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BOOKS
Titles:
Q through T
Title:
Reaching People From the Pulpit
Media: BK Length:
172 Age Group: A
Author: D.E. Stevenson and C.F. Diehl
Publisher: Hooper &
Brothers Publication Date: 1958
Description:
A guide to effective sermon delivery. For seminary students
and settled ministers. The book covers all topics and
essentials to oral communication.
Title:
Reconciling the Broken Silence
Media: BK Length:
111 Age Group: A
Author: Sylvia Thornson - Smith
Publisher: PCUSA Publication
Date: 1993
Description:
Women's rights in the church as related to sexual orientations.
Title:
Referred by Luke M.D.
Media: BK
Length: 89
Age Group: A,T
Author: Phillip B. Giessler
Publisher: C.S.S. Publishing
Publication Date: 1955
Description:
Contains thirteen group study lessons on the Gospel According to Luke.
Title:
Reflections on the Beatitudes: A Guide for Prayer
& Conversation
Media: BK
Length: 39
Age Group: A,T
Author: E. Dixon Junkin
Publisher: PCUSA
Publication Date: 1995
Description:
Originally written as a supplement to scripture references for the
1995-96 Planning Calendar, this concise booklet is an excellent
resource for group (or individual study)for up to a three-month series
for church school classes or for a weekend retreat setting.
Title:
Regarding Children
Media: BK Length:
138 Age Group: A,T,I
Author: Herbert Anderson, Susan Johnson
Publisher: WJK Publication
Date: 1994
Description:
Study examining issues pertinent to successful child rearing. Issues
dealing with children in our society, family, family abuse,
dysfunctional family, etc.
Title:
Rekindling the Hope of the Manger
Media: BK Length:
124 Age Group: A,T
Author: Evan Drake Howard
Publisher: Judson Press
Publication Date: 1992
Description:
Engaging portrayal of the Christmas miracle. Advent proclaims
that faith's passion can be restored. A journey from Advent
to Epiphany.
Title:
Restorative Justice: Toward Nonviolence
Media: BK-P Length:
87 Age Group: A
Author: Virginia Mackey
Publisher: PCUSA Publication
Date: 1997
Description:
The crisis in the penal system cries out for response from all
citizens. Society should no longer tolerate the preservation of a
system that offers neither justice to the accused nor safety to society.
Title:
Rhetoric, Power, and Community
Media: BK Length:
172 Age Group: A
Author: David Jasper
Publisher: WJK Publication
Date: 1993
Description:
Study that calls for the examination of the assumption about the
ability of language to convey its judgements fairly and objectively.
Title:
Right Here, Right Now: Spiritual Exercises for Busy
Christians
Media: BK
Length: 161
Age Group: A
Author: Christopher Carstens, and William P. Mahedy
Publisher: Ballantine/Epiphany
Book Publication Date: 1985
Description:
Fifty exercises that cover the full range of spiritual need. There is
role for quiet lives devoted to prayer and reflection, but busy
Christians do not live in retreat from the world. The goal of
the spiritual exercise is to sanctify the present moment, to develop a
sense of the holiness of everyday life.
Title:
Rooted in Faith
Media: BK Length:
111 Age Group: A
Publisher: PCUSA Publication
Date: 1990
Editor: Evalina Berry
Description:
Women who have been transformed by God and touched the lives of others.
Title:
Rooted in Love
Media: BK Length:
132 Age Group: T,A
Author: Rodger Nishioka
Publisher: Bridge Resources
Publication Date: 1997
Description:
52 meditations/stories for Youth Ministry leaders addressing both
ecumenical and uniquely Presbyterian youth ministry concerns for both
lay and professional educators. Each vignette begins with a
verse of scripture that relates to the experience that is recounted.
Title:
Running Through the Thistles
Media: BK-P Length:
19 Age Group: A
Author: Ray M. Oswald
Publisher: Alban Institute
Publication Date: 1993
Description:
Covers emotions in terminating a pastoral relationship with a
parish. The author compares leaving a parish with the
emotions of a dying person.
Title:
Salt For Society
Media: BK
Length: 151
Age Group: A,T
Author: W. Phillip Keller
Publisher: Word Books
Publication Date: 1981
Description:
Keller makes the words of Jesus come alive in an intriguing study drawn
from Christ's Sermon on the Mount. Just as salt is essential
to the proper functioning of the human body, so the spirit of the
Beatitudes is essential to the fruitful life of the Christian.
Title:
Sacramental Cocoa, and Other Stories From The Parish
of the Poor
Media: BK Length:
164 Age Group: A
Author: Lynn E. Perry
Publisher: WJK Publication
Date: 1995
Description:
Perry, a wife, mother, and an active layperson served an advocacy group
for the poor in Chicago, and based this collection of vignettes on her
experiences in her work with this ministry. Experiences with
the marginalized and disenfranchised who not unlike their more
prosperous counterparts, long for connection with others and God.
Title:
Saying Goodbye: A time of growth for congregations and
pastors
Media: BK Length:
114 Age Group: A
Author: Edward White
Publisher: Alban Institute
Publication Date: 1990
Description:
Explores the complicated and emotion-filled process of pastoral
termination as revealed through the experiences of pastors and
congregations from several denominations including Presbyterian.
Title:
Scales of Rejoicing
Media: BK Length:
165 Age Group: A
Author: Mikel Baird Taxer
Publisher: C.S.S. Publishing
Publication Date: 1977
Description:
Worship in the Protestant community is not what it could be.
Some work needs to be done. The author says he is stopped
cold by those words in John 4:24. God is a Spirit, those who
worship Him must worship him in spirit and in truth. It
points to the need to structure worship services.
Title:
Science, Technology and the Christian Faith
Media: BK
Length: 145
Age Group: A,T
Editors: Brent Waters, Verlyn L
Barker Publication Date: 1991
Publisher: United Ministries in Higher Education
Description:
A collection of papers concerning how the church engages science and
technology in our modern world.
