New Veggie Tales DVD - Little Ones Can Do Big Things Too

Title: Little Ones Can Do Big Things Too
Call number: DVD[C] VEG











Featuring favorite Veggie shows, including: Pistachio: The Little Boy Who Woodn't (A Lesson in Listening to Your Parents), Lyle the Kindly Viking (A Lesson in Kindness) and Dave & The Giant Pickle (A Lesson in Self-Esteem), all with a message of how you don't have to be big to be able to do great things! Plus all new footage from the adorable Veggie Kids!

New children's book - Whatever is Lovely

Title: Whatever is Lovely
Author: Susie Poole
Call number: 920 POO










There are things that make me feel afraid and things that make me feel sad. Whatever is lovely uses simple text and beautiful artwork to help children discover the secret to a worry free life. Based on well known passages in Philippians these delightful stories introduce children to key Bible concepts.

New children's book - Always Near Me

Title: Always Near Me
Author: Susie Poole
Call number: 920 POO










Based on Psalm 139, this beautifully produced board book explore scriptural themes in a way that applies directly to children's lives with simple, engaging text and bright pictures of their everyday activities and relationships. This book provides Biblical essentials for a child about being known and loved by God. Ideal for birthdays, baptisms, dedications and new babies.

New children's book - A Time For Everything

Title: A Time For Everything
Author: Susie Poole
Call number: 920 POO










Life is full of opposites - happy and sad, noisy and quiet. A Time For Everything uses simple text and beautiful artwork to help prepare children for the ups and downs of life and natural rhythm of these things. Based on the well known verses in Ecclesiastes, these delightful pages introduce children to key Bible concepts.

New children's book - All These Things

Title: All These Things
Author: Susie Poole
Call number: 920 POO










Love is not just about kisses and cuddles, hugs and squeezes. All These Things uses simple text and beautiful artwork to help children discover there’s more to love than meets the eye. Sometimes it involves doing things we’d rather not do. Based on the well known passage of 1 Corinthians 13, these delightful pages introduce children to key Bible concepts.

New book - The Hiding Place

Title: The Hiding Place
Author: Corrie Ten Boom
Call number: 267.1 TEN










“I pray that God forgive them...”

Corrie Ten Boom stood naked with her older sister Betsie, watching a concentration camp matron beating a prisoner. “Oh, the poor woman,” Corrie cried. “Yes. May God forgive her,” Betsie replied. And, once again, Corrie realized that it was for the souls of the brutal Nazi guards that her sister prayed.

Both woman had been sent to the camp for helping the Jews. Christ’s Spirit and words were their guide; it was His persecuted people they tried to save—at the risk of their own lives; it was His strength that sustained them through times of profound horror.

Here is a book aglow with the glory of God and the courage of a quiet Christian spinster whose life was transformed by it. A story of Christ’s message and the courage woman who listened and lived to pass it along—with joy and triumph!

New book - Pilgrim's Progress

Title: Pilgrim's Progress: In Today's English
Author: John Bunyan
Call number F BUN










Feel like the only person with struggles in the Christian life?  Wonder if anyone else has traveled the same road?  Millions of Christians have cherished John Bunyan's allegorical tale of the journey Christian and Christiana made to the Celestial City. Written in the 1600s, this immortal classic is now available in a modern-day, understandable text.

Christian leaves his home in the City of Destruction and begins a long journey to the Celestial City. His adventure is full of encounters with interesting people such as Faithful, Hopeful, and Ignorance. Traveling through places such as Vanity Fair and the Valley of the Shadow of Death, he reaches his heavenly home but learns rich lessons during the journey. The story has immediate application to everyday life.

Later on, Christian's wife, Christiana, decides to join her husband in the Celestial City. As she travels, Christiana comes upon a different set of people--Greatheart, Mercy, Honesty, and others. Her story illustrates how Christians follow different paths but with the same destination--eternity with Jesus.

