Adult Non-Fiction (NF) Titles added to the Library During June, 2008
If you see an interesting title and would like to find it on the church library shelves, make a note of the Location and the Author's Last Name as shown in the listing.
All of our titles are classified into a section (NF for Non-fiction, Y for Youth, etc.) and then sorted alphabetically by author's last name within that section.
Hope against hope : Christian eschatology at the turn of the millennium
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Hope against hope : Christian eschatology at the turn of the millennium
Location: NF
Author: Bauckham, Richard
Date added to Church Library: 2008-06-16
ISBN: 0-8028-4391-3
LCCN: 99049158
Dewey: 236 21
Accession Number: 08-051
LOC Number: BV4638.B38 1999
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Category: Hope -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
User Rating: 5.0 Stars
Pages: 233
Hardcover W.B. Eerdmans
Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-226) and indexes.
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Parenting in the pew : guiding your children into the joy of worship
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Parenting in the pew : guiding your children into the joy of worship
Location: NF
Author: Castleman, Robbie
Date added to Church Library: 2008-06-17
ISBN: 0-8308-2340-9
LCCN: 2001051944
Dewey: 249 21
Accession Number: 08-062
LOC Number: BV26.2.C37 2002
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Category: Children in public worship
User Rating: 4.5 Stars
Pages: 139
Paperback InterVarsity Press
Product Description
"Daddy, I'd like you to meet my children."That's Robbie Castleman's attitude about taking her children to church. She believes that Sunday morning isn't a success if she has only managed to keep the kids quiet. And she knows there's more to church for kids than trying out their new coloring books. Children are at church for the same reason as their parents: for the privilege of worshiping God.Worship, Castleman writes, is "the most important thing you can ever train your child to do." So with infectious passion, nitty-gritty advice and a touch of humor, she shows you how to help your children (from toddlers to teenagers) enter into worship.In this expanded edition Castleman includes two new appendixes on the important issues of hyperactive children in worship and children's church for seekers. She also provides a study guide for personal reflection or group discussion. More than ever, Parenting in the Pew is essential reading for parents and worship leaders who want to help children make joyful noises unto the Lord.
About the Author
Robbie Castleman, a mother of two sons, is assistant professor of biblical studies at John Brown University and the national director for the Religious & Theological Studies Fellowship with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. She is the author of True Love in a World of False Hope and several Bible study guides. She and her husband live in Siloam Springs, Arkansas.
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What happens when women pray
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What happens when women pray
Location: NF
Author: Christenson, Evelyn
Date added to Church Library: 2008-06-15
ISBN: 0-89693-975-8
LCCN: 91030779
Dewey: 248.3/2/082 20
Accession Number: 08-030
LOC Number: BV210.2.C53 1992
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Category: Prayer
User Rating: 5.0 Stars
Pages: 142
Hardcover Victor Books
Book Description
What Happens When Women Pray is a practical and biblical book about prayer. Its teachings have been tested in hundreds of prayer seminars all over the world, as both men and women have learned to pray in more personal and believing ways.
What Happens When Women Pray will show you how to move into the dynamic that occurs when people pray. It just might change your life or the life of someone you know and love.
Since 1968, Evelyn Christenson has led prayer seminars worldwide. Millions of readers have enjoyed Evelyn's books, which include, "Lord, Change Me!" and A Journey into Prayer. Evelyn and her husband, Harold, live in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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What's so great about Christianity
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What's so great about Christianity
Location: NF
Author: D'Souza, Dinesh
Date added to Church Library: 2008-06-16
ISBN: 1-59698-517-8
LCCN: 2007029535
Dewey: 230 22
Accession Number: 08-047
LOC Number: BT60.D76 2007
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Category: Christianity -- Essence, genius, nature
User Rating: 4.0 Stars
Pages: 348
Hardcover Regnery Pub.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-334) and index. Preface: A challenge to believers--and unbelievers -- Pt. 1: The future of Christianity. The twilight of atheism : the global triumph of Christianity -- Survival of the sacred : why religion is winning -- God is not great : the atheist assault on religion -- Miseducating the young : saving children from their parents -- Pt. 2: Christianity and the West. Render unto Caesar : the spiritual basis of limited government -- The evil that I would not : Christianity and human fallibility -- Created equal : the origin of human dignity -- Pt. 3: Christianity and science. Christianity and reason : the theological roots of science -- From logos to cosmos : Christianity and the invention of invention -- An atheist fable : reopening the Galileo case -- Pt. 4: The argument from design. A universe with a beginning : God and the astronomers -- A designer planet : man's special place in creation -- Paley was right : evolution and the argument from design -- The Genesis problem : the methodological atheism of science -- Pt. 5: Christianity and philosophy. The world beyond our senses : Kant and the limits of reason -- In the belly of the whale : why miracles are possible -- A skeptic's wager : Pascal and the reasonableness of faith -- Pt. 6: Christianity and suffering. Rethinking the Inquisition : the exaggerated crimes of religion -- A license to kill : atheism and the mass murders of history -- Pt. 7: Christianity and morality. Natural law and divine law : the objective foundations of morality -- The ghost in the machine : why man is more than matter -- The imperial "I" : when the self becomes the arbiter of morality -- Opiate of the morally corrupt : why unbelief is so appealing -- The problem of evil : where is atheism when bad things happen? -- Pt. 8: Christianity and you. Jesus among other gods : the uniqueness of Christianity -- A foretaste of eternity : how Christianity can change your life.
