$5 book offerings for November

This is an offering, only for folks in Lynden (or nearby) who want to pick the books up at my house. If you don't know where my house is, then this isn't for you :)

As the name of the blog suggests, all these offerings are $5. Some are a single book, some are a few packaged together, some are new, others used, but the price is always $5.

I will take down the offer when/if it sells.



Clear Winter Nights
by Trevin Wax
160 pages / 2013
Condition: New
Copies: half dozen or so

This isn't your typical novel – Clear Winter Nights describes itself as "theology in story" – so the author isn't trying to be subtle about the intent of his book. He is here to teach, and he does so with flourish. Here are ten great quotes:

Don't trust in your strength, because there is such a thing as pride. Don't despair in your weakness, because there is such a thing as forgiveness.

"Are you saying that you can't be gay and Christian?"
"No, I'm saying you can't be a Christian without repentance."

"He would think I'm attacking him personally. It would be like I'm saying there's something wrong with him."
"That's just the point. Look at what King Jesus says about sex and you'll quickly realize there's something wrong with all of use. Something wrong that can only be fixed by what Jesus did for us on the cross and in His resurrection."

"There are only two ways to resolve the pressure you're feeling about being a hypocrite. You can do away with the ideal. Stop fighting your sin and abandon your faith. Or you can admit your failures. Strive in the power of the Holy Spirit and look to Jesus. Some people want to resolve hypocrisy by lowering the ideal. But instead, we ought to take the hand of Christ and move higher."

"It doesn't matter how tightly they closed her coffin. They encased it in bronze, locked it up tight and dumped six feet of dirt on top of it. But it doesn't matter. The casket will be no match for the power of the resurrection on the Last Day. Those locks will be undone. The decomposition of her old body will be reversed.... It may be winter, but spring is coming."

"The minute you think your faith is better than someone else's, you start down the path of having a superior attitude. What if we said no religion is superior? What if we said all religions are on equal footing? That would keep people from having an attitude of superiority."

 "You don't lose the attitude of superiority by saying no religion is superior. You get even more reason to feel superior. Now you're standing over against all the religions of the world, saying none is better than another. Don't you find it a wee bit prejudiced to say that we're the only ones who've figured out all religions are the same? All the while there are poor, mindless Christians or Muslims or Buddhists or Hindus across the world still groping around in the dark. Poor souls. They think their religions are better."

"No Christian who truly understands grace can feel superior to anyone else. Grace shatters any sense of superiority."

"Truth is not a formula... Truth is a Person."

Chris took a deep breath and nodded. "Sounds like you got ahold of grace."
"No," Gil said, taking off his glasses and wiping his eyes. "Grace got ahold of me."

How to Argue with a Liberal and Win!

by Joel McDurmon
250 pages / 2009
Condition: New
Copies: at least a half dozen

Great book - a Reformed guy took the book "Cliches of Socialism and revised it. There are 76 chapters in all, each one 4 pages or less, and each tackling a specific liberal argument. For example:

"I prefer security to freedom"
"There ought to be a law."
"If we had no social security, many people would starve."
"Equality should be enforced by law."

John Bunyan
by Kevin Belmonte
165 pages / 2010
Condition: New
Short readable biography of the man who wrote Pilgrim's Progress.

The Horse and his Boy - Radio Theater version

by C.S. Lewis
2000 / 3 CDs
Condition: New
Copies: I have a few

Brilliant audio production of the book. Of the seven Narnia stories, I think this one is our family's favorite, and the audio production here is just fantastic - Focus on the Family went all out with the sound effects and great narrator, and actors.