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With the dawning of a new millennium, one might expect that the age-old practice of courtship would have become defined, refined, and more civilized. Instead, today's dating scene seems scarier and more confusing than ever. Come Here Often? covers the spectrum of dating in the 2000s with candor and humor, including often overlooked ideas like respect, family, and putting biblical principles at the heart of relationships. It focuses on the practical side of navigating the singles' scene while encouraging self-reflection and spiritual evaluation as first steps to successful dating. A must-read for teens and twenty-somethings. |
| Every teenage girl wants to be sexy--she wants to be noticed, to be attractive. But what is "sexy," really? Do teen girls know what they are saying about themselves by the way they dress? Popular author Hayley DiMarco wants to help them figure it out. Sexy Girls is an honest and provocative look at everything sexy--from clothes and self-presentation to body image. With her approachable style and wit, Hayley shows teen girls- why little things called hormones affect the way guys look at girls- what girls are really saying by the way they dress- what God thinks about teens trying to be sexy With quizzes, sidebars, and questions for reflection, Sexy Girls is the perfect opportunity for girls to figure out who they are and how they are going to present that image to their peers. |
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| We have to test everything. I thank God
for anybody anywhere who is pointing people to the mysteries of
God. But those people would all tell you to think long and hard
about what they are saying and doing and creating. Test it.
Probe it. Do that to this book. Don't swallow it uncritically.
Think about it. Wrestle with it. Just because I'm a Christian
and I'm trying to articulate a Christian worldview doesn't mean
I've got it nailed. I'm contributing to the discussion. God has
spoken, and the rest is commentary, right? Preview this book at: http://books.google.com/ |
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Screwtape is an experienced devil. His nephew Wormwood is
just beginning his demonic career and has been assigned to
secure the damnation of a young man who has just become a
Christian. In this humorous exchange, C. S. Lewis delves into
moral questions about good v. evil, temptation, repentance, and
grace. Through this wonderful tale, the reader emerges with a
better knowledge of what it means to live a good, honest life. Preview this book at: http://books.google.com/ |
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Written during the dark hours immediately before and during the Second World War, C. S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, of which Out of the Silent Planet is the first volume, stands alongside such works as Albert Camus's The Plague and George Orwell's 1984 as a timely parable that has become timeless, beloved by succeeding generations as much for the sheer wonder of its storytelling as for the significance of the moral concerns. For the trilogy's central figure, C. S. Lewis created perhaps the most memorable character of his career, the brilliant, clear-eyed, and fiercely brave philologist Dr. Elwin Ransom. Appropriately, Lewis modeled Dr. Ransom after his dear friend J. R. R. Tolkien, for in the scope of its imaginative achievement and the totality of its vision of not one but two imaginary worlds, the Space Trilogy is rivaled in this century only by Tolkien's trilogy The Lord of the Rings. Readers who fall in love with Lewis's fantasy series The Chronicles of Namia as children unfailingly cherish his Space Trilogy as adults; it, too, brings to life strange and magical realms in which epic battles are fought between the forces of light and those of darkness. But in the many layers of its allegory, and the sophistication and piercing brilliance of its insights into the human condition, it occupies a place among the English language's most extraordinary works for any age, and for all time.
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| Out of the Silent Planet introduces Dr. Ransom and chronicles his abduction by a megalomaniacal physicist and his accomplice via space ship to the planet Malacandra. The two men are in need of a human sacrifice and Dr. Ransom would seem to fit the bill. Dr. Ransom escapes upon landing, though, and goes on the run, a stranger in a land that, like Jonathan Swift's Lilliput, is enchanting in its difference from Earth and instructive in its similarity. | In Perelandra, Dr. Ransom is recruited by the denizens of Malacandra, befriended in Out of the Silent Planet, to rescue the edenic planet Perelandra and its peace-loving populace from a terrible threat: a malevolent being from another world who strives to create a new world order, and who must destroy an old and beautiful civilization to do so. | In That Hideous Strength, the final installment of the Space Trilogy, the dark forces that have been repulsed in Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra are massed for an assault on the planet Earth itself. Word is on the wind that the mighty wizard Merlin has come back to the land of the living after many centuries, holding the key to ultimate power for the force that can find him and bend him to its will. A sinister technocratic organization that is gaining force throughout England, N.I.C.E. (the National Institute of Coordinated Experiments), secretly controlled by humanity's mortal enemies, plans to use Merlin in their plot to "recondition" society. Dr. Ransom forms a countervailing group, Logres, in opposition, and the two groups struggle to a climactic resolution that brings the Space Trilogy to a magnificent, crashing close. |