BOOK NOTES

 

The Topical Chain Study Bible features four themes (grace, judgment, holiness, sin) in four shaded colors throughout the 66 books, beautifully done, with many other study helps, including a concordance. It is the New American Version. It makes a unique gift for any Bible student. 29.95 postpaid.

Because of a special purchase we can offer our readers the elegant revised edition of Daily Bible Study by William Barclay, an 18-vol. commentary on the NT at 20% discount. Usually 99.95 for the set, our price is 83.00 including postage. This set provides a lifetime of serious but delightful study, for the entire NT is divided into short readings (with Barclay’s own translation) with attractive headings and revealing comments. We are willing to offer this as a money-back guarantee to our readers, and you can pay for it in three installments if need be.

While I have studied the Barclay Daily Bible Study for years, using it for family worship, I am now reading with great profit the companion set on the OT, which Barclay was scheduled to edit. Due to his untimely death, the project is the labor of John L. Gibson of the University of Edinburgh. The entire OT will eventually be covered, but you, like I, can begin with the volumes now available, which are eleven: Genesis (2 vols.), Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, 1 & 2 Samuel, Psalms (2 vols.), Ezekiel, Daniel, Jeremiah. Following Barclay’s format and style, the OT really comes alive. Highly recommended. 6.95 per volume, postpaid. Why not try one of them, and if you are pleased as I am positive you will be, you can order others, one at a time if you like.

The International Children’s Bible is hailed by Dr. James Dobson, the man who has all the answers on raising children, as “A Bible children can read and understand,” and Dr. Bruce Metzger of Princeton says that even though it is third-grade level English it does not compromise scholarship. Some of our readers are so delightfully surprised with the quality of this NT version for children that they have ordered additional copies, one enthusiast insisting that it is also ideal for adults. 12.95 postpaid.

In our last issue we told you of a printed exchange between Buff Scott, Jr. and a Church of Christ minister on whether the Church of Christ is a counterfeit, and advised you to write Buff if interested. Now Bill Jackson, 8900 Manchaca Rd., Austin, Tx. 78748, who is the other minister involved, says there are things he wrote that Buff did not include but was supposed to, and if you will send him a stamped envelope he will send it to you.

Francis Schaeffer’s newest book, The Great Evangelical Disaster, lays bare the sin of evangelicals: not speaking out as they ought. So he speaks out, calling for evangelicals to be radicals for truth. This book reproduces his tract “The Mark of the Christian,” which is an impressive piece of work, and he cites names and issues as he attacks the sin of “accommodation to modernity” that will interest you. 7.95 postpaid.

K. C. Moser, the Church of Christ “liberal” in a day when we had very few who could be so labeled, wrote The Way of Salvation and The Gist of Romans, the latter in 1957. Still available at 5.95 each postpaid, they will surprise you as coming out of the Church of Christ of a generation ago, and of course still very relevant.

Ouida sold a copy of my The Stone-Campbell Movement to her dear cousin for 21.95 (no discount!), who wrote back that she was reading it into the night. “It is like eating peanuts,” she wrote, “You can’t stop once you start.” We believe you will find it that interesting, and while we cannot discount the price we will pay the postage if you send your check with your order. Or if you will get up a list of eight subs to this journal at 3.00 each for the year (24.00) we will send you a copy of the history book free of charge.

We have bound volumes dating back to 1977. The 1977 volume, entitled Unity and Fellowship and the 1978 volume, entitled The Ancient Order, are 5.50 each. The two double volumes (two years in one) for 1979-80 and 1981-82 are 8.50 each. You will note that these prices are only slightly higher that the subscription rate, and yet they are beautifully hard-bound volumes with dust jackets.

If you would like a sampling of what we have said in years past, we will send you 18 back copies, selected at random, that may date back 20 years, for only 3.00.

You can help us publish abroad the liberating principles of this journal by sending it to those whom you believe to have open minds and hearts. The cost is hardly an issue when you can send it to four people (we do the mailing) for only 12.00 a year, or you can send as many names as you like at only 3.00 per name. Some of our most grateful readers discover the paper in this manner. Our series of lead articles now run two years, the present series being The Doe of the Dawn, which will end at the close of 1984. The previous series (1981-82) was Jesus Today. We have this in a single bound volume, beautifully crafted with dust jacket, at only 8.50 postpaid. It includes all of the journal for those two years.