Secondhand Christian Classics Bargain Book Box SP4291

Secondhand Christian Classics Bargain Book Box SP4291

Twenty-one Christian paperbacks from the devotional classics shelf: five C.S. Lewises in the Fount editions (Mere Christianity, The Four Loves, Letters to Malcolm, Screwtape Proposes a Toast, Reflections on the Psalms), two Tozers, two Watchman Nees, Brother Lawrence, Rees Howells, Richard Foster’s study guide, Francis Schaeffer, Madame Guyon, Names of God and Names of Christ, David Kossoff, Benny Hinn and The Man in the Shroud. The 1970s and 80s evangelical bookshelf, with the books that have lasted.

1. Rees Howells: Intercessor — Norman Grubb — The Welsh coal miner who founded a Bible college on faith alone and prayed through the Second World War. The classic of intercessory prayer, and the book that sent a generation to the mission field.
2. The Practice of the Presence of God — Brother Lawrence — A seventeenth-century Carmelite lay brother who found God in the kitchen while washing pots. Sixty pages, and still the simplest book on prayer there is.
3. Names of Christ — T.C. Horton & Charles E. Hurlburt — Three hundred and eighteen titles of Christ, Carpenter to Alpha and Omega, one a day with a meditation. A devotional in the old style, edited by James S. Bell.
4. The Pursuit of God — A.W. Tozer — Written on a train journey in a single night, Tozer said, and the best-selling thing he wrote: ten chapters on wanting God more than anything else. The Pennsylvania pastor who never finished school and read everything.
5. The Four Loves — C.S. Lewis — Affection, friendship, eros, charity: what each is, where each goes wrong, and why friendship is the one modern people neglect. Lewis’s most quoted non-fiction after Mere Christianity. Fount.
6. Screwtape Proposes a Toast and Other Pieces — C.S. Lewis — The sequel to The Screwtape Letters, where the senior devil addresses a graduation dinner at the Tempters’ Training College on the uses of democracy. With The Inner Ring and other essays. Fount.
7. Prayer: Letters to Malcolm — C.S. Lewis — Lewis’s last book, finished weeks before he died: letters to an imaginary friend on how to pray, what to pray for, and whether it works. The most personal thing he published. Fount.
8. Study Guide for Celebration of Discipline — Richard Foster — The workbook for the spiritual disciplines classic: meditation, fasting, simplicity, solitude, with exercises. For a reader who has the main book and wants to do it.
9. The Normal Christian Life — Watchman Nee — Romans explained by the Chinese church leader who spent his last twenty years in a Communist prison. Translated from his sermons; the most-read book of the Chinese house-church movement.
10. The Book of Witnesses — David Kossoff — The Gospel story told by thirty people who saw it: a shepherd, a centurion, a servant at Cana. Kossoff was a Jewish actor and the BBC’s Bible storyteller, and the voice is his.
11. Bible Stories Retold by David Kossoff — David Kossoff — Genesis to Esther in the voice that made him famous on radio. Fount.
12. Mere Christianity — C.S. Lewis — The BBC wartime broadcasts, turned into the argument for Christianity that’s converted more people than any book of the century. Fount, with the nativity cover.
13. Patterns for Prayer from the Gospels — V. Gilbert Beers — The prayers of Jesus and the people around him, as models.
14. Reflections on the Psalms — C.S. Lewis — Lewis on the cursings, the praises, and what to do with the bits that embarrass a modern reader. Short and honest. Fontana.
15. Good Morning, Holy Spirit — Benny Hinn — The Israeli-born televangelist’s bestseller on the Spirit as a person. A million copies, and as controversial as its author.
16. What Shall This Man Do? — Watchman Nee — Peter, Paul and John as three patterns of Christian ministry. Nee’s study of the apostles.
17. Man: The Dwelling Place of God — A.W. Tozer — Essays on the Christian life, collected after Tozer’s death. Christian Publications, with the mountain cover.
18. Names of God — Nathan Stone — Elohim, Jehovah, El-Shaddai, Adonai, and the compound names: what each reveals. The Moody Press classic, 1944.
19. Basic Bible Studies — Francis A. Schaeffer — The founder of L’Abri on the doctrines, one at a time, with the verses. Schaeffer’s shortest and plainest book.
20. The Man in the Shroud — Peter M. Rinaldi — The Holy Shroud of Turin: is this the face of Christ? The 1970s case for authenticity, before the carbon dating. Futura.
21. Experiencing God Through Prayer — Madame Guyon — The seventeenth-century French mystic who was imprisoned in the Bastille for her teaching on silent prayer. Whitaker House edition.