Harvest Bible College

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CONTENTS Welcome to 2015 1

National Volunteer Week 1

Library & Information Week 2

EBSCO Philosopher’s Index 2

Harvest Bible College Archives 3

Visit Your Library – Get A Payrise 3

New Items 3

New eBooks 6

Current Awareness Bulletin 9

Contact Details 23

Harvest Bible College

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Welcome There’s a bumper issue of Library Newsletter for you this month. Meet our fantastic library volunteers, have a play with our trial database, and pick a book or two to have a closer look at – there’s heaps to choose from!

National Volunteer Week Volunteers are an amazing resource in society. So many things would not get done if it weren’t for volunteers. The Harvest Bible College Library Network also values its volunteers who assist with library related tasks. Volunteers in the Melbourne Library assist with weeding the collection of unwanted and outdated materials; and sorting out donations, some of which will benefit Colleges in Africa. Our Perth Library volunteer assists with all areas of library work and is an excellent support person for library patrons. Here’s a little introduction to our library volunteers...

Anita Walker – Perth

My name is Anita Walker and I am at the Perth Campus where I volunteer from Tuesday to Thursdays. I am from Sussex on the south coast of England and arrived with my family in 1974. We love Australia, except for the heat!

I have an administrative/secretarial background and worked at the Bible College of Western Australia from 2002-2003 as a volunteer, then Director of Library Services from 2004 until June 2011 when the college closed and the site was sold.

I have two grand-children with the disparate ages of 18 (living in Hillaries) and 4 (adopted in Scotland). I love reading Christian books and helping students find the “right book”. My hobbies include gardening and genealogy and I have traced my West family trees back to 1767 in Sussex and 1699 in Hopton Suffolk.

Deanne Newton – Melbourne

Deanne Newton is currently volunteering in the library after completing a Grad. Dip. in Librarianship in 2014. She is entering the library field after working in administration for a number of years. She also has a BA (Hons) in English. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, creative writing and frequenting cafes around Melbourne with her husband. She is also the daughter-in-law of Dr Jon Newton.

Gail Jewett – Melbourne

Gail is an Alumni of Harvest Bible College, graduating with a BA(Biblical Studies) in 2014. She volunteers in a number of organisations and her dedication and commitment to Harvest is very much appreciated.

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Library & Information Week The week aims to raise the profile of libraries and information service professionals in Australia and gives libraries and information services the opportunity to showcase their resources, facilities, events, contacts and services through different programs and events to the community. Library and Information Week provides the community with the opportunity to:

• find out about the wide range of services which local public and school libraries offer.

• recognise the vital role which libraries and information services play for research and education.

• recognise the contribution of specialist libraries for the work outcomes in corporations, government departments, hospitals and other institutions.

• debate our information future and government approaches to it.

• emphasise the significance of libraries in the maintenance of our history and culture at community and national levels.

• recognise the importance of library and information services as providers of services for people who may otherwise be disadvantaged by their lack of access to information and services.

• consider the role which libraries play in our local community, work and personal life.

EBSCO Philosopher’s Index Trial EBSCO have provided free trial access to the full-text Philosopher’s Index until 10 June 2015. The Philosopher’s Index™, produced by the Philosopher’s Information Center, is a current and comprehensive bibliographic database covering scholarly research in all major fields of philosophy. The Philosopher’s Index with Full Text, considered the most thorough index of journal literature on the subject, features author-written abstracts covering scholarly research published in journals and books, including contributions to anthologies and book reviews. The Philosopher’s Index contains research published since 1940 including over 680 journals from more than 50 countries with content representing a variety of languages. To access, log into the library catalogue, select ‘External Database Links’ and click on Religion & Philosophy Collection. Then click EBSCOhost Web; put a tick in the box for Philosopher’s Index with full text TRIAL, and search away!

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Harvest Bible College Archives The Harvest Bible College Archivist is working hard to catalogue items that make up the HBC Archives. Gradually over the coming weeks and months, records will be added to the library catalogue. So next time you’re looking for a 1989 student handbook, or a 1995 advertisement used by Harvest, or something else in between,

you’ll know where to look! PS: There are some ‘groovy’ photos of long-serving staff members too!

