Notes
Notes
Epigraph
Nancy Honeytree, “Joni’s Waltz.” Used by permission.
Chapter 1
What’s So Great About Heaven?
1 This idea is from A. W. Tozer’s book The Knowledge of the Holy.
2 This idea is from the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
3 C. S. Lewis, Perelandra (New York: Macmillan, 1965), 33.
4 C. S. Lewis, The Inspirational Writings of C. S. Lewis (New York: Inspirational Press, 1991), 358.
5 C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain (New York: Macmillan: New York, Inc., 1962).
Chapter 2
Who Are We in Heaven?
1 The Book of Common Prayer (Philadelphia: Reformed Episcopal Publication Society, 1932), 512.
2 Robert L. Sassone, The Tiniest Humans (Stafford, Va.: American Life League, 1995), viii.
3 C. S. Lewis, Weight of Glory (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1949), 15.
4 Book of Common Prayer, 5.
5 This idea was suggested to me by my reading of C. H. Spurgeon.
6 C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves (New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1960), 126.
7 A. A. Hodge, Evangelical Theology (Carlisle, Pa.: Banner of Truth, 1976), 400.
Chapter 3
What Will We Do in Heaven?
1 Lewis, The Weight of Glory, 10.
2 C. S. Lewis, The Great Divorce (New York: Macmillan, 1973), 42–44.
3 E. L. Maskell, Grace and Glory (New York: Morehouse-Barlow, 1961), 68–69.
4 Lewis, The Great Divorce, 29–30.
Chapter 4
Where Is Heaven and What Is It Like?
1 John M. Templeton, The God Who Would Be Known (San Francisco: Harper & Row Publishers, 1989), 25.
2 Robert Jastrow and Malcolm Thompson, Astronomy: Fundamentals and Frontiers (Santa Barbara: John Wiley, 1977), 4, 12.
3 This idea was suggested to me in a personal letter from David Parrish.
4 Dr. John H. Gerstner, The Rational Biblical Theology of Jonathan Edwards (Orlando: Berea Publications, Ligonier Ministries, 1993), 552.
5 Ibid., 554.
6 Margaret Clarkson, Grace Grows Best in Winter (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1984), 187.
Chapter 5
Why Don’t We Fit on Earth?
1 A. E. Brumley, “This World is Not My Home” (Glendale, Ca.: Praise Book Publications, 1951), 111. Used by permission.
2 Malcolm Muggeridge, Jesus Rediscovered (New York: Doubleday, 1979), 47–48.
3 Peter Kreeft, Heaven (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1989), 66.
4 This idea was suggested to me in Peter Kreeft’s book Heaven, 69.
5 Arthur Bennet, The Valley of Vision (Carlisle, Pa.: The Banner of Truth Trust, 1975), 203.
6 Sheldon Vanauken, A Severe Mercy (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1977), 200, 202.
7 C. S. Lewis, A Grief Observed (New York: Bantam Books, 1976), 16.
8 Kreeft, Heaven, 71.
10 Kreeft, Heaven, 83.
11 C. S. Lewis, George MacDonald: An Anthology (New York: Macmillan, 1978), 8.
12 John H. Gerstner, The Rational Biblical Theology of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 3 (Orlando, Berea Publications, Ligonier Ministries, 1993), 543.
13 Kreeft, Heaven, 84.
14 A. W. Tozer, quoted in Edythe Draper, Draper’s Book of Quotations for the Christian World (Wheaton, Ill.: Tyndale House, 1992), 180.
15 George W. Robinson, “I Am His, and He Is Mine,” (public domain).
16 Madame Jeanne Guyon, Spiritual Torrents (Auburn, Me.: The Seed Sowers Christian Books Publishing House, 1980), 99.
17 Edythe Draper, Edythe Draper’s Book of Quotations (Wheaton, Il.: Tyndale House, 1992), 305.
Chapter 6
Heaven Has Our Heart’s Desire
1 This idea is from Harry Blamires, Knowing the Truth about Heaven and Hell (Ann Arbor, Mich.: Servant Books, 1988), 111.
