Recommended Reading

A list of books and other resources that are recommended by our counseling staff

 

Addiction

• Martin, Grant. Regaining Control: When Good Things Become Addictions

Anger

• Carter & Minirth. The Anger Workbook
• Chapman. The Other Side of Love
• Potter-Effron. Letting Go of Anger

Anxiety/Stress Management & Relaxation

• Hart. Adrenalin and Stress
• Mc Minn. Making the Best of Stress
• Ogilvie, Lloyd J. Making Stress Work for You

Assertiveness

• Augsburger. Beyond Assertiveness

Boundaries

• Cloud & Townsend. Boundaries
• Cloud & Townsend. Boundaries in Dating
• Cloud & Townsend. Boundaries in Marriage
• Cloud & Townsend. Boundaries with Children
• Cloud & Townsend. Boundaries Face to Face

Burnout

• Coffman, Carrie. Weary Warriors
• Hughes, Kent and Barbara. Liberating Ministry from the Success Syndrome
• McIntosh, G. and Edmondson, R. It Only Hurts on Monday
• Schubert, Esther. What Missionaries Need to Know About Burnout and Depression
• Swenson. Margin
• Swenson. The Overload Syndrome

Children's Stories

• Card. Tell Me Why
• Hample and Marshall. Children’s Letters to God
• Lucado. Because I Love You
• Lucado. Jacob’s Gift
• Lucado. Just the Way You Are (formerly The Children of the King)
• Lucado. The Song of the King
• Lucado. Tell Me the Secrets
• Lucado. Tell Me the Story
• Lucado. You Are Mine (sequel to You Are Special)
• Lucado. You Are Special
• Mains. Tales of the Kingdom
• Mains. Tales of the Resistance
• Mains. Tales of the Restoration
• Manning. The Boy Who Cried Abba
• Sproul. The King Without A Shadow
• Suess. O, The Places You Will Go!
• Tada. I’ll Be With You Always
• Tada. Tell Me the Promises
• Tada. Tell Me the Truth
• Trent. The Two Trails
• Trent & Smalley. The Treasure Tree
• Wise. The Runaway Bunny
• Zacharias. The Merchant and the Thief

Communication

• Chapman. The 5 Love Languages
• Chapman. The 5 Love Languages of Children

Community (and beyond!)

• Bierling, Wilder, & Poole. The Life Model: Living from the Heart Jesus Gave You
• Lord, Peter. Soul Care
• Miller, S., Wackman, D., Nunnally, E., Miller, P. Connecting With Self and Others
• Peck, Scott. A Different Drum
• Welch. We Really Do Need Each Other

Conflict Resolution

• Augsburger. Caring Enough To Confront
• Leas, Speed.  Discover Your Conflict Management Style
• Leas, Speed & Kittlaus, Paul.  Church Fights
• Palmer. Managing Conflict Creatively
• Susek, Ron & Kennedy, D. James. Fire Storm

Control

• Wilson, Sandra. The World According to Me

Decision Making & God’s Will

• Friesen, Garry. Decision Making and the Will of God
• Sittser, Gerald. The Will of God As a Way of Life

Depression

• Bloomfield & McWilliams. How to Heal Depression (free on-line www.mcwilliams.com)
• Burns. Feeling Good
• Langburg, Diane. Feeling Good, Feeling Bad
• Minirth , Meier & Arterburn. Mastering Your Moods

Family Systems

• Chapman. Five Signs of a Functional Family
• Friel & Friel. Adult Children
• Friel & Friel. Adult Children’s Guide to What’s “Normal"
• Henslin. Secrets of Your Family Tree
• Townsend. The Mom Factor
• Trent. Life Mapping

Forgiveness

• Augsburger. Caring Enough to Forgive
• Nouwen, Henri. Return of the Prodigal Son
• Smedes. The Art of Forgiving

Goal Setting

• Keirsey, David. Please Understand Me

God Image

• Hample. Children’s Letter’s to God
• Heller. Dear God: Children’s Letters to God
• Lewis, C.S. Chronicles of Narnia
• MacKall. Kids Say the Greatest Things
• Ryan & Ryan. Recovering from Distorted Images of God
• Tozer, A. W. The Pursuit of God
• Tozer, A. W. Knowledge of the Holy

Identity

• Lucado, Max. You Are Special
• McGee, Robert. Search for Significance
• Narramore. You’re Someone Special
• Needham. Alive for the First Time
• Needham. Birthright
• Nouwen, Henri. Return of the Prodigal Son
• Payne, et al. Just Because I Am: A Child’s Book of Affirmation
• Smedes. Pretty Good Person

Interpersonal Relationships

• Allender, Dan. Bold Love
• Parrott. Relationships 
• Townsend, John. Hiding From Love

Loss & Grief

• Bozarth. Life is Goodbye; Life is Hello
• James & Friedman. The Grief Recovery Handbook
• Sittser, Gerald. A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows Through Loss
• Wright, H. Norman. Recovering from the Losses of Life

Ministry Children

• Bowers, ed.. Raising Resilient MKs: Resources For Caregivers, Parents & Teachers
• Kerr & Kerr. You Know You’re An MK When …
• Palmer, Catherine. The Happy Room
• Pollock/van Reken. The Third Culture Kid Experience
• Sanford. “I Have to be Perfect” and Other Parsonage Heresies: The Preacher’s Kid’s Manuel of the Holy Heresies You May Have Grown Up With and How to Find Your Way Back to Truth
• van Reken. Letters Never Sent

Ministry Roles

• Nouwen, Henri. The Wounded Healer
• Peterson, Eugene. Working the Angles

Parenting

• Bissett. Why Christian Kids Leave the Faith
• Borthwick. “But You Don’t Understand!”
• Canfield. 7 Secrets of Effective Fathers
• Narramore & Lewis. Parenting Teens
• Wangerin, Walter. Little Lamb, Who Made Thee?
• Warren & Minirth. Things That Go Bump In The Night

Sabbath

• Dawn, Marva J. Keeping the Sabbath Wholly
• Peterson. Working the Angles

Self-Talk

• Backus & Chapian. Telling Yourself the Truth
• Backus & Chapian. Truth Talk
• Cloud & Townsend. False Assumptions
• Scieszka, Jon. The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs by A. Wolf
• Stoop. Self-talk
• Thurman. Lies We Believe

Sexual Addiction

• Carnes. Don’t Call It Love
• Wright. The Other Woman In Your Marriage

Spirituality

• Foster, Richard. Celebration of Discipline
• Jones, Alan. Soul Making
• Nouwen, Henri. Way of the Heart
• Peterson, Eugene. Contemplative Pastor
• Peterson, Eugene. Leap Over a Wall
• Peterson, Eugene. Run With the Horses
• Schaeffer, Francis A. True Spirituality
• Willard, Dallas. The Spirit of the Disciplines

Spiritual Warfare

• Bubeck. The Adversary
• Bubeck. Overcoming the Adversary

Surviving Abuse And Thriving Thereafter

• Allender, Dan. When Trust Is Lost (http://www.gospelcom.net/rbc/ds/cb922/cb922.html)
• Crabb & Allender, Dan. Hope When You’re Hurting
• Langberg, Diane. On the Threshold of Hope

Other Suggested Readings

• Aldridge, Sandra P. & Valantine, Bobbie. Heart Prints: The Power of Touch
• Manning, B. Abba’s Child
• Nouwen, Henri. Life of the Beloved
• Patterson. Waiting
• Seamands. If Only
• Shelley. Well Intentioned Dragons
• Walker. Husbands Who Won’t Lead, Wives Who Won’t Follow
• Wilson, Sandra. Into Abba’s Arms