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E-mail from God: For Teens

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This book is awesome! I myself am a 14 year old girl whodoesn't particularly like to read anything but magazines. My mombought this book for me and I decided to try it out. I am so glad I did! It is a great book for anyone who doesn't necessarily want to sit down and read for long periods of time. This book is one that you can read a few pages at a time, and then be able to pick it up later and not have to re-read some of the pages to get the idea. I also like it because it truly does relate to me and my life. It really makes you think and I have reccommended it to all of my friends.

Attractive and modern outlay of single page devotional/message. done in computer screen style on every page. Messages are relevant to teens. they contain questions to make them think and message is not very long. i believe this is good for some/alot of teens who don't have a very long attention span for wordy messages. Author gets point across and signs off differently each time which is very creative and personal. Strong message of God's love for them comes through each page.

E-mail from God by Curt and Claire Cloninger is the one book I look to when I need help in this world. This book is written in a form of an email from God to a teenager who might hav some problems in his/her life. The emails talk about many different things, including peer pressure, popularity, sports, and family life. This helps you to be able to handle all the rude comments and cruel things people will say or do to you through your life. God talks to about about how you are perfect the way you are and you don't need to change because of what other people say about you.

I really enjoyed reading this book. It helps a lot with maning different aspects in my life and helps me be able to hande all the tough situations. It has helped me be able to ignore all of the rude comments that come my way and be able to stand up for myself and others. I would recommend this book to anybody who is having any sort of trouble in their life.

This interesting little book is a collection of short homilies designed to provide a pick-me-up to a teen. With titles such as "You won't miss out," and "Learn to be a love receiver," the homilies are short and easy to read, and give a mental boost at the right moment. Each one of these begins with a Bible verse (NIV translation), and appears to be non-denominational, which means that this is a good book for any believer. So, if you want to give a teen in your life a handy resource, then I would recommend this book to you.

The problem with these types of books is that they are not authentically inspired by God. This book contains a lot of sentimentalism packaged in a contemporary commercial form. The authors have a lot of good stuff to say, but when they present it as a message from God they are not telling the truth. This is a dangerous thing to present to teens especially, as it teaches them to think of God as an imaginary friend that helps them cope with life. They know the e-mails in the book aren't really from God, but the book presents the pretense anyway. This lays the foundation for an inauthentic and shallow faith that gravitates toward false spirituality. If that's what you're looking for, enjoy the book. Shame on the authors for using God's name on the by-line to peddle e-mails they themselves have written.