Prepare Your Kids for the Unique Challenges of Today’s World
👉 Get the devotional for parents, teens, and leaders from an experienced youth pastor Lucas Shipman. When you donate $25 or more, receive your copy covering topics including relationships, sex, social media, anxiety, and more.
About The Book
The greatest enemy to a teenager's soul is not outside them, but inside them.
Sinful desires and idolatry give birth to death, while following Jesus brings eternal joy in his presence.
Teenagers today are not being “argued” out of the church by anti-Christian philosophers. Their hearts are being captured by other stories and desires. Simply put, they are being influenced and persuaded to worship idols instead of Jesus. That is why we are seeing youth leave the church in record numbers.
This devotional is not a worldview or apologetics curriculum. Its intention is to address some of the most common idols young people struggle with daily.
To Parents and Teachers — I want to help you prepare your teenagers' hearts for whatever occurs in their lives. I want this devotional, with its daily questions and Biblical readings, to inspire real conversations to take place. My hope is the Gospel will speak to their hearts, sins will be confessed and repented of, and their newfound faith will lead to improved lives.
To Students — Humans were created to worship God, and striving to fill that need with other things – money, sex, popularity, religion, physical fitness and appearance, entertainment – will leave a hole in your heart that can never be satisfied. As we examine some of the more common things that people turn into idols, my hope is that you will come to understand at a young age that only your relationship with Jesus can provide true contentment and lead to eternal salvation. As you go through life, you will worship something. If not God, then you will constantly strive to find happiness in temporary things that turn into idols in your life. God wants you to have strong desires. He just wants them to be directed toward Him!
Receive your copy of the book when you donate $25 or more to support the children at Happy Hill Farm. I will send you a copy of the full book, with seventeen more chapters covering topics including relationships, sex, social media, anxiety, and more.
100% of the proceeds from this book go to support the children at Happy Hill Farm — a K-12 Private Christian School that for the last 50 years has changed the lives of high potential children coming from low opportunity situations.
Donate today to receive your copy of Jesus is Better — and help a child in need.
This book is so important for teens living in todays society. Lucas Shipman touches on different idols that are prevalent in our world and can become strongholds in our children's lives if not addressed. We are using this devotional book at our camp for fatherless young men.
With the increase in noise, information, distraction, and images in a digital age, walking in faith and growing in the Spirit can be difficult for today's teens. Shipman's Jesus is Better is a powerful reminder that Christianity is true and satisfying.