In today's uncertain world, storms will arise that test your faith in a loving heavenly Father. At times, the winds and waves of the world's deceptions will roll in and seek to erode your confidence in God. Without a firm foundation in the truth of God's Word, you may be tempted to go off course and accept less than God's best for you. However, when you hear Jesus' words, receive them, and put them into practice, you will construct a life the torrents cannot shake, "because it was well built" (Luke 6:48). The Purple Book will help you understand foundational truths that God wants you to hear on topics such as sin, salvation, spiritual gifts, prayer, worship, generosity, and evangelism. It will show you how the Bible is "God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness" (2 Timothy 3:16). It will help you understand that the faith you hold has true power to change lives and transform nations. It will give you a solid foundation the enemy cannot dismantle—and a heart shaped by knowledge of God's Word.

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Think about the people who influenced your life most. Why did they do it? What did they do? How did they go about it? Answer these questions and you will be hooked on mentoring for the rest of your life. In As Iron Sharpens Iron, respected authors, Howard and Bill Hendricks, show that the most dramatic spiritual and personal growth often happens through the influence of a mentor. Rooted in biblical principles, this book is both a profound and practical guide to mentoring relationships for men. You'll learn how to: Identify the kind of mentor you need, maximize your mentoring relationship, model your relationship after biblical examples, grow through the shared wisdom of another believer, and influence others as you replicate the mentoring process. Whether you are looking for a mentor or wish to mentor someone else, this book provides specific steps to begin the relationship and make the most of it.

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Rodrigo Lopez is a tough young teenager who believes only in violence and values his reputation above everything else. Will Fortune is a hard-working perfectionist whose only goal is to leave the world a better place than he found it. Jim Stone is incredibly smart, incredibly talented, and incredibly uncertain about his future. Each has his own problems, but they all attend the same high school, and as fate would have it, their worlds do not stay separate. They meet each other with hard feelings, unaware that their encounters could be exactly what they need.

Join two friends as they encounter life. Jack, a freewheeling, eye-ogling athlete and his teammate, Damon, Jack's antithesis, start from the same hometown. But their paths after that point differ considerably. Damon's strength, living a steady life, intersects Jack's fault, living life too fully. Damon's road allows him to think he has life's best. Jack's leads him through mental anguish and ethical dilemmas. When Jack leans on Damon for help against a dread disease, Life shows Damon that his stability and moral code lack life's passion and that his frivolous friend has the secret of robust living.

This is a thirty-day devotional book, hoping to provoke thought and encouragement, as well as give some insight from a slightly different point of view. God uses us in different ways to reach different groups of people. As different as my points of view may be, they are not contradictory to God's Word. I use many life experiences to help illustrate messages. I hope to encourage the church as well as strengthen and equip you so you can utilize your God-given talents to share with a lost and dying world that we all are imperfect, but we're forgiven simply because we have accepted our fate as sinners and have reached out to the Savior. "As iron sharpens iron so shall a friend sharpen the countenance of another."