Title:
Scripture and Homosexuality: Biblical Authority and
the Church Today
Media: BK Length:
84 Age Group: A
Author: Marion L. Soards
Publisher: WJK Publication
Date: 1995
Description:
Soards' look at what the Bible does and does not say about
homosexuality in the attempt to discover how the church deals with this
issue.
Title:
Searching for a Pastor the Presbyterian Way
Media: BK-P Length:
114 Age Group: A
Author: Dean E. Foose
Publication Date: 2001
Publisher: Geneva Press
Description:
A step-by-step guide for nominating committees that makes the call
process clear and goes behind the rules to the deeper theological and
practical concerns. How to: organize the committee;
compose congregational information; compile a list of candidates; what
questions to ask in an interview, and other tips to call a suitable
pastor.
Title:
Seeking to be Faithful Together: Guidelines for
Presbyterians
During Times of Disagreement
Media: BK-P Length:
41 Age Group: A
Author: R. Killmer and S. Lisherness
Publisher: Presbyterian Peacemaking
Description:
A resource that can be used by any group in congregations,
presbyteries, synods, and theological institutions interested in
dealing effectively with conflict.
Title:
Sermons on Suicide
Media: BK Length:
160 Age Group: A
Author: James T. Clemons
Publisher: WJK Publication
Date: 1989
Description:
With over 50,000 suicides a year, can church professionals ignore the
cries of people who reach out for help and guidance? This
collection of sermons, demonstrates that suicide can be treated in a
positive, straight-forward manner.
Title:
Services for Occasions of Pastoral Care
Media: BK Length:
138 Age Group: A
Publisher: WJKP Publication
Date: 1990
Description:
Supplemental Liturgical Resource 6. For professional clergy
or lay persons that seek to answer the call of Christian caring in
daily living and in times of need.
Title:
Services of Remembrance
Media: BK Length:
23 Age Group: A
Publisher: Presbyterian Health Ministries
Description:
Assistance in planning services of remembrance for people who have died
from AIDS.
Title:
Seven Times the Sun
Media: BK
Length:
221
Age Group: A, T
Author: Shea Darian
Publisher: Lura Media
Publication Date: 1994
Description:
Practical, creative resource for child-rearing in the 90's. A
one-of-a-kind book, full of ideas, reflections, short stories, poems,
songs, and advice offering a fresh view of daily life in the home and
family.
Title:
Sexuality and the Human Community
Media: BK Length:
56 Age Group: A, T
Publisher: PCUSA Publication
Date: 1970
Description:
Task force report on the study of sexuality and human
community. Explores the mystery of sexuality in a broad range
of human experiences and evaluates the church's role in interpreting
the meaning of sexuality.
Title:
Silent Voices, Sacred Lives: Women's Readings for the
Liturgical Year
Media: BK Length:
464 Age Group: A
Publisher: Paulist Press
Publication Date: 1992
Editor: B. Bowe, K. Haughes, S. Karam, C. O Siek
Description:
Stories gathered from many sources, scripture, diaries, poetry, church
order, etc. to give an image of God, women, church, spirituality and
ministry from a woman's perspective that can enrich the liturgical year.
Title:
Single in the Church
Media: BK Length:
164 Age Group: A,T
Author: Kay Collier-Slone
Publisher: Alban Institute
Publication Date: 1992
Description:
Single adults comprise 52% of our society. Reveals the
concerns, needs and fears of singles, and how your church is probably
unintentionally ignoring these people of God. Offers ways the church
can open ministries to include singles.
Title:
Skit Hits
Media: BK Length:
66 Age Group: A,T,L
Author: Helen and Larry Eisenberg
Publisher: Eisenberg
Publication Date: 1952
Description:
Stunts catch a person out of themselves, gives them a chance to laugh
at themselves, at society, at people in general. Sometimes it
lets a person see himself as others see him.
Title:
Slow Down, Moses
Media: BK Length:
111 Age Group: I
Author: David Steele
Publisher: Augsburg Press
Publication Date: 1990
Description:
The author's humorous poems help us relate to people in the Bible as we
see their humanity - and ours. This unique book will help
church leaders and lay readers appreciate the Bible in a new way.
Title:
Smaller Church Mission Study Guide
Media: BK-P Length:
80 Age Group: A
Author: Henry A. Blunk
Publisher: Geneva Press
Publication Date: 1978
Description:
Mission study for smaller congregations to help in better understanding
of what the church is about. Especially helpful in
development mission statement or upon the arrival of a new pastor.
Title:
So We Believe, So We Pray
Media: BK Length:
153 Age Group: A
Publisher: WCC
Editor: T. Best and Dagmar
Heller
Publication Date: 1995
Description:
"In common worship experience the unity which the theologians only talk
about ". Worship is one of the most sensitive areas
ecumenically. Christians often appear most divided over
issues of worship, particularly when they cannot join together at the
Lord's Table.
Title:
Some Biblical Bases of "A Brief Statement of Faith"
Media: BK
Length: 32
Age Group: A,T
Author: William M. Ramsey
Publisher: PPH
Publication Date: 1996
Editor: Curtis A. Miller
Description:
A seven-session Bible Study for men. The overall series is intended to
be a study of the Bible, and thus this guide focuses simply on some
Bible passages that illustrate some major ideas in the Statement.
Title:
Songs and Prayers of Discipleship
Media: BK Length:
64 Age Group: A,T
Publisher: PCUSA
Description:
New and contemporary hymns.
Title:
Soul Feast: An Invitation to the Christian
Spiritual Life
Media: BK Length:
173 Age Group: A
Author: Marjorie J. Thompson
Publisher: WJK Publication
Date: 1995
Description:
Covers a wide range of issues related to the development of spiritual
life.
Title:
Souls Are Made of Endurance
Media: BK Length:
111 Age Group: A,T
Author: Stewart D. Govig
Publisher: WJK Publication
Date: 1994
Description:
A powerful statement of hope and faith for those dealing with
schizophrenia.
