Herman Noodix, by Fred Baue
Coming Soon:
This is Fred Baue's collection of hilarious essays that he has delivered to pastors' conferences throughout the year on behalf of LCMS pastor and ecclesiastical critic "Rev. Herman Noodix." For some reason Rev. Noodix has never been able to appear at the conferences but his close and intimate confidant Fred Baue has been available to read his epistles. This is the best of Lutheran satire. If you want a good laugh at the expense of the LCMS beauracracy then get this book.
The Great Dance, Church Music for Guitar, by Fred Baue
Most recordings of hymns for guitar are an assortment of old favorites. By contrast, this is a concept album built around the great dance we call the church year. It takes a whole year to go through all the steps of this ancient and profound dance. Baue has included a dance within the dance by including excerpts from the Ordinary of the Mass, which believers tread every Lord's Day. Finally, this is a catalog of guitar styles, ranging from folk to country, blues to classical. If one listens carefully he will be able to see how the styles fit the phases of the great church year dance.
Too Deep for Words, by Fred Baue
"Too Deep for Words," is the result of many years of instrumental meditation, sorrow, laughter, and life experience. It consists of original guitar solos in the American folk style, with classical, jazz, Gospel, ragtime, blues, and flamenco influences.
"I love the way the songs seem to blossom - not in predictable ways, yet sewn together as a seamless and soothing tapestry.
Noel Paul Stokey (of Peter, Paul and Mary)
The Clubhouse, A Novel, by Fred Baue
This is a great action packed novel about a theology graduate student who comes back from Germany and struggles with the Church Growth movement, contemporary worship and vocation. All the while he also has an old flame that gets re-lit, battles through a sword fight and deals a cheesy local pastor whose "contemporary" church is stealing people away from the traditional churches in the region. All of this is set around the clubhouse - an old time hunting and fishing club in Perry County, Missouri. This is the most fun and the most thrills one could ever have learning about the struggle between confessional and contemporary approaches to the church.
320 pages
The Nature of God for Small Children Coloring Book, by Scott Blazek
Included in this book are sections on the Trinity, each person of the Trinity and their work, salvation, making God the center of our lives and more. Like all Pastor Blazek's coloring books, The Nature of God is not only a coloring book, it is also a teaching book. Parents can let children read and color the pages themselves or better yet, parents can read it page by page and help the child understand the concepts.
35 pages, 8.5 x 11,
Coloring - 1st grade and up
Reading - 3rd grade and up (intended for parents to read to their child)
The Lord's Prayer for Small Children Coloring Book, by Scott Blazek
This book has sections on all seven petitions of the Lord's Prayer, a comparison of the Lord's Prayer and the Ten Commandments and general instruction on how to pray. Like all Pastor Blazek's coloring books, The Lord's Prayer is not only a coloring book, it is also a teaching book. Parents can let children read and color the pages themselves or better yet, parents can read it page by page and help the child understand the concepts.
31 pages, 8.5 x 11
Coloring - 1st grade and up
Reading - 3rd grade and up (intended for parents to read to their child)
God's Special Gifts for His Children Coloring Book, by Scott Blazek
This book is about the means of grace - God's gifts to His children. Like all Pastor Blazek's coloring books, God's Special Gifts is not only a coloring book, it is also a teaching book. Parents can let children read and color the pages themselves or better yet, parents can read it page by page and help the child understand the concepts.
31 pages, 8.5 x 11
Coloring - 1st grade and up
Reading - 3rd grade and up (intended for parents to read to their child)
A Famine not of Bread, by Tom Raabe
Tom Raabe, brother of St. Louis Seminary professor Paul Raabe and author of the book The Ultimate Church, a satirical look at the church growth movement, has written a novel titled Famine Bread.
It is novel of personality, intrigue and church politics set in the make believe Lutheran synod headquartered in Denver, Colorado. You will be drawn into the personalities of the bishop and several pastors as you read Raabe's work of ecclesiastical fiction that is closer to reality than we might care to admit.
Parador, by David Adams
$15.00! (paperback, 283 pages)
Dr. Adams (Ph.D, Cambridge) has written a murder mystery that will have you reading all the way to the last page to figure out who was causing all the problems in the parador.
The story begins and ends in Cambridge, England but most of the drama unfolds in a parador - a Spanish castle. There are only a few guests stranded in this castle due to an unexpected winter storm but the reader will be guessing right up to the last page, who was responsible for the misdeeds in the parador.
The book exceeds the expectations of the standard "who done it" by exploring issues of perception and truth and also provides the reader with an opportunity to join with the character of Professor John Whitehall as he tries to live up to the challenge of Boethius (see the front matter) to know each thing as it actually is. Though not intended to be a religious novel, Parador has sufficient wrestling with truth, confession and the effect on the soul of the absolution of Christ to intrigue the spiritual reader.
