Len's Star Rating: 9 out of 10. An excellent book that addresses the disconnect and disappointment people often feel between how they desire to think, feel, and act and what frequently happens in real life.

Len's Star Rating: 4 out of 10. A self-help book on healthy living, written in 1996 from a Christian perspective.

Len's Star Rating: 6 out of 10. A book that focuses on reducing mental health stigma in the church and improving church worship environments, primarily for families of children with special needs.

Len's Star Rating: 4 out of 10. A first-person account of experiencing and overcoming depression and suicidality as a Christian.

Len's Star Rating: 7 out of 10. A helpful book on developing empathy skills and considering opportunities to express empathy to others.

Len's Star Rating: 9 out of 10. A challenging and convicting book on Christian faith and living a life of servanthood and sacrifice, which is counter to mainstream American church culture.

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Len's Star Rating: 6 out of 10. A work of fiction about two friends who are growing their faith in Jesus beyond mainstream beliefs and practices.

Len's Star Rating: 8 out of 10. An engaging and challenging book that is both memoir and catharsis of the author’s struggle to find connection and meaning with other Christians and the Church.

Len's Star Rating: 9 out of 10. A helpful book on accepting and managing difficult emotions, thoughts, and memories by using a Christian-oriented application of Internal Family Systems (IFS) approaches and interpersonal boundary setting.

Len's Star Rating: 10 out of 10. A collection of life stories and memories of a young woman in her experiences of the transformational power of education, friendships, and choosing self to escape the entrapments of poverty, isolation, and a dysfunctional, abusive family system.

Len's Star Rating: 8 out of 10. A book on depression from a Christian perspective that effectively addresses mental health stigma and covers a wide range of ideas and natural strategies for addressing depression.

Len's Star Rating: 8 out of 10. A good book on personal accounts of depression from a Christian perspective.

Len's Star Rating: 6 out of 10. A book written for Christian women about addressing negative thoughts by using the strategy of thought replacement.

Len's Star Rating: 1 out of 10. A book that is most useful as a historical example of literature that worsens mental health stigma among Christians.

Len's Star Rating: 4 out of 10. A book that provides a personal account of depression from a Christian viewpoint.

Len's Star Rating: 5 out of 10. A Christian book that looks at the problems of overconsumption and unrealistic expectations from several different viewpoints and continues to explore the theme of overload and margin that the author introduced in his earlier book Margin.

Len's Star Rating: 2 out of 10. A nonscientific book with spiritual viewpoints on depression and emotions.

Len's Star Rating: 9 out of 10. A helpful book that is both enlightening and lyrical in its exploration of depression through the life and sermons of Charles Spurgeon.

Len's Star Rating: 3 out of 10. A Christian book that contains reflections on how a person could gain encouragement and insight into their difficulties through the ups and downs of the life of Joseph.