the library @ biblical seminary

1/23/12 – Even more new books

Biblical Seminary Library Staff — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:00:29 +0000

The journey from abandonment to healing / Susan Anderson. BF 575 .R35 A53 2000

Forever infallible & inerrant : remembering God’s extraoderinary providence in preserving His inspired words through the traditional & Reformation texts underlying the King James Bible. DVD BS 186 .F67 2011

Nelson’s new illustrated Bible dictionary / general editor, Ronald F. Youngblood ; consulting editors, F.F. Bruce, R.K. Harrison. Ref. BS 440 .N45 1995

Jesus and the forgiveness of sins : an aspect of his prophetic mission / Tobias Hägerland. BT 265.3 .H34 2012

Salvation accomplished by the Son : the work of Christ / Robert A. Peterson. BT 265.3 .P48 2012

The Virgin Mary in the light of the word of God / Labib Mikhail ; translation and contributions, Dr. Nasser S. Farag. BT 613 .M554 2011

Your pastor’s problems : a guide for ministers and laymen / by William E. Hulme. BV 660.2 .H85 1966

How to increase giving in your church / George Barna. BV 772.5 .B37 1997

The complete works of Oswald Chambers. BV 4501.2 .C436 2000

Hind’s feet on high places / Hannah Hurnard. BV 4515.2 .H96 1977

William Wilberforce : a hero for humanity / Kevin Belmonte ; foreword by Charles Colson. DA 522 .W6 B45 2007

Organization theory and design / Richard L. Daft. HD 31 .D34 1986

Organizational diagnosis : a workbook of theory and practice / Marvin R. Weisbord. HD 31 .W45 1978

Leadership and the quest for integrity / Joseph L. Badaracco, Jr., Richard R. Ellsworth. HD 57.7 .B33 1989

Managing behavior in organizations : science in service to practice / Jerald Greenberg. HD 58.7 .G74 1996

Corporate culture and performance / John P. Kotter, James L. Heskett. HD 58.7 .K68 1992

The emerging practice of organization development / edited by Walter Sikes, Allan Drexler, Jack Gant. HD 58.8 .E44 1989

Finding your way in the consulting jungle : a guidebook for organization development practitioners / Arthur M. Freedman, Richard E. Zackrison ; foreword by Richard Beckhard. HD 69 .C6 F74 2001

Manage people, not personnel : motivation and performance appraisal / with a preface by Victor H. Vroom. HF 5549 .M36 1990

Organizational communication / Gerald M. Goldhaber. HM 131 .G65 1993

A model for the country : the founding and pioneering first half-century of Penn Foundation / Philip Ruth. RA 964 .P46 R87 2005

1/20/12 – More new books

Lydia — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:03:40 +0000

Going global : beyond the boundaries : the role of the black church in the Great Commission of Jesus Christ / Carl F. Ellis, Jr. BR 563 .N4 E452 2005

Going global : beyond the boundaries : the role of the black church in the Great Commission of Jesus Christ : workbook / Denise K. Gates, writer ; Carl F. Ellis, Jr., editor. BR 563 .N4 E452 2005 wkbk.

Christ and the world of religions : Lesslie Newbigin’s theology / Joe M. Thomas. BT 205 .T56 2011

What is the mission of the church? : making sense of social justice, shalom, and the Great Commission / Kevin DeYoung and Greg Gilbert. BV 601.8 .D49 2011

Nymphs of the valley / by Kahlil Gibran ; translated from the Arabic by H.M. Nahmed. PJ 7826 .I2 N9613 1967

Prose poems / by Kahlil Gibran ; translated from the Arabic for the first time by Andrew Ghareeb ; with a foreword by Barbara Young. PJ 7826 .I2 P7613 1968

Spirits rebellious / by Kahlil Gibran ; translated from the Arabic, and with an introduction, by H.M. Nahmad. PJ 7826 .I2 .S6513 1964

