Book Recommendations by Topics

DEPRESSION

• Depression: Looking Up from the Stubborn Darkness by Ed Welch

• Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Its Cure by David Martyn Lloyd- Jones

• Spurgeon's Sorrows by Zack Eswine

SHAME

• Shame Interrupted by Ed Welch

• The Soul of Shame by Curt Thompson

MARRIAGE

• The Meaning of Marriage by Tim Keller

• The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert by John Gottman

• Hold Me Tight by Sue Johnson

• How We Love by Milan and Kay Yerkovich

• Face to Face: Seven Keys to a Secure Marriage by Jesse Gills

EMOTIONS

• The Cry of the Soul: How Our Emotions Reveal Our Deepest Questions About God by Dan Allender

• Boundaries for Your Soul: How to Turn Overwhelming Thoughts and Feelings into Your Greatest Allies by Alison Cook and Kimberly Miller

• Emotionally Healthy Spirituality: It’s Impossible to be Spiritually Mature While Remaining Emotionally Immature by Peter Scazzero

PAIN, GRIEF AND SUFFERING

• Walking with God through Pain and Suffering by Tim Keller

• Journeying Through Grief by Kenneth C. Haugh

• Don't Sing Songs to a Heavy Heart: How to Relate to Those Who Are Suffering by Kenneth C. Haugh

• Experiencing Grief by H. Norman Wright

PORNOGRAPHY ADDICTION

• Finally Free - Heath Lambert

• At the Alter of Sexual Idolatry by Steve Gallagher

• Surfing for God by Michael John Cusick

• Unwanted: How Sexual Brokenness Reveals Our Way to Healing by Jay Stringer

SEXUAL ABUSE AND TRAUMA

• Healing the Wounded Heart (workbook) by Dan Allender

• The Body Keeps Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk

• Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation by Janina Fisher