New small group resource - The Me I Want To Be (Teen Edition)

Title: The Me I Want To Be: Becoming God's Best Version of You: Teen Edition
Includes: 1 DVD, 1 Participant's Guide and 1 Leader's Guide
Author: John Ortberg and Scott Rubin
Call number: SGR ORT







In this five-session small group Bible study, The Me I Want to Be -- Teen Edition, John Ortberg reveals how there's a real you (the one God intended) hiding under the one you pretend to be. There is a God (it isn't you). Your life is a project (it isn't yours). The real you is waiting (it isn't hard). God's best version of you is waiting. But first, John Ortberg has two very important questions: Are you REALLY LIVING? (Full of joy and peace, in harmony with God, others and self; curious, willing to learn and experience opportunities to grow toward the best version of yourself) or Are you DECAYING? (Lacking mental and emotional energy, feeling uneasy and not very content, too self-focused) In his usual style, Ortberg has some intriguing answers to those questions in this study and will help you gauge your spiritual health and deal with real issues you face as a teen in today's world. Underneath the 'me' you pretend to be (the one that acts cool while fearing you're not) and the 'me' you fail to be (the one that doesn't always feel very excited about life) you will discover something remarkable... This is an excellent study for teen small groups and youth groups. Sessions include:
1. Discovering the Spirit
2. Renewing My Mind
3. Redeeming My Time
4. Deeping My Relationships
5. Transforming My Experience

New small group resource - The Me I Want To Be

Title: The Me I Want To Be: Becoming God's Best Version of You
Includes: 1 DVD, 1 Participant's Guide and 1 Leader's Guide
Author: John Ortberg
Call number: SGR ORT







In this five-session small group Bible study, The Me I Want to Be, John Ortberg reveals how you can become the unique, fully alive person God intended you to be. There is a me each of one of us wants to be....someone who's more kind and generous, patient, and loving. But there is a gap between the me I am and the me I want to be. Oftentimes we find it easy to trust God to bridge the gap between and us and him, but we struggle to really live by grace and trust God to close the gap between the me I am and the me I want to be. Becoming God's best version of you is both God's desire and the greatest task of your life. And here's the good news...he's already working on it. Your life is God's project, not yours. The Me I Want to Be small group Bible study is a powerful look at becoming the unique, fully alive, flourishing person God intended. Pastor and author John Ortberg teaches through fives sessions how you can move toward becoming God's best version of you in four specific areas: your mind, your time, your relationships, and your experiences. Spiritual growth can seem difficult or intimidating, but John Ortberg's humor and innovative thinking in The Me I Want to Be will leave you challenged, inspired, and hopeful about true spiritual growth happening in you and your small group. Sessions include:

1. Discovering the Spirt
2. Renewing My Mind
3. Redeeming My Time 
4. Deeping My Relationships
5. Transforming My Experience

New small group resource - The Life You've Always Wanted

Title: The Life You've Always Wanted: Six Sessions on Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People
Includes: 1 DVD, 1 Participant's Guide and 1 Leader's Guide
Authors: John Ortberg, Stephen Sorenson and Amanda Sorenson
Call number: SGR ORT





In the six-session small group Bible study DVD, The Life You've Always Wanted, John Ortberg guides you and your group through the spiritual disciplines and teaches you how they can transform your spiritual life. What does true spiritual life really look like? And what keeps you from living it? What can you do to pursue it? If you're tired of the status quo -- if you suspect there's more to Christianity than what you've experienced -- John Ortberg invites you to join him on a road to transformation and spiritual vigor that anyone can take. Cultivate new intimacy and confidence in prayer. Discover the freedom of secrecy. Taste the benefits of slowing life's frenetic pace. Learn how to be guided by the Holy Spirit...and much more. As in a marathon, the secret lied not in trying hard, but in training consistently. Proven by followers of Jesus over the centuries, the spiritual disciplines are exercises that strengthen your endurance race on the road to growth. This DVD provides you with a practical tool that can grow your faith. Sessions include:

