Best of
Christian

1953

Amazing Love: True Stories of the Power of Forgiveness


Corrie ten Boom - 1953
    Her story has been told in the movie The Hiding Place, and in this wonderful book she shares with us many more amazing encounters with people in camps and jails, with students and actresses, and with the sophisticated and the illiterate. We meet on these pages not Corrie, but Corrie's Christ.

Peace with God: The Secret of Happiness


Billy Graham - 1953
    Billy Graham asks God to help this book “find its way into the hands and hearts of a lost, confused, and searching world . . . men, women, and young people everywhere [who] thirst for peace with God.”In spite of a life drenched with responsibilities and rewards, are you thirsting? Searching for some nameless thing that is more important than anything in life? You are not alone. All mankind is seeking the answer to the confusion, the moral sickness, the spiritual emptiness that oppresses the world. All humanity is crying out for guidance, for comfort . . .for peace.Dr. Graham shares God’s gentle, reassuring promise of spiritual calm—of authentic personal peace—amidst a personal life wracked with too much stress, too many burdens, too great a heartache.“I know men who would write a check for a million dollars if they could find peace,” writes Dr. Graham. “Millions are searching for it. But we Christians have found it! It is ours now and forever. We have found the secret of life! . . .When your spouse dies or your children get sick or you lose your job, you can have a peace that you don’t understand. You may have tears at a graveside, but you can have an abiding peace, a quietness.“God’s peace can be in your heart—right now . . .Whatever the circumstances, whatever the call, whatever the duty, whatever the price, whatever the sacrifice—His strength will be your strength in your hour of need. “It’s all yours, and it’s free. You don’t have to work for it . . . . Do not put it off.”

The God of All Comfort


Hannah Whitall Smith - 1953
    You're living in a world of worry. Every day, you see people facing hardship, pain, and trials. Pain and fear are running rampant, and you just can't ignore it. In this message of strength and encouragement, Hannah Whitall Smith reminds us that there is peace in the midst of a lost and dying world. With the God of All Comfort, you can taste joy and peace, you can let go of fear and worry, and you can rest while God fights your fears for you.

The Acts of the Apostles


William Barclay - 1953
    Barclay wrote both his gospel and Acts for the principal purpose of showing how the new faith that began so humbly in Palestine had expanded, Dr. Barclay discusses the plan in Acts, Luke's skill as a historian, the accuracy of his sources, and the honesty with which he used them.

New Bible Commentary


D.A. Carson - 1953
    Now in this up-to-date fourth edition, the New Bible Commentary is positioned to maintain its standing as the leading one-volume commentary on the whole Bible well into the 21st century.This readable and accessible volume brings together many of the finest scholars of our day to meet the needs of students, teachers and Bible readers. The 21st-century edition of the New Bible Commentary offers 66 solid, concise, evangelical commentaries--one on each book of the Bible. These detailed (passage-by-passage or verse-by-verse) commentaries, based on the NIV text, are accompanied by introductory material on date, authorship, purpose, key themes, outlines, and discussions of recent developments in biblical scholarship. In addition seven articles overview biblical history and types of biblical literature, including the Pentateuch, poetry, the Gospels, the Epistles, and the Apocrypha, and other apocalyptic writings.Reliable for a new generation of readers, the New Bible Commentary will be a powerful aid for all who want to understand the foundational book of the Christian faith.

God's Psychiatry: Healing for Your Troubled Heart


Charles L. Allen - 1953
    Readers will acquire confidence, banish fear and worry, root out hate and suspicion, bring out the best in themselves, and face life with enthusiasm and inward peace.

Smoke on the Mountain: An Interpretation of the Ten Commandments


Joy Davidman - 1953
    S. Lewis, the author's husband. Lewis writes, the flaw in us which Joy Davidman seems to me to expose with most certainty will be to some perhaps an unexpected one: the sin of fear . . . quite simply, cowardice.

Three Shall Be One


Francena H. Arnold - 1953
    Until Tony's controlling mother arrives. A compelling drama of the unexpected seems to seal off any return to their early married happiness, yet an astounding chain of events sets them on the path to restoration.

Manners and Customs of Bible Lands


Fred H. Wight - 1953
    Wight (Author) 336 pagesPublisher: Moody Press; 1ST edition (December 1953)