For those new to Fresh Start Ministry or Recovery Church, we recommend beginning with these foundational resources:

1. The Heart of Addiction — Mark Shaw

2. Finally Free — Heath Lambert

3. The Cure — John Lynch

4. Joining Jesus on His Mission — Greg Finke

5. Real-Life Discipleship — Jim Putman

6. The Meaning of Marriage — Timothy Keller

7. How People Change — Paul David Tripp

8. Gentle and Lowly — Dane Ortlund

9. The Peacemaker — Ken Sande

10. Desiring God — John Piper

Theme Verse

“All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness.” — 2 Timothy 3:16

• Addiction: A Banquet in the Grave — Edward T. Welch

• Finally Free — Heath Lambert

• Overcoming Your Addiction God’s Way — Jim Berg

• The 12 Steps and 12 Traditions — Alcoholics Anonymous

• The Heart of Addiction — Mark Shaw

• Anger: A Powerful Emotion — Gary Chapman

• Good and Angry — David Powlison

• How People Change — Paul David Tripp & Timothy Lane

• How to Help People Change — Jay E. Adams

• Seeing with New Eyes — David Powlison

• Speaking Truth in Love — David Powlison

• The Christian Counselor’s Manual — Jay E. Adams

• The Heart of Anger — Lou Priolo

• The Voice of the Heart — Chip Dodd

• The Wounded Heart: Hope for Adult Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse — Dr. Dan B. Allender

• Becoming a Courageous Christian — Bill Hybels

• Deeper — Dane Ortlund

• Desiring God — John Piper

• Disciples Making Disciples: Level One — The Timothy Initiative

• Gentle and Lowly — Dane Ortlund

• God Is the Gospel — John Piper

• Hope for the Prodigal — Jim Putman

• Joining Jesus as a Family — Greg Finke

• Joining Jesus on His Mission — Greg Finke

• Joining Jesus: Show Me How — Greg Finke

• Real-Life Discipleship — Jim Putman

• Real-Life Discipleship Training Manual — Jim Putman, Bobby Harrington, Robert E. Coleman, and others

• The Divine Mentor — Wayne Cordeiro

• The Pursuit of God — A.W. Tozer

• Walking Humbly with God — John Owen

• Sifted — Wayne Cordeiro

• The Argument-Free Marriage — Fawn Weaver

• The Meaning of Marriage — Timothy Keller

• The Sacred Marriage — Gary Thomas

• The Sacred Search — Gary Thomas

• Tying the Knot: A Premarital Guide to a Strong and Lasting Marriage — Rob Green

• Peace Making for Families — Ken Sande & Tom Raabe

• The Peacemaker — Ken Sande

• Biblical Manhood: Masculinity, Leadership, and Decision-Making — Stewart Scott

• Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God — Timothy Keller

• The Prevailing Prince of Prayer — Daniel Nash

• Cross and Crescent — Colin Chapman

• Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God — J.I. Packer

• Speaking of Jesus: The Art of Not-Evangelism — Carl Medearis

• Tell the Truth: The Whole Gospel to the Whole Person by Whole People — Will Metzger

• Bringing the Incarnation Down to Earth — Hugh Halter

• Gaining by Losing — J.D. Greear

• Planting Missional Churches — Ed Stetzer

• Primal Fire: Reigniting the Church with the Five Gifts of Jesus — Neil Cole

• The Nuts and Bolts of Church Planting — Aubrey Malphurs

• Everyday Supernatural — Mike Pilavachi & Andy Croft

• Basic Christianity — John Stott

• The Cure: What If God Isn’t Who You Think He Is and Neither Are You? — John Lynch, Bruce McNicol & Bill Thrall

• The Fourfold Gospel — A.B. Simpson