The Bookshelf
Welcome to The Bookshelf
Every day, we wake up to a world that is broken, where struggles are real, questions are deep, and our own hearts often feel weak. Life can be a difficult journey. We face suffering, doubt, loneliness, loss, and temptation—sometimes all at once. But God, in His abundant grace, has not left us to figure things out on our own. He has spoken to us through His Word, and He continues to speak through the wisdom of those who faithfully expound its truth.
The Bookshelf is more than just a collection of resources—it is a place of Christ-centered encouragement for life’s real struggles. Here, you’ll find books, articles, videos, and audio content that do more than inform; they challenge, convict, uplift, and transform through the power of the gospel. Resource is carefully chosen to deepen biblical understanding, cultivate Godly wisdom, and strengthen faithful living in a world that often resists God’s truth, goodness, and beauty.
We don’t need better life strategies or a self-improvement plan. We need truth—God’s truth. We need His wisdom to shape how we see suffering, how we navigate relationships, how we handle grief, how we fight sin, and how we endure with hope. The Bookshelf exists to point to that wisdom, not as an escape from life’s difficulties, but as the means to walk through them with grace, confidence, and faith. Whether seeking answers, wrestling with difficult questions, or simply looking for a reminder of the gospel’s beauty, all are welcome. The hope is that what is found here does more than add to knowledge—it transforms hearts, equips lives, and, by God’s grace, enables others to live well.
Note: Resources marked with an asterisk (*) are included in the CBC Certification Program.
Books for the Family
Douglas Wilson
Federal Husband
This book on covenantal headship contains much practical and biblical wisdom that is never more timely than now, but which we will always need to be reminded of again and again.
Her Hand In Marriage
This book on courtship does not offer so much a surefire method for good marriages as remind us of the scriptural principles governing romance, marriage, and the family.
Reforming Marriage
This book provides biblical advice on marriage. Whether it has to do with respect and love, confession of sin, sexual fidelity, or even the gnarly issues of divorce and remarriage
Future Men
In this book, Douglas Wilson discusses how parents can help their sons cultivate true masculinity and become men who are strong and self-sacrificial, just as Christ was.
Standing on the Promises
God has designed each family to be a culture—with a language, customs, traditions, and countless unspoken assumptions. The culture of the family intimately shapes the children who grow up in it. It is the duty of the father to ensure that the shaping takes place according to biblical wisdom.
The Covenant Household
This book covers everything from marriage to child-rearing to cultural engagement. The family is not just a collection of individuals: it is a unit joined together by God, and we should live as though that were true.
Excused Absence
Beginning with the commands in Scripture for parents to raise up their children in the fear and admonition of the Lord, he shows that parents must not send their children to be catechized by unbelieving teachers and peers.
Fidelity
This book on masculine self-control hits hard, but also offers encouragement and useful advice to men dealing with the simple day to day work of being a one-woman man.
The Paideia of God
In the ancient world, the paideia was all-encompassing and involved nothing les than the enculturation of the future citizen. He was enculturated when he was instructed in the classroom, but the process was also occurring when he walked along the streets of his city to and from school.
Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning
Thirty years ago, Doug Wilson wrote Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning so that Christian parents could stop wringing their hands at the deterioration of American education and actually do something to resist it.
Voddie Baucham
Family Shepherds
Family Shepherds calls men to accountability for their God-given responsibilities as husbands and fathers. This book will inspire them to live better, love better, and lead better so that their families will thrive in every way.
Family Driven Faith
Family Driven Faith equips Christian parents with the tools they need to raise children biblically in a post-Christian, antifamily society.
What He Must Be
All parents want their daughters to marry godly young men. But which qualities, specifically, should they be looking for?
Lou Priolo
The Complete Husband
In The Complete Husband, experienced biblical counselor Lou Priolo delves deep into the skills, goals, and attitudes a God-honoring husband must develop, giving practical advice throughout.
