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ADDICTION/RECURRING SIN
Title: Addictions a Baquet in the Grave: Finding Hope in the Power of hte Gospel
Author: Edward T. Welch
Description: In Addictions: A Banquet in the Grave Welch teaches that the hopelessness of the "sickness, recovery, relapse" cycle needs to be replaced with the biblical view of sin, salvation, and sanctification. The addict must face the fact that what and who he worships will control his life and that true freedom can only come through the cross.
Length: 288 pages
Title: The Enemy Within
Author: Kris Lungaard
Description: Drawing from Indwelling Sin and The Mortification of Sin by Puritan John Owen, Lundgaard aims for the heart with a battle plan for radical spiritual transformation! His biblically sound principles on breaking the cycle of sin will help you live a victorious and fulfilling Christian life. Includes study questions.
Length: 157 pages
Title: Just One More: When Desires Don't Take No for an Answer
Author: Edward T. Welch
Description: This book will show you how and why you should rid yourself of your desires. It will tell you that there is a way out for you. Your problem may be more than being stuck with your desires. The answers in this book may surprise you. You will also be introduced to someone with words of comfort and hope you may have never heard before.
Length: 32 pages
Title: Pornography: Slaying the Dragon
Author: David Powlison
Description: "Private sexual fantasy can preoccupy vast areas of a person's mental life," notes David Powlison. "As explicit sexual images proliferate in films and magazines, on television, and over the Internet, the temptations increase and the bondage seems unbreakable. Even Christians can find that their lives have become a push-pull struggle between indulging in fantasy and resisting it." "Is it really possible to slay the dragon of pornography and fantasy once it has gained control of your life?" asks Powlison. The answer is yes, as you will see from this interview with a man called Bob, who experienced Christ's deliverance in this part of his life.
Length: 30 pages
ANGER
Title: Uprooting Anger:Biblical Help for a Common Problem
Author: Robert D. Jones
Description: Everyone experiences anger, but few of us handle it in a Christ-centered way or know how to help others biblically. We need something better than our own moral efforts and resolutions if we really want to rid our hearts of deep-rooted anger. In this biblically-based, practical guide to anger management, Robert D. Jones focuses on changing the underlying motivations and beliefs of the heart that drive angry behavior. By uprooting these heart problems, readers will learn to handle their anger and see the fruit of thorough and lasting change. Ideal for either personal or group study, this book includes discussion and application questions in each chapter.
Length: 232 pages
 Title: The Emotionall Destructive Relationship: Seeing It, Stopping It, Surviving It
Author: Leslie Vernick
Description: There are no perfect marriages or perfect spouses. We know having a good marriage requires effort and hard work. Yet we often don't know how to continue to love when we are angry, hurt, scared, or just plain irritated. Nor are we sure what that kind of love is supposed to look like. Should we be patient? Forgive and forget? Do something else entirely? In this book, you'll find the answers to these questions, differences, and sins of your spouse to help you become more like Christ. Acting right when your spouse acts wrong will not necessarily result in a more satisfying marital relationship, nor will it automatically make your spouse change his or her ways - although both could occur. It will, however, teach you to respond wisely when wronged and lead you into a deeper relationship with Christ as you yield your will to his plan for your life and learn to be more like him.
Length: 224 pages
Title: Anger Escaping the Maze
Author: David Powlison
Description: This book maps the biblical teaching on anger, and provides four practical questions to asses our anger and four to help resolve it.
Length: 32 pages
Title: Angry at God?: Bring Him Your Doubts and Questions
Author: Robert D. Jones
Description: How could God allow this to happen to me? I'm angry with him, but I don't know if I'm supposed to be angry! Is it ok to be angry with God? If we are angry, should we hold it inside, or voice our feelings outright? Jones writes that we should not take a "grin and bear it" approach to our anger, nor should we rashly vent our emotions to God. Instead, we need to humbly bring him our struggles, doubts, and questions. We must learn to be transparent in God's presence, think biblically, and act obediently.
Length: 32 pages
 Title: The Heart of Anger: Practical Help for the Prevention and Cure of Anger in Children
Author: Lou Priolo
Description: Do you have an angry child? Do you know someone who does? In today's age of rage, it's critical that you recognize and address this concern before a child becomes habitually motivated by hostility. Priolo, an experienced counselor, offers practical, biblically based help for correcting or preventing the development of unhealthy external behavior.
Length: 201 pages
ANXIETY
Title: Running Scared: Fear, Worry, and the Rest of God
Author: Edward T. Welch
Description: Learn to conquer your fear! Acknowledging that it "is our travel companion from infancy to death," respected counselor Welch investigates the ramifications of living in the grip of anxiety, worry, and dread---and offers a biblical road map that leads to a life of peace and security. Comprehensive, conversational, and comforting!
Length: 240 pages
Title: Overcoming Fear, Worry, and Anxiety
Author: Elyse Fitzpatrick
Description: Fear and worry are surprisingly common and paralyzing emotions for many women today. In fact, even those who have been Christians for years find themselves battling difficult and often overwhelming concerns--concerns about marital strife, rebellious children, problems in the workplace or at home, serious health issues, financial difficulties, and much more. God knew worry would be a very real problem. He addresses the issue in the Bible many times, giving practical guidance that is the only true solution to our fears and worries. Women will find comfort and encouragement as they learn from the transparent, real-life examples of others who have struggled with anxiety, including the author herself. A warm, friendly, and solidly biblical book that helps women to cast their cares upon God and be filled with complete confidence for every circumstance in life.
