Library Acquisitions for November & December 2025

These are the books and e-books added to the Covenant Library in November & December 2025.

• The power of full engagement: managing energy, not time, is the key to high performance and personal renewal
  Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz
  Book
• The integrative mindset: pathways to practicing as a Christian clinician
  Brad D. Strawn & Earl D. Bland
  Book
• Creation, power, and truth: the gospel in a world of cultural confusion
  N.T. Wright
  Book
• Natural law: 5 views
  Michael Pakaluk, Joel D. Biermann, Brad Littlejohn, Melissa Moschella, Peter J. Leithart; Ryan T. Anderson and Andrew T. Walker, general editor
  Book
• The Syriac Peshiṭta Bible with English translation. Ezra-Nehemiah
  English translation by John Healey; text prepared by George A. Kiraz, Joseph Bali
  Book
• The Syriac Peshitta version with English translation. 3-4 Maccabees and the Apocalypse of Baruch
  English translation by Philip Forness; text prepared by George A. Kiraz, Joseph Bali
  Book
• Mere Christian hermeneutics: transfiguring what it means to read the Bible theologically
  Kevin J. Vanhoozer
  Book
• Job
  Douglas Sean O'Donnell
  Book
• Wiser with Jesus: overcoming the temptations that hinder your relationships, steal your time, mar your decision-making and thwart your purpose
  Zack Eswine
  Book
• Exploring the composition of the Pentateuch. Volume 2
  edited by L. S. Baker, Kenneth Bergland, Felipe A. Masotti, and A. Rahel Wells
  Book
• God at work: loving God and neighbor through the book of Exodus
  Anthony B. Bradley
  Book
• Deuteronomy
  J. Gary Millar
  Book
• Ruth: a commentary
  Lisbeth S. Fried
  Book
• Worship and waste: a christological companion to the book of 2 Samuel
  Daniel J. D. Stulac
  Book
• 1 Samuel
  Harry A. Hoffner Jr.
  Book
• 2 Samuel
  Harry A. Hoffner Jr.
  Book
• 1 Kings
  John N. Oswalt
  Book
• 2 Kings
  John N. Oswalt
  Book
• Hosea
  Kevin S. Golden
  Book
• Zephaniah: the Savior's invitation to satisfaction
  Jason S. DeRouchie; Daniel I. Block, general editor
  Book
• Matthew: a commentary for biblical preaching and teaching
  Darrell L. Bock, Timothy D. Sprankle
  Book
• John
  Dorothy A. Lee; Nijay K. Gupta, series editor
  Book
• 1 Corinthians
  Alan F. Johnson
  Book
• 1 Corinthians
  David I. Starling
  Book
• After Paul left Corinth: the influence of secular ethics and social change
  Bruce W. Winter
  Book
• The eternal Son
  Robert Letham
  Book
• Jesus the great philosopher: rediscovering the wisdom needed for the good life
  Jonathan T. Pennington
  Book
• The physical nature of Christian life: neuroscience, psychology, and the church
  Warren S. Brown, Brad D. Strawn
  Book
• In Adam's fall: a meditation on the Christian doctrine of original sin
  Ian A. McFarland
  Book
• Faith embodied: glorifying God with our physical and spiritual health
  Stephen Ko
  Book
• Wonderfully made: a protestant theology of the body
  John W. Kleinig
  Book
• The scandal of holiness: renewing your imagination in the company of literary saints
  Jessica Hooten Wilson
  Book
• Fasts and feasts: a historical guide to the church calendar
  Book
• Revitalize: biblical keys to helping your church come alive again
  Andrew M. Davis
  Book
• The reason for church: why the body of Christ still matters in an age of anxiety, division, and radical individualism
  Brad Edwards
  Book
• Canoeing the mountains: Christian leadership in uncharted territory
  Tod Bolsinger
  Book
• Church planting movements: how God is redeeming a lost world
  David Garrison
  Book
• Crossover preaching: intercultural-improvisational homiletics in conversation with Gardner C. Taylor
  Jared E. Alcántara
  Book
• Preaching to people in pain: how suffering can shape your sermons and connect with your congregation
  Matthew D. Kim
  Book
• Instruments in the Redeemer's hands: people in need of change helping people in need of change
  Paul David Tripp
  Book
• The heart of Jesus: how he really feels about you
  Dane Ortlund
  Book
