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No issue is taboo for How to Help Your Hurting Friend, a frank and valuable handbook of practical advice for today’s teenage girls.Previously published as Help! My Friend Is Hurting Susie Shellenberger—author and teen advocate—addresses the most vital, personal, and life-challenging issues in young women’s lives. Presented in handbook form, this biblically-based, relevant, and contemporary-focused book empowers girls to salvage and maybe even save the lives of friends. She addresses such things as self-cutting and sexual abuse in a no-nonsense way and no advice is ever vague. This classic book for teenage girls distills the wisdom of the Bible and combines it with the wisdom of many experienced and anointed counselors.How to Help Your Hurting Friend:This is a reissued edition of Help! My Friend Is Hurting.Has a new format including sidebars and intriguing illustrations.Is a great resource for teens, young adults, and parents alikeIncludes commentary on today’s challenges, advice, and a section of letters to the author with helpful, relevant responses.

Most people think the average teenager isn't capable of much beyond hanging with their friends and wasting time. But Zach Hunter isn't your average teenager. And he's hoping to show you that you're not either. Zach has been trying to end slavery around the globe. Most people (maybe even you) think that slavery has been over for a long time. But sadly, there are more people bound in slavery now than at any of the times we read about in our history books. Now Zach is working to end slavery and free the men, women, and children who are being held against their will. He's even found some friends in the fight, including Jon Foreman of Switchfoot and Leeland Mooring of Leeland. Just look around the world and on the news and you'll find that there are plenty of things wrong with our planet---homelessness, hunger, global warming, AIDS...the list goes on and on. And we usually look at these problems and decide they're too big for us to do anything about. But Zach is proving that one person can make a difference. And in his book, he'll reveal the elements needed to make amazing changes in your world. In the end, he hopes you'll find the thing you're passionate about---and start making changes!

Is God really involved in my life? Does God care about what happens to me? How do I know? If you've ever asked these questions, let the real-life experiences of teenagers and young adults help you find some answers. Inside the pages of this book you'll find true stories about God showing up in the midst of pain, loss, life, and growing up as an adolescent. People just like you put their experiences into words, describing what happened when God stepped in at a critical point in their lives. Futures were altered forever, and these storytellers learned something new about God and themselves. Join in their journeys as you read stories about: * a drowning guy who's lifted from the water to a rock 15 feet above the ocean * a girl who's healed after years of satanic ritual abuse * a girl who escapes date rape when she cries out to God * a guy about to accidentally run over three young girls when God intervenes * a girl who turns her life around after being kicked out of college for drug use No matter who you are, what you've done, or what's happened to you, God is with you. And whatever you think you know about God, you'll gain new perspectives about his true character when you glimpse how lives were changed and how God protected, healed, and loved them through some of their most desperate struggles and soul-searching moments.

So God's asking you to change the world...but how? It's not as hard as you think, really; just some everyday acts of kindness can really make a difference in the world around you. Inside the pages of this devotional, you'll be challenged to think about how you can do good in your world, and you'll get great ideas that you can do right now! Read this along with Do Good, or work through this book separately. Either way, you'll discover that you really do have the power to change the world by doing good every chance you get. The journal includes: * Quotes, thoughts, and questions to jolt you to think and move you to act * Random acts that you can do almost anywhere and anytime * Truth and Dare challenges that get you thinking and help you do something radically different * Random Act Notes for you to construct your own amazing story as you do good in the world around you God made you to do good, and you have the power to change the world one kind deed at a time. So, what are you waiting for?

Before you turn this book over and begin thumbing through the pages, you need to know something. This is not one of those books that tells you your life is going to be perfect. This isn’t a book that will make you feel like Joe or Jane Superchristian. And the great thing about that is you’re in good company. There are no perfect Christians―we all struggle. If you’re honest with yourself, you will probably admit that even as you try to follow Jesus, you mess up a lot. You may even feel like there isn’t a lot of room for questions and failures in the Christian faith. But the truth is those questions and failures is part of learning to follow Jesus. It’s time to think outside the box and see that real faith doesn’t mean trying to fit into a particular mold―real faith means being real with God. Jesus is for Liars doesn’t shy away from any of the tough subjects―it asks the hard, honest questions that will let you explore who you are and who God is so you can see that true faith isn’t about pretending to be perfect, it’s about following Jesus just as you are.

Before you turn this book over and begin thumbing through the pages, you need to know something. This is not one of those books that tells you your life is going to be perfect. This isn't a book that will make you feel like Joe or Jane Superchristian. And the great thing about that is you're in good company. There are no perfect Christians---we all struggle. If you're honest with yourself, you will probably admit that even as you try to follow Jesus, you mess up a lot. You may even feel like there isn't a lot of room for questions and failures in the Christian faith. But the truth is those questions and failures is part of learning to follow Jesus. It's time to think outside the box and see that real faith doesn't mean trying to fit into a particular mold---real faith means being real with God. Jesus is for Liars doesn't shy away from any of the tough subjects---it asks the hard, honest questions that will let you explore who you are and who God is so you can see that true faith isn't about pretending to be perfect, it's about following Jesus just as you are.

