A Word from Bob
I authored my first book in 2004. Since then, I’ve authored, co-authored, edited, and contributed to a total of twenty-three books and booklets in eighteen years. I like to write!
However, in all those years, I’ve never collated into one place or one blog post a summary list of all my books and booklets. For the first time in one place, here’s a list of all my books and booklets on Christian living and biblical counseling—with a brief summary of and a direct link to each book and booklet. I’ve arranged these resources by:
- Books I’ve Authored.
- Booklets I’ve Authored.
- Books I’ve Co-Authored.
- Books I’ve Edited or to Which I’ve Contributed.
I launched RPM Ministries in 2004 with the “Vision Statement” of Changing Lives with Christ’s Changeless Truth. It seems fitting to title this post with those words.
You can visit RPM Books for links to each book which then take you to free resources related to each book.
Books Authored by Dr. Bob Kellemen (14)
Bob Kellemen. The Annual Guide to Biblical Counseling Resources
Where do you turn when someone you love asks you, “What would you recommend that I read for help with my struggles with anxiety?” Where do you turn someone in church says, “Do you have any books you recommend that would help me deal with the sexual abuse I experienced 20 years ago as a child?” If you were struggling in your marriage what trusted resources would you read? Now you can turn to The Annual Guide to Biblical Counseling Resources. This PDF e-book provides well over 1,000 biblical counseling resources, each listed by topic/category, each category alphabetized by author for ease of location, each with a direct link to where you can locate the resource, and each with a summary description. Find the biblical counseling resources you need for your life and ministry. Note: Beginning in 2022, I have turned over the rights to The Annual Guide to the Biblical Counseling Coalition.
Bob Kellemen. A Biblical Counseling Model of Humanity: Understanding People Scripturally
What is the nature of human nature created in the image of God, defaced and fallen because of sin, and justified, reconciled, regenerated, and redeemed in Christ? This e-book (originally my Th.M. thesis) develops a biblical anthropology—a biblical understanding of human nature—as relational, rational, volitional, and emotional beings—and uses it as a model for biblical counseling. In this 120-page PDF e-book, you will explore every Old Testament term for our inner nature—learning a biblical understanding of the soul. We are relational beings who long and desire (the OT terms for the soul). We are rational beings who think in words and images (the OT terms for the heart). We are volitional beings who choose and act (the OT terms for the spirit). We are emotional beings who feel and experience (the OT terms for emotions and feelings). Build a biblical model of our inner life directly from God’s Word.
Bob Kellemen. Consider Your Counsel: Addressing Ten Mistakes in Our Biblical Counseling
The modern biblical counseling movement was built upon the biblical commitment to helping one another to change through loving encouragement to grow in grace. Consider Your Counsel applies that principle of progressive sanctification to the counselor and his or her counseling. Experienced counselor and supervisor, Dr. Bob Kellemen, addresses ten common mistakes that we biblical counselors sometimes make. Reading Consider Your Counsel is like receiving biblical counseling supervision in writing. Read it, apply it, and then grow as a competent biblical counselor. (Releases in 2021.)
Bob Kellemen. Counseling Under the Cross: How Martin Luther Applied the Gospel to Daily Life
Martin Luther not only reformed theology; his understanding of the gospel revolutionized soul care. In Counseling Under the Cross, biblical counselor Bob Kellemen mines Luther’s writings to help readers gain a new appreciation for how Luther richly, relevantly, robustly, and relationally applied the gospel to suffering, sin, sanctification, and our search for peace with God. Counseling Under the Cross guides pastors, counselors, lay leaders, and friends toward a rich understanding of the gospel that will directly impact their personal ministry to others. Through lively vignettes, real-life stories, and direct quotes from Luther, readers are equipped to apply the gospel to themselves and others so together they find their hope and help in Christ alone.
Bob Kellemen. Equipping Biblical Counselors: A Guide to Discipling Believers for One-Another Ministry
How do we equip counselors for the church? How do we train Christians to speak the truth in love to each other? We’re all tired of approaches that promise much and deliver little. We’re ready for an equipping ministry model that is comprehensive, easy to implement, and relationship-oriented. The 4E Ministry Training Strategy (Envisioning, Enlisting, Equipping, and Employing), tested in hundreds of churches, is a best-practice tool for empowering God’s people for one-another ministry. Make your church into a place not simply with biblical counseling, but a church of biblical counseling where every member is a minister and where the Body of Christ grows up together in Christ.
