Dating Differently


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We're bombarded with antichristian messages everywhere in life, and from casual hookups to casual sex, our culture's messages on dating are no different.But Christians don't have to follow these norms. The Bible gives us a better way.It's a way of chastity and wisdom. A way that understands that marriage-the end goal of dating-is for life. The person you marry will shape who you become spiritually. And that person will also be the father or mother to the children God is pleased to give you some day.Pastorally and accessibly, Joshua Engelsma answers the practical questions of Reformed, Christian dating based on the truth that we must date differently-with marriage as the goal and scripture as the guide.




Dating Differently


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All women can be successful in love, once learning the skills. If you're a single woman who is frustrated with dating, the answer is Dating Differently! America's divorce rate is increasing, largely because of our present dating process. It has no guidelines, making it confusing and ineffective. Author and dating coach Christine Liska has used the results of her dating survey, along with thirty years of research and work with singles, to help her develop this unique set of principles. Now you have helpful guidelines for greater success. Create your personal Man Plan, Search Plan and Dating Action Plan. Learn how to progress through the five stages of dating. Understand how men think, using it to produce a win-win relationship. Pace your sex, since sex doesn't mean "All or nothing." Evaluate your date, saving time and emotions. Learn how to have all three types of love. Stop giving too much too soon, pacing your giving. Use suggested guidelines for greater success. You will find it much easier to find, meet, date and keep the man of your dreams! Make the change and start Dating Differently. "Dating Differently covers a wide range of dating issues and is overflowing with invaluable, life changing guidelines. I am recommending this book to all my single friends and clients." -Karen Card, Certified Mars/Venus Relationship Coach




Daring to Date Differently


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In a world full of messages promoting the hook-up culture, “living your best life”, and instant gratification fueled by the mantra that “you only live once”, Christian young adults can struggle with glorifying God in their dating lives. Daring to Date Differently, aims to provide readers with Biblically-based truths written in love about the realities of dating in a world that never ceases to try to lure Christians into settling for less than what God has for them. This book also guides readers in how to navigate the dating world in a way that glorifies God through careful consideration of scriptures, discussions on popular topics relevant to dating, and a section for reflection and application at the end of each chapter.




I Kissed Dating Goodbye


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Joshua Harris's first book, written when he was only 21, turned the Christian singles scene upside down...and people are still talking. More than 800,000 copies later, I Kissed Dating Goodbye, with its inspiring call to sincere love, real purity, and purposeful singleness, remains the benchmark for books on Christian dating. Now, for the first time since its release, the national #1 bestseller has been expanded with new content and updated for new readers. Honest and practical, it challenges cultural assumptions about relationships and provides solid, biblical alternatives to society's norm.Clear, stylish typeset, with user-friendly links to referenced Scripture.




Love Me Differently


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What if happily ever after starts with a broken heart? For Lacey Graham, this reality was way too real. When her plan to surprise her fiance; results in heartbreak, Lacey's only option is to reset her mind and her life. Landing in San Francisco, Lacey befriends an interesting co-worker, and is coaxed into joining an online dating site so that she can get back into the game. Though hesitant, Lacey once again puts her heart on the line and meets Kenneth; a man who is good with his hands and apparently Lacey's heart. Between passion-filled moments and tantalizing sensations, Lacey is convinced that Kenneth could be a wonderful complement to her new life. Yet nothing good comes easy. Just as Lacey is getting comfortable with the idea of being swept away in Kenneth's arms, a troublesome revelation rears its head. Someone is starting drama with the intent to destroy Lacey's new love. The only question is, how hard will she fight for what she has always wanted? Love Me Differently is an interracial romance with a guaranteed Happily Ever After! Formerly: San Francisco Love




