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The Men's Christian Shelf - Battle, Fatherhood, and Books That Make a Man Dangerous to Darkness
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items A man's shelf is smaller and heavier than most: the battle book with the broken spine, the fatherhood book read with a pen, and the apologetics that hold up at the job site. These are the titles men's groups actually pass around.
Sections
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The Battle and the Disciplines
Fathers and Leaders
Hold the Faith, Give an Answer
The Battle and the Disciplines
Heart, purity, mirrors, and habits: the formation shelf.
Wild at Heart is John Eldredge's call back to the masculine heart - a battle to fight, an adventure to live, a beauty to rescue. It has started more men's-group arguments and conversions than any book here.
Wild at Heart Expanded Edition: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul, (Paperback)
Every Man's Battle is the purity standard - Arterburn and Stoeker, practical, unflinching, and written for the actual fight. The broken-spined copy in every men's ministry exists for a reason.
Every Man's Battle, Revised and Updated 20th Anniversary Edition: Winning the War on Sexual Temptation One Victory at a , (Paperback)
Disciplines of a Godly Man is R. Kent Hughes's training manual - prayer, mind, church, work, and perseverance treated as disciplines, not moods. The thinking man's formation book.
Disciplines of a Godly Man (Updated Edition), (Paperback)
Patrick Morley's Man in the Mirror works through the 24 problems men actually bring to breakfast groups - money, marriage, temptation, identity. Decades in print because it keeps being right.
The Man in the Mirror: Solving the 24 Problems Men Face, (Paperback)
Fathers and Leaders
Knights, intentional fathers, point men, and kingdom men.
Raising a Modern-Day Knight gives a father a ceremony and a code for his son - vision, work, and a transcendent cause. Robert Lewis built a generation of kitchen-table knighting ceremonies.
Raising a Modern-Day Knight : A Father's Role in Guiding His Son to Authentic Manhood (Paperback)
Jon Tyson's Intentional Father is the modern counter to drifting - a practical path from boy to man, written by a pastor who did it with his own son. Bring a pen; it assigns homework.
The Intentional Father: A Practical Guide to Raise Sons of Courage and Character, (Hardcover)
Point Man is Steve Farrar's field manual for leading a family through a culture at war with it - direct, funny in places, and deadly serious about finishing strong. A men's classic since the nineties.
Point Man, Revised and Updated: How a Man Can Lead His Family, (Paperback)
Kingdom Man is Tony Evans's charge - a man under God's rule, advancing God's kingdom in his home first. The football-coach clarity made it a stadium-sized seller for a reason.
Kingdom Man: Every Man's Destiny, Every Woman's Dream (Hardcover)
Hold the Faith, Give an Answer
Apologetics and testimony for the man asked hard questions at work.
Lee Strobel's Case for Christ is the reporter's investigation of Jesus - interviews, evidence, verdict. The book handed to skeptical husbands, fathers, and coworkers more than any other.
Case for ... The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus, (Paperback)
Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus is Nabeel Qureshi's testimony - a devout Muslim's costly road to Christ, told with love for his family and his former faith. It reads like a novel and argues like a scholar.
Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus: A Devout Muslim Encounters Christianity, (Paperback)
Tactics teaches Gregory Koukl's conversation diplomacy - how to discuss faith without a fight and without folding. The men's apologetic that is mostly about asking good questions.
Tactics, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions, (Paperback)