Title:
Speaking of Stewardship
Media: BK Length:
137 Age Group: A
Author: William G. Carter
Publisher: Geneva Press
Publication Date: 1998
Description:
23 model sermons on money and possessions, theme of stewardship.
Title:
Speaking the Truth in Love: Prophetic Preaching to a
Broken World
Media: BK Length:
209 Age Group: A
Author: J. Philip Wogaman
Publisher: WJK Publication
Date: 1998
Description:
Prophetic preaching means bringing the light of the gospel to bear upon
all aspects of human existence - 13 sermons are a part of the book.
Title:
Spirit, Gospel, Cultures: Bible Studies on
the Acts of the Apostles
Media: BK Length:
44 Age Group: A,T
Publisher: World Council of
Churches Publication Date: 1995
Description:
Studies of the first 17 chapters of Acts, prepared by participants in
the World Council of Churches' Conference in Brazil, 1996. A reflection
on inter-relationships of the gospel and cultures, exploring how the
gospel transforms cultures; how culture shapes response to the good
news, and how Christians may witness authentically in each cultural
context.
Title:
Spiritual Life: The Foundation for Preaching and
Teaching
Media: BK Length:
80 Age Group: A,T
Author: John Westerhoff
Publisher: WJK Publication
Date: 1994
Description:
A resource to help preachers and teachers revitalize their lives and
ministries. A help to recognize which types of spiritual
formation are most compatible with particular personality types.
Title:
Spirituality in Ecumenical Perspective
Media: BK Length:
200 Age Group: A
Publisher: WJK Publication
Date: 1993
Editor: E. Glenn Hinson
Description:
Spirituality -a group of authors explore many themes in spirituality,
its ecumenical nature, theological perspectives, listening, and
dialogue.
Title:
Stewardship of Public Life
Media: BK
Age Group: A
Publisher: PCUSA Publication
Date: 1995
Description:
A loose-leaf notebook with a sampling of types of materials available
from the Stewardship of Public Life and Presbyterian Washington Office
that present various domestic and foreign policies of concerns to the
churches worldwide.
Title:
Striking Terror No More: The Church Responds to
Domestic Violence
Media: BK
Length: 121
Age Group: A,T
Editor: B. Basham, S Lisherness
Publisher: Bridge Resources
Publication Date: 1997
Description:
Help in addressing domestic violence. Divided into three parts, Part I
is several essays on facts and consequences of domestic violence; Part
II offers suggested sessions designed to educate and bring about
positive action; and Part III offers resources to bring these issues
into the worship service, including sermon themes and Bible texts.
Title:
Students, Churches, and Higher Education - 2nd edition
Media: BK
Length: 82
Age Group: A, T
Author: R. T. Gribbon
Publisher: United Ministries in Higher Education
Description:
How can the local church minister with its college students? This book
addresses that questions and considers the possibilities for other
forms of higher education ministry in the local church. Good
and useful advice on carrying out college ministry.
Title:
Surveying the Land
Media: BK Length:
63 Age Group: A,T
Author: Lynn Turnage
Publisher: Bridge Resources
Publication Date: 1997
Description:
One of a seven book series, "Roots of Youth Ministry", intended to
assist both professional and lay educators engaged in youth
ministry. Turnage surveys the land of the church, our youth,
and the culture in which the two live. It is about planning
for a vibrant youth program with a realistic view of the culture in
which we live.
Title:
Survival or Revival
Media: BK Length:
147 Age Group: A
Author: Carnegie S. Calian
Publisher: WJK Publication
Date: 1998
Description:
Concerning the church in the 21st century, will they come alive? How
can they work for congregational vitality and vision? The
church is challenged by C. S. Calian to become committed to their own
success.
Title:
Symbols of the Church
Media: BK Length:
64 Age Group: A
Author: David W. Thompson
Publisher: Whittemore
Publication Date: 1973
Description:
A church symbol is a visible sign of something invisible. A
church symbol is a design or picture which expresses a spiritual
religious idea. Jesus used symbols in his teaching.
Title:
Teacher as Servant, A Parable
Media: BK
Length:
220
Age Group: S, A
Author: Robert K. Greenleaf
Publisher: Paulist Press
Publication Date: 1979
Description:
A work of fiction based not only on fact but on a deep sense of
reality. Takes the reader on an imaginative journey of a college
freshman living in a student community dedicated to serving and being
served and rejecting the idea that fellow human beings are to be used,
competed with, or judged.
Title:
TEAM: Theory and Practice of Team Ministry
Media: BK
Length: 161
Age Group: A
Author: Dody Donnelly
Publisher: Paulist Press
Publication Date: 1977
Description:
A book on community building. A theory book, a how-to do-it recipe
book, and dream-for-the-future book all in one. Investigates the "why"
and "who" of team ministry, and presents practical methods for
attaining authentic team ministry.
Title:
Tending the Flock: Congregations and Family Ministry
Media: BK Length:
219 Age Group: A
Publisher: WJK Publication
Date: 1998
Editor: K. B. Lyon and Archie Smith
Description:
An important ongoing debate focuses on the present health and
well-being of families in American society. This series
concerning the Family, Religion, and Culture offers informed and
responsible analysis of the state of the American family from a
religious perspective, and provides practical assistance for the
family's revitalization.
Title:
Texts for Preaching Year A
Media: BK Length:
589 Age Group: A
Author: Brueggeman, Cousar, Gaventa, Naewsome
Publisher: WJK Publication
Date: 1995
Description:
Resources for an entire year of sermons. Offers practical
helps for clergy and lay leaders using the Common Lectionary.
Title:
Texts for Preaching Year C
Media: BK Length:
621 Age Group: A
Author: Cousar, Gaventa, McCann, Newsome
Publisher: WJK Publication
Date: 1994
Description:
Resources for writing an entire year of sermons. Offers practical helps
for clergy and lay leaders using the Common Lectionary.