Bob Kellemen. God’s Healing for Life’s Losses: How to Find Hope When You’re Hurting
Are you ready for real, raw, honest, and hopeful conversation about suffering, loss, and grief—from a Christian perspective? When life’s losses invade your world, learn how to face suffering face-to-face with God. God’s Healing for Life’s Losses is the perfect gift book for those dealing with any type of loss and suffering. Biblical and relevant, each chapter includes personal reflection questions and small group discussion questions.
Bob Kellemen. Gospel-Centered Counseling: How Christ Changes Lives
Everyone talks about the personal ministry of the Word, but how do we make one-another ministry truly biblical? Gospel-Centered Counseling equips readers to change lives with Christ’s changeless truth. It does so by examining life’s eight ultimate questions and then guiding readers on a journey that explores the biblical, gospel-centered narrative of each question. It provides a biblical counseling theology—applied to daily Christian living—of all the classic categories of systematic theology. Gospel-Centered Counseling is ideal for equipping biblical counselors in churches, colleges, graduate schools, seminaries, and para-church training institutes.
Bob Kellemen. Gospel-Centered Family Counseling: An Equipping Guide for Pastors and Counselors
Counseling individuals is complex enough. Where do you start? What do you listen for? How do you compassionately speak truth in love? How do you relate God’s eternal story to people’s earthly story? Family counseling? Now you have a whole group of struggling folks gathered together in the same room. What is family counseling even supposed to look like? Do you just counsel the parents? Just the children? Everyone together? Gospel-Centered Family Counseling walks readers through a step-by-step training manual for developing their skills and competences in biblical family counseling. In fact, “readers” is the wrong word. “Participants” is better. Gospel-Centered Family Counseling is a work-book, or “working-book,” or “workout-book.” Thus the sub-title: An Equipping Guide for Pastors and Counselors. Chapter-by-chapter, skill-by-skill, participants use the questions, exercises, role play directions, sample dialogues, and much more to develop their competency and increase their confidence in biblical family counseling. Gospel-Centered Family Counseling is designed to be used either individually or in a small group setting. It’s ideal for the busy pastor or active biblical counselor to work through chapter-by-chapter. And, it’s perfectly suited for groups, classes, or seminar participants to move through as a group.
Bob Kellemen. Gospel-Centered Marriage Counseling: An Equipping Guide for Pastors and Counselors
Counseling individuals is complex enough. Where do you start? What do you listen for? How do you compassionately speak truth in love? How do you relate God’s eternal story to people’s earthly story? Marriage counseling is even more complex. Now you have three sinners, saints, and sufferers in the same room—the wife, the husband, and the counselor! Where in the world do you start? Gospel-Centered Marriage Counseling walks readers through a step-by-step training manual for developing their skills and competences in biblical marriage counseling. In fact, “readers” is the wrong word. “Participants” is better. Gospel-Centered Marriage Counseling is a work-book, or “working-book,” or “workout-book.” Thus the sub-title: An Equipping Guide for Pastors and Counselors. Chapter-by-chapter, skill-by-skill, participants use the questions, exercises, role play directions, sample dialogues, and much more to develop their competency and increase their confidence in biblical marriage counseling. Gospel-Centered Marriage Counseling is designed to be used either individually or in a small group setting. It’s ideal for the busy pastor or active biblical counselor to work through chapter-by-chapter. And, it’s perfectly suited for groups, classes, or seminar participants to move through as a group.
Bob Kellemen. Gospel Conversations: How to Care Like Christ
How does a person learn to counsel others with the truth of God’s Word? How do we learn to speak God’s truth in love? Bob Kellemen believes that the best way to learn counseling is by doing it—by giving and receiving biblical counseling in the context of real, raw Christian community. That’s why Gospel Conversations is designed as a practical training manual for use in counseling labs and small group settings. Gospel Conversations explores the four compass-points of biblical counseling: 1) Sustaining: “It’s Normal to Hurt.” 2) Healing: “It’s Possible to Hope.” 3) Reconciling: “It’s Horrible to Sin, but Wonderful to Be Forgiven.” 4) Guiding: “It’s Supernatural to Mature.” These four compass points combine to equip readers to develop twenty-two biblical counseling skills and relational competencies—the “how to” of caring like Christ.
