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COMPLETELY REVISED AND EXPANDED! New topics, questions, and Scripture references! HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED . . . How do I find the courage to go on when life seems too hard or obstacles seem too big? What does the Bible say about the environment and my responsibility for it? What steps can I take to exercise self-control? How can I handle someone who is pushing me toward a physical relationship? We all have questions like these from time to time. What better source to turn to for answers, help, and support than the Bible? TouchPoints for Students puts God's answers to your most pressing questions right at your fingertips. Inside this little book, you'll find answers, words of encouragement, and Bible promises on more than one hundred topics-from peer pressure, cheating, and dating to procrastination, drinking, and temptation. Whether you read this book straight through or use it as a handy reference guide for those days when life throws you an unexpected curve, you'll be amazed at the impact God's Word can and does have on your everyday life.

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TouchPoints FOR STUDENTS

Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

Contents

Absence..................................2Absolutes................................4Acceptance...............................5Accomplishments..........................7Accountability...........................10Addiction................................13Advice...................................15Aids.....................................16Anger....................................18Apathy...................................19Appearance...............................20Approval.................................21Astrology................................22Backsliding..............................24Behavior.................................26Bible....................................28Bitterness...............................30Blame....................................32Body.....................................34Boredom..................................35Call of god..............................37Challenges...............................39Character................................41Cheating.................................43Choices..................................44Church...................................47Communication............................49Comparisons..............................52Competition..............................54Complaining..............................56Compromise...............................58Confession...............................59Conflict.................................62Conscience...............................63Consequences.............................65Consistency..............................66Convictions..............................70Cooperation..............................71Courage..................................73Criticism................................74Cults....................................76Dating...................................79Deceit/deception.........................81Decisions................................83Depression...............................87Desires..................................90Distractions.............................93Doubt....................................96Drinking.................................97Drugs....................................99Enemies..................................101Environment..............................103Evil.....................................104Evolution................................106Excuses..................................109Failure..................................112Faith....................................116Fear.....................................118Forgiveness..............................122Friendship...............................126Fun......................................127Giving...................................129Gossip...................................131Grace....................................133Guidance.................................133Habits...................................136Heaven...................................139Hell.....................................142Homosexuality............................144Honesty..................................146Hope.....................................148Humility.................................151Jealousy.................................153Judging others...........................154Knowledge/learning.......................155Listening................................158Loneliness...............................161Love.....................................163Lust.....................................166Lying L..................................167Maturity.................................169Meaning..................................171Miracles.................................175Mistakes.................................178Modesty..................................181Money....................................184Motives..................................187Music....................................189Obedience................................191Opportunities............................194Parents..................................194Patience.................................196Peer pressure............................198Planning.................................200Poverty..................................201Prayer...................................205Priorities...............................207Profanity................................208Purpose..................................210Quitting Q...............................211Racism...................................212Reconciliation...........................214Regrets..................................217Repentance...............................220Resurrection.............................222Ridicule.................................223Risk.....................................225Salvation................................229Satisfaction.............................231Self-control.............................233Sex......................................236Sin......................................241Singleness...............................242Spiritual warfare........................243Strengths/weaknesses.....................245Success..................................246Suicide..................................248Temptation...............................251Testing..................................253Thankfulness.............................254Tolerance................................256Trouble..................................259Truth....................................261Values...................................263Weariness................................264Will of God..............................267Wisdom...................................269Witnessing...............................272Work.....................................274Worry....................................275Worship..................................277Worth

Chapter One

Why do I sometimes feel that God is absent?

PSALM 10:1 | O Lord, why do you stand so far away? Why do you hide when I am in trouble?

PSALM 139:2, 7 | You know when I sit down or stand up. You know my thoughts even when I'm far away.... I can never escape from your Spirit! I can never get away from your presence!

The greater your troubles, the farther away God sometimes seems. In your darkest hour, you may feel that God has left you. In times like this, when it seems as if God is absent, don't trust your feelings; trust God's promise that he will never leave you. Rely on what the Bible tells you is true, not on what your feelings are telling you.

ISAIAH 59:1-2 | Listen! The Lord's arm is not too weak to save you, nor is his ear too deaf to hear you call. It's your sins that have cut you off from God.

When God seems far away, it may be because you have moved away from him, not because he has moved away from you. Some times there might be a sin you are not willing to let go of that causes you to feel cut off from God and miss the joy of friendship with him. Is there some sin that is keeping you from moving toward God? Tear down the wall of sin by confessing it to God, and you will find him on the other side.

Promise from God MATTHEW 28:20 | [Jesus said,] "Be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age."

ABSOLUTES

There seems to be so many gray areas when it comes to right and wrong. How can I tell what is really right?

EXODUS 20:1 | God gave the people all these instructions.

JOHN 14:15 | [Jesus said,] "If you love me, obey my commandments."

God has given you his Word, the Bible, which clearly tells you the things that are absolutely right...