Your Heritage: How to Be Intentional About the Legacy You Leave

by Ledbetter, J. Otis

• ISBN13: 9780781433747
• ISBN10: 0781433746
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-03-01
• Publisher: David C Cook

Summary

The Heritage How to Be Intentional about the Legacy You Leave J. Otis Ledbetter and Kurt Bruner At last, a plan to ensure that the heritage you pass along to your children is the meaningful, spiritually rich, loving, life-equipping, memory-building legacy you want it to be! Authors J. Otis Ledbetter and Kurt Bruner focus on three critical areas of every legacy-the spiritual, emotional, and social-and present a commonsense, intentional approach for: Strengthening your roots by understanding the heritage you were given Breaking the cycle of hurt that may have been caused by negative aspects of your family inheritance Charting a new course for the future by building a positive heritage for yourself, your children, and coming generations This book serves as the cornerstone for the "Heritage Builders" series, innovative and fun products specifically designed to help families fulfill the command of Deuteronomy 6: "Impress them [God's truths] on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up" (verse 7).

Author Biography

J. Otis Ledbetter, Ph.D., is senior pastor of Chestnut Baptist Church in Clovis, California and chairman of the Heritage Builders Association. Kurt Bruner, M.A., a graduate of Talbot School of Theology, is vice president of the Focus on the Family Resource Group in Colorado Springs and executive editor of the Heritage Builders Association.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 7
Acknowledgments	p. 9
Introduction: We All Wear Hand-Me-Downs	p. 11
Understanding the Heritage
An Inheritance of Love	p. 19
The Heritage	p. 25
Your Spiritual Legacy	p. 38
Your Emotional Legacy	p. 58
Your Social Legacy	p. 76
Choosing What You Will Wear	p. 91
The Heritage Tool Chest
The Family Fragrance	p. 105
The Bearings of Tradition	p. 124
The Family Compass	p. 142
Family Moments	p. 161
Giving the Heritage
Giving What You Didn't Get	p. 183
Extending the Heritage	p. 195
Mixing the Heritage	p. 212
Planning Your Heritage	p. 230
Epilogue: Bone-Weary Joy	p. 243
Priming the Pump	p. 248
The Heritage Builders Concept	p. 259
Notes	p. 260
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