1. It's Morphing Time 
2. Slowing Down and Celebrating
3. Praying and Confessing
4. Meditating on Scripture and Seeking Guidance
5. Practicing Servanthood, Finding Freedom
6. Going the Distance with a Well-Ordered Heart

New small group resource - A Life Worth Living

Title: A Life Worth Living: The official follow-up to the Alpha course
Includes: 3 DVDs, 1 book (A Life Worth Living), 1 manual and 1 Leader's Guide
Author: Nicky Gumbel
Call number: SGR GUM







In the future scientists will be able to prolong life, but will it be worth living? Without purpose or joy, extended life seems a hollow victory. So how do we live life to the full? A Life Worth Living, based on St. Paul's letter to the Philippians, is a practical and positive guide to achieving exactly this, uncovering in us a new heart, new purpose, new attitude and a new confidence to the way we live our lives.

New small group resource - The Parenting Teenagers Course

Title: The Parenting Teenagers Course: for those parenting 11 to 18-year-olds
Includes: 1 DVD, 1 Leader's Guide and 1 Guest Manual
Authors: Nicky Lee and Sila Lee
Call number: SGR LEE








Five sessions talking about how to equip parents, or those caring for teens 11 - 18 with long term strategies to guide them into adulthood. Meeting our Teenagers needs, setting boundaries, developing emotional health making good choices are some of the topics covered. Based on the bestseller The Parenting Book by Nicky and Sila Lee.

New book - The Power of Simple Prayer

Title: The Power of Simple Prayer: How to Talk to God About Everything
Author: Joyce Meyer
Call number: 245 MEY









'If someone asked me, "Joyce, if you could make only one comment about prayer, what would it be?" I would have to respond by talking about its simplicity. It is so much easier than we think.' Somehow we have convinced ourselves that prayer is dry and difficult; we have invented religious 'systems' for prayer that place it out of reach for many of us. But THE POWER OF SIMPLE PRAYER shows us that God desires our prayer lives to be enjoyable and as natural as breathing. Joyce Meyer's life-transforming new book:

• Answers the most basic questions we are sometimes afraid to ask: what is prayer and how do we do it? 
• Offers you the key to a more powerful, effective prayer life 
• Helps you decide when it is and when it is not right to pray 
• Identifies 'Fourteen Hindrances to Answered Prayer'

New book - Too Busy Not To Pray

Title: Too Busy Not To Pray: Slowing Down To Be With God
Author: Bill Hybels
Call number: 245 HYB









Most of us have trouble finding time to pray. There's church and school and neighborhood and job and friends and recreation. And then the crises hit! Time for prayer seems an impossible luxury. As a pastor, Bill Hybels knows hundreds of people with schedules like this. Yet in his own life he has made the hard discovery that prayer doesn't happen on the run. He decided he was too busy not to pray. Hybels's accessible introduction to prayer has already helped over 400,000 readers develop a rich and regular prayer life in the midst of life's busyness. He shows how to slow down to pray, listen to God, respond to what we hear, practice the presence of God and overcome prayer barriers. His fun and practical book offers the resources we need for growing, ongoing experiences in prayer

New small group resource - The Parenting Children Course

Title: The Parenting Children Course: for those parenting 0 to 10-year-olds
Includes: 1 DVD, 1 Leader's Guide and 1 Guest Manual
Authors: Nicky Lee and Sila Lee
Call number: SGR LEE








Five sessions talking about how to equip parents, or those caring for children 0 - 10 with long term strategies to build a healthy family life. Building Strong Foundations, Meeting our children's needs, setting boundaries,teaching healthy relationships and looking long term are the topics discussed. Based on the bestseller, The Parenting Book by Nicky and Sila Lee

New small group resource - If You Want To Walk on Water, You've Got To Get Out of The Boat

