Books with author Jonathan "JP" Pokluda

For many young people, the transition to adulthood is a bumpy one, fraught with opportunities to make mistakes and bad choices. The clear expectations they had at home or in school are gone, and they may feel unprepared to face what comes next. But it doesn't have to be so complicated!Now the author of the bestselling Welcome to Adulting and former leader of one of the country's largest young adult ministries offers this 42-day guide to help readers with the struggles of adulthood, including navigating relationships, achieving career goals, and overcoming worry through daily pondering, practice, and prayer. If you loved Welcome to Adulting and you want to know just how to apply its insights to your life, this guide is for you.

Everyone wants to be loved--to find someone who will stick with them through all of life's ups and downs, someone who is in it for the long haul. But in a world where dating is increasingly based on split-second decisions and geared toward casual relationships rather than marriage, it's easy for single people to feel discouraged, used, or unworthy of true love and lasting affection. Reality just never seems to match up with our (often wildly unrealistic) expectations.Jonathan "JP" Pokluda has counseled thousands of young singles through the pain and heartbreak of dating the world's way. Now he wants to dispel the myths, misconceptions, and fairy tales you've believed about dating and replace them with the truth from the One who invented marriage, created you to crave relationship, and is the very embodiment of true love. With plenty of true stories about relationships healed and love found, this practical book explains God's purposes for singleness, dating, and marriage and covers why you should date, who you should date, and how you should date.If you're ready to trade the world's way of dating for the way that actually works, it's time to begin dating well.

For many young people, the transition to adulthood is a bumpy one, fraught with opportunities to make mistakes and bad choices. The clear expectations they had at home or in school are gone, and they may feel unprepared to face what comes next. But it doesn't have to be so complicated!Now the author of the bestselling Welcome to Adulting and former leader of one of the country's largest young adult ministries offers this 42-day guide to help readers with the struggles of adulthood, including navigating relationships, achieving career goals, and overcoming worry through daily pondering, practice, and prayer. If you loved Welcome to Adulting and you want to know just how to apply its insights to your life, this guide is for you.

Everyone wants to be loved--to find someone who will stick with them through all of life's ups and downs, someone who is in it for the long haul. But in a world where dating is increasingly based on split-second decisions and geared toward casual relationships rather than marriage, it's easy for single people to feel discouraged, used, or unworthy of true love and lasting affection. Reality just never seems to match up with our (often wildly unrealistic) expectations.Jonathan "JP" Pokluda has counseled thousands of young singles through the pain and heartbreak of dating the world's way. Now he wants to dispel the myths, misconceptions, and fairy tales you've believed about dating and replace them with the truth from the One who invented marriage, created you to crave relationship, and is the very embodiment of true love. With plenty of true stories about relationships healed and love found, this practical book explains God's purposes for singleness, dating, and marriage and covers why you should date, who you should date, and how you should date.If you're ready to trade the world's way of dating for the way that actually works, it's time to begin dating well.

If you were trapped in your worst nightmare with no escape, could you gamble your one chance at freedom, to protect your world and a world you created from unimaginable danger?Who is Nathaniel Brown? Brave, fearless and a bit of an adventurer, Nathaniel Brown, is a natural born leader. Faced with lunch time boredom, Nathaniel and his best friends, Ravi, Wayne and Christopher, create a game about an imaginary world called Borlosanti. This seemingly unimportant decision, changes the scope of their future forever. Oblivious to inevitable effects they have set in motion, they continue to develop this game and play it at every opportunity.The more they play it, the more addicted they become. Having become so absorbed with the game, they don't realise that Borlosanti has taken on a life of its' own and that it has a power incomparable to anything they have ever known. Once they are sucked in to it. There is no return without a battle destined to change their lives forever.Borlosanti Genesis synopsis When Christopher wakes up to discover the exact injury he sustained in a joint dream with his friends. He quickly realises that their safety is dependent on them closing the portal that takes them to the realm of Borlosanti.In an effort to avoid entering Borlosanti through their dreams, they endeavour to stay awake. However, they fail miserably and subsequently become trapped in a prison of their own design.Will they live long enough to escape from this realm and to save both worlds? Maybe, maybe not, after all one boy's dream is another's worse nightmare. If you like wall to wall action, witty dialog and interesting characters, you can relate to then you'll love the first instalment of Jonathan Poku's magically powered YA fantasy novel.