3 Kreeft, Heaven, 44.
4 Lewis, Weight of Glory, 12.
5 The ideas in these three paragraphs are derived from C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves.
6 Sharalee Lucas, “I See Jesus in You” (Nashville: Rambo-McGuire Music, 1986). Used by permission.
7 Lewis, Weight of Glory, 15.
8 Idea from Augustine, Ennarationes in Psalmos 127.9.
9 Augustine, Confessions I.I.
10 William Herbert Carruth, “Each in His Own Tongue” (public domain).
11 Clara T. Williams, “Satisfied” (public domain).
12 A. W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1992), 15.
13 John MacArthur, Heaven tape series (Panorama City, Ca.: Grace to You, 1987).
Chapter 7
Heaven: The Home of Love
1 The original idea for this opening portion of chapter 7 is from the Rev. Louis Lapides, Beth Ariel Fellowship, Sherman Oaks, Ca. Sources: Maurice Lamm, “The Jewish Marriage Ceremony” in The Jewish Way in Love and Marriage (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1980), 145–168; and Alfred Edersheim, Sketches of Jewish Social Life in the Days of Christ (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1974), 148.
2 Idea from Tim Stafford, Knowing the Face of God (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1989), 182.
3 Horatius Bonar, “Here, O My Lord, I See Thee Face to Face” (public domain).
4 George W. Robinson, “I Am His, and He is Mine” (public domain).
5 George Matheson, “O Love That Will Not Let Me Go” (public domain).
6 Idea suggested by the writings of Andrew Greeley.
7 Idea from Kreeft, Heaven, 124–161.
8 Kreeft, Heaven, 143.
9 Ibid., 96.
10 These ideas were borrowed from C. S. Lewis’s Till We Have Faces.
11 Lynn Hodges and Joy MacKenzie, “Heavenly Praise” (SpiritQuest Music, 1994). Used by permission.
Chapter 8
At Home with Our King
1 Reginald Heber, “Holy, Holy, Holy” (public domain).
2 Matthew Bridges, “Crown Him with Many Crowns” (public domain).
3 George F. Root, “When He Cometh” (public domain).
4 Ravi Zacharias, The Veritas Forum at Harvard University Tape Series (Norcross, Ga., Ravi Zacharias International Ministries, 1992).
5 This idea is from Dr. Jack Miller, Westminster Theological Seminary.
6 Gerstner, The Rational Biblical Theology of Jonathan Edwards, 558.
7 Lewis, The Weight of Glory, 10.
8 Lewis, The Inspirational Writings of C. S. Lewis, 382.
9 Kreeft, Heaven 121–122.
10 C. H. Spurgeon, Spurgeon at His Best (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1988), 95.
11 Gerstner, The Rational and Biblical Theology of Jonathan Edwards, 538.
12 Matthew Bridges, “Crown Him with Many Crowns” (public domain).
Chapter 9
Getting Ready for Heaven
1 Stafford, Knowing the Face of God, 221.
2 Samuel Rutherford, Letters.
3 Larry Crabb, Men and Women, Enjoying the Difference (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1991), 92–93.
4 Idea from the writings of Bishop J. C. Ryle.
5 J. C. Ryle, Holiness (Cambridge: James Clarke), 43–45
6 Ibid., 45.
7 Amy Carmichael, A Rose from Brier (Fort Washington, Penn.: Christian Literature Crusade), 49, 12. Used by permission.
8 “Stillness,” The Elisabeth Elliot Newsletter (March/April, 1994), 1.
9 Douglas Kaine McKelvey, Cattail, Fishscale, and Snakeskin (Chicago: Cornerstone, 1994), 38. Used by permission.
10 Source for these ideas: John MacArthur, Jr., “Secrets to Endurance” message (Panorama City, Ca.: Grace to You, 1994).
11 Madame Guyon, Spiritual Torrents, 80.
12 Clarkson, Grace Grows Best in Winter, 191–2.
Chapter 10
Homeward Bound
1 Sherwood Wirt, “Remembering the Joy,” Decision (December, 1994).
2 David Chilton, “Where is thy sting?” World magazine, vol. 9, no. 30 (January 7, 1995), 28.
3 Will L. Thompson, “Softly and Tenderly” (public domain).