Jay E. Adams

"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...

The Christian Counselor's Manual is a companion and sequel to the author's influential Competent to Counsel. It 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: *Who is qualified to be a counselor? *How can counselees change? *How does the Holy Spirit work? *What role does hope play? *What is the function of language? *How do we ask the right...

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...

Here is classic Adams-clear, direct, biblically saturated, and extraordinarily helpful! Misconceptions abound when it comes to the topic of spiritual warfare. Adams will have none of them. In his typical fashion, he brings sanity to a confused topic by unashamedly calling believers to trust what God's Word has to say on the matter. In doing so, not only does he remind Christians of the great battle they are in, but he also provides for them the biblical...

. . . The Lord, the God of the Spirits of the prophets, sent his angel to show unto his servants that things which must shortly come to pass . . . and he said unto me, seal not the saying of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand. (Revelation 22:6, 10) What do these verses mean? Have these things been largely fulfilled or should we be looking for them in the future? In this classic work, Jay Adams faithfully follows such biblical timeline...

The Bible is the only textbook believers need to help counselees with their problems. Jay Adams explains why this bold statement is not only true, but gives hope to both the counselor and his counselee. Here he outlines the basis and purpose for using the Scriptures in counseling and lists these goals for the Biblical counselor: · Understand and evaluate the counselee's problem scripturally. · Seek to understand the Holy Spirit's purpose...

If the people who are closest to you were polled, would they choose "compassionate" as a word that describes you? In the Bible, God sets forth a picture of the estate of sin and misery that all men are in but then proclaims the remarkable way in which He has shown compassion upon human beings by providing a way out of their misery through Jesus Christ (I Corinthians 10:13). Sometimes biblical counselors are (falsely) accused of lacking compassion....

The Gospel of John Since counselors are so intimately involved in dealing with people of various sorts, the great number of persons with whom Jesus deals in this Gospel (from Nicodemus to Judas) provides rich material for them. Counselors may learn much from the ways in which Jesus approaches, confronts, and changes these persons. No two are dealt with in exactly the same way. Jesus meets each one in his own milieu, often using the elements in that...

False teaching has plagued the church, since the time of the Apostles. But, never before has it had such an easy entrance through modern media and technologies. False doctrines that once took years to take hold now sweep through entire denominations in a few short months. God's solution is discernment. In this book, Jay Adams explains biblical discernment, how to determine what is truly biblical, and lays out a plan for growing in the exercise of...

Do you sense that something is missing from your spiritual life? Do you struggle with temptation, doubt, or anger? Do your trials rob you of joy? Does your prayer life seem hollow? Do you wonder how to plan your next move, make peace with others in your life, how to live free of hypocrisy? Take heart! The Book of James explains how you can become a "complete" (teleios) Christian whose inner life is lived with the kind of skill that produces works...