Title:
The Acts of the Apostles
Media: BK-P
Length: 32
Age Group: A,T
Author: John C. Purdy
Publisher: PCUSA
Publication Date: 1996
Description:
Seven-session study for men. The passages selected for study
are: 1) The Ascension; 2) Pentecost; 3) Before the Council; 4) Gentiles
Admitted; 5) Paul in Thessalonica; 6) Paul Before Agrippa; and 7) Paul
in Rome.
Title:
The Altruistic Personality
Media: BK Length:
419 Age Group: A
Author: Samuel P. & Pearl M. Oliner
Publisher: FP Publication Date:
1988
Description:
Anthology of stories, and episodes of altruism in the Nazi
era. A message that human decency, kindness, and altruism not
only exists, but that the rescuers of Jews in Nazi Europe were not
heroes or saints, but ordinary human beings.
Title:
The Ancient Laugh of God
Media: BK Length:
139 Age Group: A
Author: J. Marshall Jendkins
Publisher: WJK Publication
Date: 1994
Description:
Divine encounters in unlikely places. Through the ironies of
God's presence in human life and death, man feels the ordinary become
extra-ordinary.
Title:
The Angels Have Left Us
Media: BK Length:
115 Age Group: A
Author: Hugh McCullum
Publisher: WCC Publications
Publication Date: 1994
Description:
A young Rwandese girl is the survivor of a massacre that decimates her
country. She was left in a churchyard with many bodies placed
on top of her. She said she would never return to the Church!
Title:
The Apostles Creed, Fresh Water from an Ancient Spring
Media: BK Length:
240 Age Group: A
Author: James O. Speed
Publisher: Cherokee Publishing
Co. Publication Date: 1988
Description:
Sermons about the Apostles Creed.
Title:
The Art of Pastoring : Contemplative Reflections
Media: BK Length:
81 Age Group: A,T
Author: William C. Hartin
Publisher: CTS Publication
Date: 1994
Description:
Affirmations from Tzu. Translation of the essence of each
thought from Tzu's original work into a message for the western pastor.
Title:
The Book of Church Order
Media: BK Length:
393 Age Group: A
Publisher: JK Publication Date:
1959
Editor: General Assembly
Description:
The Book of Church Order as enacted by the General Assembly in Atlanta,
GA 1959.
Title:
The Books of the Bible
Media: BK
Length: 16
Age Group: J,S,T
Author: Gary D. Comstock
Publication Date: 1996
Publisher: United Ministries in Higher Education
Description:
A very concise historical introduction to the parts of the Bible in a
unique format relating to a group of young people that will be
separated by a move.
Title:
The Bread Book
Media: BK Length:
96 Age Group: O,Y,T
Author: Dale L. Morgan
Publisher: PPH Publication
Date: 1988
Editor: Barbara A. Withers
Description:
Short Bible lessons from the Celebrate series good for youth or older
children. Includes lessons from Genesis on the promise of God,
obedience; from Exodus on the liberation of Jews from bondage; the
birth and crucifixion of Jesus.
Title:
The Calling of the Laity: Verna Dozier's Anthology
Media: BK Length:
149 Age Group: A
Publisher: The Alban Institute
Publication Date: 1988
Description:
Part I readings point to the agonizingly ambiguous questions most
Christians face in daily work. Part II points to dealing with
tough social issues. Part III addresses ways the institutional church
can support the ministry of the laity where they work and live.
Title:
The Challenge of the Community College to the Church
Media: BK Length:
166 Age Group: A
Publisher: United Ministries in
Education Publication Date: 1980
Editor: W. E. Hallman
Description:
A companion piece to So There's a Community College in Your Town. This
series of essays deals with the relationship and role of the church
with these smaller and unique higher education institutions. Included
is the story of one congregation's experience with community education
and a chapter on how to sustain local volunteer ministries once they
are started.
Title:
The Child's Song: The Religious Abuse of
Children
Media: BK Length:
188 Age Group: A
Author: Capps
Publisher: WJK Publication
Date: 1995
Description:
Concerned with the hidden abuses of children by well-intentioned adults
and the role that religion plays in the legitimization of these abuses.
Title:
The Christian World of C. S. Lewis
Media: BK
Length: 216
Age Group: A
Author: Clyde S. Kilby
Publisher: Eerdmans
Publication Date: 1964
Description:
This book gives the essential information on the personal and literary
influences that shaped Lewis's thinking, and comments on his various
books.
Title:
The Church That Cares
Media: BK-P Length:
96 Age Group: A
Author: K. Miller and Mary E. Wilson
Publisher: Judson Press
Publication Date: 1985
Description:
Identifying and responding to needs in your community. To
follow in Jesus footsteps, laypersons must get out of the building and
into the neighborhood.
Title:
The Church's Growing Edge
Media: BK Length:
48 Age Group: T
Publisher: United Church Press
Publication Date: 1980
Description:
A planning guide for single adults. How to locate singles;
and how to program a singles ministry.
Title:
The Communicating Church
Media: BK-P Length:
113 Age Group: A
Author: C. Swann
Publisher: PCUSA Publication
Date:
Description:
Telling your story to the congregation and the community. Religious
broadcasting in the U.S.,TV, radio, and printed media.
Illustrations for churches to use these forms of media in their
community.
Title:
The Confessional Mosaic
Media: BK Length:
333 Age Group: A
Publisher: W/JK Publication
Date: 1990
Editor: M. Coalter, J. Mulder, L. B. Weeks
Description:
This focuses on the expression of faith among American Presbyterians
surveys important developments in theology and
worship. Provides an understanding of the changes
in mainstream Protestantism. Presbyterian Presence Series.
Title:
The Culture of Disbelief
Media: BK Length:
328 Age Group: A,T
Author: Stephen Carter
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication Date: 1993
Description:
Contemporary American politics faces few greater dilemmas than deciding
how to deal with the resurgence of religious belief. We have
created a political and legal culture that presses the religiously
faithful to be other than themselves....as though their faith does not
matter to them.
