The Call Back Series by Edwin and Lillian Harvey

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I can remember when my parents, Edwin and Lillian Harvey, first began “The Call Back Series.” It was at a time when the “Health and Wealth Gospel” was dominating the religious printed press and the media. Everywhere you turned, it seemed you confronted some aspect of this “Gospel.” And not only that. It was not infrequent to come across Christians whose lives had been devastated by this prosperity cult. Why had they not been healed they asked themselves? Why had they been allowed to suffer loneliness and frustration or encountered opposition as they followed the Christ of the Gospels?

If they were true Christians, wouldn’t God prosper them and protect them? Bombarded by the idea that Christians should prosper and overcome all health problems, they would be plunged into despair. Suicidal impulses were not uncommon in some of these sincere saints. They must have sinned, they reasoned, or they would have been healed.
And so Edwin and Lillian decided to research saints of the past and see what testimony they had to tell. Thus the “Call Back Series,” evolved. Many of God’s children had not been miraculously healed, had not been phenomenally prosperous, had not enjoyed unqualified popularity. But they had gained much from their trials and they call back to us today to tell us that if they made it triumphantly to the end of their Christian journey, then we can do.
“The Call Back Series” is published by Harvey Christian Publishers and available on their Online Christian Bookstore.

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