Books
(Listed in Alphabetical Order by Title)

• A Handbook for Christian Life in the 21st Century --Published by ALPB BooksThe Handbook is an ideal text for an adult study group committed to asking hard questions and desiring to have their lives formed in the image of Christ. (Read More...)
  
  
• Christian Sexuality: Normative and Pastoral Principles -- The Handbook is an ideal text for an adult study group committed to asking hard questions and desiring to have their lives formed in the image of Christ. (Read More...)
  
  
• The Church: Selected Writings of Arthur Carl Piepkorn--This 2nd edition has been updated by editors Michael P. Plekon and William S. Wiecher and retains the Afterword by Richard John Neuhaus. (Read More...)
  
  
• The Daily Prayer of the Church--Long-awaited, decades in preparation, is Now Available. A complete prayer book “in the ancient way of offices”text and music.(Read More...)
  
  
• For All the Saints: A Prayer Book For and By the Church--a four-volume Breviary designed for pastors and lay people to really use.  Thousands, maybe you, already us it. (Read More...)
  
  
• Forced to Pray: God’s Chosen Under Pressure.--Richard Bansemer examines the lives and prayers of 5 persons in the Bible ___ Jonah, Job, Mary, Jesus and Paul ___ and considers how God might likewise drive us to pray by choosing us for some ‘hard heavenly work on earth.’(Read More...)

• Fundamental Instructions: Justus Falckner's Catechism-- is the first Lutheran catechism written and published in North America in 1708. (Read More...)

• Heaven on Earth: A Lutheran-Orthodox Odyssey--a behind-the-scenes look at one of the ecumenical dialogues.  You can learn as much about our own Lutheran worldview as about the Orthodox from the encounter. (Read More...)

• The Journey of Justus Falckner--This biography of Justice Falkner chronicles a key figure of 1700's colonial Lutheranism and the vital role he played in its establishment. (Read More...)
  
  
• A Large Catechism--a small book, only 56 pages and only $4, on the Christian basics by Robert Jenson, esteemed by his students and recognized as one of the most creative theological thinkers of our times. (Read More...)
  
  
• O Lord, Teach Me to Pray: A Catechetical Prayer Book for Personal Use and We Believe: A Prayer Book Based on the Augsburg Confession--two small hardcover books in gift editions, suitable both for group study and personal devotions. (Read More...)
  
  
• Lively Stone --C. George Fry & Joel R. Kurz
  Berthold von Schenk marched to a different drummer. He was never part of any political party in his church body; he was often shunned and ridiculed. Yet he remained as stable as stone while displaying a vibrancy not unlike that of the varied and flowing colors of polished marble.(Read More...)
  
  
• Prayers For The Eucharistic Gathering--a commentary on the history and themes of the first prayer, offertory and post-communion prayers throughout the church year.  The author's meditations and fresh translations of these prayers for each week will help you prepare for Sunday worship.
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• Rich in Grace: The Bible of the Poor for 21st Century Christians --ALPB Treasurer Dorothy Zelenko wrote the following that appeared on the back of the 2007 ALPB Christmas Appeal Letter where the book was announced for the first time:“At the start of this lovely volume, Kathryn Ann Hill quotes from Matthew 13: 52: ‘Therefore every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old.’ And that is exactly what she has done in Rich in Grace: The Bible for the Poor for 21st Century Christians. The ‘old’ things are the 38 woodcut images carefully reproduced from a 15th century (Read More...)
  

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