The Family Altar

Description

Few things have been so neglected or ignored by professing Christians in our day as the duty of families worshipping and praying together in their homes. The Puritans saw each family unit as a little church, with the father as the pastor to his own flock. Each passing generation has seen this duty at best abrogated to the mother; at worst it has been treated as irrelevant, or something for which there is simply no time in an ever-increasingly busy schedule Oliver Heywood begins with the personal covenant made with God in baptism, and then deals with the importance and duty of family worship. He addresses the ways God dealt with families throughout Scripture and history, and closes with the relationship between those who remain on earth while their loved ones are in heaven.