90 Daily Devotions for Girls When you look in the mirror, what do you see? Do you see what you're lacking---what the world tells you a girl needs in order to be beautiful? Or do you see your true image---the way God sees you, your true beauty? We all know how difficult it is to feel beautiful in a culture where we're bombarded with images of what everybody says 'beauty' is. So how are you supposed to view yourself the way God sees you? The way God created you to be? The True Images Devotionalwill help you begin seeing yourself the way God sees you---as one of his beautiful daughters. In this daily devotional you'll read about Bible characters who display inner beauty and possess hearts that God finds lovely. Each devotional contains a verse from the True Images Bible, along with the devotional thought for the day. In addition, there's another Bible passage to read, a prayer, and space to journal about what you've read. When you spend time with God each day---and learn what is truly beautiful---you'll find that you're filled with beauty that's beyond measure...and beyond compare!

If you want to be part of a revolution, this book is a great place to start. You can make a difference—in the world, in your town, in your school, in your life. The Revolution Devotionalhelps you understand and develop character traits that will turn you into a revolutionary for God. No boring reading here—instead it’s fast-paced and fun. Each day you’ll read a verse of the Bible, then a short devotional about the character in that verse. There’s additional Scripture for you to read if you want, plus a hilarious list relating to the day’s topic. For example, on the topic of being different from the crowd, you might get this list: Seven Ways to Be Really Different There’s different…and there’s really different. Here are seven ways to achieve the latter status: • Color your eyebrows with purple Magic Marker. • Insist that people call you “Butterscotch.” • Wear bumper stickers on the back of your coat. • Declare yourself a “meat-arian” and argue for veg

Written in a straightforward, honest manner, What's Up with Boys? gives young women insight into the lives of young men. Today's young women have been raised in an atmosphere that subtly degrades men in many ways: 'They're dumb. They're coarse. They're shallow. They have a one-track mind.' Sometimes they accept other stereotypes that are far less demeaning---even hilarious---but just as misleading. With concrete information about guys that helps young women understand, appreciate, respect, and accept guys as God created them, What's Up with Boys? answers questions such as: * What is the gender gap? * What does the Bible say about males and females---and what is God's purpose for each? * How do biological factors affect boys' behavior, thoughts, and actions? * Why do girls tend to speak thousands of more words a day than guys? * Why do boys sometimes appear to be childish? This book employs biblical wisdom, common sense, humor, frankness, and thousands of surveys and interviews to offer young women a practical handbook on how to cope with guys.

Every heart feels wonder. Every heart knows fear. Every heart aches with longing. Awed, we whisper, 'Thank you.' Frightened, we cry, 'Mercy.' Yearning we plead, 'Show me the way.' Because the truth is, no matter who you are, every heart needs prayer. This is a prayer book. A book to seduce, cajole, entice, and encourage your heart into prayer. More than a book to be read, this is a book to be explored. It is a book of stories, divine poetry, holy verses, mystical inspirations, prayerful imaginings, meditative practices, and spiritual exercises that seek to uncover the hidden communication between you and God. As you read and explore more about love, longing, fear, suffering, compassion, rest, reflection, passion, wonder, and gratitude you'll be invited to discover prayer within the various moods, attitudes, and experiences that we human beings often find ourselves in. It's a book to be used, flipped through, tested, experimented with, and then set aside. It is a book that asks you time after time to stop and listen, turn and welcome the silent love of God. The hope of this book isn't to teach you anything. The point of this book is to encourage you to give yourself to God---your anger, your fear, your gratitude, your curiosity---your real self to the real God, because then (and only then) will your heart find peace (even in the midst of wonder, fear, and longing). Because every heart needs prayer.

Is God really involved in my life? Does God care about what happens to me? How do I know? If you've ever asked these questions, let the real-life experiences of teenagers and young adults help you find some answers. Inside the pages of this book you'll find true stories about God showing up in the midst of pain, loss, life, and growing up as an adolescent. People just like you put their experiences into words, describing what happened when God stepped in at a critical point in their lives. Futures were altered forever, and these storytellers learned something new about God and themselves. Join in their journeys as you read stories about: * a drowning guy who's lifted from the water to a rock 15 feet above the ocean * a girl who's healed after years of satanic ritual abuse * a girl who escapes date rape when she cries out to God * a guy about to accidentally run over three young girls when God intervenes * a girl who turns her life around after being kicked out of college for drug use No matter who you are, what you've done, or what's happened to you, God is with you. And whatever you think you know about God, you'll gain new perspectives about his true character when you glimpse how lives were changed and how God protected, healed, and loved them through some of their most desperate struggles and soul-searching moments.

Throughout history there have been passionate people who have used their passion to change the world. Some changed it for the better, while others were passionate about things that had terrible outcomes. But whatever it was, each of these people was willing to make big sacrifices for what they were passionate about. In Lose Your Cool you'll read the stories of these people and their passions.