Men's Bibliography


Men’s Curriculum Resources 

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INTIMACY WITH GOD 

He Loves Me! Learning to Live in the Father's Affection - Wayne Jacobsen  

"For those of us who are longing to 'live loved,' I cannot recommend a better follow-up to The Shack than this book. It is an exploration and adventure into the heart of the God we hoped was truly there, and who loves each of us in particular with an everlasting love." (Wm. Paul Young, Author of The Shack )


*The Cross Centered Life – CJ Mahaney. This little book was featured at the 2010 NW Men’s Conference. See how a cross centered focus can change your life. Study guides are available at www.nwmensconference.com ,click on Resources.
 
Walking with God – John Eldredge
Format: Book
Eldredge writes from his own journal how he has personally learned to listen to God. In a very transparent way he shows how he worked through the things that keep us all from hearing God. Most of us are good believers but are we good followers? The book is one of the best in helping to develop this basic skill as a follower of Jesus.

Experiencing the Father’s Embrace – Jack Frost 
Format: Book
Experiencing Father's Embrace is an excellent resource for anyone interested in growing or ministering in the Father's love message. The author's style of writing makes this book easy to read, yet it is one of the most thorough and profoundly impacting books available on knowing God as a Father.

The Papa Prayer – Larry Crabb
Format: book
Probably the best treatment of how to pray and relate with our heavenly Father.  

* Experiencing God: Knowing and Doing the Will of God- Henry Blackaby and
Claude V. King
Length: 12 Sessions. Format: Workbook & Video
This study will help you learn to hear when God is speaking to you, encourage you to find where God is working in the world around you so that you can join him, and then experience Him working through you in ways only God can.

* Becoming What God Intended- Dr. David Eckman
Length: 12 Sessions Format: Workbook
This life-changing workbook is designed to help the Christian achieve an emotionally rich
spiritual life in the presence of God. Issues such as worth, acceptance and trust are answered.

The Barbarian Way – Erwin McManus
Format: Book 
The Barbarian Way is a call to escape "civilized" Christianity and become original, powerful, untamed Christians - just as Christ intended.

# Building Men of God - Dennis Deardorff
Format: Discussion Booklet Length: 8 Studies, 4-8 lessons each
This series of studies focuses on the most prominent leaders in the Bible and how they mentored each other. Learn from the men of the Bible how they influenced the next generation leaders.

# How Jesus Changed Men- Dennis Deardorff
Format: Discussion Booklet.  Length: 4 Lessons
These lessons trace the principles Jesus followed in transforming the lives of his disciples.

# Men and the Cross- Dennis Deardorff
Format: Discussion Booklet. Length: 4 Lessons
Four lessons on the power of the cross in changing our lives.

Experiencing the Father’s Embrace – Jack Frost 
Format: Book
Experiencing Father's Embrace is an excellent resource for anyone interested in growing or ministering in the Father's love message. The author's style of writing makes this book easy to read, yet it is one of the most thorough and profoundly impacting books available on knowing God as a Father.


GETTING TO KNOW JESUS

Jesus, Mean and Wild – Mark Galli
This remarkable book reminds us that Jesus wasn't always nice. Galli's study is provocative and occasionally uncomfortable. His summary is that “God loves you and has a difficult plan for your life.”

UNDERSTANDING YOUR MANHOOD

# God’s Plan for a Better Man- Dennis Deardorff
Format: Booklet. Length: 4 Lessons
These lessons study the Biblical pattern for personal success God’s way.

Spirit Warriors- Stu Weber
Format: Book
Pastor and former Green Beret captain Stu Weber reveals the crucial
spiritual battles that all Christians face constantly, whether or not they are aware of them.

The Man in the Mirror – Patrick Morley
Format: Book
This will be another classic text for men helping them to understand who they are and the forces that wage against them. 

Ten Secrets for the Man in the Mirror- Patrick Morley
Format: Book
Author Patrick Morley challenges men to get beyond the surface happiness for which
they daily give their lives to find instead a success that really matters, a success
paradoxically rooted in a life of unselfish love, suffering, and sacrifice.

