Breaking Old Habits Archives - Institute for Nouthetic Studies | Biblical Counseling https://nouthetic.org/tag/breaking-old-habits/ Welcome to the Mid-America Institute for Nouthetic Studies, founded by Jay Adams. INS provides training and resources for biblical counseling. Sun, 15 Mar 2026 23:06:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.1 https://nouthetic.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/cropped-Favicon-32x32.png Breaking Old Habits Archives - Institute for Nouthetic Studies | Biblical Counseling https://nouthetic.org/tag/breaking-old-habits/ 32 32 Breaking Old Habits https://nouthetic.org/podcast/breaking-old-habits/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=breaking-old-habits https://nouthetic.org/podcast/breaking-old-habits/#comments Mon, 16 Mar 2026 05:00:47 +0000 https://nouthetic.blog/?post_type=podcast&p=9244 On this episode of the INS podcast with Dr. Jay E. Adams: Is breaking old habits enough in the process of change?   Check out our online courses, including, Introduction to Nouthetic Counseling and  The Use of Scripture in Counseling, taught by Jay Adams! Books related to counseling others: Competent to Counsel by Jay Adams The ...

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]]> On this episode of the INS podcast with Dr. Jay E. Adams: Is breaking old habits enough in the process of change?

 

Check out our online courses, including, Introduction to Nouthetic Counseling and  The Use of Scripture in Counseling, taught by Jay Adams!

Books related to counseling others:

  1. Competent to Counsel by Jay Adams
  2. The Christian Counselor’s Manual by Jay Adams
  3. How to Help People Change by Jay Adams
  4. The Use of Scripture in Counseling by Jay Adams
  5. Sanctification and Counseling by Jay Adams
  6. Critical Stages in Biblical Counseling by Jay Adams
  7. Check out our Bookstore for all the best counseling books!

The Christian Counselor’s New Testament and Proverbs, translated by Jay Adams

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]]> https://nouthetic.org/podcast/breaking-old-habits/feed/ 1 Habit https://nouthetic.org/habit/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=habit Wed, 30 Apr 2025 05:00:30 +0000 https://www.nouthetic.org/blog/?p=4581 Here are a fist full of facts about habit, which is one of the problems Christians have to deal with. Before becoming believers many habits were acquired which, after conversion, are carried over into the new life. We must learn to replace these with their biblical alternatives (see my book, Winning the War Within). In ...

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]]> Here are a fist full of facts about habit, which is one of the problems Christians have to deal with. Before becoming believers many habits were acquired which, after conversion, are carried over into the new life. We must learn to replace these with their biblical alternatives (see my book, Winning the War Within). In dealing with habit it is helpful to keep them in mind:

Habits are . . .

  • Comfortable—Like old shoes, one puts them on easily.
  • Automatic—One rarely has to decide to do something habitually—you just drift into it.
  • Unconscious—So you don’t have to think about what you are doing; you just do it.
  • Skillful—habits (take lying, for instance) are performed with alacrity.
  • Entrenched—It takes careful, continual, prayerful effort to replace them with their biblical alternatives.

Keeping these five characteristics of habit in mind can help you to deal with sinful ways of living. They can also show you how the new life can be assisted by learning biblical patterns that become habitual.

 

Check out our online course, The Use of Scripture in Counseling, taught by Jay Adams!

  1. Winning the War Within
  2. What to do on Thursday
  3. The Christian’s Guide to Guidance 
  4. A Call for Discernment

The Christian Counselor’s New Testament and Proverbs, translated by Jay Adams

Visit our online bookstore for all your biblical counseling resource needs.
For biblical counseling training, check out our list of INS Online Courses.

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