Recommended Reading

Marriage

  • Common Ground - Gordon Bals
  • Marriage Matters - Winston Smith
  • The Mystery of Marriage by Mike Mason
  • The Meaning of Marriage by Tim Keller
  • Sacred Marriage by Gary Thomas
  • Sacred Sex by Tim Alan Gardner
  • Sexual Character by Marva Dawn

Depression

  • New Light on Depression by David B. Biebel & Harold G. Koenig
  • Moving Beyond Depression by Gregory L. Jantz
  • Depression by Ed Welch
  • Feeling Good by David Burns

Spiritual Disciplines

  • The Beautiful Fight by Gary Thomas
  • A Praying Life by Paul Miller
  • Soul Feast by Marjorie Thompson
  • Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster
  • Hearing God by Dallas Willard
  • How People Change - Timothy Lane and Paul Tripp

Christian Life

  • Inside Out by Larry Crabb
  • The Cry of the Soul by Dan Allender & Tremper Longman
  • The Healing Path by Dan Allender
  • CrossTalk: Where Life and Scripture Meet - Michael Emlet
  • The Will of God as a Way of Life by Gerald Sittser
  • When I Don’t Desire God by John Piper
  • Making Room for Life by Randy Frazee
  • Home is Always the Place You Just Left by Betty Smartt Carter
  • Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands - Paul Tripp
  • Holiness by Grace by Bryan Chappell
  • The Enemy Within by Kris Lungaard
  • Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller
  • The Safest Place on Earth by Larry Crabb

Codependency or Sexual/Physical/Verbal Abuse

  • The Wounded Heart by Dan Allender
  • On the Threshold of Hope by Diane Landberg
  • Stop Walking on Eggshells by Paul Mason
  • Bold Love by Dan Allender
  • When People are Big and God is Small by Ed Welch
  • From Bondage to Bonding by Nancy Groom

Childrearing

  • Give Them Grace: Dazzling Your Kids with the Love of Jesus by Elyse M. Fitzpatrick, Jessica Thompson and Tullian Tchividjian
  • Parenting Adolescents by Kevin Huggins
  • How Children Raise their Parents by Dan Allender
  • Parenting by the Book by John Rosemand
  • Parenting with Love & Logic by Foster Cline and Jim Fay
  • Ending the Homework Hassel by John Rosemond
  • Making the Terrible Twos Terrific by John Rosemond
  • Sacred Parenting by Gary Thomas
  • Parenting Is Your Highest Calling: And Eight Other Myths That Trap Us in Worry and Guilt by Leslie Leyland Fields

Men’s Issues

  • Life of a God Made Man by Dan Doriani
  • Wild at Heart by John Eldredge
  • The Silence of Adam by Larry Crabb, Al Andrews and Don Hudson
  • The Seven Principles of Highly Accountable Men by Mark R. Laaser

Women’s Issues

  • Brave Hearts by Sharon Hersch
  • Strong Women Soft Hearts by Paula Rinehart
  • Sex and the Soul of a Woman by Paula Rinehart
  • The Allure of Hope by Jan Meyers

Addictions

  • Addictions by Ed Welch
  • Addiction & Grace by Gerald May
  • The Last Addiction by Sharon Hersch

Pornography

  • Healing the Wounds of Sexual Addiction by Mark Laaser
  • False Intimacy by Harry Schaumburg
  • Open Hearts: Renewing Relationships with Recovery, Romance & Reality by Mark Laaser, Patrick Carnes & Debra Laaser
  • Living with your Husband’s Secret Wars by Marsha Means
  • Men’s Secret Wars by Frank Means
  • Taking Every Thought Captive by Mark R. Laaser
  • Shattered Vows: Hope and Healing for Women Who Have Been Sexually Betrayed by Debra Laaser

Grief & Loss

  • Disappointment with God & Where is God When it Hurts by Phillip Yancey
  • A Severe Mercy by Sheldon Vanauken
  • Lament for a Son by Nicholas Wolterstorff
  • A Grief Observed & The Problem of Pain by C.S. Lewis
  • A Grace Disquised: How the Soul Grows through Loss by Gerald Sittser
  • Shattered Dreams by Larry Crabb