The Heart of Anger
Anger! Is it ever a problem in your home? Do your children ever speak to you in angry, disrespectful tones? Or do they fight between themselves? Have you ever lost your patience when dealing with an infuriating situation? If you honestly answered “yes” to any of those questions, you could use this book.
Paul David Tripp
Parenting:
14 Gospel Principles
In the midst of folding laundry, coordinating carpool schedules, and breaking up fights, many parents get lost. Feeling pressure to do everything “right” and raise up “good” children, it’s easy to lose sight of our ultimate purpose as parents in the quest for practical tips and guaranteed formulas.
Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands
Paul David Tripp helps us discover where change is needed in our own lives and the lives of others. Following the example of Jesus, Tripp reveals how to get to know people, and how to lovingly speak truth to them.
How People Change
A changed heart is the bright promise of the gospel. When the Bible talks about the gift of a new heart, it doesn't mean a heart that is immediately perfected, but a heart that is capable of being changed.
New Morning Mercies
Mornings can be tough. Sometimes, a hearty breakfast and strong cup of coffee just aren’t enough. Offering more than a rush of caffeine, best-selling author Paul David Tripp wants to energize you with the most potent encouragement imaginable: the gospel.
Jared Longshore
The Case for the Christian Family
Families, the church, and nations should take responsibility for their people, and not treat them as so many marbles in a box. God has intimately connected us to one another in these bonds, the central bond being covenant. We must retrieve this doctrine and live faithfully by it if we want to see reform in America.
Wisdom for Kings & Queens
Christians are meant to be kings and queens, growing and expanding Christ’s dominion over the world. This is a great challenge, and it requires wisdom. This is where Proverbs comes in.
Joel Beeke
Parenting by God's Promises
In Parenting by God‘s Promises: How to Raise Children in the Covenant of Grace, Dr. Joel R. Beeke explores what this nurture and admonition looks like and offers gems of practical wisdom for parents on topics such as instituting and leading family worship, teaching children, modeling faithful Christian living, and exercising discipline.
Family Worship
Joel R. Beeke presents a heartfelt plea for the renewal of family worship in Christian homes. The family is modeled after the very being of God, providing a divine foundation for family worship from creation.
Books for Biblical Counseling
Competent to Counsel
Dr. Jay Adams defends the idea that the Bible itself, as God's Word, provides all the principles needed for understanding and engaging in holistic counseling.
The Christian Counselor's Manual
This practical guide takes the approach of nouthetic counseling introduced in the earlier volume and applies it to a wide range of issues, topics, and techniques in counseling.
What to do on Thursday
In this third edition of What to do on Thursday Adams sets forth a method for dealing with problems that occur in your everyday walk as a Christian.
Toxic Psychiatry
Prozac, Xanax, Halcion, Haldol, Lithium --and dozens of other short-term "solutions"-- are being prescribed by doctors across the country as a quick antidote to depression, panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and other psychiatric problems. But at what cost?
Brain-Disabling Treatments in Psychiatry
Renowned psychiatrist, Peter R. Breggin, M.D., presents startling scientific research on the dangerous behavioral abnormalities and brain dysfunctions produced by the most widely used and newest psychiatric drugs.
Christian Counseling
This revised and expanded third edition of Gary R. Collins's comprehensive counseling guide offers solid biblical teaching on how to counsel and wise guidance on a broad range of situations counselors are likely to encounter.
Effective Biblical Counseling
Dr. Larry Crabb presents a model of counseling that can be gracefully integrated into the functioning of the local church. He asserts that counseling is simply a relationship between people who care and that its goal is to free people to better worship and serve God.
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-5-TR), is the most comprehensive, current, and critical resource for clinical practice available to today's mental health clinicians and researchers.
Psychology and Christianity: Five Views
This revised edition of a widely appreciated Spectrum volume now presents five models for understanding the relationship between psychology and Christianity.
