10 Top Biblical Counseling Books of 2025

The Fourteenth Annual Edition

If you’re a counselor, pastor, student, educator, one-another minister, small group leader, soul care giver, spiritual friend, soul physician, spouse, or parent, you want to know the most helpful books about biblical counseling. We all want trusted recommendations on books that seek to change lives with Christ’s changeless truth.

We all want to be aware of solid resources for the Christian life and one-another ministry, That’s why at RPM Ministries I’ve collated the top biblical counseling books on an annual basis since 2012. See the end of this post for collated links to the 2012, 2013 Part 1, 2013 Part 2, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 lists.

That makes this year the fourteenth edition of my annual listing of top biblical counseling books.

The Selection Process

In 2025, I had many highly relevant and significantly helpful biblical counseling books from which to choose. I’ve selected ten top biblical counseling books published in 2025. I’ve chosen these books on the basis of their:

Biblical/theological depth and richness.
Faithfulness to the sufficiency of Scripture.
Practicality for one-another ministry, biblical counseling, and soul care.
Relevance to practical Christian living.
Application to progressive sanctification.
By accepting nominations from worldwide biblical counseling leaders.
By accepting nominations from publishers.
By researching other lists of top biblical counseling books.

I list these top ten biblical counseling books below in alphabetical order by author—the top ten books published in 2025:

About biblical counseling,
About Christian living, or
Important to biblical counselors.

Note: I’ve developed the summaries descriptions of the books from wording by the authors and publishers. These summaries are not my book reviews of these resources.

The Top 10 Biblical Counseling Books of 2025

Brooks, Nate. Disrupted Journey: Walking with Your Loved One Through Chronic Pain and Illness. P&R Publishing.

Whether you’re a parent, spouse, child, or friend, when your loved one’s life is wracked by illness and pain, your life changes too. Disrupted Journey is an honest, deeply personal book that helps caregivers and companions of hurting people to process their own upended lives, relationships, and spiritual walk—while keeping their gaze on the comfort and hope offered by Scripture.

Broom, Beth. 10 Questions About Pain and Suffering: 30 Devoitions for Kids, Teens, and Families. Crossway.

Written especially for ages 8-14, 10 Questions About Pain and Suffering, offers biblical answers about the origin and purpose of suffering, helping young readers navigate their pain, seek comfort in God, and help others in their distress. Kids can work through the 30 readings in any order they choose. Written to be read alone or with family, 10 Questions about Pain and Suffering is the perfect way for middle-grade readers to start or end each day reflecting on the things of God.

Dunham, David, and Krista Dunham. Power with Purpose: God’s Design for Power Dynamics in Marriage. P&R Publishing.

God gave you power. Do you know how to use it? Too many men and women aren’t sure what to do with the power they bring to a marriage. But this power is a gift from God. Biblical counselors Dave and Krista Dunham, in Power with Purpose, show you how to use your strengths to serve your spouse, how to craft a shared family vision that brings clarity to disagreements, and how to navigate tough conversations and situations—all so you can build a stronger marriage.

Greer, Lainey. A Teen’s Guide to Eating Disorders: Hope for Your Struggle. New Growth Press.

Speaker, author, and personal trainer Lainey Greer shares her own experience with how God helped her overcome an eating disorder. She offers helpful information about common eating disorders and gives warning signs that you might be at risk of developing one. If you are currently struggling with an eating disorder, Lainey reassures you that you are not alone. Her concern is for every part of you—mental, physical, and spiritual—and she encourages you to seek support from counselors, older believers, and doctors in your journey back to health. Throughout this mini-book, Greer emphasizes God’s love and care for you. In Him, there is hope!

Hahn, Karrie. Limping Heavenward: Living by Faith in Comprehensive and Chronic Suffering. P&R Publishing.

How do Christians endure suffering that upends every aspect of life—perhaps permanently? Comprehensive and chronic suffering can assault our faith, strain our relationships, and leave others in the church unsure how to help. A shaky theology of suffering—others’ or our own—only compounds our hurt. In this honest, direct, and compassionate guide, Karrie Hahn, in, Limping Heavenward, tackles the hard questions: What does affliction reveal about who God is and how he relates to us? How can we move forward when we are devastated by pain? She helps sufferers keep walking by faith—and equips other believers to walk with them for the long haul.

Huie, Eliza. A Teen’s Guide to Anxiety: Lifting the Weight of Worry. New Growth Press.

In A Teen’s Guide to Anxiety, biblical counselor Eliza Huie wants to help you identify anxiety by recognizing common signs and encourages you to share your experience with a trusted adult. She introduces the acronym N-E-A-R to help you manage anxiety: Notice bodily responses; Explore the causes and your emotions; Attend to what is going on and engage in the calming process; and Remember God’s promises and how His Word helps you in your struggle with anxiety. Anxiety can disrupt life, but you can use these simple tools to help you turn to God, who is near when things feel overwhelming.

Hussung, Joseph. Learning to Listen: Essential Skills for Every Counselor. New Growth Press.

In Learning to Listen, biblical counselor Joseph Hussung gives readers a theology of listening and explains the purpose, posture, and practice of this essential counseling skill. If counselors do not truly hear the hearts of their counselees, they won’t understand the nuanced struggles at play nor how to apply biblical principles. Listening well enables counselors to love well and understand with empathy.

Strickland, Darby. When It’s Trauma: A Biblical Guide to Understanding Trauma and Walking Faithfully with Sufferers. P&R Publishing.

Every Sunday, men and women scarred by crises and betrayals worship among us. Our Lord not only calls us to help them but equips us to do so. Out of her careful study of Scripture and years of counseling experience, Darby Strickland has written a comprehensive resource—When It’s Trauma—to help counselors, church leaders, and laypeople understand the unique wounds of trauma—and then come alongside sufferers with effective, thoughtful care that shows the love of Christ.

Tripp, Paul. 12 Truths Every Teen Can Trust: Core Beliefs of the Christian Faith That Will Change Your Life. Crossway.

In 12 Truths Every Teen Can Trust, pastor and bestselling author Paul Tripp examines 12 core doctrines of the Christian faith to see how they can transform a teen’s heart and life. Using clear language and relatable examples, he defines doctrines such as God’s sovereignty, justification, and glorification, helping young people fall deeper in love with their Creator and Savior. Each chapter explores a specific doctrine through 7 brief readings, making it perfect for daily study.

Welch, Ed. Fear Is Not a Sin: It Is a Call to Action. New Growth Press.

Fear Is Not a Sin explores what the Bible says about fear, emphasizing God’s compassion and His many promises to be near His people when life dismays and threatens them. When life takes a turn for the worse, our natural response is fear and anxiety, even though God commands His people many times in Scripture to not be afraid. However, as bestselling author and biblical counselor Ed Welch explains, those commands do not mean that our fears are inherently sinful. Instead, they are an invitation from God to go to Him with our troubles. Fear Is Not a Sin guides readers to respond to fear by going to God and learning to pray His words back to Him. Readers will be encouraged that the fears they experience are an opportunity to grow from a “little-faith” to a “big-faith” that takes God at His word and trust Him in an uncertain world where things can and do go wrong.