Title:
The Cup of Wonder: Communion Meditations
Media: BK Length:
141 Age Group: A
Author: Lloyd J. Ogilvie
Publisher: Baker Book House
Publication Date: 1976
Description:
Resource for ministers in which Ogilvie strives to relate the meaning
of the sacrament to the needs of people.
Title:
The Developing Person: Through Childhood and
Adolescence- Fourth Edition
Media: BK
Length: 620
Age Group: A
Author: Kathleen Berger
Publisher: Worth
Publication Date: 1995
Description:
A text book for the study of child development from birth through teen
years. Includes information on physical, social, and
cognitive development.
Title:
The Dictionary of Bible and Religion
Media: BK Length:
1147 Age Group: S,A
Author: William H. Gentz
Publisher: Abingdon Publication
Date: 1986
Description:
Authoritative information on the Bible, plus topics not covered in
other Bible dictionaries, including contemporary religion, Christian
doctrine, and history.
Title:
The Diversity of Discipleship
Media: BK Length:
415 Age Group: A
Publisher: WJK Publication
Date: 1991
Editor: M. Coalter, J. Mulder, L. Weeks
Description:
Considers three issues-Outreach, Ecumenism, and Pluralism-that have
confounded the witness of faith in the Presbyterian Church. Examples of
the interlocking and sometimes interfering interplay among these issues
in the quest for distinctive Presbyterian discipleship. The
Presbyterian Presence series.
Title:
The Engendering God Male and Female Faces of God
Media: BK Length:
102 Age Group: A
Author: Carl A. and Susan Doughty Raschke
Publisher: WJK Publication
Date: 1995
Description:
God's own self-revelation is neither exclusively male nor female, but
both at once. Authors contend the scriptures are actually a
radical proclamation of gender equality.
Title:
The Finality of Faith
Media: BK
Length: 115
Age Group: A
Author: Nels F. S. Ferre
Publisher: Harper & Row
Publication Date: 1963
Description:
Takes up the core question of all religious discussion: the nature of
faith. The finality of faith means not knowing all the
answers. Finality of faith expresses the truth precisely that
faith is final, not as knowledge but as faith on the move toward
finding.
Title:
The Fruit of the Spirit
Media: BK Length:
159 Age Group: A
Author: Stuart Briscoe
Publisher: SHAW Publication
Date: 1993
Description:
Christianity is not just a collection of traits that we can choose
from. This book is a description of Christian behavior as it
was meant to be.
Title:
The Gift Book
Media: BK Length:
96 Age Group: S,A
Author: James W. Angell
Publisher: PPH Publication
Date: 1988
Description:
This book about Jesus carries the theme of his mission to bring God
back into the center of what life is about. Wherever we go in
life we are still next to faith, hope and love. The set
includes youth and Older Youth study guides.
Title:
The Gift of Anger
Media: BK Length:
160 Age Group: A
Author: Carroll Saussy
Publisher: Westminster John Knox
Press Publication Date: 1995
Description:
Learning to evaluate, understand and effectively express authentic
anger.
Title:
The Gospel of Jesus
Media: BK Length:
240 Age Group: A,T
Author: Farmer
Publisher: WJKP Publication
Date: 1994
Description:
Deals with the theological debate focusing on the Synoptic Gospels,
Matthew, Mark and Luke.
Title:
The Gospel Story In Art
Media: BK Length:
417 Age Group: A
Author: John LaFarge
Publisher: McMullin Publication
Date: 1926
Description:
LaFarge writes with the reverence of a believer, and wide knowledge of
different forms expressing the life of Christ. He expresses
his conviction in the significance of Christian art.
Title:
The Great Parade: Learning About Women, Justice, and
the Church
Media: BK-P Length:
64 Age Group: A,T
Author: Carol A. Wehrheim
Publisher: Friendship Press
Publication Date: 1992
Description:
Six lessons for children in grades 1-6 that introduces students to the
continuing struggle against discrimination because of gender, race or
culture. Activities and Scripture help children see the
unique way Jesus treated women and appreciate the many ways we talk
about God and with God.
Title:
The Handbook of Skits and Stunts
Media: BK Length:
254 Age Group: O,T,L
Author: Helen & Larry Eisenberg
Publisher: Association Press
N.Y. Publication Date: 1953
Description:
For young and old, the how and why of this media for recreation, group
building, ice breaking, and creating fun activities for small and large
groups.
Title:
The Higher Happiness
Media: BK
Length: 174
Age Group: O,T,A
Author: Ralph W. Sockman
Publisher: Abingdon
Publication Date: 1955
Description:
Explores the nature of the true happiness set forth in the Beatitudes
of Jesus. Happiness as the world today knows it, the pursuit
of pleasure, amassing possessions, grasping for power and wealth has
made no man truly happy. Sockman examines the nature of true
joy, and discusses the eight basic qualities outlined in the Beatitudes.
Title:
The Life of the Party
Media: BK Length:
160 Age Group: S
Author: Becky Tirabassi, Greg Lewis
Publisher: Zondervan
Publication Date: 1990
Description:
Becky felt that she had to work and fight for acceptance, popularity
and success. Then she discovered a way to loosen up, become
the life of the party: alcohol. Then one day she realized
that the alcohol had become more than a "friend" at parties, it had
become her life.
Title:
The Lord's House
Media: BK Length:
86 Age Group: A,T
Author: Frederick W. Krueger
Publisher: Green Cross/Macalester
Park Publication Date: 1995
Description:
A guide for congregations to become more ecologically conscious. It is
a challenge and call to fulfill the ecological mandates of the
scriptures and a call to start with ourselves and our own church
facilities to make them examples of what God has asked us to do: care
for creation.