Curing the Heart
Focusing on the sufficiency and relevancy of God's Word, Curing the Heart presents the Bible's message about humanity in a living and dynamic way, and shows how to use the Bible to change hearts with God's changeless truth.
A Biblical Guide To Counseling The Sexual Addict
Needing insight to help someone struggling with homosexuality? – Wondering how to counsel a teenager fighting porn’s grip? Steve Gallagher, speaking from many years of counseling experience, addresses all these issues and more in a biblically sound manner that will help you minister to people in bondage to sexual sin.
The Biblical Counseling Movement after Adams
Find out how the biblical counseling movement has changed and improved and how the present-day leadership differs from the leadership of the past, in a respectful effort to evaluate and advance the efficacy of biblical counseling.
Of Two Minds: An Anthropologist Looks at American Psychiatry
At a time when mood-altering drugs have revolutionized the treatment of the mentally ill and HMO’s are forcing caregivers to take the pharmacological route over the talking cure, Luhrmann places us at the heart of the matter and allows us to see exactly what is at stake.
Counseling: How to Counsel Biblically
At the root of this book is the confidence that Christ and his Word are not only sufficient for effectively handling the personal and interpersonal challenges of life but are superior to the resources found in the world.
A Homework Manual for Biblical Living Vol. 1
This book gives specific assignments for counselors to assign to clients or for counselors to work through to gain insight. Topics include: anger, blame shifting, dating, obesity, pride, sex, sleep, work―and many others.
A Homework Manual for Biblical Living Vol. 2
This workbook contains both individual and joint assignments for husbands and wives. Topics include: communication, developing common interests, marriage evaluation, child rearing, and many more.
Integrative Family Therapy
Integrative Family Therapy introduces the major schools of family therapy, proposes a tested model that integrates the various approaches, and illustrates how this model functions both for assessing and treating family problems.
Speaking Truth in Love
Speaking Truth in Love is a blueprint for communication that strengthens community in Jesus Christ. The principles outlined in this pivotal work are specific to counseling, yet extend to marriage, family, friendship, business and the Christian church.
The Biblical Counseling Movement
Beginning in the late 1960s, a biblical counseling movement sought to reclaim counseling for the church and provide a Christian alternative to mainstream psychiatry and psychotherapy. This book is an informative and thought-provoking account of that movement.
The Myth of Mental Illness
By diagnosing unwanted behavior as mental illness, psychiatrists, Szasz argues, absolve individuals of responsibility for their actions and instead blame their alleged illness.
Szasz Under Fire
In Szasz Under Fire, psychologists, psychiatrists, and other leading experts who disagree with Szasz on specific issues explain the reasons, with no holds barred, and Szasz replies cogently and pungently to each of them.
War of Words
Who hasn't been hurt by the words of another? Who hasn't regretted something they said? Who hasn't had to referee an argument? Who hasn't wanted to talk seriously with a loved one, yet there seems to be no time?
Psychology as Religion
This second edition of the original 1977 text takes into account much of what has happened in the field of psychology during the past seventeen years.
Biblical Counseling for Today
Christian counselors, says Watson, need to cultivate three fundamental skills in their patients:
How to tell their stories;
How to choose their goals wisely; and
How to practice changes in their lives.
Blame It on the Brain?
Biblical counselor Edward Welch examines varieties of brain dysfunction, psychiatric problems, and more, while giving scriptural principles for helping sufferers and discerning between bodily weakness and sin.
Depression: A Stubborn Darkness
Compassionate and compelling, the book lays out issues and answers with Welch's worldview that faith needs to be interlaced with therapies and medication for conditions categorized as strictly clinical.
When People Are Big and God Is Small
If we can learn the fear of the Lord―a fear that in Christ is filled with gratitude, love, and devotion―we can break free of the fear of other people that so easily entangles us.
Addictions: A Banquet in the Grave
Ed Welch helps us to navigate the often complex terrain of addiction and points addicts to the freedom that can be found in Christ.