The new Don Miller Book “A Million Miles in A Thousand Years” has arrived in the store! Check out our 60 second review below!
New Don Miller Book Arrives!
Published September 16, 2009 New Releases , Recommended Leave a Comment
Fall Small Group Bible Study Ideas
Published September 10, 2009 New Releases , Recommended Leave a Comment
Fall is when lots of great new book titles arrive and this year is no different. We will try and start reviewing several of these titles here in the days and weeks ahead. For now though here is a list of just some of the new titles that have dropped in the last few weeks:
Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear by Max Lucado (review coming next week!)
The Jesus You Can’t Ignore by John MacArthur
Game Plan for Life by Joe Gibbs
The Magnificent Obsession: Embracing the God-Filled Life by Anne Graham Lotz
The Missing: Seasons of Grace Book Two by Beverly Lewis (Just Arrived on Tuesday 9/8!)
We have new titles seeming to arrive everyday. Look for some reviews in the weeks to come or stop in and take a look! See you soon.
Join us this Saturday, June 6th for the Kick Off of our Summer Reading Program for 2009!
All day long we will be signing kids up for our Summer Reading Program which encourages kids to keep reading during the summer months. Once kids sign up, they keep track of the books they read and then turn the list back in at the end of the summer to get a great prize. You can sign up any time this week or next!
Also on Saturday we will have special events going throughout the day including:
* 20% Off All Children’s Books
* Fun Prizes and Temporary Tattoos!
* Meet Local Author Stepahie Guzman, author of the “Adventures of Oliver the Clownfish” series. from 3:30 – 5:30 p.m.
* Raffle Drawings all day to bebefit FCCAU, our local homelss shelter.
Contact Christopher Matthew’s at 410-569-0690 for more information. We will see you on Saturday!
Just in time for Memorial Day! Check out our new Patriotic T-Shirts for the whole family! These shirts come in red, white or blue and in all sizes from Youth Small to XXL. Shop early to get the size you want! These shirts will go away fast especially as we approach July 4th. Stop in and take a look!
Former Bel Air resident and Christy Award winner Lisa Samson is out with her latest fiction book from Thomas Nelson Publishers. “The Passion of Mary-Margaret” is somewhat of a departure for Lisa as she writes for the first time from a Catholic perspective. On the whole we think this is one of Lisa’s best works to date and certainly is one that will get you thinking.
The main character, Mary-Margaret Fischer is destined for a life as a religious sister. However, she feels a pull towards Jude, the son of a Chesapeake Bay Lighthouse keeper. Eventually she has to come to grips with doing what is “right” and doing what Jesus is telling her to do. And no, those two things are not the same. And yes, Jesus is literally talking to her – a major plot device of the book.
Lisa told us that she wrote this book as a metaphor about the incarnation of Christ. Reading with her intention in mind reveals a lot about the love of Jesus in coming to live with humans and be fully present with us. However, the book also raises some interesting questions about mysticism and how we as Christians “hear” from God.
Lisa is considered a somewhat “edgy” writer in Christian Fiction and this book does have its moments of “edge”. However, Lisa is such a gifted and compassionate author that scenes that might feel awkward to some Christian readers are handled with deft.
We highly recommend “The Passion of Mary-Margaret” to fans of Lisa Samson and soon-to-be fans.
For several years now we have been selling the NIV Translation and The Message Translation/Paraphrase together in a parallel Bible. People have enjoyed having the NIV and The Message together on one page. Sometimes it helps to have two translations right in front of you when you are reading so that you can get a full picture of what the text is saying. The accuracy of the NIV and the contemporary language of The Message make a great combination.
Now Zondervan, the publisher of the the NIV, has put the two translations together in a Study Bible format. That means that not only do you get both translations together on one page. You now get study notes as well!
While the notes are not as extensive as some other study Bibles, the combination of the study notes with the different translations make a great Bible study tool.
Stop in and take a look at the different styles and sizes we have!
Bryan
