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coming soon....a complete online listing of available
resources
November '07 - Many
books are donated to the church library, for which we thank you. We do ask that
you make sure that any donated books are church appropriate. Should anyone check
out a book that you feel is not acceptable, please make it known to Martha
DeFrancesco.
Many books have been donated to the church library this
year, for which we are grateful…keep them coming! Since our librarian,
Martha DeFrancesco, is unable to personally read each and every donated book, it
is difficult for her to weed out ones that may be inappropriate for our library.
Therefore, when donating books please use the following guidelines:
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Watch out for books on the “Best
Seller’s” lists. They are not always books we can recommend to our church
members
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Books containing curse words or
crude language are not allowed
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Any inappropriate drawings are not
permitted
From the
Librarian: Please
check your books at home and return any overdue books. Overdue notices will be
sent out soon.
Addition to DVD Library
One of the
selections that has been added to the DVD library housed in the church office is
a teaching set by Gary DeMar. Most of us remember Gary from his time with us on
Palm Sunday and at the Understanding Our Times worldview
conference.
The two volume set
is titled Basic Training for Understanding Bible Prophecy and
consists of twelve distinct teaching sessions of about 30 minutes each. The
majority of the teaching is an exegesis of Matthew 24, better known as the
Olivet Discourse.
If this sounds like
something of interest to you, check with the ladies in the office about checking
out the set.
Book Review – Heaven, by Randy Alcorn
Especially if a
loved one has left the earth for Heaven, a person wonders about it. Heaven
by Randy Alcorn is a significant, exciting book based on Scripture; the author
studied the scriptural presentation of Heaven for 25 years. So much more does
the Bible teach us on this subject than we may have realized.
Reading this volume
will cause one to cherish this volume, and you will never think of Heaven in the
same way. Heaven becomes a definite reality, a physical place, to be anticipated
with joy. Imagination, often impoverished about the subject, surrenders to a
Biblical description of what it is like to be in the presence of God, His Son,
and “the cloud of witnesses” before us.
Heaven boring?
Anything but that! With new understanding one reads of “the resurrection of the
dead.” At length is discussed “a New Heaven” and “a New Earth.” Not to be
hastily read, this book of 476 pages will carry a memorable reward.
Life-changing this book is!
In John 14 Jesus
said, “¼I go to prepare a place for you¼that
where I am you may be also.” Recorded in Revelation 21:1, 3-5 are additional
words of “King Jesus.” Commenting further, Alcorn exhorts us, “Count on them.
Live every day in the light of them.”
Certainly there is a
hell; however, this extraordinary book is about our Eternal Home to be. Life
here is not the end, but “death” is rather the beginning of LIFE for those who
are His. It is a realm for which we are made.
Finally, the author
reminds us, “The Biblical doctrine of Heaven is about the future, but it has
tremendous benefits here and now. If we grasp this, it will shift our center of
gravity and radically change our perspective of life.”
Read the book! To be
sure, it would be a treasured gift for someone.
[Reviewed by Joy
Amstutz, this book is in the Leidy’s Church library.]
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