Title: If You Want To Walk on Water, You've Got To Get Out of The Boat
Includes: 1 DVD, 1 Leader's Guide and 1 Participant's Guide
Author: John Ortberg
Call number: SGR ORT







In this six-session small group Bible study DVD, If You Want to Walk on Water, You've got to Get Out of the Boat, by John Ortberg, you'll learn how to move beyond fear to discover God's unique calling for your life! Peter may have been the first one out of the boat, but Jesus' invitation to walk on water is for you as well. But walk on water? What doe that mean? If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat helps you answer Christ's call to greater faith, power-filled deeds, and a new way of knowing how to discern God's call, transcend fear, risk faith, manage failure, and trust God. Relating to the story in Matthew 14 to life today, teacher and bestselling author John Ortberg invites you to consider the incredible potential that awaits you outside your comfort zone. It features six 10 to 15-minute teaching sessions from John Ortberg designed to spark thinking and provoke discussion. Sessions include:

1. What's Water Walking? 
2. The Tragedy of the Unopened Gift
3. Find Your Calling and Get Your Feet Wet!
4. Facing Our Challenges, Conquering Our Fears
5. Good News for Cave Dwellers
6. Learning to Wait on Our Big God

New book - Hazards of Being a Man

Title: Hazards of Being a Man: Overcoming 12 Challenges All Men Face
Author: Jeffrey E. Miller
Call number: 249.71 MIL









The problems men face today are not new; they have been around since the time of the Bible. Insensitivity, lust, individualism, absence, manipulation, unresolved anger - even a cursory study of Bible characters will expose all of these moral and emotional battles. Jeffrey E. Miller challenges men to acknowledge their common struggles and weaknesses to help them become better men. Developed from his featured Bible teaching series on Bible.org, Occupational Hazards of Being a Man focuses on a different Old Testament personality with a unique problem in every chapter. Miller tackles these tough and pervasive issues to help men realize that these hazards are not unique to them, but that they are issues that all men face--and can overcome. This honest and freeing book is perfect for men's small groups, pastors, counselors, and individuals.

New book - The Reason For God

Title: The Reason For God: Belief in an Age of Scepticism
Author: Timothy Keller
Call number: 137 KEL









As the pastor of an inner-city church in New York City, Timothy Keller has compiled a list of the most frequently voiced 'doubts' sceptics bring to his church, as well as the most important reasons for faith. In THE REASON FOR GOD, he addresses each doubt and explains each reason.Keller uses literature, philosophy, real-life conversations, and reasoning to explain how faith in a Christian God is a soundly rational belief, held by thoughtful people of intellectual integrity with a deep compassion for those who truly want to know the truth.

New small group resource - Fearless

Title: Fearless
Includes: 1 DVD, 1 Small Group Discussion Guide and 1 Small Group Leader's Guide
Author: Max Lucado
Call number: SGR LUC








Can you imagine your life without fear?
Max Lucado presents six DVD sessions that offer hope and calm in a time of unprecedented fear in our nation and the world. Designed for individual study or for a small group experience, Fearless draws from Jesus’ encounters with people in frightening situations giving evidence that we can trust God through these scary times.

Features Include:

• One DVD with six 5-to-7-minute video sessions
• Fearless Small Group Discussion Guide
• Fearless Small Group Leader's Guide
• CD-ROM with sermon tips, guidelines for implementing a churchwide campaign, and materials for promoting your group study or sermon series

New small group resource - 3:16

Title: 3:16 The Numbers of Hope
Includes: Stories of Hope (DVD), Leader's Guide (DVD), 3:16 - A Study for Individuals or Small Groups(Book) and 3:16 - Promise (Book)
Author: Max Lucado
Call number: SGR LUC







Experience the essential truth of the Christian faith as Max Lucado unpacks one of the most beloved scriptures in the entire Bible — John 3:16. Timeless and powerful, these words proclaim a message of love, a source of hope, and a promise of life.

