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Spiritual, Practical, Real-Life Advice with a Twist of Humor
The Guy’s Guide will encourage your faith, challenge you spiritually, and give you real-life advice how to live out your faith in today’s highly secularized culture, with distractions lurking around every corner. . .and just a click away.
101 real-life tips including. . .
- Today’s nerd is tomorrow’s boss.
- If you have to look over your shoulder to check if anyone’s in the room, you probably shouldn’t be typing it into the search engine.
- Learn a skill that would help you survive a zombie apocalypse.
- Losing your temper feels really good. . .for about 17 seconds. Keeping your cool feels even better. . .for the rest of the week.
- Realize most bad choices usually began five choices ago.
- If you have a TV in your bedroom, unplug it right now and move it to another room.
. . .and dozens more helpful hints provide spiritual, practical, and even humorous advice for navigating the challenges of your teen years with confidence and wisdom.
“Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity,
God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.
Romans 12:1–2 msg
JONATHAN MCKEE is the author of over a dozen books including Get Your Teenagers Talking, Should I Just Smash My Kid’s Phone, and The Zombie Apocalypse Survival Guide for Teenagers. He speaks to parents and leaders worldwide while writing about parenting and youth culture and providing free resources for families on TheSource4Parents.com. Jonathan, his wife Lori, and his three kids live in California.
《The Guy’s Guide》青少年男孩成长指南
属灵提醒 + 实际生活建议 + 真实处境，再加上一点幽默！
The Guy’s Guide 是一本专为青少年男孩编写的基督徒成长指南，帮助年轻人在今天充满网络、手机、媒体和世俗价值观影响的环境中，学习如何把自己的基督信仰真正活在每天的生活里。
作者 Jonathan McKee 以轻松幽默、贴近青少年生活的方式，整理了 101 条实用建议，讨论男孩在成长过程中会面对的许多真实问题，包括信仰、网络与手机、诱惑、情绪管理、选择与后果、学习、生活习惯、人际关系以及个人责任等。
例如：
- 今天不起眼的“书呆子”，可能就是明天的老板。
- 如果你在搜索某样东西之前，还需要回头看看房间里有没有别人，那可能表示你根本不应该搜索它。
- 学会一项即使遇到“僵尸末日”也能帮助你生存的实用技能！
- 发脾气可能让你痛快大约 17 秒；保持冷静，却可能让你接下来整个星期都感觉更好。
- 要明白，很多错误的决定，其实早在前面几个小选择中就已经开始了。
- 如果卧室里有电视，不妨拔掉插头，把它搬到另一个房间。
这些看似轻松甚至幽默的建议，背后希望帮助青少年建立智慧、自制、责任感和属灵分辨力。
本书以罗马书 12:1–2 所表达的原则作为重要方向：不要不知不觉地被周围的文化塑造，而要把目光转向神，让祂从里面改变我们的生命，学习分辨并遵行祂的心意。
关于作者
Jonathan McKee 是基督徒青少年及家庭事工作者和讲员，长期关注青少年文化、科技、手机、亲子关系以及年轻人的信仰成长。他著有十多本书，包括 Get Your Teenagers Talking、Should I Just Smash My Kid’s Phone? 及 The Zombie Apocalypse Survival Guide for Teenagers，并经常向父母及青少年事工领袖分享有关年轻人成长与家庭教育的信息。
这本书不是青春期生理教育书，而是帮助进入青少年阶段的男孩学习如何在现实生活和现代文化中，以智慧、自制和信仰原则作出选择，逐渐成长为成熟的基督徒年轻人。