Phase 1: Required Reading List
Every commissioned helper starts here. These books will anchor your understanding of reproductive grief and, along with our Commissioning Courses, prepare you to care with both compassion and confidence.
We encourage you to read prayerfully and at a pace that allows the content to settle as you discern how the materials reflect the care you provide. This is not simply training. It is preparation for sacred work.
After reading each resource, please revisit the Commissioning Portal to inform us of your progress by submitting your reading synopsis.
Required Reading
Trusting God, Even When Life Hurts by Jerry Bridges
Biblical Counseling and The Psychologies by Ernie Baker
Loving Messy People: The Messy Art of Helping One Another Become More Like Jesus
Biblical Crisis Counseling: Not If, But When by Dr. John Babler
Grief: Learning to Live with Loss by Howard Eyrich
Counseling One Another by Paul Tautges
I Just Can’t Forgive Myself: A Biblical Alternative to Self-Forgiveness by Robert D. Jones
Moving Forward after Abortion by Camille Cates
Miscarriage: You Are Not Alone by Stephanie Green
Suggested Reading
A Theology of Biblical Counseling by Heath Lambert
Instruments in the Redeemer’s Hands by Paul David Tripp
Dark Clouds Deep Mercy by Mark Vroegop
I Have PTSD: Reorienting after Trauma (Ask the Christian Counselor) by Curtis Solomon
What Grieving People Wish You Knew about What Really Helps by Nancy Guthrie
Unbound: Growing Ever-freer in Christ by Warren G. Lamb and Truth in Love Biblical Counseling