Title:
The Mainstream Protestant "Decline"
Media: BK Length:
263 Age Group: A
Publisher: WJK Publication
Date: 1990
Editor: M. Coalter, J. Mulder, L. Weeks
Description:
Meaning of declining membership in mainstream Protestant
denominations. Uses analysis of membership trends,
congregational surveys, individual interviews to examine growth and
decline. Series: The Presbyterian Presence
Title:
The Man Who Met God in a Bar
Media: BK Length:
143 Age Group: A
Author: Robert Farrar Capon
Publisher: Richelieu Court
Publication Date: 1990
Description:
Fantasy/parable/gospel with God portrayed as contemporary.
Title:
The Man Who Responds
Media: BK Length:
189 Age Group: A,T
Author: Richard Pope
Publisher: Christian Board of
Publication Publication Date:
1969
Description:
Studying the kind of creature man is, a teaching tool.
Title:
The Method and Message of Jesus' Teachings
Media: BK Length:
203 Age Group: A,T
Author: Robert Stein
Publisher: WJK Publication
Date: 1994
Description:
Introductory guide on the "how" (method) and the "what" (message) of
Jesus' teachings. Excellent resource for any student of the
Bible or teacher that is looking for "just the right text."
Title:
The Mystery of Christ and Why We Don't Get It
Media: BK Length:
195 Age Group: A
Author: Robert Farrar Capon
Publisher: Eerdman's
Publication Date: 1995
Description:
Meaning of salvation, peace, forgiveness, grace in the New Testament as
a "mystery". Capon reminds us in startling ways that
salvation is a gift rather than a transaction. Along the way
he explores guilt, forgiveness, love, anger, romance, grief, spiritual
contentment, the Incarnation, reincarnation, resurrection, and more.
Title:
The Nearest in Affection
Media: BK Length:
124 Age Group: S,A,T
Author: Stuart Brown
Publisher: WCC Publication
Date: 1994
Description:
Relationship of Christians and Muslims as they live side by side falls
short of ideal. Toward a Christians Understanding of Islam.
Title:
The Open Gate - Meditations from the High Country
Media: BK (Large Print)
Length: 128
Age Group: S,A,T
Author: Don Ian Smith
Publisher: High Country Books
Publications Date: 1994
Description:
Stories from Smith's years of ministry in an area there rancher members
of the church often lived on mountain roads in open-range country, and
an open gate was a welcome sign after a long journey. Smith
sees our search for God as many gates of mystery to be opened.
Title:
The Ordination Questions
Media: BK Length:
64 Age Group: A
Author: Howard Rice and Calvin Chenn
Publisher: Geneva Press
Publication Date: 1996
Description:
A study for church officers. The purpose is to help newly
elected elders and deacons become responsible officers.
Teaches duties of each office and need for this preparation.
Title:
The Organizational Revolution: Presbyterians
& American Denominationalism
Media: BK Length:
391 Age Group: A
Editor: M. Coalter, J. Mulder, L. Weeks
Publisher: WJK Publication
Date: 1992
Description:
Essays addressing the organizational character of American religious
history pointing to the tentative conclusion that the Presbyterian
church has been undergoing an organizational revolution whose roots
preceded the decline in membership in the mid - 1960's.
Title:
The Other Six Days
Media: BK
Length: 121
Age Group: A
Author: Joseph C. McLelland
Publisher: JK
Publication Date: 1959
Description:
A guide to the rich background of past and present discussion of the
meaning of work and property, in the conviction that every "lay man"
will find in this doctrine a surprising relevance- and perhaps a
shocking challenge.
Title:
The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence
Media: BK (Large Print)
Length: 54
Age Group: A
Author: N. Herman
Publisher: Peter Pauper Press
Publication Date: 1963
Description:
Conversations and Letters recounting the life-long struggle of Brother
Lawrence, a lay brother of the Carmelites in Paris in the 17th century,
in his constant endeavor to be more Christ-like and live as in the
presence of God each moment.
Title:
The Parables of Grace
Media: BK Length:
184 Age Group: A
Author: Robert Farrar Capon
Publisher: Eerdmans Publication
Date: 1988
Description:
Parables occurring between the feeding of the five thousand and the
triumphal entry into Jerusalem. Capon bridges the gap between
than and now to make clear the original meaning of the parables and
their relevance to modern times.
Title:
The Parables of Judgment
Media: BK Length:
181 Age Group: A
Author: Robert F. Capon
Publisher: Eerdmans Publication
Date: 1989
Description:
Capon demonstrates how Jesus' message of divine judgement, in contrast
to the notions of both his enemies and his friends, is always against
the backdrop of grace.
Title:
The Parables of the Kingdom
Media: BK Length:
174 Age Group: A
Author: Robert Farrar Capon
Publisher: Eerdmans Publication
Date: 1985
Description:
A fresh look at some of Jesus' parables in the larger light of their
entire gospel and biblical context. Capon seeks to open our
minds--looking at such parables as the Sower, the Mustard Seed, the
Pearl of Great Price, and the Net.
Title:
The Passion of Our Lord, Jesus Christ
Media: BK Length:
44 Age Group: A
Author: Gilbert M. Martin
Publisher: The Sacred
Publication Date: 1998
Description:
A Lenten Cantata to be used at Holy Week. Contains narration
of Biblical Verses and religious poetry, congregational singing, and
original choral setting.
Title:
The People Channel
Media: BK Length:
100 Age Group: A
Author: Robert W. Jeambey
Publisher: PPH Publication
Date: 1991
Description:
Everyday scenarios that give help in becoming effective communicators.
Points out obstacles to communication.
Title:
The Pluralistic Vision
Media: BK Length:
417 Age Group: A
Author:
Publisher: WJK Publication
Date: 1992
Editor: M. Coalter, J. Mulder, L. Weeks
Description:
Christian Education among Presbyterians-related colleges. Presbyterians
& Mainstream Protestant - Education &
Leadership-Series: The Presbyterian Presence.
