Jay E. Adams

This classic has helped thousands of pastors, students, laypeople, and Christian counselors develop both a general approach to Christian counseling and a specific response to particular problems.

Introduction to Nouthetic Counseling

Competent to Counsel

This book connects biblical doctrine with practical living. The reader gains an insight into the rich theological framework that supports and directs a biblical approach to counseling.

More Than Redemption

A Theology of Christian Counseling

A companion and sequel volume to Competent to Counsel. Indexes, a detailed table of contents, and many diagrams and forms make this one of the best reference books for Christian counselors.

The Practice of Nouthetic Counseling

The Christian Counselor's Manual

Who am I? Why am I here? Where am I going? Familiar questions in our day and age. But has our search for answers led us too far in the wrong direction: away from our true position in Christ and toward a dangerous emphasis on self? Recent decades have seen the rise of a powerful and influential movement within the church. Identified by labels such as "self-image," "self-esteem," "self-worth," and "self-love," this movement has one common denominator--the emphasis on self. Regardless of religious persuasion, everyone seems to be fighting what they perceive to be a shared enemy: low self-esteem. Now well-known biblical counselor and noted author Jay Adams brings much-needed clarification to the area of self-esteem and offers the church and every believer a truly biblical view of self.

The Biblical View of Self-Esteem, Self-Love, and Self-Image

This is a handbook for pastors, elders, and all Christians who want to see how Scripture presents the process of discipline that should operate in the Christian community. It was written in response to the various concerns that threaten to tear apart marriages, families, friendships, and congregations--concerns that call for a biblical approach to discipline that can heal fractures, restore right relationship, and ensure the health of the church. Developed around the five corrective steps found especially in Matthew 18:15-17, this book helps church leaders deal with the sorts of problems that require the church’s disciplinary response. Charting a course that combines discernment with appropriate action, this simple, readable handbook can have a profound effect on the community of believers.

A Right and Privilege of Every Church Member

Handbook of Church Discipline

How to Overcome Evil

Keeping the Sabbath today? As you consider this issue, if you are like me, you may be overwhelmed and perplexed by a myriad of questions. What is Sunday? Is it the Christian Sabbath? Is it the Lord's Day? Is it different from the other six days? After much Bible study and encouragement from friends, I send forth Keeping the Sabbath Today? addressing many questions. As you read it, I hope that the light of God's Word will make clear the path before you as you seek to honor Him seven days a week. Jay Adams

Keeping the Sabbath Today?

In this third edition of What to do on Thursday Adams sets forth a method for dealing with problems that occur in your everyday walk as a Christian. How does a believer determine what God would have him do in life's many baffling situations? The simple answer is, "Turn to the Bible." Good! But then what? Christians are rarely instructed about how to use the Scriptures in their decision making. So, when problems arise on Thursday (or any other day of the week) they are at a loss about what to do. They find the Scriptures useful for devotional uses, but not for decision making. If this is the case in your life, What to do on Thursday will end such perplexity --- once and for all.

A Layman's Guide to the Practical Use of the Scriptures

What to Do on Thursday

Is your counseling "mixed with faith," as the writer of Hebrews put it? Of course you want your counselee to have faith. But do you believe God can really change your counselee? If you do not, then your counseling will be unbiblical, moralistic, and ineffective. Faith is essential to the solution of spiritual problems-your counselee's faith in God and your faith in God. Without faith, it is impossible to please God. Recognizing this, it is important to know the biblical "ins and outs" of faith. In this volume, you will learn what it means to counsel with faith for results that faith produces and help grow greater faith in counselees.

The Importance of Faith in Counseling

Is something missing from your spiritual life? Do you have a sense of incompleteness? Then you need to study James' solution to this problem. Here you will learn how to get it all together in a way that will impart wisdom and direction for your Christian walk. For individuals and group study.

A-thirst-for Wholeness

This companion volume to 'Competent to Counsel' and 'The Christian Counselor's Manual' is designed to help the user assimilate and apply the principles of nouthetic counseling. It is a great tool for all sorts of training and personal development programs, as well as the classroom.