Visit Your Library - Get a Payrise! “Going to the library is like getting a pay rise, according to a survey conducted in 2014 by the UK’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport. The survey, which attempted to quantify how happy different activities make us showed that while dancing and swimming nearly always cheer us up, so does going to the library. The uplift it gives people is apparently equivalent to getting a £1,359 pay rise!” Source: Johnson, A. (2015). Improbable libraries: unusual places to bury your head in a book. Accessed 14-4-15 http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/apr/12/improbable-libraries-alex-johnson

New Items By the Rivers of Babylon: blueprint for a church in exile / Hoch. This text reads the larger American tradition of Christian worship and mission through the prism of visibly marginalized communities, communities that know the power of Babylon concretely. Each of the highlighted communities accents different tensions and challenges facing the exilic community as it attempts to ‘make a way’ through its baptism by the rivers of Babylon. 261.832 HOC Character Counts: leadership qualities in Washington, Wilberforce, Lincoln, and Solzhenitsyn / Guinness. This text contains brief biographical and reflective chapters about four remarkable world figures who not only withstood the extreme adversities of their offices and circumstances but flourished and grew under pressure to become people who made a difference in their times. 270.80922 GUI Children and the Church: Jesus brings the child to a place in the middle / Mountain. This resource will inspire children’s workers, affirm the biblical centre of God’s love for children and even encourage pastors and ministers to locate children’s ministry at the centre of thought, action and prayer. 259.22 MOU The Christian Counselor’s Casebook: applying the principles of nouthetic counselling / Adams. This companion volume to Competent to Counsel and The Christian Counselor’s Manual is designed to help you assimilate and apply the principles of nouthetic counselling. Based on actual counselling experiences, the cases are typocal of the various problems encountered in ordinary church and pastoral counselling. 253.5 ADA Christianity, Climate Change and Sustainable Living / Spencer. This book represents the first serious Christina engagement with the emerging issue of sustainable consumption and production. Firmly rooted in the good news of the Christian faith, this is a constructive and hopeful book that offers a realistic vision of a better future. 261.88 SPE

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Churchless: understanding today’s unchurched and how to connect with them / Barna. This text reveals what the churchless think and feel about religion, why they might believe in God but avoid the local church, and what kind of faith experience they’re seeking. 277.3083 BAR A Climate of Hope: church and mission in a warming world / Dawson. This timely book presents a clear call for Christians and church communities to repent, to pray and to engage in a Christ-like way with climate change on theological, missiological and practical everyday levels. 241.691 DAW Confirming the Pastoral Call: a guide to matching candidates and congregations / Umidi. With humor and insight born of experience, this text tells candidates how to approach a selection process by clarifying personal vision for ministry; connecting heart-to-heart with decision makers; and asking the right people the right questions. 254 UMI Connect: how to double your number of volunteers / Searcy. This step-by-step guide shows you how to create a culture that attracts, keeps and grows volunteers. You’ll learn how to help people see the importance of serving, how to continually raise up new volunteers, how to really delegate, and more. 253.1 SEA Creation, Fall, Restoration: a biblical theology of creation / Kulikovsky. In this far reaching exploration, this text takes us into the territories of scientific and biblical interpretation, and the changing views of nature in the history of both these areas. All who genuinely seek the truth in these matters will find this book both refreshing and challenging, as it gets to the crux of what has been an issue of disagreement among Christians even before Darwin. 231.655 KUL The Fiery Holy Spirit: the spirit’s relationship with judgment in Luke-Acts / Kienzler. This important treatment of an under-studies aspect of the work of the Holy Spirit according to Luke-Acts will be useful to New Testament scholars and students, particularly those interested in pneumatology. 231.3 KIE The Go-To Church: post megachurch growth / Collier. Using the strategies and guidance of this book, you can customise the mission and ministry of your church to connect with people where they are. 254.5 COL Grammatical Concepts 101 for Biblical Hebrew (2nd ed) / Long. This text provides a helpful conceptual bridge between the two different grammatical systems: English & Hebrew. All Hebrew teachers should have this volume close at hand for easy reference to students. 492.482421 LON An Introduction to the Old Testament Template: rediscovering God’s principles for discipling nations (2nd ed) / Cope. This text is a practical and thought-provoking guide to applying God’s whole biblical revelation to every area of culture. Readers of all professions and backgrounds will rethink long-held beliefs and learn how to bring a righteous influence back into the culture in which they live. 248 COP

