Recommended Resources
Regarding anxiety & depression
• American Health Network at 1115 Ronald Reagan Pkwy, Avon, IN 46123; Offers Christian health care providers who can give medication prescriptions
• Focus on the Family. Thriving Pastor, free e-book provides church leaders with a summary of “Acute Mental Illness and Christian Faith, helps pastors identify mental illness and make effective referrals for Christian counseling.
• Focus on the Family Equips Pastors to Address Mental Illness
• How Mental Illness Impacts Families (Part 1) | Focus on the Family … a study on mental illness and the church,
• Mood Disorders and a Reason to Live | Boundless … The impact of mood disorders, whose average onset is … Many people with depression drink, or use … transmitted “meaning,” such as church and family …
• The Anxiety Cure book; A Proven Method for Dealing with Worry, Stress and Panic Attacks, by Dr. Archibald Hart
• Emotionally Healthy Spirituality; It’s Impossible to be Spiritually Mature While Remaining Emotionally Immature; book by Peter Scazzero
• The Thorn in the Flesh; Hope for All Who Struggle with Impossible Conditions; book by R.T. Kendall
• Movie “Same kind of different as me”
Regarding issues related to pornography
• Sexual Temptation: How Christian workers can win the battle; by Randy Alcorn (1988).
• Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage: DVD by Mark Gungor
• Christian Counseling Today Magazine Vol. 22, No. 1. Re: Pornography & Sexual Addiction.
• Every Man’s Battle book by Stephen Afterburn & Stoeker, F. (2009)
• Finally Free; Fighting for Purity with the Power of Grace; book by Heath Lambert
• When Your Husband is Addicted to Porn; Healing Your Wounded Heart; book by Vicki Tiede
• Reclaiming Surrendered Ground; Protecting Your Family from Spiritual Attacks, book by Jim Logan (2016)
• Movie “I am Jane Doe” – currently available on Netflix
• XXX Church that meets at The Athenaeum, 401 East Michigan, Indianapolis, IN 46204
• RAPHAHOUSE – Trafficking & Exploitation
Related to LGBT issues
• The bridge ministry: (life groups for homosexuals at life church Indianapolis and Brownsburg) @10280 E. Washington Street, Indianapolis, IN 46229
• Walls down ministry by Ty Wyss; Helping the conservative church love LGBT + people
• For a list of churches affirming LGBT lifestyle go here
• Counter Culture: Following Christ in an Anti-Christian Age, by David Platt
• Be aware: resources twisting scripture condone LBTQ “Torn” by Justin Lee
• Religion and Ethics by Russell Moore
• God believes in love by Gene Robinson
• Lead them Home –by Bill Henson
• What does the Bible teach about homosexuality? By Kevin DeYoung
• Secret thoughts of Unbelief – Rosario Butterfield
• Is God Anti-Gay? By Sam Allberry
• Preston Sprinkle – Centerforfaith.com Faith, Sexuality, Gender
• Bring them home ministry from Brownsburg
• Counter Culture by David Platt
• The Professional Counselor, 1(1), 57-62. By J.E. Mabey (2011)
• God, the Gospel, and the Gay Challenge — A Response to Matthew Vines,” 22 April 2014, by Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr.