The 3:16 DVD-Based Study helps individuals and small groups discover God's unfathomable love with insights from the Bible and stories from everyday life. This popular study is now offered in a more convenient and affordable format.

Features include:

• Stories of Hope DVD, featuring 12 sessions filled with Max Lucado's insights and inspiration as well as the compelling short film, Wherever You Are
• 3:16 Study Guide, which explores some of the most important takeaways and truths from the 3:16 book
• Free churchwide resources available online

New book - The Parenting Book

Title: The Parenting Book
Authors: Nicky and Sila Lee
Call number: 249.2 LEE










Drawing on their own experience of bringing up four children and having talked to thousands of parents over the years on their parenting courses, Nicky and Sila Lee bring fresh insights and time-tested values to the task of parenting. Full of valuable advice and practical tips, The Parenting Bok is a resource for parents to come back to again and again.

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New small group resource - God's Answers to Life's Difficult Questions

Title: God's Answers to Life's Difficult Questions
Includes: 1 DVD and 1 Study Guide
Author: Rick Warren
Call number: SGR WAR









In this six-session small group Bible study DVD, God's Answers To Life's Difficult Questions, Rick Warren helps you find the simple, straightforward answers in ancient Scripture that lead to purpose, peace and joy... starting today. Drawing from the examples of bible characters who faced many of the same issues we face today -- stress, failure, crisis, loneliness, and change -- Warren offers concise, practical insights you can understand and apply in order to move past ordinary struggles to experience a life of extraordinary peace and significance. Life's difficult questions do have answers...answers from the Bible that can change your life. This DVD features six 10-15 minute live teaching sessions from pastor and best-selling author, Rick Warren. Sessions include:

1. How Can I Cope with Stress? 
2. How Can I Rebound from Failure? 
3. How Can I Be Confident in Christ? 
4. How Can I Live above Average? 
5. How Can I Overcome Loneliness? 
6. How Can I Ever Change?

New small group resource - The Bare Facts

Title: The Bare Facts: 43 Answers to Questions Your Parents Hope You Never Ask!
Author: Josh McDowell
Call number: SGR MCD









Sex is everywhere. And misunderstandings about it are even more pervasive. Whether you have questions of your own and don’t know who to ask, or you are being asked questions and don’t know where to turn-this DVD has the answers. Bestselling author and speaker, Josh McDowell believes that no question is off limits and that knowledge, not ignorance, is the key to youthful purity and a fulfilling marriage and family. Josh builds on that approach with relevant, pertinent statistics, entertaining anecdotes, and real stories in this video dialogue.

This DVD will be a very practical tool in the hands of anyone who is struggling, anyone who is curious, anyone who is nervous about asking a “dumb question,” and most importantly, anyone who desires to learn how to honor God with his or her body. The Bible is clear on a lot of these issues and Josh’s candor (and respect for young people) shines through as he shares these truths about sex. Much like Josh’s apologetics books, this book will help equip a skeptical generation with the facts they are sorely missing.

New small group resource - Boundaries in Marriage

Title: Boundaries in Marriage
Includes: 1 DVD, 1 Leader's Guide and 1 Participant's Guide
Authors: Henry Cloud and John Townsend
Call number: SGR CLO








Only when a husband and wife know and respect each other's needs, choices, and freedom can they give themselves freely and lovingly to one another. Boundaries in Marriage gives the couples in your group the tools they need. By applying the powerful biblical and relational principles presented in this DVD, couples can make a good marriage better and even save one that's headed for disaster. Exercises and activities in each of the eight sessions help partners connect principles with marriage-strengthening application. Boundaries in Marriage will pay huge dividends wherever couples desire to understand the friction points or serious hurts in their marriages - so they can move beyond them to a better relationship.

