The Marriage You’ve Always Wanted

Do you want to improve your marriage? Did last fall’s study of The Five Love Languages make you curious about about ways to improve your marriage? The library has copies of The Marriage You’ve Always Wanted and a study guide for the same book available for $10 apiece. The books are available for purchase in the library. Please call to reserve a copy! 738-7767

Christianity Today 2010 Award Winning Books available in the library:

Apologetics/Evangelism

God is Great, God is Good: Why Believing in God is Reasonable and Responsible by William Lane Craig and Chad Meister

Faith at the Edge: A Book for Doubters by Robert N. Wennberg (Award of Merit)

Biblical Studies

Sin: A History by Gary A. Anderson

Christianity and Culture

Souls in Transition: the Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults by Christian Smith and Patricia Snell

American Babylon: Notes of a Christian Exile by Richard John Neuhaus (Award of Merit)

Christian Living

I Told Me So: Self Deception and the Christian Life by Gregg A. Ten Elshof

Singled Out: Why Celibacy Must be Reinvented in Today’s Church by Christine A. Colon and Bonnie E. Field (Award of Merit)

The Church/Pastoral Leadership

Deep Church: A Third Way Beyond Emerging and Traditional by Jim Belcher

Why We Love the Church: In Praise of Institutions and Organized Religion by Kevin DeYoung and Ted Kluck

The Monkey and the Fish: Liquid Leadership for a Third-Culture Church by Dave Gibbons (Award of Merit)

Fiction

Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Angel Time by Anne Rice (Award of Merit)

History/Biography

The Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels by Janet Soskice

Missions/Global Affairs

The New Shape of World Christianity: How American Experience Reflects Global Faith by Mark A. Noll

The Hole in Our Gospel: What Does God Expect of Us? By Richard Stearns (Award of Merit)

Spirituality

Longing for God: Seven Paths of Christian Devotion by Richard J. Foster and Gayle D. Beebe

The End of Suffering: Finding Purpose in Pain by Scott Cairns (Award of Merit)

Theology/Ethics

Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview and Cultural Formation by James K. Smith

The God I Don’t Understand: Reflections on Tough Questions of Faith by Christopher J. Wright

Knowing Christ Today: Why We Can Trust Spiritual K

Story time in the library at Trinity Baptist Church

Mother Goose on the Loose Thursdays, Ages 1-2.5 from 10 – 10:30 a.m. Story time will include puppets, music, picture books, etc. Ages 2.5-PreK from 10:30 – 11 a.m. Story time will include picture books and light reading   All children are welcome to join us; parents must stay for story time. We’ll read a story or two, then parents and children are welcome to explore our library for exciting books and DVDs for check-out!.

Extra Training Sesson

    For leaders of Adult Sunday School classes who either missed the recent training session or for those desiring to read more, the library has a copy of the Adult Sunday School Leaders’ Resource Manual. Put together by Wayne and Veronica Grant, John Park Jr. and Les and Vicki Hollon, the manual contains a lot of useful information. The library also has copies of the books mentioned in the manual’s Outreach section: The Present Future: Six Tough Questions for the Church by Reggie McNeal (262 McN) and UnChristian by David Kinnaman (277.3 Kin). 

Library Volunteers Needed:

    The Library needs volunteers! Do you love to read? Do you have basic computer skills? We need your help. We need circulation desk help on Wednesday afternoons and on Sunday mornings. We will also be working on some special projects this year and are looking for people interested in helping with story times, in data entry for memorial books and in other special projects that can be done throughout the week. If you have one or two extra hours a month or even weekly and enjoy books and sharing books with others please contact Ginna Ballard at 738-7767.

    Making a small donation for a book to be placed in our church library is a wonderful way to remember or honor someone important in your life. It’s always interesting to be especially touched by a certain book and learn that it was placed in memory of someone who was important in the life of our church. There are also many interesting children’s book donations. One book contains handprints from children who gave a book in honor of their favorite Sunday School teacher. We also have many children’s books placed in honor of birthdays and Baptisms.

   As the holiday season approaches keep the church library in mind. A library book is a wonderful gift to give that can be shared by many!

Ginna Ballard

Media Center Director

210-738-7767

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