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Daniel by Kenneth Cox

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Peter - Fisher of Men by Noni Beth Gibbs

Cool! Let me know what you think of them :)

You might try: DINNER WITH A PERFECT STRANGER by David Gregory.

In brief: Nick Cominsky has nothing to do with the Chruch/religion. One day he gets a formal invitaion in the mail to have dinner at a restaurant with Jesus Christ. He goes and the book is their meal-time conversation.

I just finished reading "Here's the Story" by Maureen McCormick.

She was Marcia Brady in the Brady Bunch. The Lord touched her and changed her life. I had to write to her as I feel like I grew up with her. Please keep her in your prayers. My prayer is that Jesus will continue to lead her to truth. She can be such a witness to many that could not be reached any other way. Hollywood is truly a mission field that could be impacted with God's message by those who have lived there.

No matter what treasures a person has here..... Jesus has more!

Luke 10:17-20 The seventy-two returned with joy and said, "Lord, even the demons submit to us in your name." He replied, "I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you. However, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven."

While it is not easy reading, a must read classic is "The Cost of Discipleship" by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was martyred by the Nazis. Bonhoeffer and the Nazis are a type of the coming antitype of the Remanant against the 7th head. Bonhoeffer's book is preperation if you want to be in the Remanant.

Some other books I'd like to recommend include

"The Prophets" by Abraham Joshua Heshel (as well as anything else by him. Maybe start with his short but powerful book "The Sabbath" But "The Prophets" is a must read.) Rabbi Heshel was one of the most Biblically based and Christ centered preachers of the 20th century (being Orthodox Jewish he comes from a Jewish perspective, but when you read his words you can't help but see Jesus. He does not just show you Jesus from a distance, but his words slams Jesus into you as if you were hit in the head with a baseball bat, you have no doubt when done that you have encountered Jesus)

"The Great Divorce" by C. S. Lewis: It shows charistics that we have that prepares us for hell instead of heaven. It may point out what you are doing to prepare for hell so that you can change.

Then again there are the three most important books to really make the Bible come alive: John Bright's History of Israel, Aharoni's "The land of the Bible" and "The MacMillian Bible Atlas" After reading these books you could teach a college level introduciton to the Bible.

Another classic and which can help to understand the year-day principle and prophecy and the Investigative Judgment is "Before Philosophy" by Henri Frankfort and others (sadly out of print but we can find in some of the used book places. Too bad the church does not get the publishing rights and republish this treasure instead of wasting money on sticky sweet fluff.)

Some easy reading books to deepen Bible knowlege include:

Bork "The World of Moses" and "Out of the Cities and Across the plains" (or something like that). Wade "Journey to Moriah" VanDolson "Prophets are people too" and Herr's little book on the 23rd Psalm (One thing to add to Herr's book, and he almost says this, and gets so close to saying this that I would not be surprised if he did actually write this but the printer missed it, is that the statement "Thou preparest a table before me in the pressence of my enemy" means that God brings about forgiveness and reconcilliation with my enemy.

Sadly some of the books, like Van Dolson's and maybe Bork's are out of print but you should get them from leaves of autum or something similar.

I'm reading "The China Study," and have already started to change my eating habits. It is written by T. Colin Campbell, and discusses, in a layman's terms, a very large study of eating habits
and their relation to diseases, including diabetes and cancer. It also talks about how Americans' view of what is healthful is paid for by large corporations that have a financial stake in what Americans eat.

I have been reading Those Happy Golden Years by Miriam Wood, telling of how the evangelists - who were often interns - were expected to survive in the 30s and 40s. Often conditions could only be described as brutal, sleeping in a tent behind the evangelistic tent and having to go the best part of a block for bathroom facilities or even water. Much more along the same lines, very much sink or swim or survival of the fittest.
Such would not be tolerated or permitted these days. But were they closer to God than us who live in much more comfortable conditions?

Just an aside regarding Nans question. My parents sold SDA books in Northern AZ in the late
30's. They worked with another couple and lived in tents which they pitched in the area they were selling in. They often had only $.50 to their name and told of counting out raisens, baking
bread made of flour and water over the campfire and eating beans day after day.

They became lifelong friends with those they worked with, often saw Gods miracles happen in their lives, and had many good laughs about those times. They felt closer to God in those days then they did later when life was more "stable" and they didnt feel such a need to depend on God on a minute by minute basis. They lived their whole lives as church workers, but were never sorry for those years. In a way I feel that we who have so much much materially are the least fortunate. My father passed away in Oct. at the age of 93.

[off topic a little bit...]

That's a wonderful story!

Are you by any chance related to the Elder Nightingale who was president of the Florida Conference several years ago?? It seems that would have been the right age [93 about now].

(If so, would you please PM me.)