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Issues in Society / Healey. Issues in Society is an invaluable series of books which contain previously published information sourced from newspapers, magazines, journals, government reports, surveys, websites and lobby group literature. Online Safety 302.30285 HEA Obesity and Overweight 362.196398 HEA Fair Play and Integrity in Sport 175 HEA Income and Wealth Inequality 339.20994 HEA Love in the Gospel of John: an exegetical, theological, and literary study / Moloney. An awareness of love in the Gospel of John has a long history in Christianity. In showing how love pervades this Gospel and is integrally related to its other major themes, Moloney’s engaging book is bound to become indispensible reading for all students of John’s Gospel and its theology. 226.506 MOL Norming the Abnormal: the development and function of the doctrine of initial evidence in classical Pentecostalism / Friesen. This work charts the development of the doctrine of initial evidence from a small community in the Midwest to become a norm for Pentecostal identity and a hallmark of Pentecostal experience around the world. Then, through an empirical study of ministers in three Pentecostal denominations, the work explores the current beliefs of practices of Pentecostals regarding the doctrine of initial evidence in order to form some conclusions and proposals about the future of the doctrine among classical Pentecostals. 234.132 FRI On Preaching: personal & pastoral insights for the preparation & practice of preaching / Charles. Whether you are just starting to preach or have been preaching for some time, these insights will help you improve on your preparation process and undergrid your efforts to be the kind of preacher others must listen to. 251 CHA Practicing Care in Rural Congregations and Communities / Hoeft. Pastoral care in rural communities is different from care in other locales. The challenges of physical isolation and social visibility in small towns shape the practice of care in particular and unique ways. This book will be an essential guide for all ministers, regardless of location. 254.24 HOE Preaching at the Crossroads: how the world - and our preaching - is changing / Lose. This brief, powerful book proposes new ways to think about preaching in a postmodern era that approaches truth differently than those before it. 251 LOS Reformed Means Missional: following Jesus into the world / Logan. Leading Christian reformers demonstrate why and how the church must be on God’s mission of bringing grace, holiness, compassion, and justice to a world of sin and suffering. 266.42 LON Re-Imagining Church: positive ministry responses to the age of experience / Rose. This book explores the changes in culture and church life. It outlines the challenges the churches are facing and charts the origins of those challenges. This is a book which should be read by church leaders, ministers and pastors of all denominations. It provides great insight into the nature of contemporary culture and it outlines positive pathways for ministry in the contemporary Western context. 262.001 ROS

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Research Methods for Ministry and Mission / Hughes. Texts and graphics, data and exercises to take you through the research process for academic and church-related research. CD 001.42 HUG The Revelation Worldview: Apocalyptic thinking in a postmodern world / Newton. This text is a bold attempt to construct a biblically based Christian worldview that makes sense to postmodern people. It also seeks to make the book of Revelation, one of the most strange and difficult books in the Bible, relevant to issues facing people in the twenty-first century. 228.06 NEW Stepping Out: a guide to short-term missions / Gibson. This book is packed with essential advice for preparing for, going on, and returning from short-term missions. 266.023 GIB Visions of Vocation: common grace for the common good / Garber. This text sheds light upon the dilemmas of working well in this broken-yet-beautiful world and equips us to fight against our tendencies toward cynicism, stoicism and distraction with biblical truth and insights from the best of philosophy and literature. 248.88 GAR What Has Christianity Ever Done for Us?: its role in shaping the world today / Hill. This text takes the reader on an enlightening and often humorous tour of the key areas shaped by the Christian faith. 270 HIL

