RECOMMENDED RESOURCES FOR TEACHING / COUNSELING AND PERSONAL STUDY

These resources are recommended because they are thoroughly steeped in Scripture and the authors focus first on our relationship with God as a means of healing and hope and then on our relationship with others as a means of change, challenge and great blessing. At various times, I have found these books to be a genuine encouragement, a great resource and reference and finally, a wonderful gift to those I was teaching and / or counseling (I often assign one of these books as homework to those I counsel). This is my no means an exhaustive list and new recommendations are added from time to time, so please check back.

A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger than You by Paul David Tripp

Addictions: A Banquet in the Grave by Edward T. Welch

The Attributes of God: Volumes One and Two by A.W. Tozer

Believing God for His Best by William Thrasher

Brokenness by Nancy Leigh DeMoss

Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster

Choosing Forgiveness by Nancy Leigh DeMoss

Depression: A Stubborn Darkness by Edward T. Welch

Desiring God by John Piper

Holiness by Nancy Leigh DeMoss

How People Change by Paul David Tripp and Timothy Lane

Humility True Greatness by CJ Mahaney

I Kissed Dating Goodbye by Joshua Harris

I Really Want to Change, So Help Me God by James MacDonald

Idols of the Heart by Elyse Fitzpatrick

Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands: People in Need of Change Helping People in Need of Change by Paul David Tripp

Is All Truth God's Truth by Jay E. Adams

Knowledge of the Holy by A.W. Tozer

Leaving Yesterday Behind: A Victim No More by William Hines

Lord, Change My Attitude before It's Too Late by James MacDonald

Love to Eat/Hate to Eat by Elyse Fitzpatrick

Made for His Pleasure by Alistar Begg

Overcoming Fear, Worry and Anxiety by Elyse Fitzpatrick

Passion and Purity by Elizabeth Elliot

Relationships: A Mess Worth Making by Paul David Tripp and Timothy Lane

Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate (and discussion guide) by Jerry Bridges

Running Scared by Edward T. Welch

Seeking Him: Experiencing the Joy of Personal Revival by Nancy Leigh DeMoss & Tim Grissom (workbook)

Surrender: The Heart God Controls by Nancy Leigh DeMoss

Systematic Theology by Wayne Grudem

The Cross Centered Life by C.J. Mahaney

The Dangerous Duty of Delight by John Piper

The Joy of Fearing God by Jerry Bridges

The Knowledge of the Holy by A.W. Tozer

The Lord's Table by Mike Cleveland (workbook)

The Purity Principle by Randy Alcorn

Trusting God: Even When Life Hurts (and discussion guide) by Jerry Bridges

Trusting God for a Hope Deferred by Carolyn McCulley

War of Words: Getting to the Heart of your Communication Struggles by Paul David Tripp

When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy by John Piper