Length: About 200 pages
 Title: Stress: Peace Amid Pressure
Author: David Powlison
Description: In Stress: Peace amid Pressure David Powlison invites you to look at Psalm 131 to learn how to quiet your soul in the midst of external pressures. Psalm 131 is about learning composure through a relationship with Jesus Christ. His presence in our lives is the only thing strong enough to overpower stress. Learn to say with the psalmist, "Surely I have composed and quieted my soul."
Length: 40 pages
 Title: Worry: Pursuing a Better Path to Peace
Author: David Powlison
Description: There's always something to worry about. David Powlison recognizes that we have good reason to worry about things. But he assures us that we have much better reasons not to worry! Anxiety is a universal human experience, and we need to approach it with a plan. What do you do when anxieties take over your life? Powlison describes a six-point game plan based on these truths: "It is your Father's pleasure to give you the kingdom. Your father is God. You need not worry."
Length: 32 pages
COMMUNICATION
 Title: War of Words: Getting to the Heart of Your Communication Struggles
Author: Paul David Tripp
Description: Have you ever wondered how a "nice" person like you could be so misunderstood, even hurtful? Tripp gets right to the heart of our communication problems and shows how the gospel changes the way we understand and solve them. Learn to bless others with your speech and in so doing, be blessed yourself.
Length: 245 pages
 Title: Peacemaking for Families: A Biblical Guide to Managing Conflict in Your Home
Author: Ken Sande
Description: When Jesus said, "Blessed are the peacemakers," he wasn't just talking about Nobel Prize winners. Some of the most important conflict resolution happens at home. Discover Bible-based principles such as "the seven A's of forgiveness" that can change your home from a battle zone to a haven of loving tranquility.
Length: 200 pages
 Title: Conflict
Author: Timothy Lane
Description:
Length: 20 pages
 Title: Forgiving Others
Author: Timothy Lane
Description: Forgiving Others is a practical booklet on the art of forgiveness from a biblical perspective. Author Timothy S. Lane explains what forgiveness means, how to offer forgiveness, how to ask for forgiveness, and reasons why we don't forgive - and how to change that.
Length: 20 pages
COUNSELING THEORY
 Title: Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands: People in Need of Change Helping People in Need of Change
Author: Paul David Tripp
Description: Intruments in the Redeemer's Hands is a comprehensive treatment in the lives of others, people who themselves are in need of change. In many ways, the church today has more consumers than committed participants. We see church merely as an event we attend or an organization we belong to, rather than as a calling that shapes our entire life. The author explains how his work follows an "all of my people, all of the time model." If you followed the Lord for a thousand years, you would still need the ministry of the body of Christ as much as you did the day you first believed. This need will remain until our sanctification is complete in Glory.
Length: 368 pages
 Title: How People Change
Author: Paul David Tripp & Timothy Lane
Description: A changed heart is the bright promise of the gospel. When the Bible talks about the gift of a new heart, it doesn't mean a heart that is immediately perfected, but a heart that is capable of being changed. Jesus' work on the cross targets our hearts - our core desires and motivations - and when our hearts change, our behavior changes. It's amazing to watch people who once seemed stuck in a pattern of words, choices, and behaviors start living in a new way as Christ changes their hearts.
Length: 275 pages
 Title: Seeing with New Eyes: Counseling & the Human Condition through the Lens of Scripture
Author: David Powlison
Description: Seeing with New Eyes is a resource for counselors that helps them to see the human condition through the lens of scripture. With fresh insight Powlison shows that the Bible has the ability to change lives.
Length: 288 pages
 Title: Speaking the Truth in Love: Counsel in Community
Author: David Powlison
Description: Have you ever wished there was a better way to talk to a difficult person? Ever wanted to live more consistently in a loving way? Speaking Truth In Love is a blueprint for communication to strengthen community in Christ. The principles outlined in this pivotal work are specific to counseling, and extend to all facets of life, including marriage, family, friendship, business, and the church. Practical in its approach yet comprehensive in its scope, Speaking Truth in Love is sure to become required reading for anyone interested in pursuing a career as a counselor or for anyone else who longs for ways to redeem relationships.
Length: 275 pages
 Title: Blame it on the Brain?: Distinguishing Chemical Imbalances, Brain Disorders, & Disobedience
Author: Edward T. Welch
Description: Viewing brain problems through the lens of Scripture, Edward T. Welch distinguishes genuine brain disorders from problems rooted in the heart. Understanding that distinction will enable pastors, counselors, families, and friends to help others- or themselves- deal with personal struggles and responsibilities. While focusing on a few common disorders, Dr. Welch lays out a series of practical steps adaptable to a wide range of conditions, habits, or addictions.
Length: 204 pages
 Title: Caught Off Gaurd: Encouters with the Unexpected God
Author: William Smtih
Description: How can you take your head knowledge about the omnipotence, love, and compassion of God and transfer it to your heart? How can you connect your everyday reality of the truths you say you believe? Caught Off Guard was written to rekindle your lost passion for life in relationship to Christ. Drawing an irresistible picture of the heart of God that shatters conventional wisdom and remains true to biblical principles, Smith invites you to taste and experience the "real thing"---a God who longs to be in relationship with you. Each chapter includes study questions for personal application.
