New Novels In Two Series

Two Steps Forward: A story of persevering in hope, by Sharon Garlough Brown. This continues the spiritual formation journey of four women introduced in the first book in the series Sensible Shoes. This series is unique in that it is singularly focused on the benefits of being actively intentional in the pursuit of spiritual maturity.

Home and Lila follows the Pulitzer Prize winning book Gilead by Marilynne Robinson. Words fail to adequately describe the sheer beauty and grace of these novels that resonate with our deepest longings to know and be known in a relationship with God and others.


New Novels, New Authors

Sensible Shoes: A Story About the Spiritual Journey by Sharon Garlough Brown. This author is passionate about personal spiritual formation and uses her writing to take her reader into a new understanding of key spiritual practices and offers support for those who want to travel deeper into life with God themselves.


Whose Waves These Are by Amanda Dykes, a former English teacher, drinker of tea, dweller of redemption, and spinner of hope-filled tales. This is her debut novel after acclaim for two earlier novellas. You will enjoy this one!


Overcomer by Chris Fabry is a novelization of the motion picture by the same title. The question this story seeks to answer is “What do you allow to define you?”

NEW in the Library: Books on Prayer and Spirituality

Life Changing Prayers; How God displays his power to ordinary people, by Michael Youssef and told through the stories of everyday Christians whose lives were transformed through prayer.


Praying, by J.I. Packer and Carolyn Nystrom. Let Packer and Nystrom come alongside you to encourage and guide your active praying to our powerful God, and let God move your praying from mere duty to delight.


Guide to Christian Spiritual Formation, by Evan B. Howard. This is an in-depth look at how Scripture, Spirit, Community and Mission shape our souls, written from a broadly evangelical perspective.

Home and Family

New this week is The Most Important Place on Earth: What a Christian home looks like and how to build one, by Robert Wolgemuth. 


Also a couple of classics that may be new to some of us: The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work; seven principles that guide couples on the path toward harmonious and long-lasting relationships, by John M. Gottman. 


And, Thoughtful Parenting: This manual of wisdom for home and family edited by R. Paul Stevens & Robert Banks is arranged alphabetically by topic and offers thoughtful reflection on “how come” as well as “how to” parent. A great resource.

Learning from Men and Women of Faith

Seven Men: And the Secret of Their Greatness, by Eric Metaxas. New York Times best-selling author Eric Metaxas presents seven exquisitely crafted short portraits of widely known – but not well understood – Christian men, each of whom uniquely showcases a commitment to live by certain virtues in the truth of the gospel.


Seven Women: And the Secret of Their Greatness, by Eric Metaxas. In this highly anticipated follow-up to the enormously successful Seven Men, Eric Metaxas gives us seven captivating portraits of some of history’s greatest women, each of whom changed the course of history by following God’s call upon their lives.


Heroes of the Faith: An inspirational and illustrated account of 2000 years of Christianity, by Gene Fedele. This donated book provides a generation by generation account of the lives of great and godly men and women who have changed the world for Christ. With supernatural courage and strength they stood up against tyranny and unbelief to carry the torch of divine truth to their generation.