BOOK NOTES

 

You might want to gradually build a set of commentaries on the entire Bible, a set that is informative and readable and not too technical, and inexpensive, as books go these days. We recommend The New Century Bible Commentary, published by Eerdmans, with 23 volumes (average about 400 pages each) already available. The writers are the outstanding conservative scholars of the world. You might want to start with Job (H. H. Rowley) at 7.95, or Acts (Wm. Neil) at 6.95, or Romans (Matthew Black) at 5.95, or Revelation (G. R. Beasley-Murray) at 7.95. You may add to your set at your pleasure.

All preachers and those who want to help preachers should look into Between Two Worlds, The Art of Preaching in the 20th Century, by John R. W. Stott, one of England’s great preachers. The book is no ordinary treatment on preaching. 12.95 pp.

For 2.25 postpaid we will send you John R. W. Stott’s grand little book, Your Mind Matters, which will delight you, and for 3.50 pp. his more substantial Basic Christianity, which has a treatment on the nature of sin.

Some of our readers have praised Francis Schaeffer’s Joshua and the Flow of Biblical History as an exciting study on the early part of the Bible, so we are restocking this book at 4.50 pp.

William Barclay’s Jesus As They Saw Him is a 429-page study of the various titles given to Jesus, such as judge, lamb, scape-goat, messiah, prophet, savior, etc. It is a fine biblical study, enlightening. 6.50 pp.

Again we mention a book that deals with the question, “Why me, God?,” which we all ask now and again. A Loving God and a Suffering World by JonTal Murphree takes a new look at an old problem. It tells you how to use suffering. 4.95 pp.

If you are planning to purchase a copy of The Memoirs of Alexander Campbell, you better do so now, for it has a way of going out of print, and it is now available at only 19.95, two volumes in one, postpaid. It would be an ideal Christmas gift for a certain kind of person.