This gospel-centered training manual provides practical, user-friendly guidance that equips pastors, counselors, and lay leaders to help hurting couples restore and maintain close, loving relationships.
You can help hurting couples restore love, trust, and harmony
When a marriage is in crisis, couples need practical help that acknowledges the realities of modern life without neglecting biblical principles. This user-friendly how-to manual provides that, enabling pastors and biblical counselors to competently and compassionately relate God's Word to specific situations in marriage counseling sessions.
"Gospel-Centered Marriage Counseling weds sound theology with practical explanations and applications to the actual counseling process. Every pastor and biblical counselor should add this important work to their library."--Dr. Steve Viars, senior pastor, Faith Church, Lafayette, IN; author of Loving Your Community
"Bob has done the church and the biblical counseling world an enormous service in putting real feet on what marriage counseling looks like."--Brad Bigney, lead pastor of Grace Fellowship (EFCA); author of Gospel Treason: Betraying the Gospel with Hidden Idols
"This is not just another book on marriage counseling; it is a training manual. Bob's writing is practical and biblical; he provides a step-by-step process, built firmly upon the gospel of grace, for learning how to help struggling marriages."--Dr. Julie Ganschow, author of Living Beyond the Heart of Betrayal; coauthor of A Biblical Counselor's Approach to Marital Abuse
Robert W. Kellemen, PhD, is academic dean, dean of students, and professor of biblical counseling at Faith Bible Seminary in Lafayette, Indiana. Founder of RPM Ministries, he also served as the founding executive director of the Biblical Counseling Coalition and has pastored four churches. He is the author of over twenty books, including Gospel-Centered Counseling.