Men in the Bible, Examples to live by – Don Charles
This study series will introduce you to the men listed in the Bible and how God impacted heir lives.

* Wild at Heart- John Eldredge
Format: Book
In this destined to be a classic book Eldredge gives a look inside the true heart of a man and gives men permission to be what God designed them to be-dangerous, passionate, alive, and free.

Tender Warrior: God’s Intention for a Man- Stu Weber
Format: Book
This book lays out the divine blueprint for manhood. Discover how to balance tenderness with strength, speak your wife's language, foster friendships . . . and be an obedient and blessed servant of the Lord!

Maximized Manhood, Revised- Edwin Louise Cole
Format: Book
Responsible male leadership is still lacking in many of today's homes, churches, and businesses. This revised edition of Cole's bestseller expands on the truth that "manhood and Christlikeness are synonymous." Tackling tough topics like pornography, adultery, television addiction, and immaturity, Maximized Manhood presents a life-changing prophetic charge to the heart of honest manhood.

# The Role of the Man – David McLaughlin   
Format: DVD and booklets
This message helps men of all ages re-discover not only the distinctly masculine traits God has designed in them but it also reveals the awesome PURPOSES God wants to accomplish when men use these traits correctly.
The power of the Role of the Man Seminar is that it comes directly from the pages of the Bible. David McLaughlin a former businessman is the teacher.



MORAL FREEDOM

The Bondage Breaker- Neil Anderson
Format: Book/ Video. Length: 15 Sessions
The Bondage Breaker® helps readers discover how to break negative thought patterns,
control irrational feelings, and break out of sinful behavior. Neil reveals the position and
vulnerability of believers, then presents specific steps to help them achieve true freedom.

# Eagle Training – Dennis Deardorff
Format: DVD with notebook outline; Length 120minutes
This presentation takes men to the truth about moral temptation and victory. As men understand this truth about their position in Christ they experience the power over the law of sin and death.
They experience the true meaning of what it means to “soar like and eagle” in power and victory.

Pure Desire – Ted Roberts
Format: Book
Dr. Ted Roberts found Christ in the skies over Vietnam, where he flew life-and-death missions as a Marine fighter pilot. Unbeknownst to his wife, however, he also brought home from the war an addiction to pornography. Since his recovery, Dr. Roberts has spoken to thousands of men about similar problems, and has reached an inescapable conclusion: Hell is using sexual bondage to tear the church apart! (Contact Rob Dorman, blewind@gmail.com for more information on the use of this book in an accountability format called “Men of Honor”)

Personal Holiness in Times of Temptation- Bruce H. Wilkinson
Format: Study Book
Is it possible for a Christian man to stay pure in a world filled with raunchy TV and Internet
pornography? Unfortunately, many men secretly believe the answer is ”no”! They may look
good on the outside, but inside they’ve given up the struggle against sexual sin. The good
news is that God will give us the victory- if we know how to achieve it.

FATHERS/FAMILY

To Own A Dragon – Donald Miller
Format: Book
Reflecting with humor and gut-wrenching honesty on growing up without a dad, Miller reveals what he's learned in his relationship with mentor John MacMurray about identity, women, money, spirituality, fatherhood, and more.

Husbands and Fathers – Derek Prince
Format: Book
Learn what it takes to be a successful husband and father from a great Bible teacher and author.

# Father Power- Chuck Goldberg
Format: Discussion Booklet.  Length: 4 Lessons
Lessons on the importance of Fatherhood, written by a successful father, businessman, medical doctor and church leader.

The Dad In the Mirror- Patrick Morley & David Delk
Format: Book
Currently, only sixty percent of children raised in church follow Jesus as adults. Patrick
Morley and David Delk share with you the secrets of grace-filled dads who understand that
their most important work is to help shape the attitudes and beliefs of the next generation.

