Resources

  • RECOMMENDED RESOURCES
    • Healing childhood wounds, fatherlessness, and forgiveness work:
    • To Own a Dragon, by Don Miller
    • Sons of the Father, by Gordon Dalbey
    • Healing the Masculine Soul, by Gordon Dalbey
    • Healing Women’s Emotions, by Paula Sandford
    • Champions for Life, by Bill Glass with Terry Pluto
    • The Transformation of the Inner Man, by John and Paul Sandford
    • Genuine Recovery, by Edward M. Smith
  • Stories that show other people’s points of contact with God:
    • Surprised By Joy, by C.S. Lewis
    • Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by Mark Twain
    • Memoirs of Childhood and Youth, by Albert Schweitzer
    • Practicing the Presence of God, by Brother Lawrence
    • Oswald Chambers: Abandoned To God, By David McCasland
    • Just As I Am: The Autobiography of Billy Graham, by Billy Graham
    • Mother Teresa: A Complete Authorized Biography, by Katheryn Spink
    • The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr., by Martin Luther King, Jr.
    • Is That Really You, God? by Loren Cunningham, with Janice Rogers
    • Spiritual Moments with the Great Hymns, by Evelyn Bence
    • The Man Comes Around: The Spiritual Journey of Johnny Cash, by Dave Urbanski
    • Are you a recovering Martha? These should help:
    • The Overload Syndrome: Learning to Live Within Your Limits, by Dr. Richard A. Swenson
    • Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives, by Dr. Richard A. Swenson
    • Having a Mary’s Heart in a Martha World, by Joanna Weaver,
    • Having a Mary Spirit, by Joanna Weaver
    • Buy a hammock at www.hammocks.com
  • Struggling with anger or disappointment with God? Read these:
    • Disappointment with God, by Philip Yancey
    • Where is God When it Hurts? by Philip Yancey
    • When God Doesn’t Make Sense, by James Dobson
    • The Sacred Romance, by Brent Curtis and John Eldredge
    • Starting to learn hear God’s voice in Scripture? Invest in these tools:
    • The New Unger’s Bible Dictionary, by Merrill F. Unger, published by Moody Press
    • Matthew Henry, Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible, from Moody Press
    • Interpreting the Symbols and Types, (revised and expanded 1992), by Kevin J. Conner
  • Learning to hear God’s fresh voice? Here are some important books:
    • The Beginner’s Guide to Hearing God, by Jim Goll
    • Developing Your Prophetic Gift, by John Paul Jackson
    • Growing in the Prophetic, by Mike Bickle
    • The Beginner’s Guide to the Gift of Prophecy, by Jack Deere
    • Can You Hear Me?: Tuning in to the God Who Speaks, by Brad Jersak
  • Build your metaphor awareness by exploring the rich symbolism in a
  • books and movies such as:
  • The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • The Chronicles of Narnia, by C.S. Lewis
  • Gifts from the Sea, by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • The Matrix, directed and written by the Wachowski Brothers, produced by
  • Joel Silver, distributed by Warner Brothers, 1999
  • Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo (book, movie and musical)
  • The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories, edited, with commentary
  • by William J Bennett
  • Explore your destiny questions and discover purpose:
  • Dream Giver, by Bruce Wilkinson with David and Heather Kopp. They’ve also
  • developed a matching workbook: The Dream Giver Study Workbook and an
  • application guide called: The Dream Planner
  • Develop a devotional quite time with God:
  • My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers
  • Streams in the Desert, by L. B. Cowman
  • God is Closer Than You Think, by John Ortberg
  • Experiencing God, by Henry T. Blackaby and Claude V. King
  • Learn about spiritual warfare:
  • The Three Battlegrounds, by Francis Frangipane
  • The Believer’s Guide to Spiritual Warfare, by Thomas B. White
  • Needless Casualties of War, by John Paul Jackson
  • The Bondage Breaker, by Neil T. Anderson
  • Learn about biblical dream interpretation:
  • -Understanding Dreams & Visions, by John Paul Jackson
  • (A six-part tape series)
  • -Parables in the Night Seasons: Understanding Your Dreams,
  • by Joy Parrott
  • -Dream Language: The Prophetic Power of Dreams, by James W. Goll
  • Study false religions so you can recognize counterfeits:
  • Fast Facts of False Teachings, by Ron Carlson and Ed Decker
  • The Kingdom of the Cults, revised, updated and expanded edition,
  • by Walter Martin, with general editor Ravi Zacharias, 2003