Sunday, August 31, 2014

New Veggie Tales DVD - Josh and the Big Wall

Title:  Josh and the Big Wall - A Lesson in Obedience
Call number: DVD[C] VEG










A lesson in obedience, it's the Bible story of Joshua and the Walls of Jericho as told by our beloved Veggies. After 40 years of wandering in the desert, the children of Israel finally get to go to the Promised Land! Only one little thing they've overlooked ... the city of Jericho and its massive wall! Josh will have to decide whether it's better to do things his way or God's way!

Sunday, August 24, 2014

New book - Conversational Evangelism

Title: Conversational Evangelism: How to Listen and Speak So You Can Be Heard
Authors: Norman Geisler and David Geisler
Call number: 264 GEI









Witnessing used to involve laying out the truth and guiding a person to understand and accept it. But the awareness of basic Christian principles has changed and so have the needs of pre-believers. With a passion for people, authors David and Norman Geisler share an engaging, conversational approach to evangelism as they address:

  • What makes old models of witnessing ineffective in today's culture
  • Why evangelism must start with relational pre-evangelism
  • How to ask questions, listen attentively, and understand what someone believes
  • Ways to identify the real barriers to belief in order to build a bridge to truth
  • How to keep dialogue going with different personality types

This refreshing, practical resource is ideal for churches and individuals. Readers will discover how God uses their everyday encounters for great things when they switch from trying to witness effectively to effectively being a witness through communication and compassion.

Monday, August 18, 2014

New book - Just Walk Across the Room

Title: Just Walk Across the Room: Simple Steps Pointing People to Faith
Author: Bill Hybels
Call number: 264 HYB









What if you knew that by simply crossing the room and saying hello to someone, you could change that person s forever? Just a few steps to make an eternal difference. It has nothing to do with methods and everything to do with taking a genuine interest in another human being. All you need is a heart that s in tune with the Holy Spirit and a willingness to venture out of your Circle of Comfort and into another person s life. Just Walk Across the Room brings personal evangelism into the twenty-first century. Building on the solid foundation laid in Becoming a Contagious Christian, Bill Hybels shows how you can participate in the model first set by Jesus, who stepped down from heaven 2,000 years ago to bring hope and redemption to broken people living in a fallen world. Now it's your turn. Your journey may not be as dramatic, but it can have a life-changing impact for someone standing a few steps away from you and for you as well, as you learn the power of extending care, compassion, and inclusiveness under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. The highest value in personal evangelism is cooperating with the Spirit, says Hybels. This means playing only the role you are meant to play - walking when the Spirit says to walk, talking when he says to talk, and falling silent when he suggests that you've said enough. Hybels encourages you to live in 3D: Developing friendships; Discovering stories; Discerning appropriate next steps as a means of learning to understand the Holy Spirit's promptings. With fresh perspectives from his own reflections and experiences collected during his most recent decade of ministry, Bill Hybels shows with convincing and inspiring clarity the power of this personal, richly relational approach to evangelism. The stakes are high. The implications are eternal. And you may be only a conversation away from having an eternal impact on someone's life if you will just walk across the room.

Thursday, August 14, 2014

New children's DVD - Larryboy: The Angry Eyebrows

Title: Larryboy: The Angry Eyebrows
Call number: DVD[C] LAR











In the tradition of VeggieTales. It's just another day at The Daily Bumble. Or is it? Larry the Cucumber, armed with his two-way radio mop, quietly and inconspicuously monitors the pulse of his fair city. But when he receives word that super-villain Awful Alvin has unleashed his latest plague – a swarm of angry eyebrows - on the tranquil town of Bumblyburg, our mild-mannered janitor transforms into crime-fighting cucumber crusader, Larryboy! Descending upon any citizen who "lets the sun go down on their anger, "will Larryboy discover the eyebrows' one weakness? Will these hairy hooligans--this litany of lashes--forever plague this otherwise friendly hamlet? Or will the one cucumber capable of wielding a radar-guided spatula restore order and goodness to Bumblyburg once and for all? Find out about the importance of letting go of anger and forgiving others in "Larryboy And The Angry Eyebrows!"

Monday, August 11, 2014

New children's DVD - Larryboy: The Yodelnapper

Title: Larryboy: The Yodelnapper
Call number: DVD[C] LAR











There's trouble in Bumblyburg as Greta Von Gruesome, evil ruler of Zuchinia, terrorizes music fans everywhere by kidnapping the world's greatest yodelers! To unravel this dastardly scheme, Larryboy must disguise himself as "famous" yodeler Noodle Blabberbop and bravely become Greta's next victim!

But will our plunger-headed hero's clever plan succeed? Will the yodelers yodel freely again? It's laugh-filled, action-packed fun that teaches kids an important lesson about greed!

Tuesday, August 5, 2014

New book - Bringing Up Boys

Title: Bringing Up Boys
Author: James Dobson
Call number: 249.2 DOB










Sensible advice and caring encouragement on raising boys from the nation's most trusted parenting expert, Dr. James Dobson. With so much confusion about the role of men in our society, it's no wonder so many parents and teachers are at a loss about how to bring up boys. Our culture has vilified masculinity and, as a result, boys are suffering. Parents, teachers, and others involved in shaping the character of boys have lots of questions. In "Bringing Up Boys, " Dr. Dobson tackles these questions and offers advice and encouragement based on a firm foundation of biblical principles.