A tear and a smile / by Kahlil Gibran ; translated from the Arabic by H.M. Nahmad, with an introduction by Robert Hillyer. PJ 7826 .I2 T4313 1966

The earth gods / by Kahlil Gibran. PS 3513 .I25 E37 1968

The forerunner : his parables and poems / by Kahlil Gibran. PS 3513 .I25 F67 1920

The garden of the prophet / by Kahlil Gibran. PS 3513 .I25 G37 1965

The madman : his parables and poems / by Kahlil Gibran. PS 3513 .I25 M33 1946

The prophet / by Kahlil Gibran. PS 3513 .I25 P76 1965

Sand and foam : a book of aphorisms / by Kahlil Gibran. PS 3513 .I25 S36 1926

The wanderer : his parables and his sayings / Kahlil Gibran. PS 3513 .I25 W36 1965

This man from Lebanon : a study of Kahlil Gibran / by Barbara Young. PS 3513 .I25 Z95 1967

Handbook of counseling military couples / edited by Bret A. Moore. UB 403 .H36 2012

1/6/12 – New books

Biblical Seminary Library Staff — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:50:13 +0000

Coaching questions : a coach’s guide to powerful asking skills / by Tony Stoltzfus. BF 637 .M45 S76 2008

Getting things done : the art of stress-free productivity / David Allen. BF 637 .T5 A45 2001

Cosmopolitanism : ethics in a world of strangers / Kwame Anthony Appiah. BJ 1031 .A66 2006

Reading the Bible with the damned / Bob Ekblad. BS 600.3 .E43 2005

Getting the Old Testament : what it meant to them, what it means for us / Steven L. Bridge. BS 1171.3 .B74 2009

The way of the Lord : christological exegesis of the Old Testament in the Gospel of Mark / Joel Marcus. BS 2585.2 .M373 1992

Liberation theology : an introductory guide / Robert McAfee Brown. BT 83.57 .B76 1993

Jesus, the Middle Eastern storyteller : uncover the ancient culture, discover hidden meanings / Gary M. Burge. BT 375.3 .B87 2009

A public faith : how followers of Christ should serve the common good / Miroslav Volf. BT 738 .V65 2011

Check : practical checklists for leaders. BV 652.1 .D48 2011

The new global mission : the Gospel from everywhere to everyone / Samuel Escobar. BV 2063 .E73 2003

Great events in American history / Rebecca Price Janney. E 174.5 .J36 2009

Martin Luther King and the rhetoric of freedom : the Exodus narrative in America’s struggle for civil rights / Gary S. Selby. E 185.97 .K5 S45 2008

The interpretation of cultures : selected essays / by Clifford Geertz. GN 315 .G44 1973

Applying career development theory to counseling (5th ed.) / Richard S. Sharf. HF 5381 .S515 2010

Made to stick : why some ideas survive and others die / Chip Heath & Dan Heath. HM 1033 .H43 2007

How soccer explains the world : an unlikely theory of globalization / Franklin Foer. JZ 1318 .F64 2010

Inside the session : what really happens in psychotherapy / Paul L. Wachtel. RC 480 .W33 2011

Hours for Winter 2012

Biblical Seminary Library Staff — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:32:57 +0000

New year, same old hours–but here’s a reminder in case you’ve forgotten:

Winter Semester (January 2 – March 30)
Mon, Tues, Thurs: Noon – 8:00 pm
Wed & Fri: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Sat: Noon – 5:00 pm
Sun: Closed

Semester Break (March 31 – April 8)

Mon – Thurs: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Fri – Sun: Closed

Any changes to our hours due to weather will be posted here and on the library main page.

Hours for Christmas 2011

Biblical Seminary Library Staff — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:19:50 +0000

Christmas is just around the corner, which means time for an hours update! December 16-22 we’ll be open 9 AM through 5 PM Monday through Friday, and closed Saturday and Sunday. December 23 – January 1 we’ll be closed entirely for the holidays. Our regular hours will resume January 2nd.