• Where Christian churches, other religions stand on gay marriage, 18 June 2014; “ECLA votes to allow gay pastors,” 21 August 2009. By David Masci
• Messy Grace, by Caleb Kaltenbach
Related to addiction in kids
• The Willow Center Treatment and Recovery, 515 North Green Street, Suite 402,
Brownsburg, IN 46112, Phone: (317) 852-3690; Fax: (317) 852-2766;
• Teen Challenge provides a broad scope of help and information in every area of drug and alcohol abuse. 3728 W. Chestnut Expwy. Springfield, MO 65802, (417) 862-6969, www.teenchallenge.com
• Eaton, L., Holz, A., Waliszewski, B. The Vicious Truth About Drug Addiction and Alcoholism retrieved July 10, 2017 from Focus on the Family website. www.focusonthefamily.com/vicious-truth-about-drugs-and-alcohol
Regarding addictions in the church
• Teen Challenge provides a broad scope of help and information in every area of drug and alcohol abuse. 3728 W. Chestnut Expwy. Springfield, MO 65802, (417) 862-6969, www.teenchallenge.com
• The Willow Center Treatment and Recovery, 515 North Green Street, Suite 402,
Brownsburg, IN 46112, Phone: (317) 852-3690; Fax: (317) 852-2766;
(Out-Patient services)
• Fairbanks Hospital
Detox and Rehab Center, (Adults and Adolescents age 18 and older). Indianapolis Location: 8102 Clearvista Parkway, Indianapolis, IN 46256; Hendricks
County Location: 6100 Clarks Creek Road, Suite 102, Plainfield, IN 46168
(317) 806-7522
• Valle Vista Health System, 898 E. Main Street, Greenwood, IN 46143, Phone: (800) 447-1348 ; Fax: (317) 859-4320.
Related to ADHD
• (NIH) National Institute of Mental Health: ADHD THE BASICS
Related to dealing with difficult behavior
• The Connected Child by Drs. Karyn Purvis and David Cross
• Creating Trauma-Informed Classrooms BY CASEY CALL, PH.D., KARYN PURVIS,
PH.D., SHERI R. PARRIS, PH.D., &DAVID CROSS, PH.D.
Regarding raising kids in a social media/electronic crazed world
• Pluggedin.com & Joshshipp.com
• Hickem, C. (2012)“Unfriended: Parenting in a Social Media World”
• American Academy of Pediatrics: “Clincial Report –The Impact of Social Media on Children, Adolescents, and Families(March, 2017).
• Parenting Techies–available
Regarding marriage
• Harley, W. (1986). His Needs Her Needs
• Gungor, M. (2008). “Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage.” Book and DVD
• Platt, David (2015). Counter-Culture.
Related to anger in marriage
• Cunningham, Ted.,Smalley, Gary. (2009) From Anger to Intimacy: How Forgiveness Can Transform Your Marriage.
• Prepare/Enrich–Multiple Care To Change Counselors certified as Prepare/Enrich
Counselors. The Prepare Enrich process addresses couples communication, anger, and other marriage stressors
Regarding domestic violence
• What Women Wished Pastors Knew: Understanding the Hopes, Hurts, Needs, and Dreams of Women in the Church by Denise George; Zondervan.
• Refuge from Abuse: Healing and Hope for Abused Christian Women by Nancy Nason-Clark and Catherine Clark Kroeger; InterVarsity Press.
• Domestic Violence: What Every Pastor Needs to Know by Al Miles; Fortress Press.
• Violence in Families: What Every Christian Needs to Know by Al Miles; Fortress Press.
• No Place for Abuse: Biblical and Practical Resources to Counteract Domestic Violence by Catherine Clark Kroeger; InterVarsity Press.
• The Emotionally Destructive Relationship: Seeing it! Stopping it! Surviving it! by Leslie Vernick; Harvest House.
• When “I Do” Becomes “I Don’t” by Laura Petherbridge; David C. Cook.
• A Dangerous Marriage: Breaking the Cycle of Domestic Violence by S. R.
• McDill and Linda McDill; Spire (may be out of print).
• Keeping the Faith: Guidance for Christian Women Facing Abuse by Marie Fortune; Harper, San Francisco.
• He Promised He’d Stop: Helping Women Find Safe Passage from Abusive
Relationships by Michael Groetsch; Crisis Prevention Inst. Inc.
• Ending Violence in Teen Dating Relationships by Al Miles; Augsburg Fortress Publishers.
Regarding Race
- Being the Church regarding racial reconciliation – Bethebridge.com
- Forging a path to racial reconciliation
- A Christian’s response to racial tension
- How to talk with your kids about racial differences
How to know when it’s time for therapy
• 5 Key Differences Between Mental Illness and Spiritual Struggle
• Mental Illness & Medication vs. Spiritual Struggles & Biblical Counseling