Length: 173 pages
DECISION MAKING
 Title: Step by Step: Divine Guidance for Ordinary Christians
Author: James C. Petty
Description: This is a book for all of those Christians seeking guidance. With passion and clarity, Dr. Petty argues that spiritual discernment, wisdom, and insight enable Christians to know God's will for their lives and for specific situations.
Length: About 200 pages
 Title: Guidance: Have I Missed God's Best?
Author: James C. Petty
Description: What choices should we make? How do we know that our decisions fit with God's plan? Petty explains that God's plan and our actions work in concert. With all the decisions we face and despite the mistakes we make, God works in all things for the good, transforming us into the image of Christ ( Rom. 8:28). How comforting to know that our choices fulfill that plan in every detail.
Length: 32 pages
 Title: Priorities: Mastering Time Management
Author: James C. Petty
Description: With insight and clarity, James C. Petty helps bring focus into frazzled lives. Using the Assessing My Priorities worksheet, he walks us through the process of organizing time under the categories of God, the people of God, and God's work in the world. With sound biblical advice and practical application, this booklet demonstrates ways in which we can reduce unnecessary stress, identify true priorities, and begin to get our overbooked schedules under control.
Length: 32 pages
DEPRESSION
 Title: Depression: A Stubborn Darkness, Light for the Path
Author: Edward T. Welch
Description: This book gives real hope for those who struggle with depression, and for the people who love them. Dr. Ed Welch writes compassionately on the complex nature of depression and sheds light on the path toward deep, lasting healing. Welch considers carefully the spiritual, medical, and emotional factors that contribute to depression. Even more important is his insight into the impact of these factors' interaction. If depression has touched your life in any way, you can be helped by this practical and far-reaching approach.
Length: 275 pages
 Title: Spiritual Depression
Author: D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Description: ''In a sense, a depressed Christian is a contradiction in terms,'' Lloyd-Jones asserts. But what's a Christian to do to effectively combat spiritual depression (but not get bogged down with the guilt of it all)? Believing that Christian joy was one of the most potent factors in the spread of Christianity in the early centuries, Lloyd-Jones reveals the causes that have robbed you of your spiritual vitality and shows you how to find complete joy through the mind and spirit of Christ. Based on 21 sermons that the author preached at the Westminster Chapel in London.
Length: 300 pages
 Title: Depression: The Way Up When You Feel Down
Author: Edward T. Welch
Description: Depression is often marked by lost ambition, emotional numbness, fatigue, fear, and withdrawal. If you suffer from depression, there is hope - a way up when you are down. Even if you don't feel like doing anything, this booklet provides manageable steps for getting started on the path that leads out of depression. Author Edward T. Welch helps us understand the spiritual issues involved, whether one's depression is caused by physical problems or results in them. Getting to the heart of what depression says and means, Welch guides us through a process of dealing with depression biblically and effectively.
Length: 32 pages
 Title: Suicide: Understanding & Intervening
Author: Jeffrey S. Black
Description: Suicide is profoundly tragic. What depth of unbearable pain and hopelessness suicidal people experience. And when a Christian commits or contemplates suicide, it is both tragic and confusing. Jeffrey Black tells us that the intention to commis suicide is a crisis - a sinful act born out of pain and sorrow. Though promised new life in Christ and a living hope, same believers don't keep their eyes focused on these truths. God has the power to help. Here we learn the signs of suicide and guidelines for intervening when someone appears suicidal.
Length: 40 pages
EATING DISORDERS
 Title: Love to Eat / Hate to Eat: Overcoming the Bondage of Destructive Eating Habits
Author: Elyse Fitzpatrick
Description: After years of futile dieting, readers know there's more to weight control than what they eat. Having discovered the power that food has over their lives, counselor Elyse Fitzpatrick, author of Overcoming Fear, Worry, and Anxiety, helps them: identify destructive eating habits; surrender the desire for control; break the vicious cycle of emotional eating; develop a flexible plan suited to unique situations. God knows everything about us...where we've been and where we're going. Because He knows us so well, He can deeply transform us, giving us the contentment we long for.
Length: 225 pages
FAMILY TRAVEL
 Title: The Chronicles of Narnia (Audio Theatre)
Author: C.S. Lewis
Description: Gather your family around the "radio" and step into C.S. Lewis's world of marvelous creatures, miraculous events, and perilous war against evil powers. Recorded in London it features acclaimed actors David Suchet as Aslan and Paul Scofield as the storyteller. An additional cast of over 100 actors, original orchestral score, and high- quality digital sound bring these tales of courage, self-sacrifice, and friendship vividly to life. Ages 9 and up.
Length: 22 hours on 19 CD's
 Title: The Pilgrim's Progress
Author: John Bunyan
Description: This audio is the allegorical tale of Christian the pilgrim on his journey to the Celestial City. Along the way, Christian encounters both worthy companions and dreadful adversaries. Although this book was written more than three hundred years ago, this stirring spiritual narrative still bears the power to challenge and encourage readers on their own spiritual journeys. Unabridged.
