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Easter week, the tradition of Seder was explained by a Susan Perlman,
co-founder of Jews for Jesus. Books were for sale that night, to help us learn
about the Jewish passover traditions, and the experiences of those Jews who have chosen Jesus as their savior. If you were not able to attend this
special event or if you were there and did not purchase any of the books, the FPCA library has four of them for you to check out and enjoy.
The new books are: Stories of Jews for Jesus, edited by Matt Sieger;
Christ in the Passover by Ceil and Moishe Rosen; Messianic Family Haggadah
by Jews for Jesus; and Passover Haggadah by Lipson.
These four books were added to the FPCA
library and can be found in the New Books section. They are all
recently published (3 of them have 2010 copyrights!) and we hope you will
check out these books and enjoy eading and learning something new. Please be sure to sign the
checkout register in the library when you take a book, and try to return the
book in a few weeks. The books are:
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy – by Eric Metaxas
Review by Dr. James C. Quick
Metaxas writes a rich,
detailed biography of a remarkable Christian. From Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s
birth on 4 February 1906 as the first of twins until his untimely death at
39 on 9 April 1945, we learn how he came to know Jesus Christ and to answer
the call to discipleship. The book is 31 chapters and 542 pages of text,
with 21 pages of Notes and 3 pages of Bibliography. There is a set of 13
photos in the first half of the book and a set of 15 photos and document
images in the second half of the book.
Bonhoeffer was born into a
most noteworthy family, the youngest of four boys and the sixth of eight
children. Parents Karl and Paula Bonhoeffer were not apart for more than 30
total days in 50 years of marriage. From his powerful scientific-psychiatric
paternal line and his theological-artistic-musical maternal line, Dietrich
came to pursue theology at the University of Berlin. He could have been a
scholar; he was called to be a pastor. During his first time in America
(1930-31) he rejected Harry Emerson Fosdick’s liberal theology at Riverside
Church in favor of Adam Clayton Powell, Sr.’s soulful sermons in Harlem. By
1933 he was confronting The Führer
Principle in Germany. He stood
firmly for the Confessing Church and against the National Reich Church.
His second time in America
(1939) was a mistake he quickly realized. He knew then that his call was to
stand with his Christian brethren against the evil of Adolf Hitler and
National Socialism…in Germany. His life as a German double agent and
ultimate arrest for effectively laundering money are fascinating. However,
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was playing a deadly serious game and when his
involvement in the conspiracy to assassinate Hitler came to light during his
time in Cell 92, Hitler screamed, “Destroy the conspirators!” While the war
was in effect over, this petty dictator chose martyr Bonhoeffer, who went to
his death firmly in God’s hands
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption – by
Laura Hillenbrand
From the book jacket:
“On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the
Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of
oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It
was that of a young lieutenant, the plane’s bombardier, who was struggling
to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. So began one of the most
extraordinary odysseys of the Second World War... In her long-awaited new
book, Laura Hillenbrand writes with the same rich and vivid narrative voice
she displayed in Seabiscuit.
Telling an unforgettable story of a man’s journey into extremity, Unbroken
is a testament to the resilience of the human mind, body and spirit.”
Revelation of the Magi: The Lost Tale of the Wise Men’s Journey to Bethlehem
by Brent Landau
From the book jacket:
“Everything we know about the wise men is based on only a few verses from
the Bible. With the Revelation of
the Magi, we can now read the
story from the Magi’s perspective. Readers will learn of the Magi’s
prophecies of God’s incarnation from the beginning of time, their startling
visitation in the form of a star, the teachings they received from the baby
Jesus, and the wise men’s joyous return to their homeland to spread the good
news.”
Presidential Praise: Our Presidents and Their Hymns by C. Edward Spann and
Michael E. Williams, Sr.
Edward Spann is the
retired dean of the College of Fine Arts at Dallas Baptist University. He
has taught hymnology and has served as chairman of church music programs at
Shorter College, Houston Baptist University, and Dallas Baptist University.
In January he was the featured speaker at the Saints Alive gathering. He
writes in the introduction to this book “It is my prayer that this book will
inspire the reader to appreciate the legacy of hymns as you read about their
importance to our nations’ leaders from the beginning of our country to the
present day.”
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