I come across a lot of religious ebooks in my trolling of the Internet, and books on the Lord's Supper seem to be rather scarce, for some reason. Free ones are even more so.
However, "1213," which is some kind of organization or network whereby Christians can help needy Christians, is offering a
free ebook on the Lord's Supper. The publisher is a company called "DeWard Publishing Company," which I suspect is some kind of supporter of 1213.
The book is entitled
Beneath the Cross: Essays and Reflections on the Lord's Supper. It is written by various contributors. It appears to be available as an ebook (for free, at least) only as a pdf.
I was curious about how much the book regularly sells for, so I ran down the URL of
DeWard's website. I didn't see the pdf or any ebook of the title offered there. However, the paperback lists for $14.99 and the hardback lists for $23.99. There is a Kindle mobi offered at
Amazon for $2.99; interestingly, there is apparently no paperback or hardback version available directly from them, however. ha
Here's part of the blurb: "The Bible has much to say about the Lord's Supper. Almost every component of this memorial is rich with meaning--meaning supplied by Old Testament foreshadowing and New Testament teaching. The Lord's death itself is meaningful and significant in ways we rarely point out. Beneath the Cross explores the depths of symbolism and meaning to be found in the last hours of the Lord's life and offers a helpful look at the memorial feast that commemorates it . . . ."
IMHO, many or even most of the popular-level religious books that I come across nowadays are shallow and, frankly, many of them are frivolous even to the point of silliness. This one, refreshingly, isn't that way. I downloaded this ebook and skimmed over it. I was impressed with the length (some 330 pages) of, meatiness of, and strong use of Scripture in, the book. Okay, enough of my editorializing.
Here's how you can get the ebook. Go to
cross.1213online.org/ebook. Give an email address where they can send you a link to the ebook. Check your email inbox for a message with a sender identified as "Rob West." Open it and click on the link. Now why can't all of the free ebook offers be this simple and easy to take advantage of?
One thing that I was
not expecting and don't remember being mentioned on the webpage is that doing the above will cause you to be subscribed to 1213's emails. However, in the message that they send you containing a link to the ebook, there is a
very prominent link which you can use to unsubscribe. Maybe it's that simple and easy in their emails to unsubscribe, too.
My posting of this book does not necessarily mean that I believe in/endorse any doctrinal positions taken in the book.