New book - What Good Is God? by Philip Yancey

Title: What Good is God?
Call number: 201 YAN











In What Good is God? journalist and spiritual seeker Philip Yancey travels the globe in search of an answer to a query posed the world over. It’s a universal question, one that “occurs in some form to every person who experiences pain or death or poverty or unfairness – in other words, to everyone,” says Yancey. What good is God in a world where slavery, where a gunman kills 32 students and staff on a college campus, and where six million people in South Africa alone suffer with HIV/AIDS.

Or, on a more personal level, does faith really matter when you’re struggling with an addiction, when you get laid off from your job and your home is in foreclosure, or when chronic depression sets in?

This book recounts Yancey’s search, including meetings with leaders of the underground church in China, with Dalits (untouchables) in India, with prostitutes, alcoholics, and Bible college students in the US, and with charismatic Christians in Johannesburg. Each stop provides a fascinating clus to answering life’s most profound questions. What Good is God? Offers a compelling reading experience as well as firsthand evidence that faith really does make a difference, even when belief is severely tested.

Philip Yancey talks about this book in a clip from YouTube:

New book - What's So Amazing About Grace? by Philip Yancey

Title: What's So Amazing About Grace?
Call number: 201 YAN











We speak of grace often. But do we understand it? More importantly, do we truly believe in it … and do our lives proclaim it as powerfully as our words?

In the ECPA Book of the Year, bestselling author Philip Yancey gives us a probing look at grace: what it looks like … what it doesn’t look like … and why only Christians can and must reveal the grace the world is searching for.

Christianity Today: June 2011 issue now in the library

Christianity Today June 2011 issue












This month's issue includes articles on:

• The Search for the Historical Adam: Some scholars believe genome science casts doubt on the existence of the first man and woman. Others say the integrity of the faith requires it. The state of the debate.
• Joyful environmentalists
• Who gets left behind?
• More CCM, please!
• Josh Hamilton's Combebacks
• How Ayn Rand saved a Bishop

New books - Christian manga books, Serenity series, Part 2

Title: Space Cadet vs Drama Queen
Call number: F MIN

Serenity stars in a movie that’s really out of this world.
It’s Life! Camera! Action! For Serenity and her pals when they set out to film their own sci-fi movie, “Terror from the Tarantula Nebula” – a high-adventure thriller complete with aliens, a mysterious princess, and one scary spider.
Ever the diva, Serenity steals the scene as she tussles with her friends and feuds with her mom.  Can the gang hold it together long enough for the movie to wrap, or will they put Serenity on the first spaceship outta here?

Title: Sunday Best
Call number: F MIN

Serenity’s got a sinking feeling.
Serenity wants to change for the better, but when a clumsy attempt at doing the right thing goes awry, she finds herself over her head in deep waters. Will she sink on her own… or accept help from an unexpected source?
Then in the latest mini-movie from Serenity and her pals – this one a disaster epic – an earthquake leaves the local mall crumbling.  When a group of curious kids meets a gang of vicious looters, things really get shaky as they find themselves “Crawling from the Wreakace.”

Title: Choosing Change
Call number: F MIN

A night at the drive-in leaves Serenity reeling.
Serenity decides the best way to make Derek jealous is by dating other guys.  But the date she arranges forces her to decide what she really wants in a relationship.  Who knew trying to do the right thing could be so confusing?
Then, Serenity and her pals film another mini-movie – this one a Biblical epic, “Esther, Queen of Persia.” Whisked away to take part in a royal beauty contest, lovely young Esther realizes there may be a purpose and plan to life beyond what she can imagine.

Title: Girl Overboard
Call number: F MIN

The outer girl is different but what about her heart?
It’s makeover time as Serenity sets out to do a radical overhaul on her closet – and her image.  But major changes in her hair, her clothes, and her attitude just leave her feeling all wrong.  Can she find her own voice – and the right hair colour – before she loses herself completely?
Then, in a mini-movie that harkens back to the horror films of the 1930s, Serenity and her friends create “Fraulein Stein’s Monster.”  When a mad scientist becomes obsessed, will the monster soon be the master?

New books - Christian manga books, Serenity series, Part 1

A generous church member recently donated books from the Serenity series to the library. Come by and visit us to see these Christian themed manga stories

Title: Bad Girl in Town
Call number: F MIN

Trouble comes in small packages. This one is five feet tall and weights 98 pounds.
Her name is Serenity Harper and she’s one obnoxious little bundle of attitude, anger, and animosity. Can the care and concern of Derek, Kimberly, and the rest of the Prayer Club break through Serenity’s tough shell – and prove to her that true love does exist?

Title: Stepping Out
Call number: F MIN

Prayer Club kids are nice. That doesn’t mean they can’t be tough.  Serenity is warming up to the Christian kids who made her their “project” by showing her an unconditional love she’s never experienced before.  But when she tries ducking responsibility for wrecking Kimberly’s car, that unconditional love turns tough.  Can Serenity understand it’s for her own good?

Title: Basket Case
Call number: F MIN

Serenity laughs at responsibility. But there’s nothing funny about this job…
The Prayer Club’s pet project is at her flaky best, dissing a health class assignment tht has teens caring for chicken eggs 24/7 to simulate the round-the-clock nurturing a baby requires. But when an overwhelming responsibility falls in Sereniy’s lap, where can she get help – from the friends she’s mocked, or the God she doesn’t quite believe in?

Title: Rave-n-rant
Call number: F MIN

Prayer makes a difference, they say.  Try convincing Serenity of that…
Serenity begins to share her soul with her Prayer Club friends – and is angered to find that, while they say they love Serenity, they don’t always like her. The teen with the blue hair and attitude takes her frustrations to God, but soon decides He isn’t listening… until a surprise ending makes Serenity realize there may be something to prayer after all.

Christianity Today: May 2011 issue now available in the library

Christianity Today May 2011 issue












This month's issue includes articles on:

• Me and Thee and the KJV: Mark Noll tells the story of the world's most popular English Bible - and where we would be without it.
• Roger Olson on Calvinist Myths
• Tim Challies on Reforming Tech
• A cursed foot disease
• Lying is bad - always
• Ghana's fake pastors