New eBooks Accessible from the library catalogue: http://library.harvest.edu.au Bible in Mission / Hoggarth. While the essays in this volume contribute individually to collective reflection on the Bible in mission, the larger significance of the book is greater than the sum of its parts. The volume reminds us that throughout mission history, new contexts for mission have always given rise to fresh reflections on biblical foundations. A Century of Catholic Mission / Bevans. This text surveys the complex and rich history and theology of Roman Catholic Mission in the one hundred years since the 1910 Edinburgh World Mission Conference. Essays written by an international team of Catholic mission scholars focus on Catholic Mission in every region of the world, summarize church teaching on mission before and after the watershed event of the Second Vatican Council, and reflect on a wide variety of theological issues. The Church going Glocal: mission and globalisation / Fjellhaung Symposium. This text represents a Norwegian attempt to deal adequately with the challenge of witnessing to Christ in a globalized world. Edinburgh 2010: mission then and now / Kerr. A revisit to Edinburgh 1910, more than historical memory is a search after vitality, vibrancy and viability which are impossible without encounter with the Holy Spirit. Edinburgh 2010: mission today and tomorrow / Kim. The historic and influential World Missionary Conference held in Edinburgh in 1910 presented a unique opportunity for the whole church worldwide to come together in celebration, reflection and recommitment to witnessing to Christ today.

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Engaging the World: Christian communities in contemporary global societies / Adogame. This volume deals with the lived experiences and expressions of Christians in diverse communities across the globe. Such a multidimensional perspective is necessary for critical thinking about how missions is articulated and practiced in contemporary contexts and also towards charting new directions for engagement in Christian mission in the 21st century. Evangelical and Frontier Mission: perspectives on the global progress of the Gospel / Snodderly. As we reflect on the past century, then, the stories of the evangelical world church deserve to be heard. In this volume, we do not have space to even begin to scratch the surface. Being forced to choose an orientation, we collected stories and thinking related to the way evangelicals have idealized, operationalized and organized in light of the remaining frontiers of mission. Global diasporas and mission / Im & Yong. The movement of people from their homelands is increasing exponentially. This volume explores such global diasporas from both ecclesiological and missiological perspectives. Holistic Mission: God’s plan for God’s people / Woolnough. In this book we will consider how such changes have come about since Edinburgh 1910, not only in the west, but also in the majority world. It will consider different ways, and different organisations through which the holistic gospel is being delivered and the issues that each contain. It will consider the successes, the limitations and the opportunities for the future that each contain. Interfaith Relations After One Hundred Years: Christian mission among other faiths / Behera. The essays of this book reflect not only the acceptance and celebration of pluralism within India but also by extension an acceptance as well as a need for unity among Indian Christians of different denominations. Israel in Egypt: the evidence for the authenticity of the Exodus tradition / Hoffmeier. In this pioneering book, James Hoffmeier examines the most current Egyptological evidence and argues that it supports the biblical record concerning Israel in Egypt. Job / Garrett. These Shepherd's notes helps reader's learn about the inspired authors of the Bible books and when and where they were first penned. Each Bible book is revealed in simple understandable steps that outline and underscore the focal points and personalities of the biblical text. You'll look to these unique books for their use in Bible studies, teaching, personal devotions and even in sermon preparation! The Lausanne Movement: a range of perspectives / Dahle. The Lausanne Movement has since 1974 functioned as a platform and forum for Evangelical leaders from various geographical and confessional strands. This text contains chapters about the historical and missiological background and discusses key issues and concepts of Lausanne as they have emerged over the years since 1974. A Learning Missional Church: reflections from young missiologists / Fagerli. This book paints the picture of ‘A Learning Missional Church’ and contains reflections from young missiologists. The idea to collect material for such a book came into being as churches and organizations were planning the celebration of the centenary for Edinburgh 1910 in Norway. From the beginning they realized that a celebration in 2010 should provide much space for input from youth. “We need their dreams and hopes for mission today and tomorrow. Edinburgh 2010 must provide a voice for a new generation”, the organizers said. As a result they set in motion a

