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Navigating the Teen Years One Essential Conversation at a Time · Equips parents with the grace and biblical tools they need to handle tough questions and awkward conversations· Encourages parents and teens to maintain open communication and not shy away from hard topics· Helps build trust that lasts a lifetimeThere are things we absolutely need to talk to our teens about, but what we say, how we say it, and when we say it make all the difference between helping them embrace truth and become the person God designed them to be--or driving them away. Will they listen? How will they take it? These are legitimate worries that can keep us from saying anything--or have us second-guessing everything we did say.What to Say and How to Say It to Your Teen is your field manual to clear, compassionate communication with the son or daughter who no longer thinks you have all the answers--even though they have more questions than ever, like· Why can't I have my phone in my room at night? · Why do I have to go to church? · How can God allow bad things to happen?· What can I do about the anxiety or depression I'm feeling?· Why can't I just date for fun?· Why do I have to get a job?· Why does it matter who I hang out with? From shifting views on gender to questioning faith to struggling with honesty or respect or porn, the teen years are tough. They're also some of the most important years for you to offer guidance. This book will help you handle 30 of the trickiest conversations you need to have with your teen.

Navigating manhood comes with questions. God's Word has the answers.The questions guys have about manhood may be new, but it turns out that the greatest secrets to staying on the right road have always been found in the Bible. ';Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls' (Jeremiah 6:16). Tim and Mark Shoemaker look to Scriptureand weave in years of experience working with students and young mento bring answers. They'll hit topics like Manhood, Dating, Spiritual Life, Five Things Every Christian Young Man Needs, Technology, Porn, Emotions, and more.In this book, you'll discover God's design and purpose for your lifeand find answers to tough questions, like:How is God's purpose for manhood different from culture? Is masculinity toxic?Is it essential to go to church? Can I just listen online? If there's one thing I really need to know about dating, what is it?How far can my girlfriend and I go physically?What do I do with my phone addiction? Can I overcome my fears? Male and female. Is it possible for identity to be fluidor to change? How do I stop going back to porn? How do I make sure I'm making the right decisions?My spiritual life is dry. How do I escape the desert?These questions and over 50 more are answered in this biblical guidebook. Join this father-and-son team on a journey to discovering how to become the man God designed you to be.This book makes an excellent gift for the young men in your life.

We define enumerative invariants associated to a hybrid Gauged Linear Sigma Model. We prove that in the relevant special cases these invariants recover both the Gromov-Witten type invariants defined by Chang-Li and Fan-Jarvis-Ruan using cosection localization as well as the FJRW type invariants constructed by Polishchuk-Vaintrob. The invariants are defined by constructing a "fundamental factorization" supported on the moduli space of Landau-Ginzburg maps to a convex hybrid model. This gives the kernel of a Fourier-Mukai transform; the associated map on Hochschild homology defines our theory.