CLASSICS AND STANDARDS
Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood
John Piper and Wayne Grudem
This MUST READ was also Christianity Today Magazine’s Book of the Year. It also takes on the challenge of feminism through a comprehensive analysis of Scripture as to the proper relationship between men and women in home, church and society.
Tender Warrior –God’s Intention for a Man
Stu Weber
In this best-seller, which has been called the “masculine manifesto” Weber introduces a powerful blueprint for the man God desires you to be for wife and family. He calls men to be a Tender Warrior and introduces the pillars of manhood: king, warrior, mentor and friend.
Four Pillars of a Man’s Heart
Stu Weber
In Weber’s sequel to Tender Warrior, Weber expands on each of the pillars of manhood and describes in detail what it takes to make them a central part of a man’s life.
The Heart of a Tender Warrior
Stu Weber
This little 90 page book is packed with Stu’s classic teaching on what it means to be a man. It’ll grab your imagination, stir your heart and challenge your thinking about your God-given roles and responsibilities.
All the King’s Men
Stu Weber
Weber encourages men to dismiss the old myth that they must face the world without spiritual nurturing from each other. Using true-life stories and Scripture, Weber shows men how to be better husbands, fathers, citizens and Christians by walking arm in arm with other men.
Raising a Modern Day Knight
Robert Lewis
Raising a Modern Day Knight will help you, “confidently guide your son to authentic, Biblical manhood.” Written by Dr. Robert Lewis who has two sons of his own, has been featured on Focus on the Family and Family Life Today, this book is full of personal illustrations and examples and references the medieval custom of knighthood where boys were trained from an early age to be a man. Filled with Scripture throughout, this study will equip and encourage you for this most important role.
Real Man
Edwin Louis Cole
Ed Cole is one of the founders of the men’s movement and here he exposes the myths and substitutes of manliness and addresses a man’s character but also a range of needs and concerns.
The Measure of a Man
Gene Getz
It is a classic best seller for men first written in 1974. It has stood the test of time as it presents clearly and relevantly twenty attributes of a Godly man. Getz has also written The Men of Character series which highlights the lives of men in the Bible and what we can learn from their relationships with God and the world.
Point Man–How a Man Can Lead His Family
Steve Farrar
Steve Farrar likens leading your family through the moral chaos of the times like leading a small patrol through enemy territory. He writes on how to lead your family through the hazards and ambushes of life the enemy has planned.
Finishing Strong
Steve Farrar
Farrar says it doesn’t matter how you start your Christian life or if you keep stumbling or fallen flat, what really matters most is how you finish. He encourages men in practical ways to finish strong for their wives and families and for their Lord.
Men Leading the Charge
Steve Farrar
Men Leading the Charge: God’s Game Plan for the Family is a video driven study that calls men to accept the responsibilities for leading their families and to follow the call to be the leaders God wants them to be.
Standing Tall
Steve Farrar
Beef up your ability to lead and protect your family. Find out how to be a man of discernment with clear direction, living by convictions in today’s difficult world.
The Man in the Mirror–Solving 24 Problems Men Face
Patrick Morley
This classic bestseller and winner of the Gold Medallion Award is the cornerstone in the men’s movement since its first release in 1987. It invites men to take a probing look at their identities, relationships, finances, time, temperament and the means to bring lasting change.
The Rest of Your Life
Patrick Morley
This is a guide for your manhood journey to greater meaning and purpose – beyond the desensitizing influence of cultural Christianity to a faith that’s fresh and vital.
The Seven Seasons of A Man’s Life
Patrick Morley
Morley focuses on helping men to determine where they are in life, where they’re headed, and how to get there. He examines the seven seasons of a man’s life – reflection, building, crisis, renewal, rebuilding, suffering and success.
Ten Secrets for the Man in the Mirror
Patrick Morley
Morley explores how men find true happiness with neglected biblical insights and how to attain it. He examines such key areas as: Lordship, balance, vocation, suffering, discipleship, stewardship, witnessing, service, humor and love.
Coming Back to God
Patrick Morley
Morley examines why men seem to experience their Christian faith differently. He leads men on a search for a relationship with God that is vital and authentic and tackles barriers to genuine belief.
The Young Man in the Mirror
Patrick Morley
Pat Morley, author of the classic bestseller for men “The Man in the Mirror”, has now written a book for young men of high school age to teach them what it means to be a man and to prepare them to face the challenges and temptations of manhood.
Six Battles Every Man Must Win
Bill Perkins
The story of David's "mighty men" (primarily found in 2 Samuel 23) drives this challenging and encouraging book for Christian men. The mighty men weren't drafted into David's army because of their impressive resumes. They were broken men who, given an opportunity to achieve greatness, responded like champions. The author uses the story to illustrate the six battles David's men fought and men today must win to become powerful and effective warriors in God's kingdom.