Boundaries in Marriage sessions:
1. What's a Boundary, Anyway?
2. Applying the Ten Laws of Boundaries to Marriage
3. Setting Boundaries with Yourself
4. Values One and Two: Love of God and Love of Spouse
5. Values Three and Four: Honesty and Faithfulness
6. Values Five and Six: Compassion and Forgiveness, and Holiness
7. Resolving Conflict in Marriage
8. Some Warning Signs to Help Your Marriage

New small group resource - Boundaries With Kids

Title: Boundaries With Kids
Includes: 1 DVD, 1 Leader's Guide and 1 Participant's Guide
Authors: Henry Cloud and John Townsend
Call number: SGR CLO








Want to Paint a Happy Future for Your Children? Start Drawing the Line Today. Boundaries with Kids will help you:

• Recognize the boundary issues underlying child behavior problems
• Set boundaries and establish consequences with your kids
• Get out of the 'nagging' trap Stop controlling your kids---and instead help them develop self-control
• Apply the ten laws of boundaries to parenting
• Take six practical steps for implementing boundaries with your kids 

One of the most loving things you can do for your children is set firm boundaries with them. Boundaries with Kids will help you raise your kids to take responsibility for their own actions, attitudes, and emotions. In eight sessions, Drs. Henry Cloud and John Townsend help you bring order to problematic circumstances and cultivate healthier ways of relating with your kids.

New book - The Me I Want To Be

Title: The Me I Want To Be: Becoming God's Best Version of You
Author: John Ortberg
Call number: 201 ORT









The bestselling author of When the Game Is Over, It All Goes Back in the Box; God Is Closer Than You Think; and The Life You've Always Wanted - will help you discover spiritual vitality like never before as you learn to 'live in the flow of the spirit.' But if God has a perfect vision for your life, why does spiritual growth seem so difficult? John Ortberg has some intriguing answers to that question, and he has organized his thoughts and God's words into a straightforward and timely guide for living your best life in The Me I Want to Be.

This book will show how God's perfect vision for you starts with a powerful promise. All those who trust in God 'will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit' (Jeremiah 17:7-8). Ortberg urges you to recognize your brokenness, understand that God is the project manager, and follow His directions. The author first helps gauge your spiritual health and measure the gap between where you are now and where God intends you to be. Then he provides detailed tasks and exercises to help you live in the flow of the Spirit, circumventing real-world barriers - pain and sorrow, temptations, self-doubt, sin - to flourish even in a dark and broken world. As you start living in the flow, you will feel: a deeper connection with God, a growing sense of joy, an honest recognition of your brokenness, less fear, more trust, a growing sense of being 'rooted in love', a deeper sense of purpose God invites you to join Him in crafting an abundant and joy-filled life. The Me I Want to Be shows you how to graciously accept His invitation.

New book - Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them

Title: Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them
Author: John Ortberg
Call number: 201 ORT









Normal? Who's Normal? Not you, that's for sure! No one you've ever met, either. None of us are normal according to God's definition, and the closer we get to each other, the plainer that becomes. Yet for all our quirks, sins, and jagged edges, we need each other. Community is more than just a word - it is one of our most fundamental requirements. So how do flawed, abnormal people such as ourselves master the forces that can drive us apart and come together in the life-changing relationships God designed us for? In Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them, teacher and best-selling author John Ortberg zooms in on the things that make community tick. You'll get a thought-provoking look at God's heart, at others, and at yourself. Even better, you'll gain wisdom and tools for drawing closer to others in powerful, impactful ways. With humor, insight, and a gift for storytelling, Ortberg shows how community pays tremendous dividends in happiness, health, support, and growth. It's where all of us weird, unwieldy people encounter God's love in tangible ways and discover the transforming power of being loved, accepted, and valued just the way we are. The need for community is woven into the very fabric of our being. Nothing else can substitute for the life-giving benefits of connecting with others - not even God. He won't preempt the way he himself has designed us to reflect his own intensely relational nature. But there's a hitch in our experience of community, says John Ortberg: We're all weird. Folks around us may seem normal enough, but just wait till we get to know them - and they get to know us. The unhealthy, sinful ways we respond to life in a fallen world are hardly God's idea of 'normal,' and they can make us as unhuggable as porcupines. We face the 'porcupine dilemma,' says Ortberg: We need each other, but how do we get close without getting hurt? How do we get past all those quills and grow together in Christ?

