Jonathan Edwards and the Christian Pilgrim: Our Journey Towards Heaven

by Deborah Howard

Overview

Wisdom from Jonathan Edwards on the journey towards death, with application for modern life.

 

Death is inevitable. Whether we’re facing the death of a loved one, or our own passing from this world to the next, we cannot avoid it. Death is something we never get used to. But it is something that we can get ready for.

 

Deborah Howard has taken Jonathan Edwards’ intensely encouraging sermon on the Christian Pilgrim and, drawing on her own experiences as a hospice nurse, has written this book to encourage us to live with our final destination in mind.

 

Focussing on scripture truth, the reader is encouraged to think about the journey that leads us towards our final destination. How are we spending our lives, as we live in the light of eternity? This combination of classic sermon and modern application makes this book an essential addition to any Christian’s bookshelf.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781527109780
Publisher:	Christian Focus Publications
Publication date:	05/16/2023
Pages:	100
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.80(h) x (d)

About the Author

Deborah Howard lives and writes from her home outside Little Rock, Arkansas. Her books are designed to come alongside those who are suffering and point them to the comfort only God can provide. A self–proclaimed “sovereignty–of–God–girl,” Deborah’s love for the Lord and His word is the motivation for everything she writes.

Editorial Reviews

Drawing from her experience as a hospice nurse, attending to many who were in the process of dying, she causes us to think about our own eventual deaths, about preparing for death as a believer, and laying out before us the joys of what it will be like when we meet the Lord for an eternity.

Curtis Thomas (Author

Imagine, though, sitting with a friend, reading a page or two of Edwards, and talking together about what it means and how it applies. That is the sweet experience of reading this book, with Deborah Howard as our person guide to one of the greatest preachers of all time. 

(Chancellor

Imagine, though, sitting with a friend, reading a page or two of Edwards, and talking together about what it means and how it applies. That is the sweet experience of reading this book, with Deborah Howard as our person guide to one of the greatest preachers of all time. 

Joel R. Beeke(President

Deborah Howard has done it again. She’s written another compassionate work that points us to our Savior, Jesus Christ.  My wife and I think it’s fantastic. God has given her a gift which she uses to encourage, inform and inspire. What she has done with this Jonathan Edwards sermon is very fine, indeed. We heartily recommend this book to all believers.

 

Dr. Wayne Mack(ACBC Academy member ACBC Africa Director SMTI Founder and Professor)

If the last few years have taught us anything, it’s that life is frail and temporary and that death is coming for every single one of us. Only through the finished and sufficient work of Christ can the Christian look death in the face with hope in the face of loss and grief and know with confidence they will be with Christ forever. In her latest book, The Christian Pilgrim: A Journey Toward Heaven, Deborah Howard helps the reader through a combination of using a sermon by the greatest pastor–theologian America has ever produced, Jonathan Edwards, and her commentary on that sermon to navigate the challenges of grief and loss associated with death with hope in Christ. Along the way in Deborah’s book, you’ll discover not only the hope that Christ provides for the future but the hope that He offers now. The hope that we have now is because of Christ, and the hope we have for the future is because of Christ. Everywhere in between now and the future, Christ offers hope for those whose friends and family have passed on. Deborah has done us a great service with this book for the hurting, the struggler, and the biblical counselor. Please read this book and know that the hope you have now in Christ is the hope that Christ holds you fast now, and He will continue to hold you fast till your last breath. Then you will breathe your last and go into His everlasting arms if you are in Christ forever. Reading The Christian Pilgrim will help you enter into the world of Edwards, and eternal life revealed in Scripture for both now and forever, because Christ alone is sufficient for now and forever.

Dave Jenkins(Director Servants of Grace Ministries)

Deborah Howard has produced another wonderful, encouraging and convicting work. As her father, a committed believer, was dying recently her attention was drawn to Jonathan Edwards’ message, “The Christian Pilgrim.” Deborah intersperses her own comments into Edwards’ sermon, clarifying and adding current relevance to his words. Drawing from her experience as a hospice nurse, attending to many who were in the process of dying, she causes us to think about our own eventual deaths, about preparing for death as a believer, and laying out before us the joys of what it will be like when we meet the Lord for an eternity. Deborah, in her kind way, is very convicting as she writes of the responsibilities and joys of keeping eternity and heaven ever before us. And at the end, she issues a warning to those who live only for themselves and who are not prepared to meet the Lord. Get a copy of this book, read it, then pass it along to someone who may need this message. 

Curtis Thomas (Author/Pastor/Teacher)