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Lies Women Believe: And the Truth that Sets Them Free
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Lies Women Believe: And the Truth that Sets Them Free
Location: NF
Author: DeMoss, Nancy Leigh
Date added to Church Library: 2008-06-17
ISBN: 0-8024-7296-6
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Accession Number: 08-057
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Category: Christian life
User Rating: 4.0 Stars
Pages: 288
Paperback Moody Publishers
Product Description
The lies Christian women believe are at the root of their struggles. In Lies Women Believe, Nancy Leigh DeMoss exposes areas of deception common to many Christian women -- lies about God, sin, priorities, marriage and family, emotions, and more. She deals honestly with women's delusions and illusions and then gently leads them to the truth of God's word that leads to true freedom.
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Walking in the truth : a companion study to "Lies women believe"
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Walking in the truth : a companion study to "Lies women believe"
Location: NF
Author: DeMoss, Nancy Leigh
Date added to Church Library: 2008-06-17
ISBN: 0-8024-4692-2
LCCN: 2002024421
Dewey: 248.8/43 21
Accession Number: 08-058
LOC Number: BV4527.D463A3 2002
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Category: DeMoss, Nancy Leigh
User Rating: 4.5 Stars
Pages: 128
Paperback Moody Publishers
Product Description
Satan is a liar. When women become entrapped by his lies their spiritual lives, marriages, and emotional well-being suffer. Through her many conferences, Nancy Leigh DeMoss has witnessed the many different and damaging ways these lies destroy women's lives. This companion study to Lies Women Believe will help women go deeper into God's Word, walk more fully in His grace, and experience the joy of the abundant life Christ promised.
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Love for a Lifetime : Building a Marriage That Will Go the Distance
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Love for a Lifetime : Building a Marriage That Will Go the Distance
Location: NF
Author: Dobson, James
Date added to Church Library: 2008-06-17
ISBN: 1-57673-770-5
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Accession Number: 08-085
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Category: Christian Life - Inspirational - Protestant Self Help
User Rating: 4.0 Stars
Pages: 144
Hardcover Multnomah Books
Product Description
The bestselling Gold Medallion winner Love for a Lifetime has brought hope, harmony, and healing to millions of homes worldwide, giving men and women powerful and biblical insights for building lasting marital harmony. Encouraging and practical, this proven classic is perfect for every husband and wife who want to strengthen and celebrate their marriage relationship.
The joining of husband and wife in marriage is the most fulfilling human relationship possible. There is nothing like being loved unconditionally and intimately, decade after decade, by someone who promises to be there for better or for worse for the remaining days of your lives.
For this reason, nurturing and celebrating each other is the most important investment of time and energy you can make as a couple. And millions around the world can testify, the surest way to preserving a marriage is by applying the principles outlined in God's Word.
With Bible-based insights shared by today's foremost family advocate, Love for a Lifetime is a modern classic. This newly updated edition delivers the wisdom that will bring success to your marriage... for as long as you both shall live.
Story Behind the Book
For every ten marriages in America today, five will end in bitter conflict and divorce. And only one or two couples in ten will achieve what might be called "intimacy" in their marriages. This book helps keep readers from being passive victims in the unfolding drama of their lives together. They can build a stable, satisfying, intimate relationship that will withstand the storms of life. All they need is a little wise counsel...and a burning desire to succeed. Based on information from a panel of successfully married couples, on the research of respected experts in the field, and on the principles endorsed by the Creator of families Himself, Love for a Lifetime is designed to help couples do just that.
About the Author
Dr. James Dobson is founder and president of Focus on the Family, a nonprofit organization that produces his internationally syndicated radio programs, heard by more than 200 million people daily on over 4,200 radio stations, and publishes eleven magazines sent to more than 3 million people each month. He is the author of numerous bestselling books dedicated to the preservation of the family, including Bringing Up Boys, Love for a Lifetime, and, with his wife, Shirley, Night Light: A Devotional for Couples.Dr. Dobson served on the faculty of the University of Southern California School of Medicine for fourteen years and on the attending staff of Children's Hospital of Los Angeles for seventeen years. He has been active in governmental affairs and has advised three U.S. presidents on family issues. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California in the field of child development.