Length: 5 CD's
GUILT
 Title: Forgiveness: I Just Can't Forgive Myself
Author: Robert D. Jones
Description: Robert D. Jones identifies five possible assumptions behind the longing for self-forgiveness. In the process, he pinpoints a deeper problem - and a deeper solution to ongoing guilt. By dispelling a number of misconceptions, Jones clears the path to a joyful realization of complete forgiveness in Christ.
Length: 32 pages
HOMOSEXUALITY
Title: Blame it on the Brain?: Distinguishing Chemical Imbalances, Brain Disorders, & Disobedience
Author: Edward T. Welch
Description: Viewing brain problems through the lens of Scripture, Edward T. Welch distinguishes genuine brain disorders from problems rooted in the heart. Understanding that distinction will enable pastors, counselors, families, and friends to help others- or themselves- deal with personal struggles and responsibilities. While focusing on a few common disorders, Dr. Welch lays out a series of practical steps adaptable to a wide range of conditions, habits, or addictions.
Length: 204 pages
 Title: Homosexuality: Speaking the Truth in Love
Author: Edward T. Welch
Description: "Homosexuality is the hot issue of the day," says Edward T. Welch in this booklet. "Even more than abortion, it will confront the church throughout this generation, forcing us to listen, study and respond wisely. How can we answer claims that the Bible does not prohibit committed homosexual relationships? Or that science proves that homosexuality is genetic, not a chosen lifestyle. Welch supplies us with timely biblical and biological insight into homosexuality. Just as importantly, he calls us to examine our attitudes in order to minister to homosexuals truthfully, compassionately, humbly and persuasively.
Length: 44 pages
LIFE MANAGEMENT
 Title: God's Love: Better than Unconditional
Author: David Powlison
Description: Describing unconditional love as detached "blanket acceptance" and "benign affirmation," David Powlison challenges our common assumption about the nature of God's love. Although wonderfully accepting, divine love is also intrusive, intimate, personal, and active. Instead of simply loving us as we are, God loves us enough to change us. Powlison acknowledges four underlying truths of unconditional love, offers biblical improvements on the idea, and urges us to see God's love for what it really is - better than unconditional.
Length: 24 pages
 Title: Pleasure
Author: David Powlison
Description: Pleasure was part of Gods original design but what happens when the things we enjoy become obsessions or escapes? David Powlison looks at two types of pleasures: Those that bring pure guilt free enjoyment and those that are stained, empty, and disappointing. He points to the tell tale signs that we are misusing pleasure to indulge ourselves or run from pain we need to face. Scripture invites us to experience the supreme pleasure of intimacy with the living God. He longs to redeem our choices, satisfy our souls, and enable us to enjoy secondary pleasures as his gifts.
Length: 20 pages
 Title: Procrastination: First Steps to Change
Author: Walter Henegar
Description: Don't put off dealing with procrastination! The author encourages readers to let God deal with the heart issues behind this powerful habit. Henegar recognizes that even though procrastination is acceptable in our culture, it is a deeply rooted sinful pattern in our lives. Only by God's goodness and grace can our hearts be changed.
Length: 40 pages
 Title: Rest
Author: Winston Smith
Description: Resting is an act of faith, a way of living out the truth that God is in control! Smith helps you answer the question at the heart of Sabbath rest: Whom or what do you serve? You'll discover ways to build quiet into your life and break free from things that keep you from peace.
Length: 22 pages
 Title: Thankfulness: In Everything Give Thanks
Author: Sue Lutz
Description: Susan Lutz helps us see that being thankful does not mean ignoring painful realities. It means bringing our trials to a God who loves us and sent his Son to be our Savior. Lutz explains how believers in Christ have a reason to be thankful that they never had before: Jesus removes the barrier of sin and brings them into a relationship with God.
Length: 32 pages
MARRIAGE
 Title: Sacred Marriage
Author: Gary Thomas
Description: Is happiness the ultimate goal of marriage, or is there a greater purpose? Thomas helps you understand the Lord's intention for matrimony-for husband and wife to reflect the character of Christ. See how God wants to use your marriage as a spiritual discipline to draw you closer to Him, who is happiness.
Length: About 200 pages
 Title: When Sinners Say "I Do": Discovering the Power of the Gospel for Marriage
Author: Dave Harvey
Description: Marriage is the union of two people who arrive at the altar toting some surprisingly large luggage. Often it gets opened right there on the honeymoon, sometimes it waits for the week after. The Bible calls it sin and understanding its influence can make all the difference for a man and woman who are building a life together. When Sinners Say "I Do" is about encountering the life-transforming power of the gospel in the unpredictable journey of marriage. Dave's writing style embraces the reader as he speaks honestly, and sometimes humorously, about sin and the power of the gospel to overcome it. He opens the delightful truth of God's word and encourages the reader to see more clearly the glorious picture of what God does when sinners say "I do".
Length: 192 pages
 Title: Each for the Other: Marriage as It's Meant to Be
Author: Bryan Chapell
Description: What does it take for a marraige to survive and thrive? Faith, commitment, and sacrificial love. Encouraging couples to practice the unselfish love of Christ, Chapell helps husbands to develop as servant leaders, wives to honor and care for their spouses and both partners to model unconditional love in their home and society.
Length: 224 pages
 Title: Marriage: Whose Dream?