New book - Who is This Man?

Title: Who is This Man?: The Unpredictable Impact of the Inescapable Jesus
Author: John Ortberg
Call number: 132 ORT









On the eve of his crucifixion it seemed like Jesus' influence on the world had ended. On the contrary, it had just begun. In Who Is This Man?, Ortberg reveals how Jesus has impacted civilization and individual human hearts.

Jesus' impact on our world is highly unlikely, widely inescapable, largely unknown, and decidedly double-edged. It is unlikely in light of the severe limitations of his earthly life; it is inescapable because of the range of impact; it is unknown because history doesn't connect dots; and it is doubled-edged because his followers have wreaked so much havoc, often in his name. He is history's most familiar figure, yet he is the man no one knows. His impact on the world is immense and non-accidental. From the Dark Ages to Post-Modernity he is the Man who won't go away. And yet . . .you can miss him in historical lists for many reasons, maybe the most obvious being the way he lived his life. He did not loudly and demonstrably defend his movement in the spirit of a rising political or military leader. He did not lay out a case that history would judge his brand of belief superior in all future books. His life and teaching simply drew people to follow him. He made history by starting in a humble place, in a spirit of love and acceptance, and allowing each person space to respond. His vision of life continues to haunt and challenge humanity. His influence has swept over history bringing inspiration to what has happened in art, science, government, medicine, and education; he has taught humans about dignity, compassion, forgiveness, and hope.

New book - The Life You've Always Wanted

Title: The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People
Author: John Ortberg
Call number: 201 ORT









The heart of Christianity is about transformation - about a God who isn't just concerned with our 'spiritual lives,' but who wants to impact every aspect of living. It's realizing that God meets us not in a monastery but on Main Street, and that all of ordinary, daily life has the potential to be lived as if Jesus himself were the one living it. Now expanded to include an added chapter on prayer and discussion questions designed to help small groups make the journey together, The Life You've Always Wanted offers modern perspectives on the ancient path of the spiritual disciplines. But this is more than just a book about things we should do if we want to be good Christians. It's a road map toward true transformation, compelling because it starts not with ourselves but with the object of our journey - Jesus Christ. Paved with humor and sparkling anecdotes, The Life You've Always Wanted is an encouraging and challenging approach to a Christian life that's worth living. Life on the edge that fills our ordinary world with new meaning, hope, change, and a joyous, growing closeness to Christ.

New book - Sumatra With the Seven Churches

Title: Sumatra With the Seven Churches
Authors: Sandra Glahn and Crickett Keeth
Call number: 122 GLA










Sumatra with the Seven Churches is part of the Coffee Cup Bible Studies, a series of Bible studies for women in compact, workbook format that examine the "life and times" of certain Bible characters and the books of the Bible that pertain to them. Each study is to be read over a four-to-six week period, and study sections are broken down into short, daily segments designed to fit reader's busy lifestyles.

Understanding that time is precious, the Coffee Cup Bible Studies are patterned in such a convenient  way that they can be read during brief windows of opportunity  that allow for meditation and study (breakfast, lunch, coffee breaks, etc.). Scripture is provided from the NET Bible (New English Translation),making Bible study convenient for occasions when you can't carry a Bible.

Sumatra with the Seven Churches is a study that explores only a few chapters of Revelation rather that the entire book. Our focus in this study is on the messages to those seven churches and how that information is relevant for us today. Are you ready for our trip through ancient Turkey and the seven churches in the Book of revelation? If so, fasten your seat belt and travel back in time to the ancient world, where our journey begins.