Can God see me in the dark?

Author: Lozano, Neal
2007 / Book / Junior
Location: Children's Library   J   150   LOZ  
Summary: Anna is afraid of the dark, but her grandfather explains that Jesus is with her even when it's dark.
Publisher: Maple Corners Press
Subjects:   EMOTIONAL HEALTH
(Added: 11/4/2017)
   
 

What can I give God?

Author: Lozano, Neal
2008 / Book / Junior
Location: Children's Library   J   248   LOZ  
Summary: During her birthday celebration, Anna realizes that the best gifts are those we can give back to God. A story for children about gifts and generosity.
Publisher: Maple Corners Press
Subjects:   GIFT-GIVING
(Added: 11/4/2017)
   
 

Superbook explorer, volume 11.

Author: Superbook,
2017 / DVD / Junior
Location: Children's Library   J   DVD   220   SUP
Summary: Two Bible stories, "Job" and "The Good Samaritan," plus Bible background information, Signposts revealing how these stories point to Jesus as Messiah, music videos, and a drawing lesson (the Good Samaritan).
Publisher: The Christian Broadcasting Network
Subjects: Superbook Explorer series, volume 11.   BIBLE - STORIES\BIBLE - OLD TESTAMENT\BIBLE - NEW TESTAMENT\SPANISH LANGUAGE
(Added: 11/4/2017)
Note: Combined run time: 59 minutes. See inside album for segment times. Includes English and Spanish audio and subtitles.    
 

People of the Book: a novel.

Author: Macias, Kathi
2011 / Book / Adults
Location: Main Library   FIC   MAC   ED-4  
Summary: Farah lives in Saudi Arabia with her family and wants to develop a deeper devotion to her Muslim faith. All goes well until the prophet Isa, Jesus, appears to her in a dream and calls her to himself. Farah's cousin frequents an online chat where she discovers former Muslims discussing their new belief that Isa is much more than a Muslim prophet, he is actually the Son of God. Each finds her faith put to the test. Will God protect them, or will they pay the ultimate price for their faith?
Publisher: New Hope Publishers
Subjects: Extreme Devotion series, book 4.   PERSECUTION\ISLAM\EVANGELISM
(Added: 11/4/2017)
   
 

American gospel: God, the founding fathers, and the making of a nation.

Author: Meacham, Jon
2006 / Book / Adults
Location: Main Library   900   MEA    
Summary: The American Gospel–literally, the good news about America–is that religion shapes our public life without controlling it. Meacham has written and spoken extensively about religion and politics, and he brings historical authority and a sense of hope to the issue.
Publisher: Random House
Subjects:   UNITED STATES\HISTORY\RELIGION
(Added: 11/4/2017)
   
 

Can man live without God?

Author: Zacharias, Ravi
1994 / Book / Adults
Location: Main Library   230   ZAC    
Summary: In this brilliant and compelling defense of the Christian faith, Ravi Zacharias shows how affirming the reality of God's existence matters urgently in our everyday lives.
Publisher: W Publishing Group
Subjects:   APOLOGETICS\ATHEISM
(Added: 11/4/2017)
   
 

No longer a slumdog: bringing hope to children in need.

Author: Yohannan, K. P.
2011 / Book / Adults
Location: Main Library   266   YOH    
Summary: An abandoned girl who found hope at the end of the railroad tracks, a young boy who escaped after years of forced servitude, and many others whose lives have been redeemed. K.P. Yohannan leads you on a powerful journey through the slums and villages of South Asia into the hearts and lives of these precious children.
Publisher: GFA Books/Gospel for Asia
Subjects:   MISSIONS\ASIA\CHILDREN
(Added: 11/4/2017)
   
 

Mind siege: the battle for truth in the new millennium.

Author: LaHaye, Tim
2000 / Book / Adults
Location: Main Library   230   LAH    
Summary: Popular author Dr. Tim LaHaye provides encouragement and practical suggestions for evangelical Christians to return families, churches, schools, and our country to moral and spiritual truth. The Prologue to "Mind Siege" is fiction--written in the trademark LaHaye style--vividly illustrating the importance of the battle for the mind.
Publisher: Word Publishing
Subjects:   APOLOGETICS
(Added: 11/4/2017)
   
 

Lifestories: finding God's voice of truth through everyday life.

Author: Hall, Mark
2006 / Book / Adults
Location: Main Library   264   HAL    
Summary: Mark Hall is a master of words, rhyme, passion, and honesty, and he writes about all of the different things that went through writing the songs on Casting Crowns' first two albums.
Publisher: Provident Books
Subjects:   MUSIC\WRITING
(Added: 11/4/2017)
Note: Hall is the lead singer and songwriter for the band Casting Crowns.    
 

Something beautiful happened: a story of survival and courage in the face of evil.

Author: Corporon, Yvette Manessis
2017 / Book / Adults
Location: Main Library   BIO   COR    
Summary: Seventy years after her grandmother helped hide a Jewish family on a Greek island during World War II, a woman sets out to track down their descendants—and discovers a new way to understand tragedy, forgiveness, and the power of kindness.
Publisher: Howard Books
Subjects:   JUDAISM\FORGIVENESS\WAR
(Added: 11/4/2017)
   
 

The inner voice of love: a journey through anguish to freedom.

