How to Be a Successful Teenager: 18 Secrets Every Teen Must Know to Succeed [Paperback]

Rick Jones (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 1994

Teenager... You can have victory over depression, fear, loneliness, peer pressure, suicidal thoughts, and any other problems you face. You can protect yourself from the temptations that lead to drug addiction, alcoholism, venereal diseases, AIDS, satanism, and other tools that are killing your peers.

To live this victorious life, filled with peace, joy and contentment, you must learn the 18 life-changing secrets that are purposely being kept from you.

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About the Author

Rick Jones became a Christian at the age of 20. After fulfilling his remaining two years of military obligation, he attended Baptist Bible College East in New York. After graduating, God led him to work for six years at a Christian home for troubled teenagers, dealing with thousands of teens having every problem imaginable. As a result of the spiritual principles that were taught there, he witnessed the salvation and miraculous transformation of countless teens. His desire to see these same spiritual principles change as many lives as possible motivated the writing of both Stairway To Hell and How To Be a Successful Teenager.

Rick was born and raised a Roman Catholic which laid the foundation for his third book, Understanding Roman Catholicism. Being saved out of Catholicism caused him to experience the dramatic difference between the emptiness of religion and a fulfilling personal relationship with Jesus Christ. In additon, in 1987 God led Rick to Chick Publications, where he has worked for the last twenty years. It was there that he began an extensive study of official Catholic beliefs and learned the stark differences between Catholicism and the Bible. Not wanting a single Catholic to miss heaven, this book was written to offer Catholics true Biblical salvation, which they will never find in their religion.

His fourth book, When Life is Over, was also motivated by a desire to help people settle their eternal destiny. For years he heard people ask the same questions about the afterlife, "Would a loving God really send people to hell? , and "Aren't there many paths to heaven?". Knowing that all these questions are clearly answered in God's Word he wrote a short book answering these questions, plus everyone's most important question, "Where will I go when life is over?"

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Chick Pub (November 1, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0937958441
• ISBN-13: 978-0937958445
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,273,113 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Troubled Teenager; this is YOUR Book!!, January 7, 2006

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CPP PRETORIUS "Christo Pretorius" (South Africa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How to Be a Successful Teenager: 18 Secrets Every Teen Must Know to Succeed (Paperback)

It has been my privilege to work with teenagers since 1971, which adds up to 34 years, if my calculations don't fail me! During this time, I have endeavoured, by the grace of God, to lead these youngsters to experience real peace, happiness and success in life! Many of them are today still on the road of peace, etc by the same grace of God!

I only wish I could have had Rick Jones's book right from the start! Maybe then I could have prevented the suicide of a very good friend of mine in grade 10, as well as quite a few others!! I know, just as Rick Jones does, that thousands of our precious teens commit suicide every year, and Rick succeeds in reaching many who would otherwise have been among them!!

Yes, Rick DOES talk about HELL; so does the Word of God!! See Scriptures like Matthew 10:28 and 2 Peter 2:4! I am eternally grateful to Rick for sounding the alarm for our young people! Many teens will undoubtedly be saved from hell because of this book!

Rick also addresses the CAUSE of going to hell, which is SIN!! Once again, the Word of God spells it out, like Mr Jones does: Romans 3:23: "For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God;..." This author is hitting the nail on the head; something our teens MUST know!

I am privileged to be the friend of a high-ranking police officer
in South Africa who for many years investigated occult-related crimes. He mentioned quite a few cases of teens who either committed suicide, or tried to, because of "voices in their heads"! I have SEEN some of the photo's of the bodies...! Once again, Rick Jones is spot-on with this magnificent book! The "voices" Rick Jones mentions, DO exist!

Indeed: What DOES Mr Jones want for MY child!? READ this book and you will undoubtedly agree, that he has a burning love for young people, and cares much more for them than many parents do for their own kids! Love your child enough to give him or her "How to be a Successful Teenager"; it might just save him or her from "a fate" litterally "worse than death"!! Give your child a chance in life!!

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not worth the paper it's printed on, February 28, 2011

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A. Rees "Mrs. Maintenance" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How to Be a Successful Teenager: 18 Secrets Every Teen Must Know to Succeed (Paperback)

This book is full of LIES. Outright, blatant LIES over which I am surprised that no one pursued litigation against Mr. Jones. One laughable example is where the author stated that Hustler magazine ran an article that gave detailed instructions on how to mutilate children; another lie was that the HIV virus can pass through a condom; and there was yet another ludicrous allegation that John Lennon was a servant of Satan. The book also states that homosexuals can be cured, and that listening to Ozzy Osbourne's music and playing Dungeons and Dragons invites demons into one's body.
I think that making a teenager read a book filled with this kind of disinformation borders on child abuse.

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally someone with courage enough to tell the truth!!!, July 18, 2011

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N. Luna (Los Angeles, CA.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How to Be a Successful Teenager: 18 Secrets Every Teen Must Know to Succeed (Paperback)

It's so refreshing to see that there are still people out there who haven't totally bought into all the political correctness idiocy out there. Here is a book where someone just tells the truth. And tells it like it is. And the author meticulously sites all his sources for example the one about "AIDS being able to pass even thru microscopic holes in condoms". Or his claim about the fact that when "800 sexologists were asked at a conference if they'd trust condoms to protect them from AIDS, not a single one raised their hand."
The fact that some people find the truths in this book offensive is very telling and very dangerous. Just ask all the homosexual men dying in hospitals right now because no one had the guts to tell them the truth.