that there are places where the narrative seems pieced together from other sources -- which I suspect is just the case. But altogether this is a nice way to meditate on a subject that we don't spend enough time thinking about: our eternal home with God.