Hidden Value of a Man – Gary Smalley and John Trent
Format: Book 
This book shows the overwhelming value, power and influence a man has on his wife, children and friends. Which do you carry? A “silver” or “golden sword?” 

# A Man and His Family- Dennis Deardorff
Format: Discussion Booklet. Length: 4 Lessons
Lesson study of the two swords of power that a man has and how he can use them based
on The Hidden Value of a Man, Focus on the Family, 1992.

Raising the Modern –Day Knight – Robert Lewis
Format: Book
How to raise up sons to become men.

# How To Love Your Wife- Dennis Deardorff
Format: Discussion Booklet.  Length: 4 Lessons
Information for the married man and even that a single man can use in building a solid relationship with a future spouse.

HEARING GOD

Is that Really You God – Loren Cunningham
Format: Book 
Enjoy this personal testimony of how the author learned to hear the voice of God and go on to found the world-wide ministry of Youth With a Mission.

Hippo in the Garden – James Ryle
Format: Book
Don’t let the title throw you. Learn about how God can use crazy visions of hippos in gardens and other dreams to speak to you.

HOLY SPIRIT

The Fourth Dimension Vol.I & ll, - David Yonggi Cho
Format: Book
Probably destined to be classic in understanding how to let the Holy Spirit direct your life.  

TOUGH ISSUES

The Fire of Delayed Answers, Bob Sorge
Format: Book
This is the personal agony of a pastor, successful minister when he lost his voice. He cries out for answers. He discovers the theology of suffering as opposed to the theology of blessing.

AUTHENTIC COMMUNITY WITH OTHER BELIEVERS

* Wild at Heart, A Band Of Brothers – John Eldredge and Team
Format: DVD, Field Manual
In eight provocative video sessions John Eldredge and his team challenge you to abandon passivity and actively pursue your God-given masculinity.

Bonds Of Iron, Forging Lasting Male Relationships- James Osterhaus
Format: Book
Men today, says James Osterhaus, need to open their eyes to the priceless value of friendships
with other men. More important, men need to be shown how to build those life-enhancing
relationships. This book shows how to make deeper friendships.


# Changing Men- Promise Keepers
Format: Discussion Booklet.  Length: 6 Lessons
Lessons produced by Promise Keepers on understanding the characteristics of men and
how they can change each others’ lives.

# Characteristics of Relationships- Promise Keepers
Format: Discussion Booklet.  Length: 4 Lessons
Lessons covering the essential elements of all relationships. From Man of His Word. PK
New Testament, 1996.

# Every Man a Coach, Discussion Questions - Dennis Deardorff
Format: Discussion Booklet. Length: 5 Lessons
Lessons based on Everyone’s a Coach by Ken Blanchard and Don Shula, Zondervan,
1995.

# Hitting Home Runs in Small Groups- Dennis Deardorff
Format: Discussion Booklet.  Length: 4 Lessons
Lessons discussing the development of relationships in small groups. Good assessment
tool for evaluating the level of a small group.

Locking Arms – Stu Weber
Format: Book
Who is your “ranger buddy”? Weber illustrates from his military experience the importance of having a spiritual brother to lock arms with in the battle we face in life.

# We Really Do Need Brothers- Dennis Deardorff
Format: Discussion Booklet. Length: 4 Lessons
Lessons on the importance of why we need brothers.

# Who is My Brother? Growing through Vital Relationships- Dennis Deardorff
Format: Discussion Booklet.  Length: 5 Lessons
Lessons on the development of true brotherhood in vital relationships.



DISCIPLESHIP  - One on one or groups

The Commission – Dennis Deardorff
Format: Discussion series
What did the disciples learn from Jesus that in turn they were to teach others? Tract through the Gospels and see what the disciples learned that we should learn as well. Matt. 28:19,20

One2Won Crosstraining – Joe White
Format: Discussion Booklet
This study booklet is published by Men at the Cross as the primary tool in producing “Timothys”. 2 Tim.2:2

rev. 3-10