Title:
The Power of Communication for Richer Interpersonal
Relationships
Media: BK Length:
96 Age Group: A
Author: Kenneth A. Erickson
Publisher: Concordia
Publication Date: 1986
Description:
Christian philosophy and application of communication. Gain
an understanding of common problems that undermine your best
communication intentions and find help to improve communication skills.
Title:
The Power of the Spirit
Media: BK Length:
245 Age Group: A
Publisher: Gulland Printing, Ark City, KS
Editor: Benjamin Gutierrez & Dennis Smith
Description:
Contribution of Pentecostals to Latin American Society.
Title:
The Practice and Power of Prayer
Media: BK Length:
93 Age Group: A
Author: John S. Bonnell
Publisher: Westminster Press
Publication Date: 1954
Description:
The author begins by stating that he believes in prayer. It
is the most important fact in the life of the modern day person who is
willing to put it to a test.
Title:
The Presbyterian Predicament
Media: BK Length:
179 Age Group: A
Author:
Copies: 2
Publisher: W/JKP Publication
Date: 1990
Editor: M. Coalter, J. Mulder, L. Weeks
Description:
Analyzing American Presbyterians in this century. Six essays
from authors from different disciplines that strive to analyze the
Presbyterian predicament and offer solutions. The Presbyterian Presence
Series.
Title:
The Prophethood of Black Believers
Media: BK Length:
160 Age Group: A
Author: J. Deotis Roberts
Publisher: WJK Publication
Date: 1994
Description:
Discusses issues and organizations of black churches - youth
development, pastoral care, women in the church, and economic conditions
Title:
The Psalter, Psalms and Canticles for Singing
Media: BK Length:
410 Age Group: A
Publisher: WJK Publication
Date: 1993
Description:
Singing the psalms is one of the richest treasures of both Jewish and
Christian worship. Across the ages, singing the psalms has
been an important part of communal and private prayer.
Title:
The Public Church
Media: BK Length:
170 Age Group: A
Author: Montine E. Monty
Publisher: Crossroads
Publishing Publication Date:
1981
Description:
Public church is a family of apostolic churches with Jesus as the
center. These churches are communions of communions, each of
which lives it's life in its own separate Christian vocation.
Title:
The Reforming Tradition, Presbyterians and Mainstream
Protestantism
Media: BK Length:
355 Age Group: A
Author: Coalter, Mulder, Weeks
Publisher: WJK Publication
Date: 1992
Description:
Illuminates patterns of change in mainstream Protestantism and American
religious and cultural life in the 20th century. Presbyterian is
summoned to a character of life that will awaken and address the
religious questions of today with powerful and persuasive Christian
perspectives and answers.
Title:
The Romance of the Word
Media: BK Length:
373 Age Group:
Author: Robert Farrar Capon
Publisher: Eerdmans Publication
Date: 1995
Description:
Trilogy of Capon's early books, a theologian with a unique look at the
scriptures.
Title:
The Scandal of Lent
Media: BK Length:
111 Age Group: A
Author: Robert Kysar
Publisher: Augsburg Publication
Date: 1982
Description:
In depth interpretation studies from the gospel of John, and themes for
Lenten preaching.
Title:
The Screwtape Letters
Media: BK
Length: 160
Age Group: S,A
Author: C. S. Lewis
Publisher: MacMillan Company
Publication Date: 1954
Description:
A classic collection of fictional letters from a worldly-wise devil of
an uncle, Screwtape, to young Temper Wormwood, filled with insights
into human nature as old as the world. A treasure of wisdom
presented with wit which has earned the book a lasting place in
religious literature of Christianity. (Also available in Large Print.)
Title:
The Seasons of Life
Media: BK (Large Print)
Length:
62
Age Group: A
Author: Paul Tourneier
Translator: John S. Gilmour
Publisher: Pillar Books
Publication Date: 1961
Description:
Man is always changing in relationship to the world, to others, and the
God. This changing is made up of seasons, stages in life;
each has its own characteristics and peculiar laws. It is in this life
story that God's plan may be developed.
Title:
The Sermon on the Mount
Media: BK
Length: 82
Age Group: S,A,T
Author: Eduard Thurneysen
Publisher: John Knox Press
Publications Date: 1964
Description:
The Sermon on the Mount is often considered a model for the moral and
religious conduct of man. Thurneysen's interpretation insists
that it be understood in terms of gospel, and nothing but gospel. He
further asserts that the Sermon is gospel in the form of law.
Title:
The Silence of God
Media: BK
Length:
92
Age Group: A
Author: Helmut Thielicke
Publisher: Wm B. Eerdmans
Publication Date: 1962
Description:
Spiritual meditations and words to those in supreme danger which were
composed in the years 1942-1951. They reveal how the eternal
Word comes into our human times and sustains and guides us as a reality.
Title:
The Small Church - Valid, Vital, Victorious
Media: BK Length:
126 Age Group: A
Author: Paul O. Madsen
Publisher: Judson Press
Publication Date: 1975
Description:
Role of small churches in our society.
(106)
Title:
The Stewardship of Life in the Kingdom of Death
Media: BK Length:
144 Age Group: A
Author: Douglas J. Hall
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans
Publication Date: 1985
Description:
Outlines in five meditations a biblical view of what it means to be
partners in God's covenant of life in a darkening kingdom of
death. A clear statement of the mission of the church in our
times. "We are living in a world that has made a covenant
with death-both physical death, especially in nuclear politics, and
spiritual death that is numb to the injustice, violence and threat to
creation itself that surrounds us."
Title:
The Story of Presbyterianism in America
Media: BK Length:
12 Age Group: A
Author: Re. William T. McElroy D.D.
Publisher: W.H. Kentzel and Son
Publication Date: 1956
Description:
A sermon by William T. McElroy that includes a history of the
denomination and the Biblical beliefs.
Title:
The Tales Christ Told
Media: BK Length:
256 Age Group: A
Author: April O. Armstrong
Publisher: Doubleday
Publication Date: 1959
Description:
These are the parables of Christ retold, so that everyone may
understand them. Includes "Sower of Seeds", "The Mustard
Seed", "House Built on a Rock", A total of forty parables.