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How to handle a hard-to-handle kid : a parents' guide to understanding and changing problem behaviors
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How to handle a hard-to-handle kid : a parents' guide to understanding and changing problem behaviors
Location: NF
Author: Edwards, C. Drew
Date added to Church Library: 2008-06-17
ISBN: 1-57542-046-5
LCCN: 98034589
Dewey: 649/.64 21
Accession Number: 08-065
LOC Number: HQ773.E38 1999
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Category: Problem children
User Rating: 4.0 Stars
Pages: 217
Paperback Free Spirit Pub.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Captivating : unveiling the mystery of a woman's soul
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Captivating : unveiling the mystery of a woman's soul
Location: NF
Author: Eldredge, John
Date added to Church Library: 2008-06-17
ISBN: 0-7852-6469-8
LCCN: 2004028651
Dewey: 248.8/43 22
Accession Number: 08-084
LOC Number: BV4527.E435 2005
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Category: Christian women -- Religious life
User Rating: 3.5 Stars
Pages: 243
Hardcover Nelson Books
The heart of a woman -- What Eve alone can tell -- Haunted by a question -- Wounded -- A special hatred -- Healing the wound -- Romanced -- Beauty to unveil -- Arousing adam -- Mothers, daughters, sisters -- Warrior princesses -- An irreplaceable role.
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The many faces of evil : theological systems and the problems of evil
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The many faces of evil : theological systems and the problems of evil
Location: NF
Author: Feinberg, John S.
Date added to Church Library: 2008-06-15
ISBN: 1-58134-567-4
LCCN: 2003026754
Dewey: 214 22
Accession Number: 08-032
LOC Number: BT160.F45 2004
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Category: Theodicy
User Rating: 5.0 Stars
Pages: 544
Paperback Crossway Books
Includes bibliographical references and index. Theonomy and the problem of evil -- Leibniz and the problem of evil -- The free will defense -- Several contemporary modified rationalist theologies -- God and moral evil -- God and natural evil -- Evil as evidence -- Atheistic arguments from evil -- Theists and the evidential argument from evil -- Theists and evil as evidence (II) -- Evil and evidence -- Hell and the problem of evil -- The religious problem of evil -- The religious problem : uses of suffering.
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Cracking Da Vinci's code
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Cracking Da Vinci's code
Location: NF
Author: Garlow, James L.
Date added to Church Library: 2008-06-16
ISBN: 0-7814-4165-X
LCCN: 2004029437
Dewey: 813/.54 22
Accession Number: 08-042
LOC Number: PS3552.R685434D3338 2004
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Category: Brown, Dan, 1964- Da Vinci code
User Rating: 2.5 Stars
Pages: 252
Paperback Victor
Includes bibliographical references. The code that shook the world -- God's second best idea -- Women are more sacred and feminine than the "sacred feminine" -- Jesus, who was he, really? -- Who is revising history? -- Don't shoot the canon -- The Gnostic gospels vs the New Testament gospels -- Secret knowledge -- The clash of the symbols -- Cracking the code -- Carrie's choice.
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Peace with God
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Peace with God
Location: NF
Author: Graham, Billy
Date added to Church Library: 2008-06-17
ISBN: 0-8499-0464-1
LCCN: 84017421
Dewey: 230 19
Accession Number: 08-078
LOC Number: BT77.G78 1984
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Category: Theology, Doctrinal -- Popular works
User Rating: 5.0 Stars
Pages: 220
Hardcover Word Books
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Billy Graham wrote Peace with God: The Secret of Happiness in 1953, a time that is often remembered today for its innocence and simplicity. Yet Graham's book, which is essentially an explanation of Christian grace, reminds readers that the stress and anxiety we face today are abiding aspects of the human condition, as challenging in the 21st century as they were in the Eisenhower era. "You are not alone," Graham writes. "All mankind is traveling with you, for all mankind is on [the] same quest. All humanity is seeking the answer to the confusion, the moral sickness, the spiritual emptiness that oppresses the world. All mankind is crying out for guidance, for comfort, for peace."