• Relational spirituality: a psychological-theological paradigm for transformation
  Todd W. Hall with M. Elizabeth Lewis Hall
  Book
• Leading with a limp: turning your struggles into strengths
  Dan B. Allender
  Book
• Good game: Christianity and the culture of sports
  Shirl James Hoffman
  Book
• Primal leadership: unleashing the power of emotional intelligence
  Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, Annie McKee
  Book
• Learning the good life: wisdom from the great hearts and minds that came before
  Jessica Hooten Wilson and Jacob Stratman
  Book
• Jesus of Nazareth
  ITC; Sir Lew Grade presents; Franco Zeffirelli's production; written by Anthony Burgess, Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Franco Zeffirelli; produced by Vincenzo Labella; directed by Franco Zeffirelli; an ITC-RAI co-production for world distribution
  DVD
• John Adams
  HBO Films presents a Playtone production; produced by David Coatsworth, Steven Shareshian; directed by Tom Hooper
  DVD
• Lie to me. Season one
  DVD
• Lie to me. Season 2
  DVD
• Red Dwarf. I
  Grant Naylor Productions; written by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor; produced and directed by Ed Bye
  DVD
• Emma
  a United Film and Television Production for Meridian Broadcasting in association with Chestermead Ltd. and A & E Network
  DVD
• Mansfield Park
  a co-production of Company Pictures and WGBH/Boston; director, Iain B. MacDonald; written by Maggie Wadey; producer, Suzan Harrison
  DVD
• Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey
  a co-production of Granada Television Ltd. and WGBH Boston; ITV Productions; co-producers, James Flynn and Morgan O'Sullivan; produced by Keith Thompson; screenplay by Andrew Davies; directed by Jon Jones
  DVD
• Persuasion
  screenplay, Simon Burke; producer, David Snodin; director, Adrian Shergold; Clerkenwell Films in association with WGBH Boston
  DVD
• Jane Austen's Pride and prejudice
  a co-production of BBC Television and BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc. in association with A & E Network; screenplay by Andrew Davies; directed by Simon Langton; produced by Sue Birtwistle
  DVD
• Sense & sensibility
  Jane Austen; screenplay by Andrew Davies; produced by Anne Pivcevic; directed by John Alexander; BBC, WGBH Boston co-production
  DVD
• Iron Man
  Paramount Pictures and Marvel Entertainment present; a Marvel Studios production, in association with Fairview Entertainment; directed by Jon Favreau; screenplay by Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby and Art Marcum & Matt Holloway; produced by Avi Arad, Kevin Feige; a Jon Favreau film
  DVD
• Star wars. Episode III, Revenge of the Sith
  20th Century Fox; Lucasfilm Ltd.; written and directed by George Lucas; produced by Rick McCallum; executive producer, George Lucas; director of photography, David Tattersall
  DVD
• 9
  Focus Features; Relativity Media; Starz Animation; produced by Timur Bekmambetov, Tim Burton, Dana Ginsburg, Jinko Gotoh, Jim Lemley; story by Shane Acker; screenplay by Pamela Pettler; directed by Shane Acker
  DVD
• ParaNorman
  Focus Features; Laika; directed by Sam Fell and Chris Butler; written by Chris Butler; produced by Arianne Sutner and Travis Knight
  DVD
• Pixar short films collection. Volume 1
  DVD
• The Polar Express
  Castle Rock Entertainment presents in association with Shangri-La Entertainment; a Playtone/ImageMovers/Golden Mean production; a Robert Zemeckis film; produced by Steve Starkey [and others]; screenplay by Robert Zemeckis & William Broyles, Jr.; directed by Robert Zemeckis
  DVD
• Ponyo
  Walt Disney Pictures; Studio Ghibli, Nippon Television Network, Dentsu, Hakuhodo Dymp, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Mitsubishi and Toho; producer, Toshio Suzuki; written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki; U.S. production directors, John Lasseter, Brad Lewis, Peter Sohn; executive producers, John Lasseter, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall; English language screenplay, Melissa Mathison
  DVD
• The princess and the frog