When Good Men Are Tempted
Bill Perkins
This best selling book, that has been translated into seven languages, details a step by step strategy for moral purity that really works. What do others have to say about When Good Men Are Tempted? "Bill Perkins writes with honesty, vulnerability, and remarkable insight. Every man should read this book!" Dr. Les Perrot III, author of Saving Your Marriage Before it Starts.
Six Rules Every Man Must Break
With startling frankness, Bill Perkins offers life-changing wisdom to help men find true freedom in Christ. Perkins shatters six man-made rules that sound good on the outside, but often keep men from reaching their full potential. He shows how breaking these taboos can help you break free to become the man that God created you to be.
Awaken The Leader Within
Bill Perkins
The leader within you isn’t waiting to be born, only awakened. All it takes is vision—a Blow Your Socks off Vision. Exactly the kind of vision you’d expect to get when you follow Jesus of Nazareth. In this book Bill shows you how following the greatest leader of all time can awaken your own leadership abilities. Uncovering unexpected insights from Jesus' ministry, Bill gives you a close look at the character traits and practical competencies of a true leader.
God’s Man, Every Man
Stephen Arterburn and Kenny Luck
Like other books in the “Every Man” Series, “Every Man, God’s Man” helps men to understand what godly character is, to persevere in their pursuit of God and to recognize and deal with temptations in life. It also provides insights into God’s what it means to be a man.
Every Man’s Battle- Stephen Arterburn and Fred Stoeker
This best seller provides a guide for every man to win the war on sexual temptation one victory at a time. Using dozens of stories of dozens of men who’ve escaped the trap of sexual immorality, the authors present a practical, detailed plan to become strong and free and remain so.
Every Young Man’s Battle
Stephen Arterburn and Fred Stoeker
This sequel aims to help younger men to trasin their eyes and minds, to clean up their thought life, and to develop a realistic battle plan to remain pure in today’s sexually soaked culture.
Every Woman’s Desire
Stephen Arterburn and Fred Stoeker
In Every Woman's Desire, the authors explore common misconceptions about what it means to exercise biblical authority, the role of submission in the marriage relationship. And the essential but often overlooked principles for marital leadership. This is the follow-up book for Every Man's Battle, Every Woman's Desire.
Being God’s Man Study Series
Stephen Arterburn, Kenny Luck, Todd Wendorff & Carl Moeller
If you are looking for a personal devotional study or something for your men’s small group, this wonderful new series will help you experience God in a whole new way and help you live a more confident, positive and godly life. There are six study guides dealing with: the search for success, facing temptation, leading a family, pursuing friendships, living through tough times and being a satisfied single.
Brave Strong and Tender
Phil Downer
Former Vietnam Special Forces officer and successful lawyer, Downer presents his compelling testimony. With passion and clarity he describes the way to maturity in Christ that fulfills every man’s dream of being brave in danger, strong in crisis, and tender with others.
Eternal Impact - Investing in the Lives of Men
Phil Downer
Downer offers solid principles and practical steps of life-on-life discipleship to help men have an eternal impact in the life of another man.
Wild at Heart
John Eldredge
What is a Christian man? Eldredge suggests that most are bored. He invites men to recover their masculine heart, defined in the image of a passionate God. To women he invites them to discover the secret of a man’s soul and to delight in the strength and wildness men were created to offer.
Wild at Heart Field Manual
John Eldredge
This is the companion study guide to Eldredge’s book. It has a different material than the book. It’s filled with new material, exercises, questions and space for “field” notes.
Waking the Dead
John Eldridge
There is a glory to life that most people—including believers—never see. In this insightful study, John Eldridge presents the heart as central to life. The heart God has ransomed is not only essential but is also good. Building on these precious truths, learn why real Christianity is a process of restoration, whereby the broken parts of our hearts are mended and the captive parts are set free.
The Man God Uses
Henry and Tom Blackaby
The Blackabys provide a daily study guide to encourage Christian men to examine personal encounters with God and to follow his will in all areas of their life. Its Scriptural analysis, prayer helps and a daily journal enhance a man’s seven-week incisive study of his relationship with God.
Spiritual Leadership
Henry and Richard Blackaby
These father and son authors offer insightful counsel into the ways God develops, guides, and empowers spiritual leaders to impact people and organizations they lead.
Men’s Relational Toolbox
Gary, Greg and Michael Smalley
The Smalley men have put together a practical instructional manual to help men build, maintain and repair relationships, especially with the women in their lives – wives, daughters and coworkers.
Men of the Bible
Robert Wolgemuth and Ann Spangler
This is a one-year devotional study exploring the lives of fifty-two men of the Bible. Through their stories your gain fresh insight into how God works in the lives of men, especially in our own struggles and challenges.
The Transparent Leader
Dwight Johnson
Businessman Dwight Johnson writes about the lives of 19 prominent men and the lessons they learned often the hard way and how they faced and triumphed over life’s problems.
