{"id":211,"date":"2019-12-09T12:26:53","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T17:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.faithlafayette.org\/seminary\/?p=211"},"modified":"2019-12-09T12:26:53","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T17:26:53","slug":"137-top-biblical-counseling-books-2012-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.faithlafayette.org\/seminary\/137-top-biblical-counseling-books-2012-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"137 Top Biblical Counseling Books: 2012-2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-206\" src=\"https:\/\/faith-blog-assets.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/20191111111553\/BC-Resources-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faith-blog-assets.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/20191111111553\/BC-Resources-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/faith-blog-assets.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/20191111111553\/BC-Resources-1024x577.png 1024w, https:\/\/faith-blog-assets.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/20191111111553\/BC-Resources-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/faith-blog-assets.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/20191111111553\/BC-Resources-1536x865.png 1536w, https:\/\/faith-blog-assets.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/20191111111553\/BC-Resources-800x450.png 800w, https:\/\/faith-blog-assets.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/20191111111553\/BC-Resources-480x270.png 480w, https:\/\/faith-blog-assets.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/20191111111553\/BC-Resources-400x225.png 400w, https:\/\/faith-blog-assets.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/20191111111553\/BC-Resources-281x158.png 281w, https:\/\/faith-blog-assets.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/20191111111553\/BC-Resources.png 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>A Word from Your Faith Bible Seminary Team: <\/strong>As seminary students, pastors, biblical counselors, and lay leaders, <em>we all love books<\/em>! But we can\u2019t buy every book\u2014even though we may want to. So, our VP\/Academic Dean, Dr. Bob Kellemen, produces an annual list of his top biblical counseling books. He recently posted a compilation of 8 years of top book lists at his RPM Ministries<\/span> <em><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/137TopBC12to19\">Truth &amp; Love website here<\/a><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #000000;\">With his permission, we\u2019re reposting his blog for our FBS audience. Enjoy!<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Top Biblical Counseling Books (Selected\/Collated\/Annotated by Dr. Kellemen)<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Every year since 2012, I\u2019ve collated a list of top\/most important biblical counseling books. Several people asked me to collate those lists\u2026and here you go. If my math is correct, you have links to posts about the <em>137 Most Important Biblical Counseling Books: 2012-2019<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I\u2019ve selected these books on the basis of their:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Biblical depth<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Relevance to life<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Practicality for one-another ministry<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Faithfulness to the sufficiency of Scripture<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Application to progressive sanctification<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">And by accepting nominations from biblical counseling leaders.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">These are books either written\u00a0<em>by<\/em>\u00a0a biblical counselor, or about Christian living, or important <em>to<\/em>\u00a0biblical counselors.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Top Biblical Counseling Books of 2012-2019<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>2019: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/19TopBC2019\">19 Top Biblical Counseling Books of 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2018: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rpmministries.org\/2018\/12\/24-top-biblical-counseling-books-of-2018\/\">24 Top Biblical Counseling Books of 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2017: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rpmministries.org\/2017\/12\/17-top-biblical-counseling-books-2017\/\">The 17 Top Biblical Counseling Books of 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2016: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rpmministries.org\/2017\/01\/16-top-biblical-counseling-books-of-2016\/\">The 16 Top Biblical Counseling Books of 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2015: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rpmministries.org\/2015\/12\/15-top-biblical-counseling-books-of-2015\/\">The 15 Top Biblical Counseling Books of 2015<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2014: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rpmministries.org\/2014\/12\/14-top-biblical-counseling-books-of-2014-2\/\">The 14 Top Biblical Counseling Books of 2014<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2013: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rpmministries.org\/2014\/01\/20-most-important-biblical-counseling-books-of-2013-part-one\/\">The 20 Most Important Biblical Counseling Books of 2012, Part 1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2013: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rpmministries.org\/2014\/01\/20-most-important-biblical-counseling-books-of-2013-part-two\/\">The 20 Most Important Biblical Counseling Books of 2013, Part 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2012: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rpmministries.org\/2012\/12\/the-12-most-important-biblical-counseling-books-of-2012\/\">The 12 Most Important Biblical Counseling Books of 2012<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Join the Conversation<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Which of the books in this list have ministered the most to you?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What biblical counseling books published from 2012-2019 would you add to this list?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Word from Your Faith Bible Seminary Team: As seminary students, pastors, biblical counselors, and lay leaders, we all love books! 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He recently posted a compilation of&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.faithlafayette.org\/seminary\/137-top-biblical-counseling-books-2012-2019\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27588],"tags":[244,27588,256],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>137 Top Biblical Counseling Books: 2012-2019 - Faith Bible Seminary Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.faithlafayette.org\/seminary\/137-top-biblical-counseling-books-2012-2019\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"137 Top Biblical Counseling Books: 2012-2019 - Faith Bible Seminary Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A Word from Your Faith Bible Seminary Team: As seminary students, pastors, biblical counselors, and lay leaders, we all love books! 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