Homeward Bound: Preparing Your Family for Eternity
by Edward Hartmann
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We live in a consumer culture that exalts living with a passion for the moment and ignores eternity. All prospects of future gain are cast aside in exchange for a personal gratification that is "now" - as proven by our all-time high in consumer debt. We have bought a subtle lie that there will be no day of final accounting, and so our children don't live with an eternal perspective.
When the author's wife died from a brain tumor, some flowers at the funeral came with a card that said "Welcome to your new home" --- a phrase Amy had picked herself.
As Ed says: "Few things, like death, will put life in perspective. And few things, like accountability, will put obedience in perspective. This life is transitional; it can prepare us to be welcomed into our new, eternal home. And it provides us with a lifetime of opportunities to invite others along, beginning with our own families."
Join Ed and his family as they explore what makes a godly home - and a way of attractively displaying and persuasively commending the glory of God in the life of a Christian family.
The concept of dying well has been very real to Ed Hartman since August 1995. Hartman was studying at Westminster Theological Seminary , California and had just discovered a treatise by the Puritan author William Perkins on The Right Manner Of Dying Well.
This discovery was no accident, as it was a matter of minutes later that Ed discovered that his wife, the mother of their four children, was not at all well. Amy Hartman was diagnosed with a brain tumor, which after 6 months of much prayer, and great heartache, proved to be terminal.
With this traumatic experience behind him, Hartman deals with the topic of preparing your life, and the life of those you love, for death in a practical and thoroughly Christ-centered manner.
Hartman looks at our most important relationships, with God, with our spouses, with our family and with those around us. He shares with us the advice of Perkins and other Puritans who lived in a time that had a much healthier attitude towards, and much closer relationship with, death.
He concludes that the primary aim of those sincerely desiring to die well, must be to have Christ at the center of everything - and that true devotion to Christ comes only through our relationship with him.
