Why You’ll Want to Read Gospel-Centered Marriage Counseling
Be Equipped to Counsel Couples Biblically, Effectively, & Lovingly.
Learn 22 Marriage Counseling Skills.
As an equipper of pastors and counselors, I hear all the time how intimidating marriage counseling is.
“Marriage counseling? I’m clueless. I feel like I’m standing in traffic on an expressway with cars going both ways, half of them the wrong way, most of them swerving out of control. I have no idea how to move from my good theology of marriage, to actually helping the troubled couple sitting in front of me.
The contemporary Christian world churns out books—great books—on marriage. Theory of marriage? Tons of books. Books for couples? Scores of books.
However, even in the biblical counseling world, we have next-to-nothing available about procedures—the “how-to” of counseling hurting couples. Pastors and biblical counselors desperately need help in relating their theology to marital messes. We need a hands-on training manual on the nuts-and-bolts of the procedures and processes of helping the couple sitting in front of us. Gospel-Centered Marriage Counseling steps into this void.
This how-to training manual provides practical, user-friendly equipping for folks like you—pastors, counselors, lay leaders, educators, and students. This book walk you through a step-by-step training manual for developing your skills and competences in marriage counseling.
14 Free Resources on Biblical Marriage Counseling
- Read the most popular post I’ve ever written at RPM Ministries: 10 Biblical Principles for Marriages and Marriage Counseling.
- Enjoy this Podcast Interview I did with the Association of Biblical Counselors on Gospel-Centered Marriage Counseling and Gospel-Centered Family Counseling.
- Read the Series Introduction to Gospel-Centered Marriage Counseling and Gospel-Centered Family Counseling.
- Read the Introduction to Gospel-Centered Marriage Counseling.
- Read Chapter 4: Mapping Biblical Marriage Counseling: Our Marriage Counseling GPS
- Download the One-Page Marriage Counseling Goals and Focus Form
- Read Endorsements for Gospel-Centered Marriage Counseling.
- Read the Foreword by Dr. Jeremy Pierre.
- Read Quotes of Note from Gospel-Centered Marriage Counseling
- Read Why I Wrote GCMC: Marriage Counseling Is Hard! Here’s Your Step-by-Step Training Manual
- Learn how marriage counseling is different from individual counseling in: Marriage Counseling Is Not Just Individual Counseling with an Audience
- Learn how to have hope as a biblical marriage counselor in: Resurrection-Focused Marriage Counseling: Having Hope as a Biblical Marriage Counselor
- Learn how to help married couples develop biblical hope in: Resurrection-Focused Marriage Counseling: Offering Hope to Hurting Couples
- Learn about Biblical Help and Hope for Marriage and Family Counselors
“Finally! This Is What We’ve Needed!”
“Having served as a pastor and counselor for over thirty years now, I read marriage and counseling books like other guys devour the sports page, so I can say with confidence that Dr. Kellemen has given us a book that addresses what has been missing for so long: a biblical, practical, and seasoned step-by-step way forward. As I read Gospel-Centered Marriage Counseling I said, ‘Finally! This is what we’ve needed,’ as Bob has done the church and the biblical counseling world an enormous service in putting real ‘feet’ on what marriage counseling looks like. He frames it up with hope and the Gospel, and then provides clear and specific step-by-step guidance on how to do effective and biblical marriage counseling. If you’ve lost heart and felt overwhelmed at the prospect of marriage counseling, this is the book for you! Buy it. Read it. Tell others about it.”—Pastor Brad Bigney, Lead Pastor of Grace Fellowship (EFCA); Author of Gospel Treason: Betraying the Gospel with Hidden Idols
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