Author: Nouwen, Henri J. M.
1996 / Book / Adults
Location: Main Library   240   NOU    
Summary: This is Henri Nouwen's "secret journal." It was written during the most difficult period of his life, when he suddenly lost his self-esteem, his energy to live and work, his sense of being loved, even his hope in God. For the countless men and women who have to live through the pain of broken relationships, or who suffer from the loss of a loved one, this book about the inner voice of love offers new courage, new hope, even new life.
Publisher: Image Books/Doubleday
Subjects:   SPIRITUAL LIFE\RELATIONSHIPS\PERSONAL GROWTH
(Added: 10/1/2017)
   
 

A time to stand.

Author: Whitlow, Robert
2017 / Book / Adults
Location: Main Library   FIC   WHI    
Summary: In a small Georgia town where racial tensions run high and lives are at stake, can one lawyer stand up for justice against the tide of prejudice on every side?
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Subjects:   RACE RELATIONS\LEGAL RIGHTS
(Added: 10/1/2017)
   
 

To be where you are.

Author: Karon, Jan
2017 / Book / Adults
Location: Main Library   FIC   KAR   #12  
Summary: After twelve years of wrestling with the conflicts of retirement, Father Tim Kavanagh realizes he doesn't need a steady job to prove himself. Then he's given one. As for what it proves, heaven only knows.
Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons
Subjects: A Mitford Novel, book 12   FAMILY LIFE\HUMOR
(Added: 10/1/2017)
   
 

The half-stitched Amish quilting club.

Author: Brunstetter, Wanda E.
2012 / Book / Adults
Location: Main Library   FIC   BRU   HS-1  
Summary: Join the club of unlikely quilters who show up for Amish widow Emma Yoder’s quilting classes. A troubled young woman, a struggling couple, a widower, a rough and tough biker, and a preacher’s wife make up the mismatched lot. But as their problems begin to bind them together like the scraps of fabric stitched together in a quilt, they learn to open up and lend a helping hand. Is this what God had in mind to heal hurting hearts and create beauty from fragments?
Publisher: Barbour Books
Subjects: Half-Stitched Amish Quilting Club, book 1   AMISH\ROMANCE
(Added: 10/1/2017)
   
 

Love story: a novel.

Author: Kingsbury, Karen
2017 / Book / Adults
Location: Main Library   FIC   KIN   BX-2  
Summary: When John Baxter is asked to relive his long-ago love story with Elizabeth for his grandson Cole’s heritage project, he’s not sure he can do it.
Publisher: Howard Books
Subjects: The Baxter Family Collection, book 2   ROMANCE\FAMILY LIFE
(Added: 10/1/2017)
   
 

A special door.

Author: Ham, Ken
2016 / Book / Junior
Location: Main Library   J   243   HAM  
Summary: God tells Noah to put a door in the side of the Ark and it was through this single door that the animals and Noah’s family entered to be saved from the Great Flood. Our own personal salvation is also found through a single door-- that of Jesus Christ. Reveals important biblical concepts in easy-to-understand rhymes for children
Publisher: Master Books
Subjects:   BIBLE - OLD TESTAMENT\BIBLE - STORIES\EVANGELISM
(Added: 10/1/2017)
Note: A fun and interactive format that includes beautiful illustrations and flaps to open revealing the text.    
 

Five marks of a Methodist: the fruit of a living faith.

Author: Harper, Steve
2015 / Book / Adults
Location: Main Library   287   HAR    
Summary: Five marks confirm our identity as genuine and fruitful followers of Christ: (1) A Methodist Loves God (2) A Methodist Rejoices in God (3) A Methodist Gives Thanks (4) A Methodist Prays Constantly (5) A Methodist Loves Others. Based on Wesley's treatise, "The Character of a Methodist," 1742.
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Subjects:   UNITED METHODIST CHURCH\WESLEY, JOHN
(Added: 10/1/2017)
   
 

This little church had none: a church in search of the truth.

Author: Gilley, Gary E.
2009 / Book / Adults
Location: Main Library   269   GIL    
Summary: Analysis of trends that have left much of the Western church lost in a post-modern wilderness. A desperately needed message for these uncertain times, written with clarity, spiritual wisdom, biblical precision and a passion that reflects the authors' own deep love for the truth.
Publisher: E P Books
Subjects:   CHURCH RENEWAL\EVANGELISM
(Added: 10/1/2017)
   
 

The apostle: a life of Paul.

Author: Pollock, John
2012 / Book / Adults
Location: Main Library   BIO   PAU    
Summary: The drama of a novel meets scholarship in leading Christian biographer John Pollock's classic work about one of the most transforming persons in history: the apostle Paul.
Publisher: David C. Cook
Subjects:   PAUL (APOSTLE)
(Added: 10/1/2017)
   
 

Eleventh guest.

Author: Thoene, Bodie
2009 / Book / Adults
Location: Main Library   FIC   THO   AD-11  
Summary: The lepers in the Valley of Mak’ob hear rumors that a miracle worker is walking the earth. Ten are chosen to search for him, knowing that outside the Valley lies almost certain death. Could this healer be the Messiah they long for?
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
Subjects: A. D. Chronicles series, book 11   BIBLE - NEW TESTAMENT\HISTORICAL FICTION
(Added: 10/1/2017)