Showing posts with label Recommendations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Recommendations. Show all posts
Saturday, August 30, 2014
Recommending Instant Publisher
I have used a printing/publishing company called InstantPublisher for 8 printing projects since 2005. They have done very good printing work, at a fair price and with a fast turnaround. One thing that prompted me to put up this post is that I noticed one person who had a bad experience with Instant Publisher posting complaints around the internet. I don't doubt that this customer (of course it could even be a competitor!) had a legitimate complaint (although even his complaint indicates that InstantPublisher tried to make things right as best they could). Nobody's perfect! One of his main complaints was not getting the books printed fast enough. Instant Publisher does advertise that they came have books printed and shipped in as few as 5 to 7 business days. But the customer must understand that this is best case scenario. How many books you order and how busy they are at the time you order all factor into the equation. I noticed that over the course of nearly ten years I had an order shipped in 4 days, while another took 17 days -- not business days and including the Christmas & New Year's holidays. I find that my orders averaged 10 days from placement to shipment. I think that's a pretty good record. I highly recommend Instant Publisher for folks who want good quality, good pricing and fast turnaround.
Thursday, May 09, 2013
Book recommendation, not a review
Are Baptists Reformed? Kenneth H. Good. Lorain, OH: Regular Baptist Heritage Fellowship, 1986. 394 pp.
Is the moniker "Reformed Baptist" a contradiction? What does it mean? Kenneth Good can help, with his book Are Baptists Reformed. This is not a review of Good's book, but simply a recommendation of it. I recently purchased it from Backus Book Publishers, Rochester, NY. I have not yet read it, but scanned a number of representative pages. With this scan, it is obvious that this book will be of great interest to me, even though it is equally obvious that there are some parts with which I will not agree.
The late 20th century and beginning of the 21st has seen a revival of Calvinistic soteriology among Baptists. Such revival offers some welcome contrast to theology that had become increasingly human-centered and even at times suggestive of Pelagianism. But that revival has brought with it the dilatory side-effect of some looking to the Reformers as the acme of theological wisdom -- and adopting some of the non-Baptist ways. Good's book is a deliberate attempt to contrast Baptist theology -- even such that is "Calvinistic" soteriologically -- with the theology of the Reformers. What is the difference?
Good highlights the differences in 4 categories. He says Baptists differ from the Reformed:
1. In their views of the Word of God
2. In their views of the church considered as an organism
3. In their views of the church considered as an organization
4. In their philosophy of history
Good apparently has no objection to learning from the Reformers where we can, but his book offers important corrections. Baptist distinctives should not be watered down by creating just one more slightly different version of Reformed churches. One reason that I am getting out this recommendation is that Backus Book Publishers is offering an overstock sale price for this worthy book. Finding a $24.95 retail book of 394 pages for only $5 is quite a deal! Is there any reason not to buy it? Strike while the iron is hot.
To order, go to Backus Books Special Offer.
Is the moniker "Reformed Baptist" a contradiction? What does it mean? Kenneth Good can help, with his book Are Baptists Reformed. This is not a review of Good's book, but simply a recommendation of it. I recently purchased it from Backus Book Publishers, Rochester, NY. I have not yet read it, but scanned a number of representative pages. With this scan, it is obvious that this book will be of great interest to me, even though it is equally obvious that there are some parts with which I will not agree.
The late 20th century and beginning of the 21st has seen a revival of Calvinistic soteriology among Baptists. Such revival offers some welcome contrast to theology that had become increasingly human-centered and even at times suggestive of Pelagianism. But that revival has brought with it the dilatory side-effect of some looking to the Reformers as the acme of theological wisdom -- and adopting some of the non-Baptist ways. Good's book is a deliberate attempt to contrast Baptist theology -- even such that is "Calvinistic" soteriologically -- with the theology of the Reformers. What is the difference?
Good highlights the differences in 4 categories. He says Baptists differ from the Reformed:
1. In their views of the Word of God
2. In their views of the church considered as an organism
3. In their views of the church considered as an organization
4. In their philosophy of history
Good apparently has no objection to learning from the Reformers where we can, but his book offers important corrections. Baptist distinctives should not be watered down by creating just one more slightly different version of Reformed churches. One reason that I am getting out this recommendation is that Backus Book Publishers is offering an overstock sale price for this worthy book. Finding a $24.95 retail book of 394 pages for only $5 is quite a deal! Is there any reason not to buy it? Strike while the iron is hot.
To order, go to Backus Books Special Offer.
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