Title:
The Teaching Minister
Media: BK
Length: 138
Age Group: A
Authors: Clark M. Williamson and Ronald J. Allen
Publisher: Westminster/John
Knox
Publication Date: 1991
Description:
A resource for clergy with practical guidelines for showing the central
task of ministry is teaching the Christian faith. The first
half of the book shows the urgency of recovering this understanding of
ministry. The second half provides examples of how the
primary role of teaching can be used in the church.
Title:
The Triumph of Faith in Habakkuk
Media: BK
Length: 94
Age Group: A,T
Author: Donald E. Gowan
Publisher: JK
Publication Date: 1976
Description:
Gowan offers his own translation and commentary about this often
overlooked book of the Old Testament as a message about how to live
triumphantly in the midst of trouble and suffering.
Title:
The Truth Under Lock And Key? Jesus and The Dead Sea
Scrolls
Media: BK Length:
113 Age Group: A, T
Author: Klaus Berger
Publisher: WJK Publication
Date: 1995
Description:
Berger presents an understandable introduction to the controversy
surrounding the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Title:
The Way
Media: BK Length:
364 Age Group: A
Author: E. Stanley Jones
Publisher: Abington/Cokesbury
Press Publication Date: 1946
Description:
The widespread breakdown in individual and collective life is due to a
loss of confidence. Men are not sure that what they are doing
has cosmic background and support. Amid the gloom there is
one bright way, the Christian way.
Title:
The Way of Transfiguration
Media: BK Length:
337 Age Group: A
Author: Stanley Hopper
Publisher: W/JKP Publication
Date: 1992
Editor: Keiser and Stoneburner
Description:
Hopper's religious perspective called "theopoiesis" that embraced the
20th century culture revolution in theology, poetry, philosophy and
psychology.
Title:
The Westminster Guide to the Books of the Bible
Media: BK Length:
564 Age Group: J,S,A
Author: William Ramsay
Publisher: WJK Publication
Date: 1994
Description:
An ideal learning tool for adults and students to introduce all books
of the Bible, including the Apocrypha. It is ecumenical in
approach and is based on the new Revised Standard Version of the Bible.
Title:
The Window of Childhood
Media: BK
Length:
134
Age Group: J,S,A,T
Author: Olson Huff
Publisher: WJK
Publication Date: 1990
Description:
Eighteen heartwarming short stories show how children tell us of love,
joy, pain, death, hope friendship, and the discovery of new things.
Title:
The Word on Families -Creative Leadership Series
Media: BK Length:
156 Age Group: A,T
Author: G. William Sheek
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Publication Date: 1985
Description:
What is the best way to assure a healthy family life? Dr.
Sheek addresses three questions: 1. What does the Bible say
about marriage and the family? 2. What are the keys
to family well-being, according to the latest research?
3. How can churches respond to people who are the family as
the critical issue of our times?
Title:
The Year of the Bible (Leader Guide and Participant
Booklet)
Media: BK
Length: (Leader
84) Age Group: S,A,T
(Participant 49)
Author: James E. Davison
Publisher: Bridge Resources
Publication Date: 1996
Description:
A resource for a congregation-wide one-year Bible reading
program. Offers a sweeping introduction to biblical themes
and concepts. Beginner and expert alike will benefit from
this program.
Title:
Theological Worlds
Media: BK Length:
255 Age Group: A
Author: W. Paul Jones
Publisher: Abington Publication
Date: 1989
Description:
A review of the five common Christian perspectives. Aid to
Christians in understanding the basis of their confusion about life and
the church.
Title:
To Praise God Boldly
Media: BK Length:
Age Group: A
Author: John Buchanan
Publisher: PPC Publication
Date: 1990
Description:
The inaugural essay for a series on leadership in the church.
This book celebrates the leadership of an extraordinary Presbyterian,
Price Gwyan.
Title:
To the Ends of the Earth: Mission Stories from Around
the World
Media: BK Length:
104 Age Group: A
Author: Marj Carpenter
Publisher: PPC Publication
Date: 1995
Description:
Her own stories of various experiences about missions around the
world. We would hear hymns sung in faraway languages, God
worshipped in blazing sun and numbing cold, lives saved via medicine
and food, and the church.
Title:
Toward a Theology of Nature
Media: BK Length:
166 Age Group: A
Author: Wolfhart Pannenberg
Publisher: WJKP Publication
Date: 1993
Description:
Essays on Science and Faith. How science affects theological method and
reflects critically on the discoveries of physics, cosmology, and
biology. Sees theology in the light of science.
Title:
Toward Responsible Discipleship
Media: BK
Length: 86
Age Group: S,A,T
Author: William B. Ward
Publisher: John Knox Press
Publication Date: 1960
Description:
Christian discipleship involves loyalty to Christ. This book
will help begin the process of spiritual growth and will lead toward
responsible discipleship. Includes chapters on Presbyterian origins,
doctrine, the Christian life and commitment.
Title:
Transforming Church Boards
Media: BK Length:
189 Age Group: A
Author: Charles M. Olsen
Publisher: The Alban Institute
Publication Date: 1995
Description:
Church boards changed into communities of spiritual leaders. Ways of
working on church boards that is fulfilling rather than
draining. Boards can become the focal point of congregation's
spiritual growth.
Title:
Traveling Light
Media: BK Length:
112 Age Group: S,A,T
Author: Pat McGeachy
Publisher: Abingdon Publication
Date: 1975
Description:
Offers ways and means of living joyfully with the world of "things" as
God intended.
Title:
Turning Point
Media: BK Length:
119 Age Group: A,T
Author: Max L. Christensen
Publisher: WJKP Publication
Date: 1993
Description:
People who have made a difference in our society. A resource
for meditation and reflection as well as a reservoir of illustrative
materials.
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