Author: Paul David Tripp
Description: In this eye-opening booklet, the author shows how refocusing your dreams on God-centered priorities can invigorate both you and your marriage.
Length: 32 pages
 Title: After Adultery
Author: Robert D. Jones
Description: Here's an easy-to-read practical process for inviting God's presence and power into the midst of adultery's pain. Jones offers reassurance that the Redeemer is right there with the offender, offended, and counselor through confession, forgiveness, and reconciliation. This small booklet makes a great give-away for churches, study groups, and individuals to pass along to their friends and family.
Length: 22 pages
 Title: Domestic Abuse: How to Help
Author: Paul David Tripp, David Powlison, & Edward T. Welch
Description: How do you help the victim of domestic abuse? Does the perpetrator of the violence also need our help? Three counselors reveal ways to clearly communicate God's grace to the victims of violence and demonstrate how to minister with confidence and humility.
Length: 32 pages
MEN'S INTERESTS
 Title: Sex is Not the Problem (Lust Is)
Author: Joshua Harris
Description: An equal opportunity destroyer, lust targets males and females alike. Discover the enemy's secret strategies-and fight back to win lasting freedom. Straightforward without being graphic, Harris's handbook offers practical advice for combating unholy urges, resisting temptation, and embracing godly desire.
Length: 192 pages
 Title: Humility: True Greatness
Author: C.J. Mahaney
Description: God clearly states that he is drawn to the humble. He's also clear that He opposes the proud. These two, humility and pride, cannot coexist. Where one is fostered, the other is defeated. Which will you pursue? C.J. Mahaney paints a striking picture of the daily battle quietly raging within every Christian and asks whether you will passively accommodate the enemy of your soul, pride, or actively cultivate your best friend, humility. When you acknowledge the deception of pride and intentionally humble yourself, you become free to savor abundant mercies and unlikely graces. You will find a new life is yours - a life God richly favors. A God-glorifying life you don't want to miss.
Length: 160 pages
MID-LIFE CRISIS
 Title: Lost in the Middle: Mid-Life and the Grace of God
Author: Paul David Tripp
Description: The Bible never discusses midlife, just like it never discusses teenagers. Yet the Bible is able to unpack any of lifeÂ’s experiences because it was written by the One who made them all. Life on this side of glory is hard. This world is a broken place. You will face things in midlife that beat at the borders of your faith, but you do not have to be lost in the middle of your story. You do not have to be paralyzed by regret, defeated by aging, and discouraged by the passing of your dreams. You do not have to make greater trouble out of the trouble you are already experiencing. This time of life, which can seem like the end of many things, can actually welcome you to a brand new way of living. As is so often the case in your walk with the Lord, this moment of pain is also a moment of grace. Because of this, all of us need to occasionally step back, slow down, and consider where we are going. Lost in the Middle will help you to do just that. One final word: Although this book is targeted at those who are struggling with the issues of midlife, it has a much broader net than that. Lost in the Middle can help all who are struggling with life in this broken world and have lost their way. The God who seems so distant to you in this moment is actually near and active. Lost in the Middle is written to give you eyes to see him, to see yourself more clearly, and to find the real hope that you need to carry on.
Length: 368 pages
PARENTING /FAMILY
 Title: Shepherding a Child's Heart
Author: Tedd Tripp
Description: Many parenting books are based on hit-or-miss theories steeped in secular thinking. This one draws from Pastor Tripp's seasoned experience as a father-and from God's Holy Word. Grounded in the Bible's divine plan for parenting, this guide defines your goals as a parent and provides the Scriptural methods for accomplishing them.
Length: 237 pages
 Title: Age of Opportunity: A Biblical Guide for Parenting Teens
Author: Paul David Tripp
Description: Are you hoping to merely survive your teenagers? With compassion, wit and wisdom, Tripp uncovers the heart issues affecting families during the often chaotic adolescent years. Gain assurance of God's provision for parenting success and discover ways to seize the countless opportunities to deepen communication, learn, and grow with your teens.
Length: 296 pages
 Title: The Young Peacemaker
Author: Corlette Sande
Description: The Young Peacemakers applies biblical principles of peacemaking to the unique challenges of intermediate and middle school students. The Teacher/Student Manual is designed in a workbook format, and the appendices can be photocopied for child or student use. Student Activity Books are also available for each of the twelve lesson series. This is excellent material to be used in Christian schools, home schools, Bible classes, or better yet in the home as parents and children study and practice the principles together. Student Activity Books sold separately.
Length: 200 pages
 Title: Sacred Parenting How Raising Children Shapes Our Souls
Author: Gary Thomas
Description: Instead of the typical instruction manual on child rearing, Thomas's inspiring and affirming book demonstrates how God uses kids to profoundly change their parents. Through scriptural insights and encouraging real-life stories, you'll learn how others handled difficulties and challenges---and how it transformed their walk with God. Discover the spiritual potential in your parent-child relationships!
Length: 231 pages
 Title: The Jesus Story Book Bible: Every Story Whispers His Name
Author: Sally Lloyd-Jones
Description: The Jesus Storybook Bible tells the story beneath all the stories in the Bible. At the center of the story is a baby, the child upon whom everything will depend. Every story whispers his name. From Noah to Moses to the great King David--every story points to him. He is like the missing piece in a puzzle--the piece that makes all the other pieces fit together. From the Old Testament through the New Testament, as the story unfolds, children will pick up the clues and piece together the puzzle. A Bible like no other, this book invites children to join in the greatest of all adventures, to discover for themselves that Jesus is at the center of God's great story of salvation--and at the center of their story too. Recommended for ages 4 to 8.