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study process for young missiologists and students about themes related to mission in our new century. Life-widening Mission: global perspectives from the Anglican Communion / Ross. These articles are also open and honest reflections from a range of young Anglicans in a variety of contexts. Here we see a glimpse of the strengths and struggles of the Anglican Communion. Mission and Postmodernities / Olsen. The many-faceted phenomenon of postmodernities and its significance for Christian mission represents a pressing challenge to the church as it considers how to be a credible witness in today’s society. This volume’s content is divided into four main parts: a dialogical introduction; elaborations on the theme, roughly divided into two groups as an attempt at creating a counterpoint, and finally, a chorus of voices from the Edinburgh Conference. Mission as Ministry of Reconciliation / Schreiter. But why a volume on mission as ministry of reconciliation? The primary reason is that we view “reconciliation” as a new paradigm of mission. Related to this is a second reason, namely, that some of our major Christian traditions in recent years have dealt with and lifted up this focus on reconciliation. Mission at and from the Margins: patterns, protagonists and perspectives / Dahle. This book revisits the ‘hi-stories’ of mission from the bottom up paying critical attention to people, perspectives and patterns that have often been elided in the construction of mission history. Mission Continues: global impulses for the 21st century / Wahrisch-Oblau. In May 2009, 35 theologians from Asia, Africa and Europe met in Wuppertal, Germany, for a consultation on mission theology organized by the United Evangelical Mission: Communion of 35 Churches in Three Continents. The collection of papers in this book has been taken from the papers delivered at the Wuppertal consultation. In some cases, short responses by one or two of the consultation participants were added to highlight the discussions that followed. Mission Spirituality and Authentic Discipleship / Ma. Two sessions were divided into each of the pairs of the theme: mission spirituality (or ‘what motivates you in mission’) and authentic discipleship (or ‘what sustains you in mission’). The book should be read not so much as the progressive elaboration of a logical argument but more as a kaleidoscope where each chapter sheds light on a particular form of mission spirituality so that, by the time the reader reaches the end, a comprehensive global picture has come into view. Pentecostal Mission and Global Christianity / Ma, Kärkkäinen & Asamoah-Gyadu. Although Pentecostalism worldwide represents the most rapidly growing missionary movement in Christian history, only recently scholars from within and outside the movement have begun academic reflection on the mission. This volume represents the coming of age of emerging scholarship of various aspects of the Pentecostal mission, including theological, historical, strategic, and practical aspects. Witnessing to Christ Today / Balia. This volume, the second in the Edinburgh 2010 series, includes reports of the nine main study groups working on different themes for the celebration of the centenary of the World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh 1910. Their collaborative work brings together perspectives that are as inclusive as possible of contemporary world Christianity and helps readers to grasp what it means in different contexts to be ‘witnessing to Christ today’.

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Current Awareness Bulletin This section has journal contents pages from journal issues received into the library during the past month. A request form is available at the end of this section if you would like to have any of the following articles scanned to you. Articles will only be supplied to Harvest Bible College staff members or students unable to attend the library in person.

Biblical Archaeology Review v41(3) May-Jun 2015

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Charisma v40(9) 2015

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Campus Review v25(3) Mar 2015

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Christianity Today v59(3) Apr 2015

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Evangelical Missions Quarterly v51(2) Apr 2015

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Evangelical Quarterly v87(2) Apr 2015

Evangelical Review of Theology v39(2) 2015

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Expository Times v126(7) Apr 2015

International Bulletin of Missionary Research v39(2) Apr 2015

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International Journal of Frontier Missiology v31(4) Oct-Dec 2014

Journal for the Study of the Old Testament v39(3) Mar 2015

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Journal of Pentecostal Theology v24(1) 2015

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Mission Frontiers v37(2) Mar-Apr 2015

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Missiology v43(2) Apr 2015

Practical Theology v7(4) Dec2014

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Preaching v30(6) May-Jun 2015

Zadok Perspectives 126 Autumn 2015

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Zadok Papers S207 & S208 Autumn 2015

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