BOOK NOTES

 

We will send you a five-pac of C. S. Lewis’ most popular books for only 16.00 postpaid. These are Miracles, Mere Christianity, The Problem of Pain, The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters. If you have not read Lewis, you should and this is the place to start.

Carl Ketcherside’s The Death of the Custodian, a study of the covenants, has been reprinted as That the World May Believe. It is an ideal little book to pass along to someone who is willing to think and become a freer Christian. We will send you three copies for only 5.00, postpaid.

Jack Cottrell, a professor at Cincinnati Christian Seminary, has authored a new book entitled What the Bible Says About God the Creator, which is a highly resourceful volume that discusses the nature of creation as well as the Creator. His chapter on the fear of God will make you want to praise His name. The price is 13.50 in beautiful hardbound edition, postpaid.

In the same series issued by College Press is Carl W. Pruitt’s What the Bible Says About God’s Answers to Personal Problems, which is rich in bibliography. The problems dealt with both biblically and pragmatically are death, depression, anxiety, children of broken homes, maturation, two-career marriage, the empty nest, widowhood, discipline in the home, coping with anger. Packed with principles to live by, this book has a lot to offer. 13.50 postpaid.

People like to read history when it is brief and to the point. This makes Harry Boer’s A Short History of the Early Church one of our best sellers. You can read about Augustine or Ambrose and about the persecutions and the great councils. Much, much more up to 600 A.D. 5.50 postpaid.

We make special effort to get people to read Howard Snyder’s provocative volumes: Liberating the Church, which is a plea to get us into kingdom business instead of church business; and The Community of the King, which is an exciting study of the nature of the church as the kingdom of God. They are 6.95 each, but we highly recommend that you read them both. If you order both, we pay the postage, a total of 13.90.

Our bound volumes are now being read as if they were books, not a bound periodical. These are Principles of Unity and Fellowship (1977) at 5.50; The Ancient Order (1978) at 5.50; Blessed Are the Peacemakers and With All the Mind (double volume, 1979-80) at 9.50; and Jesus Today (double volume, 1981-82) at 9.50, all prices postpaid.

Our The Stone-Campbell Movement: An Anecdotal History of Three Churches, by Leroy Garrett, continues to sell well in its second printing. Many buy it as a gift to someone else after reading it themselves. If you send a check for 21.95 we’ll pay the postage. Or you can get a free copy if you’ll get up eight subs to this journal, including your own renewal, at 3.00 per name, a total of 24.00