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Religion >> List of eBooks/Books of Category Religion
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 In The Mind of Christ
Price: $9.95
"If youth only knew; if age only could!" I often think about this adage. Is youth truly wasted on the young? Wisdom, which comes with age, is housed in bodies often betraying a person who attempts to pursue a meaningful life. Youthful bodies, which are full of vitality lack the wisdom needed to employ rightful choices. There seems to be a severe paradox here.
I would like to welcome you to an experience you will never forget. I remember all too well growing up and being "lectured" about making good choices. I would listen to the preaching but I noticed, even at a young age, that parents never seemed to practice what they preached. This is a very human characteristic. In human behavior, we call it "cognitive dissonance." In plain English this means that people hate it when their beliefs are inconsistent with their actions, or using the vernacular "You talk the talk but do not walk the walk." Secular psychology says that healthy individuals won't rest until they resolve that conflict by changing their thoughts, beliefs or actions. At least we hope so, but unfortunately this is almost never the case.
Sometimes the people I counsel and teach forget that I am a person too. They overlook the fact that as a man, I fall into the same systems of thought that other men do. I mention this because one of the things I will teach is the differences in the male/female psyches. Men and women employ different ways they view and react to the world around them. I call it "male/female realities.
I grew up in a matriarch environment, which means in psychological terms, I was a female-trained male. My belief systems and identity came from this female-oriented upbringing. As I passed from puberty into adulthood, I took with me this belief system and soon learned that how I had been trained simply didn't cut it in the "real world." For example, growing up in a house full of women, I soon learned that it was easier to please them rather than fight with them. It was a defense mechanism I developed to stay alive- literally. This act of compromise would seemingly be a very good skill to develop and practice in adulthood and it is up to a certain point, however, in my naivety, I took it too far and my relationships with the opposite sex soon took on the nature of "smothering" my girlfriends. Men usually are accused of being inattentive to a woman's needs. I was accused of being too attentive. Only when I discovered my true identity was this trait corrected. We must become the change we want to see.
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 Pastors As Counselors
Price: $9.95
I want to tell you a story. Not too long ago a little 8-year old boy named Nathan Caldwell came up to me and said, "When I grow up, I want to be just like you, sir." As little as ten years ago, I would have swelled up with pride and told him, "You can young man. Just be ruthless in business, think only of making money and achieving power, treat people like they were expendable garbage and you too can be just like me." But I didn't tell him this. This is what I said, "Nathan, you do not want to be like any man. What you want to be is a child of God, walking hand-in-hand with Him to discover His plan for your life and obeying only what God commands you to do. You want to learn to sacrifice yourself for the sake of others and learn to love with great humility. If you do this, God will bless you completely and you will have a joyful life. Son, you want to be just like Jesus!" Nathan had been handed a very sad set of circumstances at a very early age. His mother had been a drug addict and Nathan was born a "crack baby". No one knows who his father is because his mother was also a prostitute to pay for her habit. I will always thank God that He found Nathan's mother and saved her prior to her death. The ravages from the drugs she ingested had done too much damage to her body and she succumbed to heart failure when Nathan was only four years old. Nathan now lives in an orphanage. We all have the choice of following the world or following God. We, at Theolegions believe in prevention as well as treatment. To teach and lead young people to God is not an easy task. How do you compete with money, sex, drugs, and all the other lustful sins? It seems like an insurmountable task but it isn't. We have a not-so-secret weapon here at Theolegions. It is the very Word of God. If God be for us, who can be against us? Nathan may have lost his mother, but now God is his Father and as the bible says, "When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up" (Psalms 27:10). This manual is dedicated to Nathan Caldwell, a little guy with a very big heart for God. It is too easy for young people to fall in love with the world. It is the goal of Theolegions to teach them the ways of God and show them the destructive paths that await them if they choose poorly.
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