The Christian Counselor's Casebook

"Counselors unanimously find that marriage and family problems outnumber all other counseling problems combined. For that reason alone, counselors should want to learn all they can about marriage counseling." -Jay Adams This book will help counselors understand and deal with the typical problems that arise in a marriage. The approach is to offer not merely solutions, but biblical solutions. Chapter by chapter, each problem that is brought into focus is addressed by Scripture, and a solution arising from Scripture is developed. Unless one understands what a biblical marriage is supposed to be, it is difficult to solve marriage problems. For that reason, Dr. Adams spends the first few chapters developing a biblical model. Then he treats many of the specific kinds of problems that typically arise: life patterns, priorities, children, sex roles, in-laws, and so forth. This is a book that belongs on every pastor's and every counselor's shelf.

Biblical Solutions for Christian Counselors

Solving Marriage Problems

"The amazing lack of concern for purpose among homileticians and preachers has spawned a brood of preachers who are dull, lifeless, abstract and impersonal; it has obscured truth, hindered joyous Christian living, destroyed dedication and initiative, and stifled service for Christ." –Jay Adams, from the book Preaching needs to become purposeful, says Jay Adams, because purposeless preaching is deadly. This book was written to help preachers and students discover the purpose of preaching has and the ways that the Scriptures inform and direct the preaching task. Preaching with Purpose, like the many other books of Jay Adams, speaks clearly and forcefully to the issue. Having read this book, both students and experienced preachers will be unable to ignore the urgent task of purposeful preaching. And the people of God will be the better for it.

The Urgent Task of Homiletics

Preaching with Purpose

A practical exposition of Romans 12:14-21, exploring the nature of warfare with evil and laying out the path to victory and peace. An ideal book for personal counseling and group study.

A Practical Exposition of Romans 12:14-21

This book was written to help ministers and students discover the purpose of preaching and the ways that Scripture informs and directs the preaching task.

Christ and Your Problems

The Christian Counselor's Manual is a companion and sequel to Dr. Jay Adams' influential Competent to Counsel, which first laid out a vision of "nouthetic" counseling—a strictly biblical approach to behavioral counseling and therapy. This practical guide takes the approach of nouthetic counseling introduced in the earlier volume and applies it to a wide range of issues, topics, and techniques in counseling, including: Who is qualified to be a counselor? How can counselees change? How does the Holy Spirit work? What role does hope play in therapy? What is the function of language in a counseling session? How do we ask the right questions? What often lies behind depression? How do we deal with anger? What is schizophrenia? These and hundreds more questions are answered and explained from a biblical perspective in this comprehensive resource for the Christian counselor. A full set of indexes, a detailed table of contents, and a full complement of diagrams and forms make this an outstanding reference book for and Christian counselor.

A Classic in the Field of Christian Counseling Competent to Counsel has helped thousands of pastors, students, laypersons, and Christian counselors develop both a general approach to Christian counseling and a specific response to particular problems. Using biblically directed discussion, nouthetic counseling works by means of the Holy Spirit to bring about change in the personality and behavior of the counselee. As Dr. Jay Adams points out in his introduction, "I have been engrossed in the project of developing biblical counseling and have uncovered what I consider to be a number of important scriptural principles. . . . There have been dramatic results. . . . Not only have people’s immediate problems been resolved, but there have also been solutions to all sorts of long-term problems as well." Since its first publication in 1970, this book has gone through over thirty printings. It establishes the basis for and an introduction to a counseling approach that is being used in pastors’ studies, in counseling centers, and across dining room tables throughout the country and around the world

“While touching on many aspects of counseling, this book . . . is specifically designed to elucidate the process of counseling. I have often mentioned and illustrated that process, but not in the focused and systemic way that the four-step biblical process is set forth here. . . . This book presents a fresh perspective not only on how to counsel, but also on what measures to take at what stages of counseling.”—Jay Adams, from the prefaceChange is the essential goal of the counseling process. And, in the author’s words, “substantial change requires the alteration of the heart.” How can a Christian counselor facilitate such change? The answer, of course, may be found in Scripture, specifically in 2 Timothy 3:14–17.Jay Adams is a well-known counselor who bases his whole approach on Scripture. This book provides an unparalleled opportunity to see how he discovers and applies biblical principles as well as the way in which Scripture functions as the basis for his counseling approach. This book answers two questions: “How does a counselor help people change?” and, “How does Scripture provide the source of a counselor’s method?”How to Help People Change has much to say about the ongoing discussion of the relationship between theology and psychology in the enterprise of Christian counseling.

Jay E. Adams

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