BOOK NOTES

 

If you love the King James Version you must have a copy of The New King James Version. We can supply it in beautiful, durable, burgundy hardcover for only 13.50 postpaid, and this is the entire Bible. It is the old KJ in beauty with punctuation and unfamiliar words updated and archaic words modernized.

We have waited for months for the other book by Stephen Neil on The Difficult Sayings of Jesus. We can now send you both volumes for 9.50 postpaid. Difficult Sayings is 3.50 and More Difficult Sayings is 6.50 if purchased separately. Whether it is “Casting pearls before swine,” “Pay Caesar what is due Caesar,” or “You are not far from the kingdom” you will find these books packed with both information and edification.

F.F. Bruce is always delightful to read and you will relish his new book, The Pauline Circle, which tells us about eleven of the apostle’s associates, plus several other “coworkers” and “hosts and hostesses.” Bruce writes about them as if he too were within Paul’s circle, and he is unique in being both scholarly and palpable. 5.50 postpaid.

And be sure to include some of the women who are writing, such as Kitty Muggeridge’s Gazing on Truth. She both lifts you up and makes you think when she writes briefly on numerous subjects, whether on the blessed sacrament, meditation, or why we should pray. These serve well as two-page meditations, and a prayer is included with each. Since our people generally neglect devotional material, we highly recommend this little volume. 5.50 postpaid.

Joshua and the Flow of Biblical History is as important as anything Francis Schaeffer ever wrote, and most helpful in understanding OT history and the relation between God and Israel. We can supply copies at 5.50 postpaid.

The Mormon Papers indicts Mormonism at its tap, its own Bibles. It tells you what Mormons really believe and why. 4.50 postpaid.

Stephen Neil’s Christian Faith and Other Faiths tells you what it means to be a Buddhist in the 1980’s, or a Hindu or a Moslem, etc. compared to what it means to be Christian. While the author is a Christian and believes that Jesus is the light of the world, he believes that there are important things to learn from other religions. A very informative and well written study. 8.50 postpaid.

Book Burning by Cal Thomas may cause your hair to stand on end, for it lays out the facts of how schools, libraries and bookstores routinely discriminate against books which deal with our religious and traditional values as a nation. It tells how the news media often suppress the religious viewpoint and how school curriculums often give our children a distorted picture of the world. 6.50 postpaid.

We have a new supply of K.C. Moser’s books, the Church of Christ minister who alerted our people years ago of our neglect of the gospel of the grace of God. the Gist of Romans and The Way of Salvation are 5.95 each postpaid.

We are encouraged that many who read The Stone-Campbell Movement by Leroy Garrett. Order extra copies for gifts to others, and a physician in California is considering sending a free copy to every preacher in the Movement that will read it. So you might reconsider if you have not yet read it. If you’ll send a check with your order, we’ll pay postage and handling. 21.95. Or if you want a free copy, see the box below.

You will be impressed with the bound copies of this journal in matching volumes back to 1977 (earlier ones are no longer available), with colorful dust jackets. Principles of Unity and Fellowship (1977) and The Ancient Order (1978), single volumes, are 5.95 each. Blessed Are The Peacemakers and With All The Mind (197980) and Jesus Today (1981-82), double volumes, are 9.00 each. Prepaid only please. The bound volume for 1983-84, entitled The Doe of the Dawn, should be ready by summer. You can help circulate this journal through our club rate for four or more names (no limit) at 3.00 per year per name. You send us the names and we do the mailing. Bundle rates to one address is the same rate. Some of our most appreciative readers are those who were introduced to the journal by someone else, so why not give this a chance with some of your friends. If you send us eight subs (counting your own or your renewal) at 3.00 each (total 24.00), we will send you a free copy of The Stone-Campbell Movement by Leroy Garrett, but you have to request the book.

Our next issue will be the September number. As per our mailing permit we do not publish in July and August. Ouida and I wish for you a blessed summer. I will take my 10-year old grandson to the Ozarks.