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If you have not read Johannes Verkuyl of the Free University in Amsterdam, we suggest you try his The Message of Liberation in Our Age for only 2.45 in paperback. He describes a freedom that has imperatives and calls upon the church to make structural changes in both clergy and laity.

The editor of the Expository Times, C. Leslie Mitton, is a most resourceful man, and you would profit from his Jesus: The Fact Behind the Faith, which considers Jesus in history.

You can now get Keith Miller’s The Taste of New Wine (610,000 copies so far) for only 1.25. It is ideal to hand to a friend who is growing spiritually.

A Theology of the New Testament by George Eldon Ladd is a comprehensive and scholarly introduction to the theology of the New Testament that we recommend highly. At 12.50 it may appear high, but its nearly 700 pages provide exciting information on biblical theology that would ordinarily come in several volumes. I have been reading it with great profit, for it gives vital background information on every thing from John the Baptist and the Kingdom of God to the Primitive Church and the Sources of Paul’s Thought. The bibliography is simply remarkable and the approach is conservative and evangelical. It is a study in-depth by a careful scholar who writes lucidly and interestingly. I suggest this book at a higher price than four or five other cheaper ones that are not likely to offer as much.

A close study of it will give you as substantial a background in the New Testament as most college or seminary courses would.

One of our own men, John S. May, has prepared a worthwhile commentary on the entire New Testament entitled Am I Not Free? In the introduction he names R. C. Bell and R. H. Boll as having great influence upon his studies. This is a “down home” kind of commentary that is worth the reading. 229 pages, hardbound, only 5.95.

We can send you Francis Schaeffer’s The God Who Is There for only 2.50. It shows how truth based on revealed religion has something to say to our secularistic, existential world.

We urge upon you four books by John R. W. Stott: Christ the Controversialist, a book that can be read again, and again, 2.50; The Baptism Fulness of the Holy Spirit, which considers the subject practically as well as scriptural and really speaks to the issues, 1.00; Basic Introduction to the New Testament, which deals with the message of the New Testament, 2.50; What Christ Thinks of the Church tunes in on the letters to the seven churches, one of my favorite little volumes, 1.50. You’d do well to read them all.

We have only a few copies of The Fool of God (paperback, good type) for 3.00. There may one day be a reprint of this, but we advise you to pick up one of these if you have not read Louie Cochran’s historical novel of Alex Campbell.

You can hardly do better in a one-volume commentary on the entire Bible than the one by Matthew Henry and Thomas Scott. Due to a special purchase we can offer this at only 5.95. Hard cover with over 1,000 pages. It is both devotional and scholarly; ideal for family reading, which is the way Campbell used it (Scott’s, that is).

Your Restoration library is incomplete without Hazard of the Die, the exciting story of Tolbert Fanning and his role in the Restoration Movement, by James R. Wilburn. 4.95.

Back issues of this journal are available at 20 cents each or six for 1.00, including postage. Why not order a fistful to hand to those who might be helped by them? Our last bound volume, including all 400 pages for 1971-72, is available at 4.50. The next bound volume, 1973-74, will be ready this spring. You should reserve your copy, but you need send no money now.

Will you help us double our readership in 1975? The responses to our efforts have never been more positive and encouraging than lately. Many seem to believe that we are saying things that are vital, and that they are being said reasonably, clearly and lovingly. If this is true, we should have far more readers than we have. But this depends largely upon those of you who now receive the paper. All of you have friends and relatives who could be added to our number. There are many in the churches who would be encouraged by what we are saying, if they were but introduced. Here is one thing that all of you can do. The price makes this possible. We will mail the journal for the entire year to all names you send us at only 1.00 per name, with a minimum of five names, no maximum. This is a modest request. Will you help us?