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You can’t be a doctor without a stethoscope. You can’t be a carpenter without a hammer and a saw. The ministry leader, disciplemaker, pastor and shepherd tools are his books. We’re in the feeding, teaching, leading and communicating business. Reading helps us do that more effectively.
What you Don't Read is as Important as what you do.
Library Talk
What book leaves you wanting more(even if it's a satisfying ending)?
The Books
Janurary 2020
You can be a spiritual warrior. In Put Your Warrior Boots On, Lisa Whittle shares how women can experience joy and victory in their lives. She'll help readers listen to truth and defend themselves from anti-biblical messages, develop passion for defending their beliefs, and more. Discover the fearless life you've been called to live.
February 2020
Does God's love make a difference in your life? According to Francis Chan, it should. We should be sold-out, on fire, passionate and compassionate believers- because of God's amazing love for us. Crazy Love will force you to re-examine your heart and the attitudes that shape your choices. You'll be challenged to give God everything-your heart, soul and mind.
March 2020
In ancient times, names held power and significance, representing a person's future or personality. Throughout Scripture, God reveals His complex character by identifying Himself by different names – names that shed light on who He is and how we should relate to Him. In this engaging book, the popular Girlfriends in God devotional team introduces you to forty of those names, each of which invites you to glory in a different aspect of our amazing God.
In each day's reading you’ll encounter personal, inspiring stories and biblical truths that lead you to a deeper understanding of who God is and what He does on your behalf. You'll be fed with Scripture that you can apply to your unique circumstances. And most important, as you come to know Him by name, you'll draw closer to God and learn to trust Him more fully.
April 2020
Take your career to the next level, realize your greatest dreams, and embrace your God-given talents with this practical game plan for your professional and personal life.Too often we remain in jobs that stifle our souls and leave us on the runway of opportunity with the engine of our deepest passion stalled, watching others make their personal vision a reality and build a legacy for their children. But it's never too late to get your dreams off the ground -- God sees great things in your future If you long to amplify your unique abilities, if you strive to balance personal fulfillment and professional satisfaction, if you dream of fulfilling God's destiny for you, then you are ready to Soar In Soar T.D. Jakes reveals how to transform your own unique vision into a powerful contribution to the world. Blending a CEO's practical business acumen with a life coach's dynamic inspiration, Soar will stir your imagination into action, challenge you to embrace your God-given purpose, and align your character and creativity with your career. Bridging both the corporate and nonprofit worlds, Soar is a practical and easy-to-follow flight plan for launching the entrepreneurial drive inside of you. You'll learn how to adopt the mindset of people who don't wait to see what will happen but strategically build the wings that will take them to new heights. So buckle your seat belt and prepare for liftoff -- you have been cleared to fly beyond your fears, to absolutely soar
May 2020
According to Pastor Mark Batterson in his book, The Circle Maker, “Drawing prayer circles around our dreams isn’t just a mechanism whereby we accomplish great things for God. It’s a mechanism whereby God accomplishes great things in us.” Do you ever sense that there’s far more to prayer, and to God’s vision for your life, than what you’re experiencing? It’s time you learned from the legend of Honi the Circle Maker—a man bold enough to draw a circle in the sand and not budge from inside it until God answered his prayers for his people. What impossibly big dream is God calling you to draw a prayer circle around? Sharing inspiring stories from his own experiences as a circle maker, Mark Batterson will help you uncover your heart’s deepest desires and God-given dreams and unleash them through the kind of audacious prayer that God delights to answer.
June 2019
What if God's primary intent for your marriage isn't to make you happy . . . but holy? What if your relationship isn't as much about you and your spouse as it is about you and God?
Starting with the discovery that the goal of marriage goes beyond personal happiness, bestselling author Gary Thomas invites you to see how God can use marriage as a discipline and a motivation to love God more and reflect more of the character of his Son.
In addition to life-changing insights from Scripture, church history, and time-tested wisdom from Christian classics, you'll find practical tools and techniques to make your marriage happier by becoming holier husbands and wives.
Sacred Marriage reveals how good marriages . . .
Train us to love God and others well
Expose sin and makes us more aware of God's presence
Foster good prayer
Cultivate a sexual relationship that feeds the spiritual life
and more
With provocative discussion questions for couples and small groups, this book will most certainly change you. Because whether it is delightful or difficult, your marriage can become a doorway to a closer union with God.
July 2019
When life delivers unexpected storms, leaving you stranded in a spiritual desert, what do you do? In Play With Fire, gifted storyteller Bianca Juárez Olthoff highlights the beauty of reinvention and resurrection, with fire as both the impetus and the method for change. God has huge dreams for you; gain insight into his character and understand the unique fire he's placed inside you to fulfill your calling and kingdom purpose.
August 2019
What should I do with my life?" It's a question we've all asked at one time or another. Dismantling the notion that having a "calling" is a rare privilege for the exclusive few, Lyons makes a prophetic call for women to become the person God's already designed them to be!
September 2019
We all know it’s important to study God’s word. But sometimes it’s hard to know where to start. What’s more, a lack of time, emotionally driven approaches, and past frustrations can erode our resolve to keep growing in our knowledge of Scripture. How can we, as Christian women, keep our focus and sustain our passion when reading the Bible?
Women of the Word has helped countless women with a clear and concise plan they can use every time they open their Bible. This book will equip you to engage God’s word in a way that trains your mind and transforms your heart.
October 2019
We often believe things about ourselves that do not line up with God's truth. We think our worth is based on performance or possessions, that we have to be perfect to be loved, or that we're too ordinary to be used by God. Deeper tears down these lies and teaches women to replace them with four truths from Psalm 139--God knows me, he protects me, he made me, he values me.
Using compelling narrative and Scripture, Deeper helps women transform their lives by trusting in the reality of God's love. Instead of striving for perfection and worth, readers can rest in the truth that they are his.
Novermber 2019
Travel to the green pastures and still waters of Psalm 23--it will mean so much more once you've read this inspirational classic from a real-life shepherd! Drawing from his experience, Keller walks you verse by verse through this beloved portion of Scripture, offering unique insights into the love our Good Shepherd bestows upon us.
December 2019
If God had it His way, what would our churches look like?
In his most powerful book yet, Pastor Francis Chan digs deep into biblical truths, reflections on his own failures and dreams, and stories of ordinary people God is using to change the world.
As Chan says, "We've strayed so far from what God calls Church. We all know it. We know that what we're experiencing is radically different from the Church in Scripture. For decades, church leaders like myself have lost sight of the inherent mystery of the Church. We have trained people sitting in the pews to become addicted to lesser things. It's time for that to change."
When Jesus returns, will He find us caring for His Bride-even more than for our own lives? Letters to the Church reminds us of how powerful, how glorious the Church once was … and calls us to once again be the Church God intended us to be.
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The more that your read, the more things you will know. The more places you'll go.
Dr. SesusArthur 
A book is a gift you can open again and again.
Garrison Keillor Author 
A house without books is like a room without windows.
Heinrish MannArthur 