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.