Length: 352 pages
 Title: A Father's Legacy: Your Life Story in Your Own Words
Author: You
Description: Give Dad a gift that will capture a lifetime of living---and become a treasured memoir! This year-long journey poses 12 intriguing questions per month, with space to record a personal answer. Topics explore family history, childhood memories, cherished traditions, spiritual adventures, and more. And the lay-flat spiral binding makes writing easier.
Length: 192 pages
 Title: A Mother's Legacy: Your Life Story in Your Own Words
Author: You
Description: Pour your heart into a journal that will become a cherished "time capsule" for your children! Featuring 12 inspiring writing prompts per month, it allows you to jot down thoughts about your own family history, childhood memories, cherished traditions, and the lighthearted adventures you've had over the years. Your kids will thank you!
Length: 192 pages
PRACTICAL THEOLOGY
 Title: Futre Grace
Author: John Piper
Description: No one sins out of duty. We sin because we want to. Sin promises happiness, and we buy the lie. So how can the root of sin be severed in our lives? The penalty of sin must be paid by the righteous blood of Christ. And the power of sin must be broken by banking on the promises of Christ. John Piper's meditations on future grace are rooted in rock-solid biblical reflection. Chapter by chapter---one for each day of the month---he reveals how, by cherishing the promises of God, you can break the power of anxiety, despondency, covetousness, lust, bitterness, impatience, pride, misplaced shame, and more.
Length: 448 pages
 Title: When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy
Author: John Piper
Description: What do you do when you discover that you're not satisfied in God the way he wants you to be? Joy is more than an afterthought of the Christian life; it is the sustaining fruit of a relationship with God. With a radical passion for Christ's glory, John Piper helps you find the joy God wants you to have.
Length: 192 pages
 Title: The Discipline of Grace: God's Role and Our Role in the Pursuit of Holiness
Author: Jerry Bridges
Description: From the best-selling author of The Pursuit of Holiness comes a thought-provoking look at legalism, discipleship, and spiritual freedom. Learn how grace and holiness are linked---and how the same mercy that leads believers to Christ also develops us spiritually in the areas of commitment, conviction, choices, watchfulness, and adversity.
Length: 256 pages
 Title: Not the Way It's Supposed to Be: A Breviary of Sin
Author: Cornelius Plantinga, Jr
Description: Sin. Christians used to hate it, fear it, flee from it, grieve over it . . . but not anymore. In his bestseller, Plantinga gives you a fresh look at the ancient doctrine of sin to help you better recognize and deal with it. Discover how sin corrupts what is good, the relationship to folly and addiction---and the beauty of God's grace.
Length: 216 pages
RELATIONSHIPS
 Title: When People are Big and God is Small: Overcoming Peer Pressure, Codependency, & the Fear of Man
Author: Edward T. Welch
Description: "In God I trust; I will not be afraid. What can mortal man do to me?" So sings the Psalmist. But quote that to a crime victim or a junior high student and they'll tell you fear of "mortal men" can prove a formidable obstacle! Here Welch offers biblical insight and solutions for a pervasive weakness in today's church.
Length: 224 pages
 Title: Relationships: A Mess Worth Making
Author: Timothy Lane & Paul David Tripp
Description: With penetrating insight and practical applications, Relationships:A Mess Worth Making identifies how to work through the most stubborn problems that plague any contemporary relationship - be it marriage, parent-child, or friendship. Authors Paul David Tripp and Timothy S. Lane identify the deeper issues that drive a wide range of beliefs and behaviors that keep relationships less than they are designed to be.
Length: 177 pages
 Title: Pre-Engagement: 5 Questions to Ask Yourselves
Author: John Yenchko & David Powlison
Description: In this booklet a biblical conselor and pastor team up to offer five pertinent questions that will help couples decide whether to commit themselves to each other for life. As couples think through and discuss such topics as basic convictions, assumptions, expectations and priorities, they will get to know themselves and each other better.
Length: 32 pages
SEX/INTIMACY
 Title: A Celebration of Sex: A Guide to Enjoying God's Gift of Sexual Intamacy
Author: Douglas E. Rosenau
Description: Reclaim the Bible-based concept of marriage as a satisfying one-flesh relationship. Updated with the latest information this bestselling manual offers the definitive guide to marital intimacy for Christian couples. Trained in psychology and theology, Rosenau answers specific questions and presents detailed techniques for deepening intimate companionship.
Length: 384 pages
 Title: A Celebration of Sex for Newlyweds
Author: Douglas E. Rosenau
Description: As the two of you begin a new life together, you will feel deeply and grow wiser in ways you cannot even imagine. Sexual intimacy is one of God's awesome gifts-meant to help you grow together as a couple and create a passionate and happy marriage. This book stresses being knowledgeable about sexual technique, but it also discusses the emotional and physical differences between men and women, creative ways to please your partner, and how to resolve common sexual problems.
