BOOK NOTES

 

Dayspring by Anne S. White provides a select Scripture and meditation for each day of the year, the kind of stuff that can be read again and again. It is ideal at the bedside or for mealtime meditation. Short and pithy, it provides meat to chew on as well as milk to drink. If you do not have such a habit as this in your home, we urge it upon you, and this is a good place to start. 5.50 pp.

If you want to understand the Old Testament better, we suggest Francis Schaeffer’s Joshua and the Flow of Biblical History, which is a good example of what a believer can get from a study of those old Scriptures. What he says about Rahab the harlot alone is worth the moderate price of only 4.50 pp. Along with this you might want More Psalms for All Seasons, by David Hubbard, president of Fuller Seminary. He shows that the psalms are not poetry for escapists, but our kindred spirits learning to live by faith in a world of suffering like ours. Only 2.25 pp.

Risky Christianity by Bruce Larson is what the title indicates, that goodness is not a matter of playing it safe but of taking chances. If we grow in our closeness to God, we must take chances. It urges upon us the risk-fraught life of the early church. It makes the Christian faith plain, perhaps too plain for some of us. 5.50 pp.

Both of K. C. Moser’s old titles are back in print, so we can send you The Way of Salvation and The Gist of Romans at 5.50 each or both for 9.00. If you are among our people who are getting turned on to the grace of God, these books are for you.

If you want to read Biblical theology in terms you can handle and really profit from, we recommend a new title by Dale Moody, a professor at Southern Baptist Seminary who took his Ph.D, at Oxford, The Word of Truth. It is a summary of Christian doctrine based on Biblical revelation, including such areas as revelation, God, creation, man, sin, and salvation, Christ and the church, the consummation. I found his treatment of the millennium resourceful, fair, enlightening. And I like the way he says, “I think” or “I believe,” avoiding the usual editorial “We.” If you are serious about the Bible, this is for you. At 24.95 it seems terribly high, but being over 600 pages it is several books in one.

In our fast world conciseness is the name of the game, and two new volumes are really on target: Concise Bible Handbook at 8.95 and Concise Bible Encyclopedia at 9.95. The first covers all the books of the Bible, with drawings and pictures, even occasional essays such as “The Virgin Birth,” while the second provides vital information on Biblical subjects from A to Z, concisely drawing upon the latest findings. We will send you both for 17.00 postpaid, upwards of 650 pages.

Especially for newer readers! We will send you 18 back issues of this journal, selected at random, for only 3.00.

During April the editor will be engaged in some interesting appointments and invites you to be present when possible. On Saturday a.m., April 11, he joins Ervin Waters in a discussion of preaching and teaching at the Quaker Ave. Church of Christ in Lubbock. April 12-15 he will be with the Gallatin Church of Christ in Gallatin, Tenn. April 17-19 he will be with the First Christian, Henderson, Tenn., where on Sat., April 18, the Dixie Fellowship Rally will have its 19th annual meeting. The theme in Henderson will be Rethinking Restoration Principles, the first meeting being at 7:30 p.m., Friday, April 17.

 

We appreciate your response to our effort to increase our circulation by sending us clubs of subscribers, which are only 2.00 per name in clubs of 5 or more. Many of our readers can easily come up with five names (or 4 others if you are renewing), and this is one thing you can do for the cause of renewal among our people. We now have only three bound volumes of this journal in print: The Word Abused (1975-76) at 5.95; Principles of Unity and Fellowship (1977) at 5.50; The Ancient Order (1978) at 5.50. Since our bookbinder is well again and back at work, we should have the bound volume for 1979-80 sometime this spring. If you have ordered, it will be sent to you with invoice enclosed.