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Connecting: Healing Ourselves and Our Relationships 17 reviews Larry Crabb
Thomas Nelson, 2005
Review of Crabb's "Connecting"
+ Excellent book but where are the models? + excellent overview of counseling philosophy + This is the book i've been looking for
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Heart to Heart About Men: Words of Encouragement For Women of Integrity 6 reviews Nancy Groom
Navpress Publishing Group, 1995
Will help improve any relationship, but especially with men
+ Wonderful Book + Excellent + Heart to Heart about Men + An Entreaty to Humility!
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The River Within Jeff Imbach
Fresh Wind Press, 2006
Have you ever wondered why your experience doesn't measure up to the radical life of joy and adventure described time and again in the Bible? Are you so busy doin that life has become a soul-wearying blur of activity? Do you ever feel like something deep and profoundly liberating is missing and wonder if this all there is to life? Jesus said, Anyone who drinks the water I give him will never ...
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Spiritual Disciplines Handbook: Practices That Transform Us 10 reviews Adele Ahlberg Calhoun
InterVarsity Press, 2005
excellent book on spiritual disciplines
+ Moves You Beyond the Superficial + Great resource + An excellent, practical entrypoint into spiritual disciplines
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Spiritual Direction: Wisdom for the Long Walk of Faith 11 reviews Henri J. M. Nouwen
HarperOne, 2006
Awesome book
+ I have read several books by Henri Nouwen and I first picked this one by chance. + Amazing Walk + Spiritual Direction: Wisdom for the Long Walk of Faith + Wisdom for the Long Walk of Faith
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Age of Opportunity: A Biblical Guide to Parenting Teens, Second Edition (Resources for Changing Lives) 25 reviews Paul David Tripp
P & R Publishing, 2001
Welcome Guide for Parents
+ Best Book on Raising Teens + Very insightful and God honoring... + Highly Recommend this Book! + excellent
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Soul Virgins: Redefining Single Sexuality 4 reviews Doug Rosenau, Michael Todd Wilson
Baker Books, 2006
Not just for singles - an excellent alternative framework for relationship building
+ Balanced and not legalistic - a very good book + Awesome Book!!!!!
While the title of this book suggests that it is designed primarily for singles, I know that after talking with my mother about it she wanted to read it right away. Within our contemporary climate of interpersonal boundary confusion we lack a significant structure that we can thrive in. For many ...
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Black/Red/White (The Circle Trilogy 1-3) 17 reviews Ted Dekker
Thomas Nelson, 2008
More
+ love beyond measure + The Circle Trilogy + Amazon impresses again!
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Ten Life Choices: Recovering the Life You Were Always Meant to Live Bob Perdue
Diakonia Publishing, 2008
Ten Life Choices is an invitation to LIFE. Life was God's first gift to mankind when, in the Garden of Eden, He "breathed into man's nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul." Right after man received this wonderful gift, he was given the gift of choice. He could choose life everyday. Sin brought death and the inability to choose life, but Jesus came to give life again life ...
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When the Heart Waits: Spiritual Direction for Life's Sacred Questions (Plus) 21 reviews Sue Monk Kidd
HarperOne, 2006
Waiting in the Dark
+ When the Heart Waits + When the Heart Waits + When the Heart Waits
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We Would See Jesus 10 reviews Roy Hession, Revel Hession
CLC Publications, 2005
To know Jesus...
+ Read this once a year + Awesome & so thought provoking + My wife and i LOVE it! + Continue on the Calvary Road!!
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The Dream Giver 105 reviews Bruce Wilkinson
Multnomah Books, 2003
Eye opening
+ You Must Read! + An Insightful, Delightful, and Quick Read + The Dream Giver + The Dream Give is a must read
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Sacred Companions: The Gift of Spiritual Friendship & Direction 4 reviews David G. Benner
InterVarsity Press, 2004
Essential
+ Practical and thought provoking + Excellent Introduction to Spiritual Accompaniment + Great book-highly recommend!
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The Silence of Adam: Becoming Men of Courage in a World of Chaos 12 reviews Larry Crabb, Don Michael Hudson, ...
Zondervan, 1998
Profound---At Times Overwhelmingly Thought Provoking
+ A Good Read on Men's Issues + Life Changing Book + Speak into the darkness + Becoming a balanced Christian man - is it all on me?
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The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People (Expanded and Adapted for Small ... 38 reviews John Ortberg
Zondervan, 2002
Third Ortberg book I've used for Sunday School
+ Fresh View on an Ancient Subject + Great book on disciplines of Christian living + Laugh Out Loud Learning + Great for Small Groups!
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The Ragamuffin Gospel Visual Edition: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out 139 reviews Brennan Manning
Multnomah Books, 2005
Negative reviewers make Manning's point.
+ A kiss of grace + A Must Read for Every True Christian + A Word of Grace for Church Folks + An Excellent Read
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Redeeming Love 557 reviews Francine Rivers
Multnomah Books, 1997
Life changing
+ Loved the plot + Redeeming Love + BEST BOOK EVER!!!
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The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (P.S.) 1418 reviews Barbara Kingsolver
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2005
A Gem of Postcolonial Literature
+ A book for the Colonialists, not the colonised: for Westerners, not Africans + The Poisonwood bible + A Retrospective + I loved it.
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Dark Night of the Soul 36 reviews St. John of the Cross
Dover Publications, 2003
excellent
+ Dark Night of the Soul + Classic theological literature
I became familiar with this when I was in college and I had difficulty with mental illness.
I am very different from other people in the way I think. I have something like severe autism caused by brain injury combined with a high tendency to think about and want to please other people.
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Secrets of the Secret Place: Keys to Igniting Your Personal Time With God 30 reviews Bob Sorge
Oasis House, 2001
Secret Place Secrets Revealed!
+ Secret of the Secret Place + You CAN Apply the SECRETS in your own LIFE! Absolutely LIFE CHANGING! + Go Deeper + Great for a small group
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