BOOK NOTES

 

Amy Grant’s Heart to Heart Bible Stories will thrill the smaller children. The stories are all there, thirty of them from both Testaments, and they are abundantly illustrated in color. The stories have a special touch and are truly heart to heart. The first one, for instance, on creation is entitled “Six Wonderful Days.” Try it as a delightful gift for someone with young children. $9.95 postpaid.

College Press has issued two titles of special value in its “What the Bible Says” series. Russell Boatman’s What the Bible Says About the Church includes vital information on the Lord’s Supper, the Lord’s Day, Baptism, Unity, Polity, as well as extensive treatment on the nature of the Ekklesia itself. Then there is What the Bible Says About Families by Bill and Judy Norris, which they might have entitled “A Family Affair,” which figures since the authors are husband and wife. It makes a resourceful and responsible effort to treat everything the Bible says about the family of Eli and even the family of Pilate. It is a tough discipline in Bible study. These books are $13.95 each and can be ordered separately.

We rejoice that Louis Cochran’s historical novels on Alexander Campbell and Elder John Smith are back in print. The Fool of God captures not only Campbell and his times but what he was out to do, and it is enormously interesting. So with Raccoon John Smith, which tells of pioneer America as well as pioneer preacher. You will fall in love with Raccoon, and laugh and weep with him. You better acquire these titles while they are in print if you are interested. They are $11.95 each, postpaid.

We now have William Barclay’s The Promise of the Spirit in inexpensive paperback. Alexander Campbell once said that the best way to learn about the Holy Spirit is to study every passage in the New Testament that mentions it. This is what Barclay does, and he treats Greek meanings in a way that you can understand and appreciate. $5.95 postpaid.

If you have not yet read Leroy Garrett’s The Stone-Campbell Movement, we urge you to consider doing so. We continue to receive enthusiastic responses, some telling us that they read it again and again. We are certain you will have a better understanding and appreciation of your heritage in Churches of Christ/Christian Churches if you allow this anecdotal history to tell you the story of what happened. There are two ways to get a copy. Send a check for $21.95 and we will send you the book postage paid. Or you receive a copy free gratis by sending us a list of eight subscriptions (including your own or renewal) at $3.00 per name, $24.00 total. But you must with your list of subs request the book, for we get many lists of subs.

You might also be interested in bound volumes of this journal, which go back to 1977. Earlier volumes are out of print. Principles of Unity and Fellowship (1977) and The Ancient Order (1978) are $5.95 each; Blessed Are the Peacemakers/With All the Mind (1979-80), Jesus Today (1981-82), and The Doe of the Dawn (1983-84) are double volumes (two years in one binding) and are $10.50 each. We are presently offering all five volumes, covering eight years, for only $35.00, postpaid if you remit in advance.

 

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