Graham answers those cries with a comprehensive story of humanity's sin and redemption in the person of Christ. Like a traditional sermon, Peace with God includes three sections that are intended to change the reader's heart: "Assessing the Situation" (of fallen humanity); "Advancing the Solution" (to the problems of sin); and "Applying the Antidote" (of Christian belief and spiritual power). By the end of the book, Graham offers "Peace at Last." His exhortation to believe is powerful and decisive: "It's all yours, and it's free. You don't have to work for it," he explains. At Graham's conclusion, the reader may come to understand that peace and freedom, as much as stress and anxiety, are abiding aspects of the human condition, and really can be found. --Kevin Attwood --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Product Description
Dr. Graham shares God's gentle reassuring promise of spiritual calm-of authentic spiritual peace-amidst a personal life wracked with too much stress, too many burdens, too great a heart-ache period. Drawing from Romans 5:1, "Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ," Dr. Graham addresses such issues as: After Death-What?, Why Jesus Came, What is Faith, Hope for the Future, and Peace at Last. With quiet confidence and surefooted faith, Billy Graham points unerringly toward the One who is the only dependable source of the peace that passes understanding. Both comforting and challenging, this classic explanation of the human predicament and the divine answer has been changing lives for generations. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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The name
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The name
Location: NF
Author: Graham, Franklin
Date added to Church Library: 2008-06-16
ISBN: 0-7852-6522-8
LCCN: 2002008318
Dewey: 232 21
Accession Number: 08-052
LOC Number: BT590.N2G73 2002
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Category: Jesus Christ -- Name
User Rating: 4.0 Stars
Pages: 223
Hardcover Thomas Nelson Publishers
Blasting the name -- "You offended me" -- Pray in the name? -- War -- Where's the tolerance? -- Above other "gods" -- The importance of a name -- The name in time -- The advance -- Investing -- Freedom fighter -- Serving -- Reaching the stranger -- By what power-by what name? -- The new plague -- The blood of the land -- The devil's doorstep.
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Making Families Work: A New Search for Christian Values
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Making Families Work: A New Search for Christian Values
Location: NF
Author: Grimer, Margaret
Date added to Church Library: 2008-06-16
ISBN: 0-225-66722-3
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Accession Number: 08-041
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Category: Christian life & practice
User Rating:
Pages: 128
Paperback Geoffrey Chapman Publishers
Synopsis
Growing public concern about the quality of life has caused the United Nations to choose 1994 as the Year of the Family. This work offers a new vision for family life today and practical ways to achieve it. Based upon the author's experience as a marriage counsellor, it includes scripture and reflections on relationships. The book is intended for pastors, counsellors, parish and study groups and for those wishing to lead more fulfilled family lives.
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Praying the attributes of God : a guide to personal worship through prayer
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Praying the attributes of God : a guide to personal worship through prayer
Location: NF
Author: Jensen, Rosemary
Date added to Church Library: 2008-06-17
ISBN: 0-8254-2942-0
LCCN: 2002006249
Dewey: 242/.8 21
Accession Number: 08-060
LOC Number: BT130.J45 2002
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Category: God (Christianity) -- Attributes -- Meditations
User Rating: 4.5 Stars
Pages: 176
Paperback Kregel Publications
Accessible -- Creator -- Eternal -- Faithful -- Father -- Glory -- Good -- Gracious -- Guide -- Holy -- Impartial -- Immutable -- Incomprehensible -- Infinite -- Invisible -- Jealous -- Just -- Long-suffering -- Love -- Merciful -- Omnipotent -- Omnipresent -- Omniscient -- Perfect -- Person -- Preserver -- Provider -- Righteous -- Savior -- Sovereign -- Wise.
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Dear Charlie : letters to my children
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Dear Charlie : letters to my children
Location: NF
Author: Kimball, Christopher
Date added to Church Library: 2008-06-15
ISBN: 1-57673-490-0
LCCN: 99035206
Dewey: 306.874/09743 21
Accession Number: 08-035
LOC Number: HQ755.8.K558 1999
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Category: Kimball, Christopher -- Correspondence
User Rating: 4.0 Stars
Pages: 240
Hardcover Multnomah
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The gentle, thoughtful letters in Dear Charlie make perfect companions for those rare moments of peace in any parent's busy life. Christopher Kimball, known to cooking enthusiasts as the editor of Cook's Illustrated magazine, has collected a lovely series of letters he has written to his four children over the years, some for a specific child, and some as part of a general correspondence to them all. The letters are full of the wonders of children, and the delights and questions they bring to their parents daily. Divided into chapters, the letters fall into categories such as "Lessons Learned" and "Amazing Grace." If time doesn't allow for reading the chapter all at once, each letter stands well on its own. With tales of small New England towns, warm kitchens, walks by a river, and other simple joys, the mildly spiritual overtones in this book are a soothing reminder to slow down and enjoy each passing moment spent as a family. --Jill Lightner
Product Description
As parents, we know that adults and children inhabit different worlds. Sons spy bears in the woods; fathers see the hand of God in each gesture of the newborn. All mothers and fathers want to bring those two worlds together and open their hearts, minds, and wisdom to their children, but the words are hard to find. Dear Charlie, by author and father-of-four Christopher Kimball, is a tender and uplifting compilation of just such words. These are heartwarming letters we want to send to our children and unspoken words we wish our parents had left for us -- all filled with eternal truths that apply to any age.
