Synopses & Reviews
More changes occur in your body and brain during puberty than during any other time in your life. Puberty marks the beginning of big changes in your relationships with your parents and with the opposite sex. It's a wonderful and exhilarating time because you're finally becoming an adult, but it can be a stressful and overwhelming time, too. If you don't understand what's happening to you, or why, ages 11 to 14 can be downright scary. Facing the Facts was written to give you all of the information you need to understand exactly what's happening to your body during the years ahead and why God planned it to happen just that way. You'll learn about: * The role of puberty in the development of sexuality * How girls' and boys' bodies change, both inside and out * Exactly how a woman gets pregnant and gives birth * Why God wants you to save sex for marriage * Love, dating, and how relationships mature * Tough answers to some tough problems Your body and its sexual nature are beautiful and exciting gifts from God that He wants you to understand and appreciate. Reading Facing the Facts and talking about it with your parents will help you be ready for the coming physical changes, equip you to handle the sexual pressures you'll encounter throughout your life, and give you a better understanding of God's perfect design for sex.
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Designed for children ages 11-14, Facing the Facts equips kids to understand and deal with the changes of puberty. It also examines why God intends sex for marriage, discusses love and dating, and answers tough questions about sexuality.
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Facing the Facts equips kids to understand and deal with the changes of puberty. For kids ages 11-14.
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Designed for children ages 11-14,
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Improved style, size, and added study features make The Message Personal Size the contemporary translation of choice.
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Written in the rhythms and idiom of today's language, The Message Personal Size brings to life the original biblical text. It allows you to experience firsthand the same relevance and directness that motivated its original readers to change the course of history.
Features:
• exclusive verse numbering system
• study helps and charts
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FEATURES: " Bonded Sage Leather Cover " Verse Numbers, an exclusively designed numbering system that's distinct to The Message " New Portable Size " Study Helps and charts that enhance the big picture of Scripture Written in the rhythms and idiom of contemporary language--the way you'd talk with friends, write a letter, or discuss politics--The Message Personal Size brings out the expressive, earthy flavor of the original biblical text. Which means that, whether you've been reading the Bible for years or are exploring it for the first time, The Message will startle and surprise you. And it will allow you to experience firsthand the same relevance and directness that motivated its original readers to change the course of history many centuries ago. "Seems like forever since I've picked up a Bible that made the stories so fresh and new. My name is on that long list of folks who love to read The Message. What a friend this Bible has become." -Max Lucado, author of Come Thirst
About the Author
Brenna B. Jones is a mother whose goals have focused on the nurture and formation of the character of her children. She served as a leader in a Bible study ministry with women for a number of years and now has an active ministry of discipleship and support for women. She has graduate training in biblical and theological studies.
Stan and Brenna are active in teaching about parenting and marriage in their church. They wrote the original versions of the God's Design for Sex series while their three children were young; now they enjoy their three kids as adults as well as the early stages of grandparenting.
Stanton L. Jones, PhD, is a professor of psychology at Wheaton College and also serves as the provost (academic vice president). He directed the development of the college's doctoral program in clinical psychology. In addition to the “God’s Design for Sex Series”, he is the coauthor of “Modern Psychotherapies: A Comprehensive Christian Appraisal”, “Homosexuality: The Use of Scientific Research in the Church's Moral Debate”, and Ex-Gays?: A Longitudinal Study of Religously Mediated Change in Sexual Orientation. He has contributed many articles to professional journals and to such magazines as Christianity Today.
Stan and Brenna are active in teaching about parenting and marriage in their church. They wrote the original versions of the God's Design for Sex series while their three children were young; now they enjoy their three kids as adults we well as the early stages of grandparenting.