  Walt Disney Pictures; Walt Disney Animation Studios; produced by Peter Del Vecho; original story, Ron Clements, Greg Erb, John Musker, Jason Oremland; screenplay by Ron Clements & John Musker and Rob Edwards; directed by Ron Clements, John Musker; executive producer, John Lasseter
  DVD
• Ralph breaks the internet
  Disney [presents]; [a] Walt Disney Animation Studios [production]; directed by Rich Moore, Phil Johnston; produced by Clark Spencer; screenplay by Phil Johnston, Pamela Ribon
  DVD
• Rango
  Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies present a Blind Wink production; a GK Films production; directed by Gore Verbinski; written by John Logan; story by John Logan, Gore Verbinski, James Ward Byrkit; produced by Gore Verbinski, Graham King, John B. Carls; a Gore Verbinski film
  DVD
• Ratatouille
  Walt Disney Pictures presents; a Pixar Animation Studios film; screenwriter and director, Brad Bird; produced by Brad Lewis
  DVD
• Raya and the last dragon
  Walt Disney Animation Studios; producers, Osnat Shurer, Peter del Vecho; writers, Qui Nguyen, Adele Kim; directors, Don Hall, Adele Kim
  DVD
• Spider-Man: into the Spider-Verse
  Columbia Pictures presents in association with Marvel; an Avi Arad/Lord Miller/Pascal Pictures production; a Sony Pictures Animation film; directed by Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman; produced by Avi Arad, Amy Pascal, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, Christina Steinberg; story by Phil Lord; screenplay by Phil Lord and Rodney Rothman
  DVD
• Tangled
  Walt Disney Pictures presents; Walt Disney Animation Studios; screenplay by Dan Fogelman; produced by Roy Conli; directed by Nathan Greno, Byron Howard
  DVD
• Toy story
  Walt Disney Pictures presents a Pixar production; screenplay by Joss Whedon, Andrew Stanton, Joel Cohen, Alec Sokolow; produced by Ralph Guggenheim and Bonnie Arnold; directed by John Lasseter
  DVD
• Toy story 2
  Walt Disney Pictures presents a Pixar Animation Studios film; produced by Helene Plotkin and Karen Robert Jackson; original story by John Lasseter [and others]; screenplay by Andrew Stanton [and others]; directed by John Lasseter
  DVD
• Toy story 3
  Walt Disney Pictures presents a Pixar Animation Studios film; directed by Lee Unkrich; produced by Darla K. Anderson; story by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich; screenplay by Michael Arndt; created at Pixar Animation Studios
  DVD
• Up
  Walt Disney Pictures presents a Pixar Animation Studios film; directed by Pete Docter; co-directed by Bob Peterson; produced by Jonas Rivera; story by Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Tom McCarthy; screenplay by Bob Peterson, Pete Docter
  DVD
• WALL-E
  Walt Disney Pictures presents a Pixar Animation Studios film; produced by Jim Morris; original story by Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter; screenplay by Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon; directed by Andrew Stanton
  DVD
• Whisper of the heart = Mimi o sumaseba
  Studio Ghibli; Tokuma Shoten ... screenplay, Miyazaki Hayao; producer, Suzuki Toshio; director, Kondō Yoshifumi
  DVD
• Zootopia
  Walt Disney Pictures presents; Walt Disney Animation Studios; directed by Richard Moore, Jared Bush, Byron Howard; screenplay by Jared Bush & Phil Johnston; producer Clark Spencer
  DVD
• Early modern literature and the bodies of a reformed Eucharist
  Julianne Sandberg
  Book
• William Shakespeare's The tempest
  adapted for the screen and directed by Derek Jarman; produced by Guy Ford and Mordecai Schreiber; executive producer, Don Boyd; Kendon Films Ltd
  DVD
• The heart of George MacDonald: a one-volume collection of his most important fiction, essays, sermons, drama, poetry, letters
  Rolland Hein, editor
  Book
• Your brain on food: an indispensable guide to the surprising foods that fight depression, anxiety, PTSD, OCD, ADHD, and more
  Uma Naidoo, MD
  Book
• Handbook of clinical psychopharmacology for therapists
  John D. Preston, Bret A. Moore, John H. O'Neal, Mary C. Talaga
  Book
• Famished: eating disorders and failed care in America