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The Applause Of Heaven
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The Applause Of Heaven
Location: NF
Author: Lucado, Max
Date added to Church Library: 2008-06-17
ISBN: 0-8499-3752-3
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Accession Number: 08-073
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Category: Audio Books
User Rating: 5.0 Stars
Pages: 219
Paperback Word Publishing
Product Description
It is what you always dreamed but never expected. It's having God as your dad, your biggest fan, and your best friend. It is having the King of Kings in your cheering section. It is hearing the applause of heaven. Max Lucado believes that the Beatitudes provide what we need to discover the the joy of God. Much more than a how-to book on happiness. The Applause of Heaven is an encounter with the Source of Joy.
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Twelve extraordinary women : how God shaped women of the Bible and what He wants to do with you
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Twelve extraordinary women : how God shaped women of the Bible and what He wants to do with you
Location: NF
Author: MacArthur, John
Date added to Church Library: 2008-06-17
ISBN: 0-7852-6256-3
LCCN: 2005021006
Dewey: 220.9/2/082 22
Accession Number: 08-076
LOC Number: BS575.M26 2005
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Category: Women in the Bible -- Biography
User Rating: 4.0 Stars
Pages: 205
Hardcover Nelson Books
Eve: mother of all living -- Sarah: hoping against hope -- Rahab: a horrible life redeemed -- Ruth: loyalty and love -- Hannah: a portrait of feminine grace -- Mary: blessed among women -- Anna: the faithful witness -- The Samaritan woman: finding the water of life -- Martha and Mary: working and worshiping -- Mary Magdalene: delivered from darkness -- Lydia: a hospitable heart opened.
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God's rivals : why has God allowed different religions? : insights from the Bible and the early church
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God's rivals : why has God allowed different religions? : insights from the Bible and the early church
Location: NF
Author: McDermott, Gerald R. (Gerald Robert)
Date added to Church Library: 2008-06-17
ISBN: 0-8308-2564-9
LCCN: 2006101564
Dewey: 261.2 22
Accession Number: 08-053
LOC Number: BR127.M215 2007
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Category: Christianity and other religions
User Rating: 3.5 Stars
Pages: 181
Paperback IVP Academic
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. The scandal of particularity : why has the true God come to only some people at some times? -- Not even in Israel have I found such faith : surprising knowledge of God among Bible people outside Israel and the church -- The Lord of Hosts : the Old Testament and the real existence of other gods -- Principalities and powers : the New Testament on other real supernatural powers besides God -- Seeds of the Word : Justin Martyr on seeds of the Word in other religions -- Divine pedagogy : Irenaeus explains how God uses the religions -- A divine gift to the Greeks : Clement of Alexandria and the Gentile covenants -- Diverse destinies by diverse choices : Origen's warnings about other religions -- What are the religions? and why are they there? : collecting the strands -- Appendix : God and the masculine pronoun.
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Each day with Jesus : daily devotions through the year
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Each day with Jesus : daily devotions through the year
Location: NF
Author: Norden, Rudolph F.
Date added to Church Library: 2008-06-17
ISBN: 0-570-04655-6
LCCN: 94013495
Dewey: 242/.2 20
Accession Number: 08-061
LOC Number: BV4811.N64 1994
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Category: Devotional calendars -- Lutheran Church
User Rating: 5.0 Stars
Pages: 362
Hardcover CPH
From the Publisher
This inspiring collection of daily devotions draws you closer to Jesus through short reflections on His person, preaching, teaching, and especially His living work of redemption for you. You'll find strength and encouragement in your walk with Jesus as you grow in your commitment to Him every day.
Synopsis
This inspiring collection of daily devotions draws you closer to Jesus through short reflections on His person, preaching, teaching, and especially His living work of redemption for you. You'll find strength and encouragement in your walk with Jesus as you grow in your commitment to Him every day.
Annotation
Daily devotions for every day of the year originally presented on the International Lutheran Laymen's program Day by Day with Jesus.
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Gettin' old ain't for wimps
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Gettin' old ain't for wimps
Location: NF
Author: O'Connor, Karen
Date added to Church Library: 2008-06-17
ISBN: 0-7369-1476-5
LCCN: 2004003883
Dewey: 248.8/5 22
Accession Number: 08-075
LOC Number: BV4580.O355 2004
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Category: Older Christians -- Religious life
User Rating: 5.0 Stars
Pages: 239
Paperback Harvest House
Product Description
Speaker and author Karen OConnor urges her postfifty friends to laugh and love all the way home to the Fathers house. With humor and wisdom, Karen shares personal and gathered stories about the blessings of surviving and surpassing middleage.
Gettin Old Aint for Wimps overflows with candor and helps the boomin baby boomer market celebrate with:
funny stories of the antics and adventures of getting older
conversations with God for a deeper prayer life
hopeful words for the tough times
For those who have already traded in their wimp status for a more courageous existence or those still wondering about the future, this delightful read affirms that the latter decades are filled with Gods promises and joys.
