Mark Kotchapaw – Senior Pastor
How the Mighty Fall:
And Why Some Companies Never Give In
How the Mighty Fall presents the well-founded hope that leaders can learn how to stave off decline and, if they find themselves falling, reverse their course – in part by understanding the five step-wise stages of decline uncovered in the four year research project behind the book.
Every institution, no matter how great, is vulnerable to decline. Anyone can fall, and most eventually do. But decline, it turns out, is largely self-inflicted, and the path to recovery lies largely within our own hands. We are not imprisoned by our circumstances, our history, or even our staggering defeats along the way. As long as we never get entirely knocked out of the game, hope always remains. The mighty can fall, but they can often rise again.
Fred Grendel – Youth Director
unChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks about Christianity…and Why It Matters
by David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons
Groundbreaking research into the perceptions of sixteen- to twenty-nine-year-olds reveals that Christians have taken several giant steps backward in one of their most important assignments. The surprising details of the study, commissioned by Fermi Project and conducted by The Barna Group, are presented with uncompromising honesty in unChristian.
Find out why these negative perceptions exist, learn how to reverse them in a Christlike manner, and discover practical examples of how Christians can positively contribute to culture.
Jamie Stinson – Family Ministries (children)
The Me I Want to be
By John Ortberg
If God has a perfect vision for our lives, why does spiritual growth seem so difficult? Pastor and bestselling author John Ortberg has some intriguing answers to that question, and, in The Me I Want to Be, has organized his thoughts and God’s words into a straightforward and timely guide for living our best life. Through the campaign materials, Ortberg urges us to recognize our brokenness, to understand that God is the project manager, and to follow God’s directions. Ortberg also helps us gauge our spiritual health and measure the gap between where we are now and where God intends us to be.
Here Burns My Candle
By Liz Curtis Higgs
A mother who cannot face her future. A daughter who cannot escape her past.
Lady Elisabeth Kerr is a keeper of secrets. A Highlander by birth and a Lowlander by marriage, she honors the auld ways, even as doubts and fears stir deep within her. Her husband, Lord Donald, has secrets of his own, well hidden from the household, yet whispered among the town gossips. His mother, the dowager Lady Marjory, hides gold beneath her floor and guilt inside her heart. Though her two abiding passions are maintaining her place in society and coddling her grown sons, Marjory’s many regrets, buried in Greyfriars Churchyard, continue to plague her. One by one the Kerr family secrets begin to surface, even as bonny Prince Charlie and his rebel army ride into Edinburgh in September 1745, intent on capturing the crown. A timeless story of love and betrayal, loss and redemption, flickering against the vivid backdrop of eighteenth-century Scotland, Here Burns My Candle illumines the dark side of human nature, even as hope, the brightest of tapers, lights the way home.
Carmen Gauvin-O’Donnell – Church Administrator
Hodder Compendium of Christian Curiosities
by David Moloney
From sacred words of wisdom and eye-opening Bible facts to prophets’ beards, ancient love stories, gruesome gargoyles and the search for the Holy Grail, the HODDER COMPENDIUM OF CHRISTIAN CURIOSITIES presents our historic faith as you’ve never seen it before. Written for the curious and the inquisitive, whether committed Christian or simply interested in the peculiarities of a 2000-year old institution, this book of lists, facts, charts, quirky observations and fascinating explanations affectionately showcases the good, the bad and the downright weird of our rich, eccentric faith.
Amy Grendel – Secretary
Let the Nations Be Glad
By John Piper
John Piper offers a biblical defense of God’s supremacy in all things, providing readers with a sound theological foundation for missions. He examines whether Jesus is the only way to salvation and issues a passionate plea for God-centeredness in the missionary enterprise, seeking to define the scope of the task and the means for reaching “all nations.” The book is essential reading for those involved in or preparing for missions work. It also offers enlightenment for college and seminary students, pastors, youth workers, campus ministers, and all who want to connect their labors to God’s global purposes.
The Centurion’s Wife
By Janette Oke & Davis Bunn
A sweeping saga of the dramatic events surrounding the birth of Christianity– and the very personal story of Leah, compelled into a betrothal she never wanted, drawn by a faith she never expected… When her family’s wealth and power are lost forever, Leah is sent to Pontius Pilate in hopes that he might arrange a strategic marriage. But despite her betrothed’s striking countenance and position, Leah deems life as a centurion’s wife a fate worse than death. Head of the garrison near Galilee, Alban has ambitions that could one day see him at the seat of power–in Rome itself. Eager to prove himself, he takes on the assignment of a lifetime, one that will put his career, his beliefs, and his very life at risk. But when the death–and missing body–of an obscure rabbi find Leah and Alban searching for the same answers, what they discover changes everything.
