While there are countless books available to help people find freedom, hope, and life, these listed below are, in our opinion, the best. They share our passion for an integration of Christ-centered and clinically-effective. They are deeply practical, grace-oriented, authentically-written resources. We highly recommend you read as many as possible, especially within the categories that you are most interested in.
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Craig Nakken
This book helps the reader understand the process of addiction, the factors that influence a person to become an addict and steps to a successful recovery.
Jeff Van Vonderen
Jeff gives practical answers and advice for family members of addicts explaining how addiction develops, how addiction is treated, and what family members should and should not do to help.
Nancy Groom
Understand codependency from a Biblical perspective and learn how to have healthy relationships with God and others.
Henry Cloud & John Townsend
This reading provides help for establishing clear boundaries in order to balance personal freedom and personal responsibility in our relationships with self and others.
Henry Cloud & John Townsend
Henry and John take the principles from their bestselling book, Boundaries, and apply them to a variety of the most common difficult situations and relationships.
Allison Bottke
Allison discusses how to empower families by offering hope and healing through S.A.N.I.T.Y., a 6-step program to help parents regain control in their lives and in their homes.
Russell Willingham
Understand sexual addiction, how it develops and a path of healing through authentic relationships with God and others in the Body of Christ.
Mark Laaser
Mark offers a path that leads beyond compulsive thoughts and behaviors to healing and transformation, mapping out a Biblical approach to sexual integrity and self control.
Marnie Ferree
Get practical help for women struggling with relationship or sexual addiction.
Melissa Haas
Melissa created an interactive, 10-week workbook for wives grieving the losses associated with their husband’s sexual addiction.
Debra Laaser
This reading provides practical and compassionate advice on navigating infidelity in marriage and helpful tools for embracing personal growth and transformation.
Dr. Sheri Keffer
Drawing from her experience both as a marriage and family therapist and a woman who personally experienced the devastation of sexual betrayal, Dr. Sheri Keffer walks women impacted by betrayal through the pain and toward recovery.
Sue Johnson & Kenneth Sanderfer
Learn how to identify patterns that sabotage emotional intimacy in marriage and reestablish a safe, connected bond with your spouse.
John & Stasi Eldredge
Get encouragement to fight for each other rather than against each other in the sacred relationship of marriage.
Mark & Debra Laaser
This book examines the seven desires we all share, illustrating how men and women are more alike than different.
Milan & Kay Yerkovich
Identify intimacy imprints disrupting your marriage, understand how your love style impacts your mate and break free from negative patterns that hinder your marriage.
Henry Cloud & John Townsend
Only when a husband and wife know and respect each other’s needs, choices and freedom can they give themselves freely and lovingly to one another. This book guides couples on a path of setting healthy boundaries for themselves and respecting the boundaries of their mate as well as protecting their relationship.
Mark Chamberlain
Mark shows couples how to identify and address vulnerabilities in their relationship, offers healing advice for spouses and help for the struggling partner to avoid relapse.
Jeff VanVonderen
Jeff shows parents how to nurture grace-full family relationships free of manipulation, legalism and shame.
Milan & Kay Yerkovich
Parents will learn how to overcome challenges that arise from their own love style and cultivate a deep, secure connection with a child of any age.
Henry Cloud and John Townsend
This reading helps parents avoid extremes of permissiveness and over-control, while cultivating six necessary character traits that result in maturity and wisdom for their children.
Jim Burns Ph.D
If you have an adult child, you know that parenting doesn't stop when a child reaches the age of eighteen. In many ways, it gets more complicated. Both your heart and your head are as involved as ever, whether your child lives under your roof or rarely stays in contact.
Henry Cloud
This book takes readers step-by-step through the 4 basic tasks of growing up and becoming a mature person.
Jeff VanVonderen
Get insight on how to identify the pain and shame that many Christians struggle with and invites believers to discover the freedom of God’s abundant grace.
William Backus & Marie Chapian
William and Marie use Biblical truth to teach readers how to identify misbeliefs that are creating emotional and behavioral problems and replace them with truth.
Sandra Wilson
Sandra illuminates Biblical principles that lead adults out of chronic shame and into nurturing relationships with God and others.
Gordon Dalbey
A refreshing, comprehensive picture of God’s design for the masculine soul and how authentic manhood is lived out in work, sexuality, marriage and fatherhood.
Dan Allender
This reading explores the dynamics and damage of sexual abuse and outlines a path of healing and growth.
Bill Thrall, Bruce McNicol, & John Lynch
Explore issues of identity and grace in your relationships with God and others.
Gary Moon
This book will inspire you to pursue a passionate, intimate relationship with a God who–even though He doesn’t need anything from you–wants more than anything to be united with you.
Larry Crabb
You can stop trying to get everything right. This book is an introduction to a new way of living in God’s grace.
Sandra Wilson
Sandra leads readers on a personal journey of hearing God’s voice and resting in a safe and deep relationship with Him.
Ruth Haley Barton
This book explores 7 key spiritual disciplines along with practical ideas of weaving them into everyday life.
Paul David Tripp
The culture surrounding pastors today is spiritually unhealthy and leads to pastors forgetting who God is and who they are. Learn strategies for living out this dangerous calling effectively and successfully.
Michael Todd Wilson & Brad Hoffmann
This personal guidebook for pastors and other caregivers will prepare them to withstand common pressures and to flourish in the ministry God has called them to.
Gordon MacDonald
Get wisdom for Christian leaders in all areas of ministry, encouraging them to grow-- from the ground up--a strong, spiritual foundation.
Michael Todd Wilson
The question is not whether you struggle with sexual integrity as a Christian leader, but how you struggle. Discover a grace-based path to disciplines that will lead you the lifestyle of sexual integrity you desire.
Earl Wilson
This book offers practical help for those who want to get off and stay off the slippery slope, as well as hope and healing for those picking up the pieces after a crash.
Earl & Sandy Wilson, Paul & Virginia Friesen, and Larry & Nancy Paulson
This reading offers practical guidance on how to form a spiritual care team, as well as how to support the spouse and family of the one working through the process of restoration.
Gordon MacDonald
This book explores the reality of broken worlds and how they happen along with insights and strategies for rebuilding with help from God and others.
Henry Cloud & John Townsend
Henry and John provide small-group leaders with valuable guidance and information on how they can help their groups to grow spiritually, emotionally and relationally.
Larry Crabb
Readers will explore a place where God can heal disconnected people and allow them to reconnect with each other and, ultimately, with Him.
Paul David Tripp
This is a comprehensive treatment of how God uses people as tools of change in the lives of others, in order that the whole Body can grow into maturity in Christ.