Dataclysm


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A New York Times Bestseller An audacious, irreverent investigation of human behavior—and a first look at a revolution in the making Our personal data has been used to spy on us, hire and fire us, and sell us stuff we don’t need. In Dataclysm, Christian Rudder uses it to show us who we truly are. For centuries, we’ve relied on polling or small-scale lab experiments to study human behavior. Today, a new approach is possible. As we live more of our lives online, researchers can finally observe us directly, in vast numbers, and without filters. Data scientists have become the new demographers. In this daring and original book, Rudder explains how Facebook "likes" can predict, with surprising accuracy, a person’s sexual orientation and even intelligence; how attractive women receive exponentially more interview requests; and why you must have haters to be hot. He charts the rise and fall of America’s most reviled word through Google Search and examines the new dynamics of collaborative rage on Twitter. He shows how people express themselves, both privately and publicly. What is the least Asian thing you can say? Do people bathe more in Vermont or New Jersey? What do black women think about Simon & Garfunkel? (Hint: they don’t think about Simon & Garfunkel.) Rudder also traces human migration over time, showing how groups of people move from certain small towns to the same big cities across the globe. And he grapples with the challenge of maintaining privacy in a world where these explorations are possible. Visually arresting and full of wit and insight, Dataclysm is a new way of seeing ourselves—a brilliant alchemy, in which math is made human and numbers become the narrative of our time.




Date Like A Woman


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This is the dating book Millennial women have been waiting for. It offers a fresh non-sexist perspective on dating and gives women the strategies they need for dating success. This book will revolutionize dating for women everywhere.




All This Could Be Different


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2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST ONE OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES' TOP 5 FICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR ONE OF TIME AND SLATE'S TOP 10 BOOKS OF THE YEAR Named one of the BEST BOOKS OF 2022 by NPR, Vogue, Vulture, BuzzFeed, Harper's Bazaar, and more “One of the buzziest, most human novels of the year…breathless, dizzying, and completely beautiful.” —Vogue “Dazzling and wholly original...[written] with such mordant wit, insight, and specificity, it feels like watching a new literary star being born in real time.” —Entertainment Weekly From a brilliant new voice comes an electrifying novel of a young immigrant building a life for herself—a warm, dazzling, and profound saga of queer love, friendship, work, and precarity in twenty-first century America Graduating into the long maw of an American recession, Sneha is one of the fortunate ones. She’s moved to Milwaukee for an entry-level corporate job that, grueling as it may be, is the key that unlocks every door: she can pick up the tab at dinner with her new friend Tig, get her college buddy Thom hired alongside her, and send money to her parents back in India. She begins dating women—soon developing a burning crush on Marina, a beguiling and beautiful dancer who always seems just out of reach. But before long, trouble arrives. Painful secrets rear their heads; jobs go off the rails; evictions loom. Sneha struggles to be truly close and open with anybody, even as her friendships deepen, even as she throws herself headlong into a dizzying romance with Marina. It’s then that Tig begins to draw up a radical solution to their problems, hoping to save them all. A beautiful and capacious novel rendered in singular, unforgettable prose, All This Could Be Different is a wise, tender, and riveting group portrait of young people forging love and community amidst struggle, and a moving story of one immigrant’s journey to make her home in the world.




Dare to Date Differently


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Advice for daring to date within Christian boundaries. Includes discussion questions.




40 Days of Dating


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“What would happen if Harry met Sally in the age of Tinder and Snapchat? . . . A field guide to Millennial dating in New York City” (New York Daily News). When New York–based graphic designers and long-time friends Timothy Goodman and Jessica Walsh found themselves single at the same time, they decided to try an experiment. The old adage says that it takes forty days to change a habit—could the same be said for love? So they agreed to date each other for forty days, record their experiences in questionnaires, photographs, videos, texts, and artworks, and post the material on a website they would create for this purpose. What began as a small experiment between two friends became an Internet sensation, drawing five million unique (and obsessed) visitors from around the globe to their site and their story. 40 Days of Dating: An Experiment is a beautifully designed, expanded look at the experiment and the results, including a great deal of material that never made it onto the site, such as who they were as friends and individuals before the forty days and who they have become since.