Bob Kellemen. Grief and Your Child: Sharing God’s Comfort in Loss
We often think about grief and adults, but what about teens and children? When they face life’s losses, how do they find hope when they’re hurting? Bob Kellemen, the author of several biblical counseling works on grief, applies biblical principles to the grief experience of children. In Grief and Your Child, he then equips parents and counselors to provide soul care to children and teens so they can find God’s healing for life’s losses.
Bob Kellemen. Raising Kids in the Way of Grace: 5 Practical Marks of Grace-Focused Parenting
As Christians, we have first-hand experience of God’s amazing grace and love. But as parents, we can be unsure how to communicate Christ’s grace as we parent our children. We recognize that being a Christian parent means more than just taking our kids to church and opening up the Bible with them, but we can often feel unsure of exactly how being a Christian should impact our parenting. Experienced pastor, counselor, writer, and father, Bob Kellemen, blends practical principles and a focus on God-dependent living to explain how we can bring our knowledge and experience of God’s grace to bear on the daily joys and challenges of family life. In Raising Kids in the Way of Grace, he explains how we can mirror our heavenly Father through 5 practical marks of grace-focused parenting. Short enough to read in one sitting, but packed with biblical wisdom, you’ll want to keep this book handy to dip into for counsel, encouragement, and support on your parenting journey.
Bob Kellemen. Soul Physicians: A Theology of Soul Care and Spiritual Direction
Soul Physicians equips pastors, counselors, and one-another ministers to understand people, diagnose problems, and prescribe solutions—biblically. It is a twenty-first century theology manual for soul care, relating theology to counseling in the areas of: God’s Word, the Trinity, Creation, Fall, Redemption, Glorification, and Sanctification. This was Bob’s very first published book, the book that started it all.
Bob Kellemen. Spiritual Friends: A Methodology of Soul Care and Spiritual Direction
Spiritual Friends is a biblically relevant training manual and a relationally practical workbook for relating God’s truth to human relationships. Whether you’re a lay person, a caring pastor, a competent professional Christian counselor, or a student-in-training, Spiritual Friends will equip you to master the personal ministry of the Word. Enrich your spiritual friendships with thousands of illustrative interactions and hundreds of skill-building exercises that teach you how to: 1) provide biblical sustaining of people so they know that it’s normal to hurt, 2) provide biblical healing for people so they know it’s possible to hope, 3) provide biblical reconciling for people so they know it’s horrible to sin but wonderful to be forgiven, and 4) how to provide biblical guiding for people so they know it’s supernatural to mature.
Booklets Authored by Dr. Bob Kellemen (3)
Bob Kellemen. Anxiety: Anatomy and Cure
Anxiety, worry, and fear get the best of all of us sometimes. Since we live in a fallen world, we may not have full victory over anxiety until heaven. However, Bob Kellemen shows us how we can have victory in our anxiety—we can learn how to experience the peace of God from the God of peace even in the mist of stress and distress. In this practical, realistic, biblical study, he lays out a compassionate biblical understanding of anxiety. Along the way, he helps us to apply the gospel to our daily lives and reclaim anxiety for what it should be—vigilance to motivate us to do God’s work in Christ’s resurrection power.
Bob Kellemen. Grief: Walking with Jesus (A 31-Day Devotional for Life)
This thirty-one-day devotional booklet guides you on a journey through the gospels. Page-by-page and day-by-day, you’ll walk with Jesus as He models how to cling to the Father as He faces suffering, loss, grief, and death. Jesus is a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief, and He is your sympathetic High Priest. So, He not only models godly grieving, Jesus also grieves with you. Grief: Walking with Jesus is ideal for the person who wants to grow closer to Christ while facing life’s most excruciating losses.
