Author: Sandy Dunham

I am so glad to hear this!! I believe it is so very important to keep these helpful books in circulation!!

Finding Jay Adams “Competent to Counsel” back in the 1990’s was for me like finding a cool glass of water in the dry desert. Beginning in the 1960’s, when I was converted, I had been reading all of the books I could find concerning life problems faced by myself and other professing Christians who were my friends. Most of the books I found were less than helpful. Since then I have purchased mostly used copies of almost all of his books and I am thankful I have been able to take the training from the Institute of Nouthetic Studies. I don’t know where this training will take me in the future, but I am surely learning a lot and I find it so very helpful in my own life and also as I share with others.

“Insight and Creativity in Christian Counseling” is a book that I would not want to see discontinued. I read it about four months ago and am still trying to use daily the suggestions made at the end of the book as to how to discern and apply truths from Scripture to specific circumstances in the lives of people. Also “What To Do on Thursdays” presents some excellent guidance as to how to understand and make a difference in situations in which wrong habits have become deeply ingrained in one’s life. I haven’t yet read “Committed to Craftsmanship.”

Just yesterday I gave a copy of “The Case of the Hopeless Marriage” to a dear Christian friend whose adult son is suffering in a marriage he has called “hopeless.” I believe that Dr. Adams’ thorough teachings have shone the light on the Scriptures in such a way that the themes and truths from Genesis to Revelation shine as beacons that will clearly direct anyone who has “ears to hear” to Christ’s path of life.