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Encouragement Isn't Enough (Book/ Paperback)

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It's happened to you many times before: your friend just seems down about everything, nothing's going right, and even the weather is dreary. You rack your brain trying to think of something to say, but words just won't come. Finally you mutter something like "I'm sure it'll work out," or, "Just keep on smiling." Pathetic. Lame. And not remotely encouraging to your friend. So, what can you say to your friend? Should you possibly even do something? Dr. Adams defines Biblical encouragement, demonstrates its importance for the spiritual well-being of Christians, and then teaches you how to put it into practice. So now, instead of empty words, learn how to give useful advice and loving, biblical encouragement to your fellow believer.

About the Author(s)

For over 40 years Dr. Jay Adams has been calling God’s people back from their dalliance with unbiblical psychological theory to a renewed confidence in the power of the Holy Spirit and the sufficiency of God’s Word to equip the man of God to help his people with problems of living and relationship. Happily, many have heeded his call and over the years a movement, both deep and wide, has developed, consisting of pastors and other Christian workers who have been trained in and are practicing the kind of truly biblical counseling God intended for His people to receive. Jay Edward Adams was born in Baltimore on January 30, 1929 and was born again about 15 years later in response to the reading of a New Testament that was given to him by a friend. He received his formal training at Reformed Episcopal Seminary (B.D.), Johns Hopkins University (A.B.), Pittsburgh-Xenia Seminary, Temple University School of Theology (M.ST.), and the University of Missouri (Ph.D.). He pastored churches in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, served as a denominational official, a professor at Westminster Theological Seminary, the director of the Doctoral program at Westminster Theological Seminary in California, and then as a church planting pastor in South Carolina. He was also the founder of the Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation in Philadelphia, the National Association of Nouthetic Counselors, and Timeless Texts which now publishes his books. In 1999 Dr. Adams retired from the pastorate of the church he had planted in South Carolina and has devoted his time to writing and lecturing. In the fall of 2001 the Redeemer Biblical Counseling Training Institute (RBCTI) was established at the Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Moore, SC to provide a vehicle by which Dr. Adams could continue teaching.