Library News
May 11, 2008
In Five Languages of Apology: How to Experience Healing in All Your Relationships, Gary Chapman gives proven techniques for speaking and hearing effective apologies. In Boundaries In Marriage, learn how respecting a spouse’s personal “territory” actually strengthens a relationship and safeguards your marriage from intruders such as idols, affairs, and well-meaning parents. Drawing on biblical principles and real-life stories in Forgiveness: Your Journey to Freedom, Nancy DeMoss helps you repair relationships with spouses and others.
May 5, 2008
Rescue Your Love Life: Changing Those Dumb Attitudes and Behaviors That Will Sink Your Marriage by Drs. Henry Cloud and John Townsend is “just what the doctor ordered.” If our marriage is drowning in a sea of good intentions and misplaced priorities, they will show how to reignite our marriages beginning with self-examination and setting realistic expectations. They also share how to master healthy communication, build trust, enhance romance and offer strategies for avoiding temptation that can destroy God’s plan for marriage. Available in your Church Library.
April 27, 2008
Jerry Bridges, author of Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate, believes our culture has lost the concept of sin. Drawing from scriptural truths, he sheds light on subtle behaviors such as jealousy and selfishness that can derail our spiritual growth – and our marriages. Experiencing the Cross, by Henry Blackaby, calls us to radically deal with sin and welcome God’s presence into our lives. Both books are available in your Church Library.
April 20, 2008
“Without love from him, she reacts without respect; without respect from her, he reacts without love. I call it the Crazy Cycle that has thousands of couples in its grip.” Let Emerson Eggerich show you how to get off that cycle. Check out Love and Respect today – in your Church Library.
April 13, 2008
Love Your Marriage Enough to Protect It (by Jerry Jenkins)? Make yours a Sacred Marriage (Gary Thomas) by reading and applying principles you’ll find in these and the other 32 books on marriage in your Church Library.
Church Library Hours: Wednesdays on the College Street Campus from 10:00 a.m. until 7:15 p.m. Sundays at the Boyce Thompson Campus – before and after worship hours.
CHECKOUT POLICY: Books are loaned for a period of two weeks with the option to renew unless there is a waiting list. Audio materials may be checked out for a period of one week. Special arrangements will be made for longer loan periods if needed.
At the present time the library collection numbers over 3400 items – fiction and non-fiction books for adults, youth, and children; videos; CD’s, books-on-tape, and reference materials. We are constantly adding to our collection using our Selection Policy as a guideline, and welcome suggestions for items to be added. We accept gifts to purchase books in memory of and in honor of someone you love.
LIBRARY STAFF: Director – Linda Barber, Teesha Bell, Teresa Bevens, Mary Ann Booth, and Sherrie Spears. E-mail address: (checked weekly on Wednesdays) or call Linda Barber at 601-668-9100.