This gospel-centered training manual provides practical, user-friendly guidance that equips pastors, counselors, and lay leaders to help hurting families restore and maintain close, loving relationships.

You can help hurting families restore love, trust, and harmony

Hurting families 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 family counseling sessions.

"Bob possesses an inimitable ability to take big concepts and principles and organize them in memorable ways, and Gospel-Centered Family Counseling embodies this well. I have no doubt that this work will become a go-to reference for ministry leaders and counselors for years to come."--Jonathan D. Holmes, executive director, Fieldstone Counseling; author of Counsel for Couples: A Biblical and Practical Guide for Marriage Counseling

"As I read Gospel-Centered Family Counseling, I was struck yet again by the thoroughness of Scripture for approaching counseling issues in wise and winsome ways, especially the crucial topic of the Christian family. Bob has put together a thorough, well-organized, biblical counseling strategy for equipping us to help families live God-honoring lives."--Dr. Ernie Baker, pastor of counseling, First Baptist Church, Jacksonville; chair of the online BA in biblical counseling at The Master's University; author of Marry Wisely, Marry Well

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.