Media Center

Media Center

The Western Avenue Media Center provides a wide range of media to support programs of the church, classroom instruction, and personal study and entertainment. Media consists of books, study guides, audio cassette tapes and compact discs, video tapes and DVDs. We will continually update our resources with new and donated materials. Check back often to see what new items have been added for your enjoyment and edification.

For a complete list of available books and resources as of October 4, 2007,

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The Media Center is located on the back hallway of the church, directly across from the Multi-Purpose Room. You may want to look at our campus map to make sure you know the location.

The Media Center is open the following hours:

Sunday mornings from 9:30 until 10:00 and from 10:45 until 11:15

Sunday evenings from 5:00 until 6:00

Wednesday evenings from 5:30 until 6:30

We are working to put our inventory online. Until then, please drop by the Media Center to browse through our selection and take something home with you.

Our Newest Purchases
	The Birth Order Book - Why You Are the Way You Are - by Kevin Leman Your birth order -- whether you were born first (or are an only child,) or second, in your family -- powerfully influences what kind of person you are, who you marry, the job you choose. Now you can discover: How to pick out the first born in any group. Why the baby in the family gets away with everything. How to help middle children feel less squeezed and more loved. Ways to overcome your worst inborn tendencies. Which career suits you best. How to make the perfect marriage match and much, much more... You've seen him on television and heard him on the radio. Now internationally known psychologist Kevin Leman reveals an exciting new way to better understand yourself and those you love. Dr. Leman's ever popular book on birth order is ready for a new generation of readers. With insight and wit, Dr. Leman offers readers a fascinating and often funny look at how birth order affects personality, marriage and relationships, parenting style, career, and children. Whether at home or on the job, birth order powerfully influences the way people interact with others. This is a great book for anyone who wants to learn more about how they react to their world. Dr. Leman even shows readers how to overcome ingrained tendencies they never thought they'd be rid of, all by focusing on their birth order.
	Why Christian Kids Rebel: Trading Heartache for Hop - by Tim Kimmel Author of Grace-Based Parenting and the best-selling Little House on the Freeway, Dr. Tim Kimmel helps Christian parents avoid the potential problems their well-meaning parenting styles could create. This book offers a new way to look at the "ideal" Christian home and shows why "cocoon-style" Christian homes don't always work. Many parents have "done it all" when it comes to the checklist of good Christian parenting, only to see their son or daughter step away from their belief system and embrace other lifestyle choices. Dr. Kimmel helps to increase the chances that your children will develop a vibrant faith early in life and stick with it on into adulthood. It will also provide help and hope for those already dealing with a rebellious teen and teach them how to lead the child back into a walk of faith. .
	The Silent War: Ministering to those Trapped in the Deception of Pornography - by Henry Rogers Amid the smoky dance clubs and seedy sections of town, there exists a thriving pornography industry. But it doesn't end there and so the danger to men is all the greater. For in hotel rooms, trendy bookstores, television screens, and internet websites, there is enough viewing of pornagraphy materials to trap lives together. It is this world that author Henry Rogers reveals to us in a book that has too few peers. This book, through interviews and statistics and other facts, traces the unraveling of American men by by the claws of porn. .
	Ten Boys Who . . . This fantastic series is great to read to your sons. They will learn how God worked through boys just like them to do great things for the kingdom. In this boxed set are the following books: Ten Boys Who Didn't Give Up - Polycarp, Thomas Cramner, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Nate Saint and others. Ten Boys Who Made History - Martyn Lloyd Jones, George Whitefield, Charles Spurgeon, Billy Sunday, John Owen, and others. Ten Boys Who Used Their Talents - Paul Brand, C.S. Lewis, C.T. Studd, J.S. Bach, Samuel Morse, and others. Ten Boys Who Made a Difference - Augustine, John Knox, Martin Luther, John Calvin, Jan Hus, William Tyndale, and others. Ten Boys Who Changed the World - Billy Graham, John Newtoin, George Muller, Nicky Cruz, Eric Liddell, and others.
	Ten Girls Who . . . This fantastic series is great to read to your daughters. They will learn how God worked through girls just like them to do great things for the kingdom. In this boxed set are the following books: Ten Girls Who Didn't Give In - Lady Jane Grey, Anne Askew, Judith Weinberg, Esther John and others. Ten Girls Who Made History - Florence Nightingale, Henrietta Mears, Elisabeth Elliot, Lottie Moon, Bessie Adams, and others. Ten Girls Who Used Their Talents - Annie Lawson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sarah Edwards, and others. Ten Girls Who Made a Difference - Katherine Luther, Sabina Wurmbrand, Ruth Bell Graham, Susanna Wesley, Edith Schaeffer, and others. Ten Girls Who Changed the World - Amy Carmichael, Joni Eareckson Tada, Catherine Booth, Corrie Ten Boom, and others.
	Hedges: Loving Your Marriage Enough to Protect - by Jerry Jenkins In this completely rewritten edition of Hedges, best-selling author Jerry Jenkins gives men practical, biblical advice on exercising faithfulness in their marriages at all times. He suggests ways to plant hedges of protection around your marriage to keep lust and temptation out.
	Effective Parenting ina Defective World - by Chip Ingram *I just want my kids to be happy and successful.* Our kids are growing up in a culture that promises them fulfillment in a dizzying number of ways. There are so many opportunities—and so many dangers—that confront our kids every day. Some may look pretty good to you—school, sports, music lessons. Others, like the latest dangerous thrill-seeking fad, may keep you up at night. So what are you to do? Sign your kids up for every activity and hope something sticks? Anxiously guard them from the dangers outside your door? How can a parent make the right choice? How do you raise effective kids in a defective world? As a pastor and father of four, Chip Ingram delivers a much more positive solution. Without shying away from tough topics like discipline and teen rebellion, Chip offers thought-provoking principles and specific exercises to help you understand how to develop your child’s full potential. This “hands on” approach to parenting gives special hope to blended families and those in crisis. You’ll learn how you can draw closer to your kids even as the world tries to pull you apart. You’ll also learn proven methods to teach your kids critical values like responsibility and perseverance that will help them rise above the norm. Along the way, you’ll discover biblical principles and practical advice that can help you raise kids who stand out from the crowd.
	Grace-Based Parenting - by Tim Kimmel Kimmel, author and founder of Family Matters ministries, likens many Christian parents' attempts at rearing children to putting together a puzzle without first studying the completed picture located on the box's cover. Kimmel states that families of faith tend toward extremes, either being overly permissive or overly legalistic. This is not a particularly new concept, but Kimmel pulls it off with interesting storytelling and sound biblical parallels. He says Christians frequently believe that the battle for a child's heart and soul is fought on the outside-with rigid rules and boundaries-when in fact just the opposite is true. He underscores the importance of communicating the unconditional love that Christ offers and affirming this timeless message of grace to one's family. Despite the numerous examples the author cites where parents fail, this text is overwhelmingly upbeat with hope and possibility: Parents who strive to live a life of faith characterized by daily trust in God will pass on this message of possibility and potential to their offspring. Kimmel asserts that this "radical" mode of parenting will meet the three essential needs in kids' lives: for security, significance and strength. He assures parents that these needs can be met with grace-laced love, purpose and hope. Kimmel's gentle heart is evident in every chapter, and his obvious passion will spur frustrated parents to keep at the task with new resolve and optimism..

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