Courage to Connect: A Journey Toward Intimacy in Relationships- Rich Hurst
Rich describes intimacy as a journey–difficult, sometimes painful, but yielding rewards beyond measure. He explores the most common beliefs about intimacy and guides the reader along the paths to a healthy understanding of intimacy.
The Life of God-Made Man, Becoming a Man After God’s Own HeartDan Dorian
Dorian explores the nature of God and the need to be like him. He challenges men in every aspect of their lives about the foundational truth that Christian manhood is not about following a how-to list but about imitating Jesus’ example and being all that He desires you to be.
Guy Stuff or It’s OK to Ask for Direction
Tim Smith
Author and pastor Smith answers many questions men ask about their identity and role in life with a healthy balance of Scripture and very humorous stories.
The Silence of Adam
Larry Crabb with Don Hudson and Al Andrews
Crabb and colleagues offer a fresh look at how God designed men, their ongoing struggles, and their difficulties in relationships. They use the biblical text and draw from their own professional experience to give a strong call to action.
Danger Men Face–Overcoming the Five Greatest Threats to Living Life Well
Jerry White
Jerry White identifies five subtle dangers men face and offers strategies for safely traveling around them. From loss of identity sparked by family or careers crisis to the discouragement of sexual sin, this is an encouraging resource to meet and overcome challenges that lie ahead.
Men of Integrity–A Daily Guide to the Bible and Prayer
This is Promise Keepers official devotional guide filled with weekly themes written by men from every walk of life. It features scripture readings, quotations, and meditations and a section for personal applications.
Promises to Keep–Daily Devotionals for Men Seeking Integrity
Nick Harrison
This devotional provides daily meditations for men in search of a deeper spirituality and draws from the words of hundreds of Christian leaders and authors.
The Making of a Godly Man, A Guide to Help Men Live Out the Seven Promises
John Trent
Dr. Trent helps men to find strategies and practical ways to keep the Promise Keepers (PK) seven promises and to move into a deeper faith in the Lord.
Disciplines of a Godly Man
R. Kent Hughes
Using engaging illustrations, Scriptural wisdom and practical suggestions for daily living, Pastor Hughes offers frank Biblical discussion of Christian manhood, marriage/fatherhood, godliness, purity, friendship, the Christian mind, devotion, prayer, integrity, leadership, ministry and more.
Bringing Up Boys
James Dobson
Dr. James Dobson, one of America's most trusted authorities on family issues, tackles the issue of how to bring up boys in a culture that has confused the role of men and vilified masculinity. Dobson offers advice and encouragement to parents and others involved in shaping the character of boys with a firm foundation of biblical principles.
The Exemplary Husband–A Biblical Perspective
Stuart Scott
Scott writes a thoroughly biblical manual for men about what Scripture requires of husbands and fathers. He lays out a practical explanation to help husbands to be spiritual leaders in their homes and to love their wives with Christlikeness.
Fight Like a Man
Gordon Dalbey
Dalbey addresses the spiritual warfare men face and fighting it through surrender to Christ. He also addresses a man’s father wound and the further process of being equipped to be “kingdom warriors.”
Son’s of the Father
Gordon Dalbey
Dalbey offers men a deeper understanding of how the father-wound has affected him and the path to healing through a restored relationship with Father God.
Lead Like Jesus
Ken Blanchard
Leadership happens any time you influence the thoughts, actions, or behaviors of another person. That's how we know this study is for you, whoever you are. Whatever your sphere of influence, Jesus is the perfect role model for you. This study is designed to guide people in responding to Jesus' call to "follow me" and embrace the principles of Servant Leadership. Topics will explore the Four Dimensions of Leadership: The Heart, The Head, The Hands, and The Habits.
Making of a Godly Man Workbook
John Trent
This workbook is designed to help you further your relationship with God. The study will integrate the seven promises of the Promise Keepers into your daily life.
The Man God Uses: Moved from the Ordinary Man's Life
Henry and Tom Blackaby
This study helps you understand your encounter with God and how this encounter affects all areas of your life.
What God Does When Men Pray
William Carr
In this study you will find encouragement and inspiration, whether a veteran of prayer or a hesitant beginner.
Character Counts: Who’s Counting on You?
Rod Handley
This book helps individuals understand and apply accountability to their lives. It is designed to help the group develop relationships built on accountability and trust.
What a Difference a Daddy Makes
Dr. Kevin Leman
What a Difference a Daddy Makes examines the characteristics of a healthy father-daughter relationship. Dr. Kevin Leman seamlessly weaves the latest research on effective fathering with funny and moving stories about his own parenting. He outlines the architecture of the father-daughter relationship, including how to build it on a foundation of trust. Trust is connected to security and consistency. Leman says a father makes his daughter feel secure by being consistent.
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