src="http://www.studentministry.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Issues-and-Answers-Cover-250px.jpg" style="float: left; padding-right: 15px;" alt="Issues and Answers" />In 2007 my Sr. Pastor, Roland Boyce, came to me and said he was writing a book that he wished he had while raising his kids. He told me stories of tough questions his kids asked during their teenage years and how he wished he had a resource to both quickly reference and help prepare him for what was coming.

“Dad, show me in the Bible where it says how far I should go on a date.”

“Dad, my friend had an abortion. What happens to that baby?”

Even though the Bible doesn’t deal with these issues directly, it does delve in the lives of real people who dealt with many of these issues. Noah got drunk, Elijah struggled with depression and suicidal thoughts, and David faced issues of adultery and murder.

In the absence of such a resource, he decided to write one himself. His book, “Issues and Answers: A Handbook Providing Biblical Answers to Questions of Children and Youth,” is now complete and he’s giving it away completely free!

Each chapter in the book follows this format:

• Biblical Synopses
• Modern Reasoning
• Responses
• Resources
• Fact
• Life Lab

At 300 pages long, it’s definitely more in-depth than your average ebook. This could work great as a resource to distribute to the parents in your church or even to use as curriculum for your youth group.

1. Abortion
2. Alcohol
3. Authority
4. Bible (The)
5. Birth Control
6. Church (The)
7. Cloning
8. Clothes (Fads)
9. Cults/Occult
10. Dating
11. Death and Dying
12. Death Penalty
13. Depression
14. Divorce
15. Drugs
16. Ecology
17. Evolution
18. Euthanasia
19. Food (Eating Disorders)
20. Gambling
21. God
22. Homosexuality
23. Marriage
24. Modern Day Religions
25. Money (Stewardship)
26. Music
27. Parent-Child Relationships
28. Peer Pressure
29. Politics
30. Pornography
31. Pre-Marital Sex
32. Racism
33. Sabbath/Sunday
34. School
35. Smoking
36. Sports
37. Suicide
38. Swearing
39. Tattoos (Body Piercing)
40. War
41. Women’s Rights

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