A Word from Bob: Dr. Jay E. Adams, the founder of the modern biblical counseling movement, went home to be with his Lord and Savior on November 14, 2020. Tributes to his life and ministry are pouring in. This is a “stretchy post”—designed to keep growing. I’ll be collating and adding new articles to this post as they are written. Continue Reading →
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Saints, Sufferers, and Sinners: Loving Others As God Loves Us by Dr. Mike Emlet (New Growth Press, January 2021) is one of the most important and helpful counseling books since the launch of the biblical counseling movement half-a-century ago. As a writer-practitioner, it’s sometimes difficult to be “comprehensively compassionate.” You want to say everything, yet you want to balance depth with practicality. Mike Emlet eminently succeeds in being “biblical-practical” in Saints, Sufferers, and Sinners. If you want comprehensive and compassionate equipping in one-another care, then this is the book for you. Continue Reading →
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The best book of the 21st century is Dane Ortlund’s Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers. The best book of the 21st century—that’s saying a lot! Let’s put that in perspective. R. R. Bowker LLC, which issues the ISBN numbers used by librarians to track individual titles, says that 3 million books are published annually. So, in the twenty years of the 21st century, we’ve had 60 million books published. And Google estimates that 200 million books are currently in circulation. That’s a lot of books. Continue Reading →
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In September 2020, Baker Books will release my new two-book series on equipping biblical counselors for marriage counseling and for family counseling. As an equipper of pastors and counselors, I hear all the time how intimidating marriage and family counseling are. The contemporary Christian world churns out books—great books—on marriage and the family. Theory of marriage and family? Tons of books. Books for couples? Scores of books. Books on the family and parenting? Boatloads. However, even in our biblical counseling world, we have few books focused on the procedures—the “how-to”—of counseling hurting couples and families. Continue Reading →
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Today’s blog is part of a two-part mini-series on the topic of emotions. Bob Kellemen discusses God’s beautiful design of human emotion and offers a biblical model for understanding our emotional responses. In our second article, Pam Gannon provides a case study of a woman who grew up in an emotionally stoic home to help us understand emotional distortion and emotional redemption. Continue Reading →
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