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A Christ-Follower’s Guide for the Journey to college

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Part 2 of an interview with Jonathan Morrow, Author of Welcome to College: A Christ-Follower’s Guide for the Journey Is there a more frightening question for a graduating high school senior than "What will you do with your life?" In college, whether they realize it or not, students will answer that question every day with each decision. All of the new friends and new experiences of higher education will shape their future. It's critical that students know how to handle college before they're in the thick of it. In Welcome to College: A Christ-Follower’s Guide for the Journey (second edition) (Kregel Publications), Jonathan Morrow tackles the tough questions that arise during these formative years, including: How do you grow spiritually? How do you manage your time to both study well and have fun? Is all truth relative? Are there good reasons to be a Christian? As a Christian, how should you view issues like dating and sex? Read Part 1 of the...

How spiritually prepared are teens for college?

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  Part 1 of an interview with Jonathan Morrow, Author of Welcome to College: A Christ-Follower’s Guide for the Journey College can be the most exciting, as well as the most frightening, time of a young person’s life. On one hand are all the freedoms a recent high school graduate craves, but on the other are all the freedoms that come with responsibility. It’s a challenging time, especially for Christians coming face-to-face with worldviews different from their own. In Welcome to College: A Christ-Follower’s Guide for the Journey (second edition) (Kregel Publications), Jonathan Morrow helps students tackle this new stage of life and emerge on the other side prepared for what God has planned for them. Q: What are possibly the most frightening questions a graduating high school senior can be asked? What are you going to do with your life? What’s your major going to be? Will you be able to get a job when you graduate?  Students feel a...

Welcome to College helps students navigate the journey into adulthood

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  Setting the trajectory for a life of following Jesus Welcome to College helps students navigate the journey into adulthood College can be the most exciting, as well as the most frightening, time of a young person’s life. On one hand are all the freedoms a recent high school graduate craves, but on the other are all the freedoms that come with responsibility. It’s a challenging time, especially for Christians coming face-to-face with worldviews different from their own. In Welcome to College: A Christ-Follower’s Guide for the Journey (second edition) (Kregel Publications/March 28, 2017/ISBN: 9780825444883/ $21.99), Jonathan Morrow helps students tackle this new stage of life and emerge on the other side prepared for what God has planned for them. “Is there a more frightening question for a graduating high school senior than ‘What will you do with your life?’” Morrow asks. “In college, whether they realize it or not, students will answer that question every day wit...

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If you are a fellow blogger,  Litfuse has a several new blog tours open. Check out these books, and sign up NOW to review during the dates listed. Please let your blogging friends know too! I'll share a few more next week when more sign-ups open. 3/13 – 3/27:  Unchained by Noel Jesse Heikkinen  (David C Cook) Sign-up here! Maybe Christianity isn't what you think it is . . . . The apostle Paul declared, "For freedom Christ has set us free" (Galatians 5:1). If this is true, why isn't freedom the focus of how we talk about God and live out our faith?  Yet mistakes from our past haunt us. Sinful urges shame us. We hear over and over that we must pursue a standard of living that seems so unreachable. Just thinking about something as basic as prayer makes us feel guilty, since we're sure we're not doing it "right" or often enough. God created us for freedom, yet we feel anything but free.  Noel Heikkinen shows us how to...