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Everybody's normal till you get to know them
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Everybody's normal till you get to know them
Location: NF
Author: Ortberg, John
Date added to Church Library: 2008-06-17
ISBN: 0-310-22864-6
LCCN: 2002154461
Dewey: 248.4 21
Accession Number: 08-074
LOC Number: BV625.O78 2003
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Category: Fellowship -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
User Rating: 4.5 Stars
Pages: 248
Hardcover Willow Creek
Includes bibliographical references (235-248). The porcupine's dilemma -- The wonder of oneness -- The fellowship of the mat : true friendship -- Unveiled faces : authenticity -- Put down your stones : acceptance -- The art of reading people : empathy -- Community is worth fighting for : conflict -- Spiritual surgery : forgiveness -- The gift nobody wants : confrontation -- Breaking down barriers : inclusion -- The secret of a loving heart : gratitude -- Normal at last : heaven.
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90 minutes in heaven : a true story of death & life
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90 minutes in heaven : a true story of death & life
Location: NF
Author: Piper, Don
Date added to Church Library: 2008-06-16
ISBN: 0-8007-5949-4
LCCN: 2004006778
Dewey: 231.7/3/092 22
Accession Number: 08-045
LOC Number: BT846.3.P56 2004
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Category: Heaven -- Christianity
User Rating: 4.0 Stars
Pages: 207
Hardcover Revell
Includes bibliographical references (p. 207). The accident -- My time in heaven -- Heavenly music -- From heaven to earth -- Earth to hospital -- The recovery begins -- Decisions and challenges -- Pain and adjustments -- Endless adjustments -- More miracles -- Back to church -- Opening up -- The clasping hand -- The new normal -- Touching lives -- Finding purpose -- Longing for home -- The why questions.
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The dangerous duty of delight
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The dangerous duty of delight
Location: NF
Author: Piper, John
Date added to Church Library: 2008-06-16
ISBN: 1-57673-883-3
LCCN: 2001003826
Dewey: 248.4 21
Accession Number: 08-048
LOC Number: BV4817.P55 2001
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Category: God (Christianity) -- Worship and love
User Rating: 4.0 Stars
Pages: 91
Hardcover Multnomah Publishers
"Condensed version of Desiring God : meditations of a Christian Hedonist, from Multnomah Publishers, 1996"--P. 90. Includes bibliographical references (p. [85]-91).
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When GOD Winks: How the Power of Coincidence Guides Your Life
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When GOD Winks: How the Power of Coincidence Guides Your Life
Location: NF
Author: Rushnell, SQuire
Date added to Church Library: 2008-06-16
ISBN: 0-7434-6707-8
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Accession Number: 08-044
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Category: Christianity
User Rating: 4.0 Stars
Pages: 184
Hardcover Atria
From AudioFile
A God wink is a coincidence that reminds us that we are connected to a higher power that can guide us to achieve things with our gifts. It is a signal we can look for, plot, and understand, and it can help us tune in to a more spiritual way of operating in the world. The stories are persuasive and the author, an acclaimed TV producer, pulls out all the emotional stops to deliver them with enthusiasm and wonder. Mental and written exercises throughout the program are appropriate to the author's purpose, though the stories by themselves will grab your attention whether you plug into the exercises or not. A captivating experience for your own enjoyment or for someone you know who needs a lift. T.W. © AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.
Product Description
It is not by accident that you just picked up When God Winks. Whether you call it synchronicity or coincidence, what brought you to this book today is worth remembering. In fact, you may have suspected all along that there is more to coincidence than meets the eye. These seemingly random events are actually signposts that can help you successfully navigate your career, relationships, and interests. SQuire Rushnell shows us that by recognizing our "God Winks," we can use the untapped power of coincidence to vastly improve our lives.
The author applies his compelling theory as to why coincidences exist to fascinating stories in history, sports, medicine, and relationships involving both everyday and famous people including Barbra Streisand, Charles Schulz, Oprah Winfrey, Kevin Costner, Mark Twain, and Presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.
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Earthly fathers : a memoir : a coming-of-age story about faith and the search for a father's love
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Earthly fathers : a memoir : a coming-of-age story about faith and the search for a father's love
Location: NF
Author: Sawyer, Scott
Date added to Church Library: 2008-06-15
ISBN: 0-310-23003-9
LCCN: 00051290
Dewey: 976.4/063/092 B 21
Accession Number: 08-034
LOC Number: CT275.S3389A3 2001
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Category: Sawyer, Scott
User Rating: 5.0 Stars
Pages: 203
Hardcover Zondervan
Philip Yancey, author, Reaching for the Invisible God
"A wonderful new talent."