  Rebecca J. Lester
  Book
• Magic pill: the extraordinary benefits and disturbing risks of the new weight-loss drugs
  Johann Hari
  Book
• 1-2 Peter, Jude
  Craig S. Keener
  eBook
• A call to Christian formation: how theology makes sense of our world
  John C. Clark and Marcus Peter Johnson
  eBook
• A new and ancient evangelism: rediscovering the ways God calls and sends
  Judith Paulsen
  eBook
• A scriptural, historical and theological study of the idea of concupiscence as it relates to representative theories of original and actual sin in contemporary Catholic ethical systems
  Jeffrey Mickler
  eBook
• Acts
  Robert P. Menzies and Craig S. Keener
  eBook
• Becoming God's family: why the church still matters
  Carmen Joy Imes
  eBook
• Colossians and Philemon
  Holly Beers
  eBook
• Crossover preaching: intercultural-improvisational homiletics in conversation with Gardner C. Taylor
  Jared E. Alcántara
  eBook
• Dynamics of spiritual life: an evangelical theology of renewal
  Richard F. Lovelace
  eBook
• Embedded genres in the New Testament: understanding their impact for interpretation
  Jeannine K. Brown
  eBook
• Embodied: living as whole people in a fractured world
  Gregg R. Allison
  eBook
• Emerging gender identities: understanding the diverse experiences of today's youth
  Mark Yarhouse and Julia Sadusky
  eBook
• Emerging sexual identities: Navigating the landscape with today's youth Yarhouse, Mark A.
  Sadusky, Julia
  eBook
• Exodus: an introduction and commentary
  Paul R. Williamson
  eBook
• Ezekiel
  Daniel A. Keating
  eBook
• Faith, tradition, and history: Old Testament historiography in its Near Eastern context
  edited by A.R. Millard, James Hoffmeier, David W. Baker
  eBook
• Love thy body: answering hard questions about life and sexuality
  Nancy R. Pearcey
  eBook
• One, holy, catholic, and apostolic church the biblical doctrine of the church
  Guy Prentiss Waters
  eBook
• Parent(s)-child(ren) relationships in the New Testament world
  Amy Lindeman Allen, Sung Uk Lim
  Electronic Resource
• Reading for the love of God: how to read as a spiritual practice
  Jessica Hooten Wilson
  eBook
• Reformed ethics. Volume 3: Christian life in society
  Herman Bavinck; edited by John Bolt; with Jessica Joustra, Nelson D. Kloosterman, Antoine Theron, Dirk Van Keulen
  eBook
• Reformed social ethics: perspectives on society, culture, state, church, and the kingdom of God
  Herman Bavinck; edited by John Bolt
  eBook
• Revitalize: biblical keys to helping your church come alive again
  Andrew M. Davis
  eBook
• Romans
  Sam Storms
  eBook
• Sermons and tracts from the Civil Wars (1646-1649)
  John Owen; introduced and edited by Martyn C. Cowan; general editors, Lee Gatiss and Shawn D. Wright
  eBook
• Sermons from the Commonwealth and Protectorate (1650-1659)
  John Owen; introduced and edited by Martyn C. Cowan; general editors Lee Gatiss and Shawn D. Wrigh
  eBook
• Sexual guilt and shame: damaged sense of self and psychodynamic therapy as a healing modality for Asian American Christian women
  Somang Praise Kim
  eBook
• Sin and temptation
  John Owen; introduced and edited by Kelly M. Kapic, Justin Taylor, and Shawn D. Wright, Lee Gatiss and Shawn D. Wright, general editors
  eBook
• Sirach
  André Villeneuve
  eBook
• The Lord Jesus Christ: the biblical doctrine of the person and work of Christ
  Brandon D. Crowe
  eBook
• The church in dark times: understanding and resisting the evil that seduced the Evangelical Movement
  Mike Cosper
  eBook
• The common rule: habits of purpose for an age of distraction
  Justin Whitmel Earley
  eBook
• The death of Christ
  John Owen; introduced and edited by Richard Snoddy; general editors, Lee Gatiss and Shawn D. Wright
  eBook
• The giver of life: the biblical doctrine of the Holy Spirit and salvation
  J. V. Fesko
  eBook
• The heart of Jesus: how he really feels about you
  Dane C. Ortlund
  eBook
• When the church harms God's people: becoming faith communities that resist abuse, pursue truth, and care for the wounded
  Diane Langberg
  eBook