Length: 144 pages
 Title: Sex and the Supremacy of Christ
Author: Justin Taylor & John Piper
Description: The contributors to this unique volume invite you to both celebrate sex for what God made it to be and fight what sin has turned it into. This book has something for all: men and women, married and single. Contributors include John Piper, C. J. and Carolyn Mahaney, Mark Dever, Al Mohler, and Carolyn McCulley.
Length: 240 pages
 Title: Sex, Romance, and the Glory of God: What Every Husband Needs to Know
Author: C.J. Mahaney
Description: Men: want to rev up your sex life? Start with the heart. Not just another bedroom book, Mahaney's study offers you a practical guide to revolutionizing your romantic relationship with your wife. Experience a more profound, deeply satisfying intimacy than you ever imagined as you follow God's instructions for one of his greatest gifts.
Length: 128 pags
SINGLENESS
 Title: Loneliness
Author: Jayne Clark00
Description: Everyone feels lonely at times. In fact, loneliness began in the Garden of Eden when Adam and Eve, a married couple, experienced separation from God and each other. Sin's entrance into the world created loneliness. The remedy, says Jayne V. Clark, is not what fills the void, but Who fills the void. Clark helps us to understand that our union withChrist leads to our union with one another. Believers are a family, the bride of Christ, and, just like siblings and spouses, we have the power to impact our own loneliness and to lessen or intensify the loneliness of others.
Length: 20 pages
SPECIFIC DISORDERS
 Title: OCD: Freedom for the Obsessive-Compulsive
Author: Michael Emlet
Description: Some of the common obsessions experienced by people with OCD are repetitive checking, cleaning, arranging, and hoarding. What causes it? Is it a spiritual or sin issue? In this booklet Michael Emlet discusses the causes and gives a biblical approach to helping those who fight it. He shows how trusting in Jesus Christ brings freedom from the tyranny of performance and perfectionism.
Length: 32 pages
 Title: Self-Injury: When Pain Feels Good
Author: Edward T. Welch
Description: If you have ever purposely injured yourself, it may seem normal, even right. But if you haven't, it seems impossible to understand those who have. After all, don't living creatures avoid pain. Edward T. Welch writes this eye-opening and encouraging booklet assuming that you feel trapped in a cycle of self-injury or that you love someone who does. Welch helps loved ones to understand the self-injurer's world. And if you are the one who feels trapped by this behavior, he lovingly describes a cure that is more attractive than you think.
Length: 32 pages
 Title: ADD: Wandering Minds and Wired Bodies
Author: Edward T. Welch
Description: What is ADD? What are the strengths and weaknesses of ADD children? What can be done about this puzzling disorder? Nothing both the challenges and responsibilities of ADD children, Edward T. Welcch clarifies the physical and spiritual dimensions of ADD. He offers parents-as well as adults who fit the profile-help, encouragement, and biblical wisdom on how to handle this condition.
Length: 32 pages
 Title: Asperger Syndrome
Author: Michael Emlet
Description: As more and more children are diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome, more of us need answers about how to help them with the social struggles and communication difficulties that are part of this neurological disorder. Michael R. Emlet looks at the Christians call to love others in a way that understands AS behavior and deals wisely with the spiritual challenges of an AS persons life. He points believers to the inherent dignity and usefulness of every member of the body of Christ and to the value of the different people who make up the church.
Length: 20 pages
SUFFERING/GRIEF
 Title: When God Weeps: Why Our Suffering Matters to the Almighty
Author: Joni Eareckson Tada & Steven Estes
Description: When life hurts, can God be trusted? What are his purposes in the face of suffering? Joni Eareckson Tada---herself a quadriplegic---knows about pain. Now she and Pastor Steven Estes combine their deep personal experience with solid biblical foundations to help you find answers to your questions and learn to trust God---no matter what.
Length: 256 pages
 Title: Where is God When It Hurts?
Author: Philip Yancey
Description: "If there is a loving God, then why ... ?" No matter how the question is completed, at its root lies the issue of pain. Does God order suffering? Or did he simply wind up the world's mainspring and now is watching from a distance? In this Gold Medallion Award-winning book, now revised and updated, Where is God When It Hurts reveals a God who is neither capricious nor unconcerned. Using examples from the Bible and from his own experiences, Yancey looks at pain---physical, emotional, and spiritual---and helps us understand why we suffer. Includes discussion guide.
Length: about 200 pages
 Title: A Greif Observed
Author: C.S. Lewis
Description: Written after his wife's tragic death as a way of surviving the "mad midnight moments," A Grief Observed is C.S. Lewis's honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss. This work contains his concise, genuine reflections on that period.
Length: 106 pages
.jpg) Title: A Grief Sanctified: Through Sorrow to Eternal Hope
Author: J.I. Packer
Description: Richard and Margaret Baxter had been married only nineteen years before she died at age forty-five. A prominent pastor and prolific author, Baxter sought consolation and relief the only true way he knew - in Scripture with his discipline of writing. Within days he produced a lover's tribute to his mate and a pastor's celebration of God's grace. It is spiritual storytelling at its best, made all the more poignant by the author's unveiling of his grief. J. I. Packer has added his own astute reflections along with his edited version of this exquisite memoir that considers six of life's realities - love, faith, death, grief, hope, and patience. He guides you in comparing and contrasting the world's and the Bible's ideals on coping with these tides of life. The powerful combination of Packer's insights and Baxter's grief gives you a beacon if you are searching for God, a pathfinder for your relationships, and a lifeline if you are grieving.
