BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS

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I Do Again by Cheryl & Jeff Scruggs (PREORDER ON Amazon.com or Target.com)

Release date: December 16, 2008

Sacred Marriage by Gary Thomas

Scores of books have been written and numerous seminars have been given that offer guidance for building the marriage of your dreams. But what if God's primary intent for your marriage isn't to make you happy. . . but holy? And what if your relationship isn't as much about you and your spouse as it is about you and God? Sacred Marriage invites you to view your marriage in a new and different light, as a spiritual discipline, a means whereby you can know God more fully and intimately.

Sacred Sex by Tim Alan Gardner

Reading Your Male by Mary Farrar (Available Feb 2009)

Love & Respect by Dr. Emerson Eggerichs

A wife has one driving need to feel loved. When that need is met, she is happy. A husband has one driving need – to feel respected. When that need is met, he is happy. When either of these needs isn’t met, things get crazy. Love and Respect reveals why spouses react negatively to each other, and how they can deal with such conflict quickly, easily and biblically.

Point Man by Steve Farrar

This classic bestseller encourages and equips Christian men to lead their families successfully through hazards and ambushes. Topics include a father's influence, maintaining purity, and husband and wife teamwork.

The Silence of Adam by Larry Crabb

The Silence of Adam deals thoughtfully and honestly with men’s ongoing struggles, and exposes the difficulties they have in relationships. It presents the rich calling men have to reveal God in ways uniquely masculine. And it summons men beyond their paralyzing fear of failure to bold risk—taking action, deep spirituality, and full-hearted living. In a day when men are asking tough questions, Crabb and his colleagues supply what’s been missing beneath the excitement—a clear picture of who men are, what’s gone wrong, and what men can become

Choices by Mary Farrar

Today Women have many choices. This book of 12 lessons prepares women to make wise, God-aligned decisions in such vital areas as career, family, and personal growth. Each lesson has its own group study guide.

Sacred Influence by Gary Thomas NEW for Women

Shattered Dreams by Larry Crabb

“A new way to live is available to us,” writes widely respected author and counselor Larry Crabb, “a way that leads to a joy-filled encounter with Christ, to a life-arousing community with others, and to a powerful transformation of our interior worlds that makes us more like Jesus.”
You’ll see how God moves you from shattered dreams to better dreams to the highest dream– and the joy that comes from dreaming it. This is a book that will...draw you to your closest Friend,help you discover your deepest spiritual desires,point you to your greatest hope,help you face your deepest pain,and invite you to your highest joy.Join Larry Crabb on a life-changing adventure of encountering God in the midst of life’s most difficult times. And learn to live beyond your Shattered Dreams.

Don't Waste Your Life by John Piper

John Piper writes, ¿I will tell you what a tragedy is. I will show you how to waste your life. Consider this story from the February 1998 Reader¿s Digest: A couple `took early retirement from their jobs in the Northeast five years ago when he was 59 and she was 51. Now they live in Punta Gorda, Florida, where they cruise on their 30-foot trawler, play softball and collect shells. . . .¿ Picture them before Christ at the great day of judgment: `Look, Lord. See my shells.¿ That is a tragedy. ¿God created us to live with a single passion: to joyfully display his supreme excellence in all the spheres of life. The wasted life is the life without this passion. God calls us to pray and think and dream and plan and work not to be made much of, but to make much of him in every part of our lives.¿ Most people slip by in life without a passion for God, spending their lives on trivial diversions, living for comfort and pleasure, and perhaps trying to avoid sin. This book will warn you not to get caught up in a life that counts for nothing. It will challenge you to live and die boasting in the cross of Christ and making the glory of God your singular passion. If you believe that to live is Christ and to die is gain, read this book, learn to live for Christ, and don¿t waste your life!

When Love Dies by Judy Bodmer

Feeling trapped in a loveless marriage?Are you taken for granted, unloved, and lonely?Do you wonder if divorcing your husband might be the answer?You are not alone. When Love Dies is an honest look at my journey to the edge of divorce, my commitment to stay even though I didn’t feel like it, and my eventual rediscovery of the love that I thought had died. 

Desiring God by John Piper

Scripture reveals that the great business of life is to glorify God by enjoying Him forever. In this paradigm-shattering classic, newly revised and expanded, John Piper reveals that the debate between duty and delight doesn¿t truly exist: Delight is our duty. Readers will embark on a dramatically different and joyful experience of their faith.Scripture reveals that the great business of life is to glorify God by enjoying Him forever. In this paradigm-shattering classic, newly revised and expanded, John Piper reveals that the debate between duty and delight doesn't truly exist: Delight is our duty. Readers will embark on a dramatically different and joyful experience of their faith.

Avoiding the Greener Grass Syndrome by Nancy C. Anderson

This book is a compelling chronicle of Nancy’s journey to the other side of the marital fence and her return as a prodigal wife seeking forgiveness and restoration. It also offers hopeful suggestions, real-life examples, and practical guidance for couples who want to predict, prevent, or pardon infidelity. Based on the principle that the grass is always greener where it’s watered, the "Greener Grass Syndrome" will show you how to grow a beautiful marriage in your own backyard!

War of Words by Paul David Tripp

Getting to the heart of your communication struggles. "Filled with searching and realistic and honest illustrations coupled with large doses of biblical truth. You will be challenged, convicted, enlightened, and encouraged in this extremely important dimension of your relationship with God and with other people…A volume to which you will turn again and again." -

Soul Talk by Larry Crabb

Every day--in the bedroom and the boardroom, on golf carts and jumbo jets, in coffee shops and small group meetings--people are talking. People chat, argue, gossip, flatter, maneuver, preach, strategize, and tell wonderful stories. But too often it's only talk--and seldom the kind of meaningful conversations for which we were created. Hollow talk isolates us from our children, our spouses, our coworkers, and fellow believers. We are largely unknown, undiscovered, unmoved, and untouched, because our talk rarely reaches the soul.

Finishing Strong by Steve Farrar

Bestselling author Steve Farrar has good news for the average man: it doesn't matter if you've had a great start in the Christian life, or a rough one. It doesn't matter if you've stumbled time and again, or even fallen flat on your face. What matters most in this all-important race of life is how you finish. According to Farrar, the man who hangs in there for the long haul with his wife, his kids, and his Lord is an exception these days. Finishing Strong, now in trade paperback, offers lively use of Scripture, contemporary illustrations, and study questions to equip every reader to be that exception. For the man who wants to climb the character ladder more than the corporate one, this is an essential tool.

Connecting by Larry Crabb

"WE HAVE MADE A TERRIBLE MISTAKE! For most of this century we have wrongly defined soul wounds as psychological disorders and delegated their treatment to trained specialists. Damaged psyches aren't the problem. The problem is disconnected souls. What we need is connection! What we need is a healing community!"

Total Forgiveness by R.T. Kendall

When everything in you wants to hold a grudge, point a finger and remember the pain, God wants you to lay it all aside. You can avoid spiritual quicksand and experience the incredible freedom found in total forgiveness. Is total forgiveness easy? Of course not...but this book will give you a game plan...and the encouragement to cast out areas of unforgiveness that have kept you from enjoying the best God has to offer you.

Age of Opportunity by Paul David Tripp

Paul Tripp uncovers the heart issues affecting parents and their teenagers during the often chaotic adolescent years. With wit, wisdom, humility, and compassion, he shows parents how to seize the countless opportunities to deepen communication, learn, and grow with their teenagers.