Here’s a bunch of books that we’ve found helpful over time. To read these you have a couple of options. If you’re part of a church, your church may have a library with some of these titles. Or you can buy them. Your local Christan bookstore may have them, or you can order many of them online. Two great places to get books online are christianbook.com and amazon.ca.

Mark Holmen


  • Faith Begins At Home (A book for parents that inspires, motivates and equips them to pass on their faith in God to their children)

  • Take It Home (Helps churches launch a faith-at-home-movement in their church through a leadership summit, five-week sermon series and thirteen Take It Home outlines)

  • Building Faith At Home (A book for pastors that challenges them to make faith at home one of the top priorities in their church)

Dr. Chap Clark


Dr. Clark has written seventeen books and dozens of articles. Among his books are:

  • Next Time I Fall In Love (on dating and sexuality, www.Wipfandstck.com)

  • Let Me Ask You This... (a marriage communication/devotional from NavPress co-authored with his wife, Dee, 1991)

  • The Performance Illusion (NavPress, 1993), nominated for Reader's Choice Book of the Year 1993 for Christianity Today

  • Boys To Men (Moody, 1993), on raising sons

  • Youthworker's Handbook of Family Ministry (Zondervan, 1996)

  • Daughters and Dads (co-authored with Dee, NavPress, 1998)

  • Starting Right: A Practical Theology of Youth Ministry (as co-general editor, Zondervan Academic, 2001)

  • From Father to Son (NavPress, 1999).

  • Hurt: Inside the World of Today's Teenagers (Baker Academic, 2004, the research basis for the ParenTeen and HURT Seminars), was an ECPA finalist for book of the year.

  • Deep Ministry in a Shallow World (w/ Kara Powell, Zondervan, 2007)

  • Disconnected: Parenting Teens in a MySpace World (Baker, 2007)

  • Deep Justice (w/ Kara Powell, Zondervan, 2008)