Length: 191 pages
 Title: Bad Memories: Getting Past Your Past
Author: Robert D. Jones
Description: When past sins haunt us, we prefer to forget. The author reminds us that God wants to redeem our memories and transform us in significant ways.
Length: 40 pages
 Title: Grief: Finding Hope Again
Author: Paul David Tripp
Description: Grief: Finding Hope Again is a practical booklet on recovering from grief. With compassion and biblical wisdom, Paul David Tripp shows us how to think and what to do when death enters our door. He reminds us that God often brings the most wonderful things out of the darkest experiences, just as he did at the cross.
Length: 20 pages
 Title: Suffering: Eternity Makes a Difference
Author: Paul David Tripp
Description: Paul David Tripp helps hurting people see their circumstances from an eternal perspective. Gently uncovering the wrong motives, faulty reasoning, and misguided conclusions that can blind us to the truth of God's love and goodness, Tripp focuses on the grand picture of eternity. His compassionate approach and scriptural advice will help bring strength and hope to grieving souls.
Length: 40 pages
 Title: Why Me? Comfort for the Victimized
Author: David Powlison
Description: "Why is this happening to me? Where is God in my time of anguish?" Knowing our hearts, God has spoken powerful words of comfort. Psalm 10, for example, is God's word to those who have been victimized by others. It guides people into knowing God in the midst of being violated. David Powlison walks us through Psalm 10, helping us see its message of anguish and refuge. Can this ancient text help us in our pain today? Yes, because God is present and listening. What others may have meant for evil, God means for good.
Length: 40 pages
TEENS / EDUCATION
 Title: Teens and Sex: How Should We Teach Them?
Author: Paul David Tripp
Description: Distorted images of sex bombard our children from every angle. Where can they find a healthy view of their sexuality? How can parents and youth leaders teach kids the life-transforming truths that expose the counterfeits for what they are?
Length: 32 pages
 Title: God as Father
Author: David Powlison
Description: When your earthly father has hurt you, how can you know God as a loving heavenly Father? Some say it cant happen unless someone will stand in your fathers place, giving you a loving new image to use in relating to God. Is this true? David Powlison says that this well intentioned perspective will fail to meet the need. It overlooks the way our own hearts contribute to our view of God. And it makes our hope for change dependent on another person instead of connection us to the power of Christ and his Word. In encouraging yet challenging ways, Powlison shows us that God is at work through hand despite our fathers failures to help us know him as our true heavenly Father.
Length: 20 pages
WOMEN'S INTERESTS
 Title: Biblical Womanhood in the Home
Author: Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Description: Though the modern feminist movement left suffering families and a lost culture in its wake, there's a new movement spreading seeds of hope in the hearts of Christian women everywhere. Nancy Leigh DeMoss, Susan Hunt, Barbara Hughes and others speak to the hearts of their sisters in Christ with a message about the greatness of God's created order and the part women play in His grand, redemptive plan. Rediscover the beauty of biblical womanhood as you seek to become the wife and mother God designed you to be.
Length: 176 pages
 Title: Peacemaking Women: Bibilcal Hope for Resolving Conflict
Author: Tara Klena Barthel & Judy Dabler
Description: Your friends add a lot to your life---but what do you do when things go wrong? In Peacemaking Women, Tara Barthel and Judy Dabler show you how to avoid gossip, bitterness, and spiteful actions as you look for resolutions that demonstrate Christ to believers and unbelievers alike. Filled with biblical guidance and practical advice for resolving conflicts and finding life-changing reconciliation!
Length: 320 pages
 Title: Feminine Appeal: Seven Virtues of a Godly Wife and Mother
Author: Carolyn Mahaney
Description: Do you long to grow as a wife and mother? Experience the transforming truths of Titus 2 with Mahaney as your guide! Providing the warm support of a good friend, she helps you become a blessing to your family by encouraging you to practice the seven virtues of a godly woman. Includes study questions.
Length: 188 pages
 Title: Lies Women Believe: And the Truth that Sets them Free
Author: Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Description: We are like Eve. We have all experienced defeats and failures, trouble and turmoil. We have all experienced a selfish heart, a shrewish spirit, anger, envy and bitterness. And we ache to do things over, to have lives of harmony and peace. In Lies Women Believe, Nancy Leigh DeMoss exposes those areas of deception most commonly believed by Christian women: (1)Lies about themselves: I should not have to live with unfulfilled longings; (2) Lies about sin: I cannot walk in consistent victory over sin; (3) Lies about their marriage: If I submit to my husband, I will be miserable; (4) Lies about their emotions: I can't control my emotions; and (5) Lies about their circumstances: I just can't take any more. She sheds light on how we can be delivered from bondage and set free to walk in God's grace, forgiveness, and abundant life. Lies Women Believe offers the most effective weapon to counter and overcome Satan's deceptions---God's truth.
Length: 288 pages
.jpg) Title: Shopping for Time: How to Do it All and Not be Over-Whelmed
Author: Carolyn Mahaney
Description: Women often feel overwhelmed by the many demands on their time. This book weaves biblical principles with practical tips to help women fulfill and excel in their daily responsibilities.
Length: 192 pages
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