Welcome to the Library Bookshelf
Our beautiful church Library, located adjacent to the Gathering Space, is a great place for browsing, reading, or study. The Library is open on Sunday morning, and Church members are welcome to use it whenever the Church office is open. The receptionist can open the Library when a librarian is not present.
To find specific authors or titles, a computer behind the Library desk provides information about all of the books in the collection. There is also a card catalog. Books are numbered according to the Dewey Decimal System. In general, fiction and biography are located behind the Library desk. To the right of the desk, numbers begin in the 100s. The Bible Room alcove contains books numbered in the low 200s. Books continue in numerical order around the periphery of the Library.
All books are available for self-check-out. Simply select a book, take the card from the book pocket at the back of the book, write your name legibly on the card, stamp both the card and the date due clip using the stamp on the Library desk, and leave the card on the desk. To return the book, simply put it on the Library desk.
Come enjoy this great resource!
Daily Devotions for Lent and Books for Easter are now available!
To help prepare our hearts and minds for Lent and Easter, the Church Library has a variety of daily devotional guides on display at the Library desk. Louis Cassels’ “A Feast for a Time of Fasting” contains forty days of meditations. James Moore’s “Give Up Something Bad for Lent” encourages us to seek God’s help to eliminate one destructive habit or attitude like envy, jealousy, self-pity, apathy gossip, or negative thinking. “Unrevealed Until Its Season” by James Howell is a Lenten journey through hymns. And N.T. Wright’s “Lent for Everyone” uses the Gospel According to Matthew and selected Psalms to take us through the Lenten season. We also have several copies of Adam Hamilton’s “The Walk,” which Pastors Beth and Jeremy are using for the Church-wide Lenten study.
The Church Library also has many books available to help guide our journey to Easter, including Adam Hamilton’s Final Words and 24 Hours that Changed the World, and Liz Curtis Higgs’ The Women of Easter. See the display on the Library desk for more information and recommendations.
Daily Devotional Guides Available in the Church Library:
Your Church Library has a wide variety of Daily Devotional Guides. Some are on display on the Library Desk. Most reference a Bible verse and include a short, thought-provoking reading for each day of the year. Check out Day by Day with the Early Church Fathers with short readings from Origen, Gregory of Nyssa, John Chrysostom, Augustine, and many more. Or read lifetime lessons from Corrie ten Boom in her collection, Each New Day. Some old favorites include Daily Strength for Daily Needs, Jesus Calling, and Streams in the Desert. No time for morning devotions? Why not conclude your day with Joyce Meyer’s book, Ending Your Day Right? Stop by the Church library to examine these books and many more.
COMMENTARY RESOURCES
The Church Library has fifteen different Commentary sets from those meant for a general audience like the Immersion Bible Studies Series or the Cokesbury Basic Bible Commentary to more scholarly works like Barclays Study Bible series and the Abington Commentaries of the Old and New Testaments. The Bible for Everyone set relates Bible stories to contemporary situations. A Storyteller’s Companion to the Bible includes some retellings and “midrashim” or stories about Bible stories. And the Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary provides photographs, drawings, maps, diagrams and charts.
All commentaries are available for self-check out using the directions on the desk. Come and see what the Church Library has to offer.