Book Description
In this moving and tender memoir, Scott Sawyer traces his relationship with two men--the father who died shortly after Scott was born, and the man who took his place and loved Scott and his brother as only a dad can. Here is a celebration of the joys of family and a poignant reflection on it's sorrows and intimate insights into the character of our heavenly Father.
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Help, my little girl's growing up
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Help, my little girl's growing up
Location: NF
Author: Smith, Annette Gail
Date added to Church Library: 2008-06-17
ISBN: 0-7369-0279-1
LCCN: 00047118
Dewey: 649/.133 21
Accession Number: 08-077
LOC Number: HQ798.S568 2001
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Category: Teenage girls
User Rating: 4.0 Stars
Pages: 175
Hardcover Harvest House Publishers
From the Publisher
With big doses of humor and lots of practical tips, author Annette Smith guides you through the often tumultuous teen years when your little girl becomes a woman. You'll learn how to enhance communication with your daughter, deepen her Christian faith, and boost her confidence. Fashion tips, beauty secrets, and hints on how to provide emotional support will help you learn how to survive and enjoy your daughter's transition into young womanhood.
Synopsis
With big doses of humor and lots of practical tips, author Annette Smith guides you through the often tumultuous teen years when your little girl becomes a woman. You'll learn how to enhance communication with your daughter, deepen her Christian faith, and boost her confidence. Fashion tips, beauty secrets, and hints on how to provide emotional support will help you learn how to survive and enjoy your daughter's transition into young womanhood.
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Children who do too little : why your kids need to work around the house (and how to get them to do it)
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Children who do too little : why your kids need to work around the house (and how to get them to do it)
Location: NF
Author: Sprinkle, Patricia Houck
Date added to Church Library: 2008-06-17
ISBN: 0-310-21146-8
LCCN: 96014879
Dewey: 649/.1 20
Accession Number: 08-064
LOC Number: HQ784.W6S67 1996
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Category: Work
User Rating: 5.0 Stars
Pages: 203
Hardcover Zondervan Publishing House
Originally published: Do I have to? c1993. Includes bibliographical references.
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The Millionaire Next Door
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The Millionaire Next Door
Location: NF
Author: Stanley, Thomas J.
Date added to Church Library: 2008-06-16
ISBN: 0-671-01520-6
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Accession Number: 08-046
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Category: Advice on careers & achieving success
User Rating: 4.0 Stars
Pages: 272
Paperback Pocket
Amazon.com
How can you join the ranks of America's wealthy (defined as people whose net worth is over one million dollars)? It's easy, say doctors Stanley and Danko, who have spent the last 20 years interviewing members of this elite club: you just have to follow seven simple rules. The first rule is, always live well below your means. The last rule is, choose your occupation wisely. You'll have to buy the book to find out the other five. It's only fair. The authors' conclusions are commonsensical. But, as they point out, their prescription often flies in the face of what we think wealthy people should do. There are no pop stars or athletes in this book, but plenty of wall-board manufacturers--particularly ones who take cheap, infrequent vacations! Stanley and Danko mercilessly show how wealth takes sacrifice, discipline, and hard work, qualities that are positively discouraged by our high-consumption society. "You aren't what you drive," admonish the authors. Somewhere, Benjamin Franklin is smiling. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
From Library Journal
In The Millionaire Next Door, read by Cotter Smith, Stanley (Marketing to the Affluent) and Danko (marketing, SUNY at Albany) summarize findings from their research into the key characteristics that explain how the elite club of millionaires have become "wealthy." Focusing on those with a net worth of at least $1 million, their surprising results reveal fundamental qualities of this group that are diametrically opposed to today's earn-and-consume culture, including living below their means, allocating funds efficiently in ways that build wealth, ignoring conspicuous consumption, being proficient in targeting marketing opportunities, and choosing the "right" occupation. It's evident that anyone can accumulate wealth, if they are disciplined enough, determined to persevere, and have the merest of luck. In The Millionaire Mind, an excellent follow-up to the highly successful first analysis of how ordinary folks can accumulate wealth, Stanley interviews many more participants in a much more comprehensive study of the characteristics of those in this economic situation. The author structures these deeper details into categories that include the key success factors that define this group, the relationship of education to their success, their approach to balancing risk, how they located themselves in their work, their choice of spouse, how they live their daily lives, and the significant differences in the truth about this group vs. the misplaced image of high spenders. Narrator Smith's solid, dead-on reading never fails to heighten the importance of these principles that most twentysomethings should be forced to listen to in toto. Highly recommended for all public libraries. Dale Farris, Groves, TX
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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The case for faith : a journalist investigates the toughest objections to Christianity
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The case for faith : a journalist investigates the toughest objections to Christianity
Location: NF
Author: Strobel, Lee
Date added to Church Library: 2008-06-16
ISBN: 0-310-23469-7
LCCN: 00057216
Dewey: 239 21
Accession Number: 08-038
LOC Number: BT1102.S77 2000
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Category: Apologetics
User Rating: 3.5 Stars
Pages: 300
Paperback ZondervanPublishingHouse
Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-290) and index.