Bob Kellemen. Sexual Abuse: Beauty for Ashes
Sexual abuse ravages the soul, causing unimaginable distress, damage, and disgrace. It is faced honestly and openly in the Bible—but can the church truly help those who have been sexually abused? Bob Kellemen says, “Yes, it can;” and using the biblical story of Amnon and Tamar (2 Samuel 13), he compassionately portrays the damage done by sexual abuse and the relevancy of God’s Word for this difficult topic. He then takes us on a journey toward healing—helping sufferers to reclaim beauty from the ashes of abuse.
Books Co-Authored by Dr. Bob Kellemen (2)
Bob Kellemen and Karole Edwards. Beyond the Suffering: Embracing the Legacy of African American Soul Care and Spiritual Direction
The African American church has always helped hurting people through the ministries of sustaining, healing, reconciling, and guiding. This four-dimensional model is the traditional and widely recognized pattern for understanding one-another ministry, spiritual friendship and pastoral care. Beyond the Suffering offers an in-depth exploration of this rich tradition showing Christians proven ways to help people find hope in the midst of their deep pain.
Bob Kellemen and Susan Ellis. Sacred Friendships: Celebrating the Legacy of Women Heroes of the Faith
Sacred Friendships celebrates the incredible stories of over fifty amazing Christian women. It gives voice to the voiceless as it narrates how godly women for the past 2,000 years have provided sustaining and healing soul care along with reconciling and guiding spiritual direction. Sacred Friendships enlightens readers to the often neglected legacy of Christian women and then equips women and men to apply that legacy to their lives and ministries.
Books Edited or Contributed to by Dr. Bob Kellemen (4)
Bob Kellemen. “Facing Death and Grief: Hope and Help for Hurting Children.” Chapter 18 in Caring for the Souls of Children: A Biblical Counselor’s Manual, Amy Baker, Editor.
Caring for the Souls of Children equips counselors, parents, pastors, and other helpers who love children, to boldly trust in the sufficiency of Scripture for counseling. Edited by counselor and author, Amy Baker, this in-depth resource begins with an overview of foundational principles for counseling children and addresses a different counseling topic in each subsequent chapter. Topics addressed include a wide variety of general and specific issues that children face including anxiety, anger, abuse, suicidal thoughts and actions, self-harm, shame, grief, disability, disease, sexual identity, and many others. Chapters are written by a wide range of biblical counselors, authors, and pastors who have worked with children for many years.
Bob Kellemen and Kevin Carson, Editors. Biblical Counseling and the Church: God’s Care Through God’s People
As people face addictions, deal with loss and grief, and seek help in restoring broken relationships, where can they turn for counsel and assistance? The local church has been uniquely blessed with the gift of the gospel and is able to offer hope and counsel that no other institution on earth can. In Biblical Counseling and the Church, Bob Kellemen and Kevin Carson have assembled over twenty respected ministry leaders who examine the relationship between counseling and the church. This comprehensive resource, part of the Biblical Counseling Coalition series, helps leaders and counselors develop a vision that goes beyond being a church with a biblical counseling ministry to becoming a church of biblical counseling—a church culture that is saturated by “one-another” ministry.
Bob Kellemen and Jeff Forrey, Editors. Scripture and Counseling: God’s Word for Life in a Broken World
Scripture and Counseling brings you the wisdom of twenty ministry leaders who write so you can have confidence that God’s Word is sufficient, necessary, and relevant to equip God’s people to address the complex issues of life in a broken world. It blends theological wisdom with practical expertise and is accessible to pastors, church leaders, counselors and students, equipping them to minister the truth and power of God’s Word in the context of biblical counseling, soul care, pastoral care, and small group facilitation.
Bob Kellemen and Steve Viars, Editors. Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God’s Changeless Truth
Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling is a comprehensive guide that equips God’s people to use biblical truth to change lives. It increases people’s confidence in the sufficiency and relevancy of God’s Word to address real-life issues in a multitude of counseling situations. Readers will understand clearly why they should embrace biblical counseling, be encouraged to trust God’s Word to provide rich insight for living in the midst of even the most difficult challenges, and enjoy relevant, pastoral, and theological teaching. Multi-authored by over two dozen leading biblical counselors, Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling provides a theology of biblical counseling as well as a methodology of biblical counseling.
