Resources!
Books draw us into a unique and timeless community. They are wonderful companions along life’s journey. Listed below are thought provoking perspectives we have found beneficial. Please be aware that we do not endorse every idea represented here.
Addiction
-Addiction and Grace: Love and Spirituality in the Healing of Addictions -Gerald May
Borderline Personality Disorder
-Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care About Has Borderline Personality Disorder -Paul T. Mason
-Understanding the Borderline Mother: Helping Her Children Transcend the Intense Unpredictable, and Volatile Relationship -Christine Ann Lawson
Counseling
-Effective Biblical Counseling -Larry Crabb
-Encouragement: The Key to Caring -Larry Crabb & Dan Allender
-Guilt and Grace -Paul Tournier
-Inside Out -Larry Crabb
-Love’s Executioner -Irvin D. Yalom
-The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter To a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients -Irvin D. Yalom
-The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Fred Debate God
-Love, Sex and the Meaning of Life -Dr. Armand M. Nichole
-Understanding People -Larry Crabb
Domestic Violence
-The Gift of Fear: And Other Survival Signals That Protect Us From Violence -Gavin De Becker
-Why Does He Do That: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men -Lundy Bancroft
Evil
-God and the Victim: Theological Reflection on Evil, Victimization, Justice and Forgiveness -Mrs. Lisa Barnes Lampman and Mrs. Michelle D. Shattuck
-People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil -Scott Peck
Forgiveness
-Bold Love -Dan Allender
-Embodying Forgiveness: A Theological Analysis -L. Gregory Jones
-Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness and Reconciliation -Miroslav Volf
-God and the Victim: Theological Reflection on Evil, Victimization, Justice and Forgiveness -Mrs. Lisa Barnes Lampman and Mrs. Michelle D. Shattuck
-The Faces of Forgiveness: Searching for Wholeness and Salvation -F. LeRon Shults & Steven J. Sandage
-What’s Amazing About Grace -Philip Yancey
Grief/Suffering
-A Grief Observed -C.S. Lewis
-Disappointment With God: Three Questions No One Asks Out Loud -Philip Yancey
-Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows through Loss -Gerry Sittser
-Lament for a Son -Nicolas Wolterstorf
-Shattered Dreams -Larry Crabb
-The Year of Magical Thinking -Joan Didion
Love and Relationships
-Bold Love -Dan Allender & Tremper Longman III
-Bondage to Bonding: A Working Guide to Recovery from Co-dependency -Nancy Groom
-Boundaries -Henry Cloud & John Townsend
-Connecting : Healing Ourselves and Our Relationships -Larry Crabb
-Controlling People: How to Recognize, Understand, and Deal with People Who Try to Control You -Patricia Evans
-Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most -Douglass Stone
-Listen In: Building Faith and Friendships Through Conversations That Matter -Rachel Crabb
-Love Must Be Tough -James Dobson
-Soultalk: The Language God Longs for Us to Speak -Larry Crabb
Marriage
-Fully Alive: A Biblical Vision of Gender That Frees Men and Women -Larry Crabb
-His Needs, Her Needs: How to have an Affair Proof Marriage -Willard Harley
-Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a lifetime of love -Sue Johnson
-Intimate Allies: Rediscovering God’s Design for Marriage and Becoming Soul mates for Life -Dan Allender
-Love and Respect: The Love She Most Desires; The Respect He Most Needs -Dr. Emerson Eggerichs --Marriage Builder -Larry Crabb
-Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love and Intimacy Alive in Committed Relationships-David Schnarch
-The Mystery of Marriage: Meditations on the Miracle -Mike Mason
-The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment… -Tim Keller
Men
-Fully Alive: A Biblical Vision of Gender That Frees Men and Women -Larry Crabb
-Healing the Masculine Soul -Gordon Dalby
-Tender Warrior: Every Man’s Purpose, Every Woman’s Dream, Every Child’s Hope -Stu Weber
-The Mark of a Man -Elizabeth Elliot
-The Silence of Adam: Becoming a Man of Courage in a World of Chaos -Larry Crabb
-Wild at Heart -John Eldredge
Narcissism
-People of the Lie -Scott M. Peck
-The Wizard of Oz and Other Narcissists: Coping with the One-Way Relationship in Work, Love, and Family -Eleanor Payson
-Trapped in the Mirror: Adult Children of Narcissists in Their Struggle for Self -Elan Golomb
-Why is it Always About You -Sandy Hotchkiss
Parenting
-Boundaries with Kids -Henry Cloud & John Townsend
-How Children Raise Their Parents -Dan Allender
-How to Make Your Kids Mind Without Losing Yours -Kevin Leman
-Parenting Teens with Love and Logic -Foster Cline and Jim Cline
-Parenting With Love and Logic -Foster Kline and Jim Fay
-The Father Connection: How You Can Make the Difference in Your Child’s Self-Esteem and Sense of Purpose -Josh McDowell
Personal Growth
-The Awakened Heart -Gerald May
-The Cry of the Soul: How Our Emotions Reveal Our Deepest Questions About God -Dan Allender & Tremper Longman III
-The Healing Path: How the Hurts in Your Past Can Lead You to a More Abundant Life -Dan Allender
-Ruthless Trust: The Ragamuffin’s Path to God -Brennan Manning
-Telling Secrets -Frederick Buechner
-Counterfeit Gods: And the Empty Promises of Money, Sex, Power, and the only Hope that Matters -Tim Keller
Premarital
-Finding the Love of Your Life -Neil Clark Warren
-How to Spot a Dangerous Man Before You Get Involved -Sandra L. Brown
Relationship with God
The Sacred Romance: Drawing Closer to the Heart of God -Brent Curtis & John Eldredge
-The Papa Prayer: The Prayer You’ve Never Prayed -Larry Crabb
-Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God -Dallas Willard
-66 Love Letters: A Conversation with God That Invites You into His Story-Larry Crabb
-To Be Told: Know Your Story, Shape Your Future -Dan Allender
-Dark Night of the Soul -Gerald May
-When God Interrupts: Finding New Life Through Unwanted Change-M. Craig Barnes
Sexual Abuse
-Door of Hope -Jan Frank
-Prince of Tides -Pat Conroy
-The Wounded Heart: Hope for Adult Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse -Dan Allender
-The Wounded Heart Workbook -Dan Allender
Sexual Addiction
-Affair of the Mind -Laurie Hall
-Contrary to Love -Patrick Carnes
-False Intimacy -Harry Schaumburg
-Out of the Shadows -Patrick Carnes
Sexuality
-Celebration of Sex -Douglas F. Rosenau
-Restoring Pleasure -Penner & Penner
-Resurrecting Sex: Solving Sexual Problems and Revolutionizing Your Relatiosnship -David Schnarch -Secrets of Eve: Understanding the Mystery of Female Sexuality -Archibald D. Hart
-The Gift of Sex -Penner & Penner
Women
-Fully Alive: A Biblical Vision of Gender That Frees Men and Women -Larry Crabb
-Listening to Love Responding to the Startling Voice of God -Jan Meyers
-The Allure of Hope: God’s Pursuit of a Woman’s Heart -Jan Meyers
-The Path of Loneliness: Finding Your Way Through the Wilderness to God -Elizabeth Elliot
-Redeeming Eve -Healther Web
-Strong Women, Soft Hearts -Paula Rinehart
-Listen In: Building Faith and Friendships Through Conversations That Matter -Rachel Crabb
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