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Reliving the passion : meditations on the suffering, death, and resurrection of Jesus as recorded in Mark
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Reliving the passion : meditations on the suffering, death, and resurrection of Jesus as recorded in Mark
Location: NF
Author: Wangerin, Walter
Date added to Church Library: 2008-06-17
ISBN: 0-310-75530-1
LCCN: 91032854
Dewey: 232.96 20
Accession Number: 08-070
LOC Number: BT431.W35 1992
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Category: Jesus Christ -- Passion -- Prayers and
User Rating: 4.5 Stars
Pages: 156
Hardcover Zondervan Pub. House
Product Description
Author Walter Wangerin, Jr., retells the Passion story (from Mark's version) and gives it new relevance for today's reader.
From the Publisher
From the Award-Winning AUTHOR of The Book of God-- Jesus' Passion, Revisited with the Emotion and Immediacy of a Master Storyteller As only a great storyteller can, Walter Wangerin takes his readers inside the story of Christ's passion. Drawn from the Gospel of Mark, Reliving the Passion translates the events--from the moment when the chief priests plot to kill Jesus to the Resurrection--into the realm of feeling, image, and experience. In richly personal detail, Wangerin helps us recognize our own faces in the streets of Jerusalem; breathe the dark air of Golgotha; and experience, as Mary and Peter did, the bewilderment, the challenge, and the ultimate revelation of knowing the man called Jesus. A perfect devotional for the Lenten season.
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The Bible Jesus read
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The Bible Jesus read
Location: NF
Author: Yancey, Philip
Date added to Church Library: 2008-06-17
ISBN: 0-310-22834-4
LCCN:
Dewey: 221.6 21
Accession Number: 08-072
LOC Number: BS1171.2.Y36 1999
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Category: Bible. O.T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
User Rating: 4.0 Stars
Pages: 221
Hardcover Zondervan
Amazon.com
Philip Yancey, editor at large and columnist for Christianity Today, follows up his back-to-back bestselling books, What's So Amazing About Grace and The Jesus I Never Knew, with The Bible Jesus Read, an exploration of the significance of the Old Testament to today's Christian.
Given previous book titles--Where Is God When It Hurts, Disappointment with God, and The Gift of Pain--one might jokingly suggest that in the Old Testament Yancey has found his true home. He acknowledges that in studying key sections of the Hebrew Bible (he concentrates on Job, Deuteronomy, The Psalms, Ecclesiastes, and the Prophets) he found himself confronted by the core questions that haunt his Christian faith: Do I matter? Does God care? Why doesn't God act? As always, Yancey explores these central human questions with a style that is marked by directness, humor, and honesty. He writes not as theologian or mystic but as a questioning seeker. Rather than providing simple answers--he in fact says that "by no means did Jesus resolve the problem of pain"--he instead affirms the words of Thomas Merton, which he quotes in his Introduction: "There is ... nothing comfortable about the Bible--until we manage to get so used to it that we make it comfortable for ourselves."
Even as he finds the Old Testament a "companion for my pilgrimage," so is Yancey a companion for his readers, precisely through his willingness to ask --and his courage not to answer--all the hard questions. --Doug Thorpe
From Publishers Weekly
Yancey is an astute author who challenges Christians' assumptions without alienating them. In The Bible Jesus Read, Yancey encourages readers to consider how Hebrew ScriptureAwhat Christians call the Old TestamentAis relevant to their own lives. His premise is that although many Christians tacitly consider the New Testament more important than the Old, the New Testament was written after Jesus' earthly ministry, making the Old Testament "the Bible Jesus read." Hebrew Scripture was the greatest influence on the mind and spirit of the founder of Christianity, a fact that, in the author's estimation, obligates Christians to know it well. Yancey acknowledges the difficulty of transcending the cultural gulf between modern civilization and ancient Israel and seeks to bridge the gap by highlighting sections of the Old Testament that he initially found hard to appreciate. The writings of the Prophets were particularly obscure to Yancey because of the nonnarrative style and assumption of a warrior culture. However, he gradually discovered the passages' deep relevance to, and resonance with, his own experience. He came to love these Old Testament books when he realized that many of their concerns, such as justice for the poor and faithfulness to God, are timeless. Yancey's lucid style and honest handling of difficult ideas ensure that readers who have enjoyed his earlier books will not be disappointed in this one. (Sept.) FYI: Zondervan will simultaneously release an audio version, read by the author (two cassettes, 2 hrs., $16.99 ISBN 0-310-22982-0).
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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