We hope you have a refreshing break, a very merry Christmas, and a wonderful new year!

12/8/11 – New books

Biblical Seminary Library Staff — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 20:37:56 +0000

Highlight of this batch: Derek Cooper’s new book on Thomas Manton (read an interview about it here). The library bought several copies, so be sure to check it out!

The doctrine of salvation in the first letter of Peter / Martin Williams. BS 2795.6 .S25 W55 2011

Christ is all! : a joyful manifesto on the supremacy of God’s Son / David Bryant. BT 250 .B79 2004

Radical together : unleashing the people of God for the purpose of God / David Platt. BV 600.3 .P53 2011

Urban impact : reaching the world through effective urban ministry / John L. Thompson. BV 637 .T56 U73 2011

The new context for ministry : the impact of the new economy on your church / Lyle E. Schaller. BV 772.5 .S33 2002

The role of teaching in sustaining the church / by Harold W. Burgess. BV 1464 .B872 2004

Radical : taking back your faith from the American Dream / David Platt. BV 4501.3 .P53 2010

Reflections on the beatitudes for people with cancer : a personal journey presented by Ken Curtis / Gateway Films. DVD BX 2330 .R44 2010

Thomas Manton : a guided tour of the life and thought of a Puritan pastor / Derek Cooper. BX 9339 .M36 C66 2011

HarperCollins atlas of the Bible / edited by James B. Pritchard. Ref. G 2230 .H37 1997

11/19/11 – New DVDs and books

Biblical Seminary Library Staff — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 21:02:01 +0000

Facing extinction : Christians of Iraq. DVD BR 1105 .F33 2009

The end of evangelicalism? : discerning a new faithfulness for mission : towards an evangelical political theology / David E. Fitch. BR 1642 .U5 F58 2011

Not for sale / producer and director, Robert Marcarelli. DVD HQ 281 .N68 2010

Not for sale II : join the fight / produced and directed by Robert Marcarelli ; written by Joyce Marcarelli. DVD HQ 281 .N682 2011

Thanksgiving break 2011

Biblical Seminary Library Staff — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:36:06 +0000

Hard to believe it’s already time for Thanksgiving! We’ll be open Monday through Wednesday (November 21-23) from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and will be closed for Thanksgiving day and the following Friday and Saturday (November 24-26). Regular hours will resume the following Monday (November 28).

We hope you have a wonderful holiday, and many reasons to give thanks! (Just don’t eat too much turkey, or you might be too uncomfortable to remember why you were celebrating in the first place.)

Library homepage has moved

Biblical Seminary Library Staff — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:13:49 +0000

Just a heads-up, in case you have the library homepage bookmarked: it’s been moved to http://biblical.edu/index.php/current-students/library. So if you tried to visit the library homepage and got an error message, don’t panic! It’s still there, and it even looks the same. It just got shifted to a different part of Biblical’s website.

10/13/11 – New books

Biblical Seminary Library Staff — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:59:14 +0000

The road less traveled and beyond : spiritual growth in an age of anxiety / M. Scott Peck. BF 637 .S4 P432 1997

Red like blood : confrontations with grace / Joe Coffey and Bob Bevington. BR 1725 .C64 A3 2011

The new Unger’s Bible dictionary / Merrill F. Unger ; R.K. Harrison, editor ; Howard F. Vos, Cyril J. Barber, contributing editors. BS 440 .U53 1988

The King Jesus gospel : the original good news revisited / Scot McKnight. BT 203 .M35 2011

Instruments in the Redeemer’s hands : how to help others change : study guide / Paul David Tripp ; Timothy S. Lane, contributor. BV 4409 .T752 2010

Shorter lexicon of the Greek New Testament / F. Wilbur Gingrich ; second edition revised by Frederick W. Danker. PA 881 .G56 1983