My friend and colleague Dr. Bob Kellemen recently released his Annual Guide to Biblical Counseling Resources 2020 Edition. The 2020 edition has 230 pages and 920 collated, linked, and annotated resources. This Guide is the most comprehensive guide for biblical counseling resources anywhere. Bob doesn’t just have a gift for providing these kinds of resources; he also has a passion for helping all of us striving to serve others.
Bob makes this PDF resource available for only $5.99 here.
Topical Table of Contents
In this resource, Bob uses the following Topical Table of Contents:
- Biblical Counseling Resources for Individuals Table of Contents
- Biblical Counseling Resources for Marriage Topical/Chronological Table of Contents
- In-Depth Biblical Counseling Resources for Biblical Counselors Topical Table of Contents
Inside this section, it includes the following indexes:
The Biblical Counseling Coalition’s Confessional Statement (1)
National (United States) Biblical Counseling Organizations (9)
International Biblical Counseling Organizations (13)
Individual Biblical Counseling Websites/Blogs (16)
United States Higher Education Institutions with Biblical Counseling Degree Programs (20)
International Higher Education Institutions with Biblical Counseling Degree Programs (16)
How to Find a Biblical Counselor: Individual Counselors and Intensive/Residential Ministries (17) - Biblical Counseling Resources for Parenting and Family Life Topical/Chronological Table of Contents
Sample Annotation
Here is a sample annotation from the section Family Communication & Conflict Resolution:
Mack, Wayne. Your Family, God’s Way: Developing and Sustaining Relationships in the Home
Your Family God’s Way offers biblical insight and practical wisdom into two crucial areas of family life: communication and conflict resolution. Mack alerts us to pitfalls of faulty communication, such as “undertalk” and “overtalk,” poor listening, forms of falsehood, and “circuit jammers” to communication. He examines why families fight and explains the key to turning family discord into harmony.
The Introduction to the Annual Guide
Bob writes the following in the introduction:
Introduction
Nearly every week someone emails me, sends me a text, posts to me on Facebook, leaves me a Twitter private message, or asks me in person:
“Bob, could you recommend some biblical counseling resources for __________?”
For years I’ve thought, “I need to carve out extended time to collate an annotated list of recommended biblical counseling resources.” In 2018, I carved out the time. And now, expanded, updated, and upgraded annually—including in 2020—here is:
The Annual Guide to Biblical Counseling Resources: 2020 Edition
- Copyright: I want you to use this resource for your life and ministry. So, if a colleague, parishioner, counselee, family member, or friend asks you for recommended resources for “biblical counseling and anxiety,” feel free to cut and paste the collation of anxiety
resources from this document. However, if someone says, “Can I make a copy of Dr. Kellemen’s entire PDF?” please say, “Bob spent a lot of time collating and annotating this list. Please visit his RPM Ministries Store where for just $5.99 you can order your PDF copy of The Annual Guide to Biblical Counseling Resources (http://bit.ly/2020BCAG). - What’s New in 2020: I’ve added 225 new resources for a total of 920. Each resource in each topic is now organized alphabetically by author—for ease of searching/locating.
- Biblical Counseling Resources: There are thousands upon thousands of Christian books on scores and scores of topics. This guide focuses on biblical counseling resources. For an excellent summary of what makes biblical counseling truly biblical, see the Biblical Counseling Coalition’s Confessional Statement.
- A Topical List: Once this list began to grow to its current size, it became clear that I needed to create a Topical Table of Contents. This allows you to locate quickly the resources you’re looking for.
- An Annotated List: By annotated, I mean that each recommended resource includes a summary description. You don’t just receive the title/sub-title; you gain an introduction to the resource. In almost every case, the introductory annotation is by the author or publisher, not by me. So, these annotations are not book reviews; they are book summaries that preview (and promote) the content of the resource.
- A Linked List: Every resource has an embedded online link to where you can find a copy of the resource. In most cases, the link will take you to Amazon. I wish I could have linked to scores of different publishers and author websites, but the time to do that would have prevented me from ever compiling this massive guide.
- A Disclaimer: Of course, I don’t endorse every word on every page of every one of the resources in this list. By including one resource by one author, I’m not necessarily endorsing every resource by that author or organization. I’m trusting you, the reader, to be a wise “Berean”—like the Christians in Acts 17 who used their Scripture-based wisdom to discern whether a spoken or written message aligned with God’s Word.
- Updates: In a huge collation like this, mistakes can creep in. Please email me if you find broken or misdirected links, titles needing correction, misspelled names, etc. Feel free to email me saying, “You forgot to include _______. Please add it into next year’s edition.”
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