Shepherding A Child's Heart by Tedd Tripp  

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.

Age of Opportunity by Paul David Tripp

 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. 

Parenting Today's Adolescent by Dennis & Barbara Rainey

In Parenting Today's Adolescent the Raineys help children and parents build a satisfying relationship while forging a vision for a productive, God-honoring life-before, during, and after adolescence.

The Smart Parent by Gary & Anne Marie Ezzo

Now parents can avoid problems with teens before they occur and discover how to help their kids make the transition into adolescence with less trauma for both parent and teen. 

Teen Wise by Gary Ezzo & Robert Bucknam    

   Helps parents to learn how to move past current struggles and start over with credibility, prevent teenage rebellion in the future, and determine how to build lasting parent-teen friendships starting today.

Sacred Parenting by Gary Thomas  

Sacred Parenting is unlike any other parenting book you have ever read. This is not a “how-to” book that teaches you ways to discipline your kids or help them achieve their full potential. Instead of discussing how parents can change their kids, Sacred Parenting turns the tables and demonstrates how God uses our kids to change us.

Love and Respect by Dr. Emerson Eggerichs

A revolutionary message that is helping couples nationwide achieve intimacy like never before.

His Needs, Her Needs by Willard Harley, Jr.

For the past fifteen years, Dr. Harley has used this book to teach couples what's most important in marriage-how to fall in love and stay in love.

Love Life for Every Married Couple by Ed Wheat  

Physician Ed Wheat has helped thousands of couples improve their love-lives and build happier marriages. In Love Life for Every Married Couple, he'll help you improve your marriage through sharing, touching, appreciating and focusing healing attention on your mate. Answering physical, psychological and stress-related questions in a Christian context, Dr. Wheat demonstrates how to bring your feelings of love back to life.

Love for a Lifetime by  Dr. James Dobson

For over ten years, the bestselling Gold Medallion -- winner Love for a Lifetime has brought hope, harmony, and healing to millions of homes, giving men and women powerful insights for building lasting marital harmony. This book is perfect for every man, woman, or couple who wants to strengthen the foundation and/or celebrate the success of their marriage relationship. And it's ideal for gift-giving -- not only to couples celebrating their anniversary, but to newlyweds, married couples, men and women who are engaged, and any couple who want to enhance their marriage. Now this classic has a fresh new cover that will give it an even wider appeal. 
  

Sacred Marriage by Gary Thomas

Starting with the discovery that the goal of marriage goes beyond personal happiness, writer and speaker Gary Thomas invites readers to see how God can use marriage as a discipline and a motivation to love him more and reflect more of the character of his Son.

The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman  

Are you and your spouse speaking the same language? While love is a many splendored thing, it is sometimes a very confusing thing, too. And as people come in all varieties, shapes, and sizes, so do their choices of personal expressions of love. But more often than not, the giver and the receiver express love in two different ways. This can lead to misunderstanding, quarrels, and even divorce. Quality Time, Words of Affirmation, Gifts, Acts of Service, Physical Touch: Dr. Gary Chapman identifies five basic languages of love and then guides couples towards a better understanding of their unique languages of love.  

Men

For Men Only by Shaunti & Jeff Feldhahn  

Finally - You Can Understand Her! Women: complicated and impossible to understand? Do you love and want to please the woman in your life, but just can't seem to figure her out? That was before For Men Only . Now at your fingertips is the tool that will unlock the secret to her mysterious ways. Through hundreds of interviews and the results of a scientific national survey of women, this book demonstrates that women are actually not random and that they really can be systematized and "mapped." In fact, much to men's delight, this book shows that women are actually quite easy to understand and please - as long as you know what it is they need. This simple map will guide you to loving your wife or girlfriend in the way she needs to be loved.

  The Measure of a Man by  Gene Getz

In this revised edition of the best-selling book The Measure of a Man, Gene Getz delivers the newly enhanced message of what it takes to be a man of God. Men will gain encouragement for what they can be in Christ-as fathers, husbands, and mentors to other men. Since 1974, The Measure of a Man has taught hundreds of thousands of men around the world how to live according to God's direction-faithfully, lovingly and spiritually. True masculinity is not measured by a man's strength, but by these 20 biblical guidelines. With life applications and words of inspiration, here is Gene's greatest work-fully rewritten and updated to reach the new generation of modern men.

The Man in the Mirror by Patrick Morley

This powerful book invites men to take a probing look at their identities, relationships, finances, time, temperament, and integrity, and then directs them to take the first time step toward lasting change.

Wild at Heart by John Eldredge  

Helping men rediscover their masculine heart, this guide to understanding Christian manhood and Christian men offers a refreshing break from the chorus of voices urging men to be more responsible, reliable, dutiful… and dead. God designed men to be dangerous, says John Eldredge. Simply look at the dreams and desires written in the heart of every boy: To be a hero, to be a warrior, to live a life of adventure and risk.

  Every Man's Battle by Stephen Arterburn & Fred Stoeker

From the television to the Internet, print media to videos, men are constantly faced with the assault of sensual images. It is impossible to avoid such temptations...but, thankfully, not impossible to rise above them.
Shattering the perception that men are unable to control their thought lives and roving eyes, Every Man's Battle shares the stories of dozens who have escaped the trap of sexual immorality and presents a practical, detailed plan for any man who desires sexual purity-perfect for men who have fallen in the past, those who want to remain strong today, and all who want to overcome temptation in the future.

For Women Only by  Shaunti Feldhahn  

What's going on in a man's mind? From their early days, every woman has struggled to understand why males behave the way they do. Even long-married women who think they understand men have only scratched the surface. Beneath a man's rugged exterior is an even more rugged, unmapped terrain. What bestselling author Shaunti Feldhahn's research reveals about the inner lives of men will open women's eyes to what the men in their life - boyfriends, brothers, husbands, and sons - are really thinking and feeling. Men want to be understood, but they're afraid to "freak out" the women they love by confessing what is happening inside their heads. This book will guide women in how to provide the loving support that modern men want and need.

Helpful Websites

www.family.org

The Website of Focus on the Family.   This site has resources for parents, children, and teens as well as marriage help, movie reviews, and more.

www.familylife.com 

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"To effectively develop godly families who change the world one home at a time."