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Life Style: Real Perspectives from Radical Women in the Bible by Whitney Prosperi
New Hope Publishers
ISBN 1-56309-812-1
This is your complete guide to women in the Bible. Even the ones that are barely mentioned like Jairus’ daughter — the girl whose dad asked Jesus if He could heal his daughter who was sick. In Life Style, you find out how these women and their stories can relate to your life.
Each section focuses on a particular woman of the Bible. Those sections are broken down into three sections. First, a story about a modern day girl. Then a question and answer session on the story in the Bible surrounding the Bible woman to help you walk through the story. Then an Action Point, which helps to sum up the heart of that story and the lesson we can learn by examining how God worked in that woman’s life and how He can work in your life. If you have ever been frustrated that few women are mentioned in the Bible, and very little is said about them, Life Style will be a treat to you. It can serve as a devotional to help you study the lives of other women, and apply the lessons found in those stories to your life.
If you know what it’s like to be dumped for a better set of friends then you might be interested in reading Dark Blue: Color Me Lonely.
Revolve: The Complete New Testament
Thomas Nelson Bibles
ISBN 0-7180-0358-6
“This Bible is a survival guide.” Have you heard people say things like this before? Things like “the Bible is your guide to life,” “…your roadmap.” While you know it’s true, maybe the Bible seems like a little too much text for you swallow. That first line is from the Introduction section of the Revolve Bible. It looks like a magazine, and has helps and features throughout like a magazine, but it’s also the entire New Testament. The Bible in magazine form.
This Bible constantly keeps your eyes moving because it has at least two features on every page. A few of the included features are: quizzes, statistics (“56% of young adults are searching for meaning in life.”), Q&A Blabs, Issues on topics like pregnancy and money, Bible Bios about women in the Bible, a “Guys Speak Out” feature where guys tell you what they think, Beauty tidbits and much more.
The nice thing about this Biblezine is that it has photos of girls and guys your age, and it breaks up the Bible into easy–to–read portions. The size is also nice because it can fit into your backpack neatly between your other books without being stuck at the bottom and crushed by other books. One not so nice thing is that with all of the features in this Bible, it can be kind of distracting to your eyes when trying to focus on the actual Bible text.
Dark Blue: Color Me Lonely by Melody Carlson
TH1NK Books, NavPress
ISBN 1-57683-529-4
Sophomore Kara Hendricks is going through a difficult friendship shift. Her best friend, Jordan, with whom she suffers through high school, has now become a cheerleader, which means no more hanging out with losers like Kara. Since Kara did everything with Jordan she is now friendless. She resorts to spending her lunch periods with the “art kids,” such as Goth-like Amy and socially-challenged Edgar. Through the art kids Kara learns lessons in unconditional friendship. She meets a friend who fills the hole in her heart left from Jordan ditching her and from her dad who left their family when Kara was younger. Eventually the cheerleaders plot against Jordan, and she comes crawling back to Kara.
This book captures what it is like to be alone yet surrounded by people who fit in neat and tidy little groups and have people to hang out with at football games, dances, and lunch periods.
If you know what it’s like to be dumped for a better set of friends then you might be interested in reading Dark Blue: Color Me Lonely.
Mean Girls Gone by Haley DiMarco
Revell, Baker Publishing Group
ISBN 0-8007-3056-9
Have problems with mean girls? This is the book for you. Though unlike DiMarco’s first book, Mean Girls which talks about mean girls, Mean Girls Gone talks about you. It guides the reader in realizing how she can take charge of her life by not letting mean girls, or anyone for that matter, rule your mind. Take back control of your life by reading this empowering guide to living with that part of yourself that has a hard time dealing with other people.
This book could be included in devotional times, because it is broken–down into bite–size truths, with questions and simple activities to help you understand why you think the way you do. These questions and activities will help you confront some issues that might be getting in the way of your being able to take charge of your life. And there are plenty of notes pages to write out your thoughts.
Following are a few excerpts from Mean Girls Gone.
“The hardest thing in the world to overcome is thinking you have to control what other girls think about you. All your energy gets wrapped up in what they think… But all of this is a waste of your time because what others think is not your responsibility. It is not even within your power. You have to fight the urge to justify and position yourself in the eyes of others because it’s taking away God’s role. He’ll justify you. He’ll take care of you.” (“Controlling What Others Think About You is a Giant Waste of Time,” p. 26).
“Who have you given control of your life to? The best way to figure this out is to determine who you think about the most. Whoever occupies most of your thought time is the one in control of your life.
“What do you have faith in? Is God big enough to carry your world? Or have you created a backup for Him? Think about who runs your world?” (Dive thoughts taken from “At the Moment You Blame, You Lose Control” p. 39).