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    Wisdom On ... Making Good Decisions
    Wisdom On ... Making Good Decisions
    Wisdom On ... Making Good Decisions
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    Wisdom On ... Making Good Decisions

    By Mark Matlock

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    In the Wisdom On … series, you’ll find case studies, personal inventories, interactive activities, and helpful insights from the book of Proverbs, which will show you what wise living looks like.Wisdom On … Friends, Dating, and Relationships shows how wisdom plays a part in nearly every decision we make. In this book students will learn how to gain more wisdom and apply it to every aspect of their relationships—from being a good friend to dating relationships to handling conflict. They’ll find the stories and lessons in this book will help them become wise in their relationships.Wisdom On … Making Good Decisions examines how teens get to make a lot of decisions in their lives— even decisions that can have a big impact on their future. There’s no “magic” formula to getting it right. Making good decisions takes wisdom, and in this book students will learn how to gain more wisdom and put it to use in the choices they make.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZondervan
    Release dateAug 30, 2009
    ISBN9780310864820
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    Mark Matlock

    Mark Matlock has been working with youth pastors, students, and parents for more than two decades. He’s the Executive director of Youth Specialties and founder of WisdomWorks Ministries and PlanetWisdom. He’s the author of several books including The Wisdom On series, Living a Life That Matters, Don’t Buy the Lie, and Raising Wise Children. Mark lives in Texas with his wife, Jade, and their two teenage children.

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      Wisdom On ... Making Good Decisions - Mark Matlock

      0310279267_content_0003_001

      INVERT YOUTH SPECIALTIES

      WISDOM ON...MAKING GOOD DECISIONS

      Copyright 2008 by Mark Matlock

      All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of Zondervan.

      ePub Edition June 2009 ISBN: 0-310-86482-8

      Youth Specialties resources, 300 S. Pierce St., El Cajon, CA 92020 are published by Zondervan, 5300 Patterson Ave. SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49530.

      ISBN-13: 978-0-310-27926-6

      All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the Holy Bible: New International Version®. NIV®. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means — electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other — except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher.

      Web site addresses listed in this book were current at the time of publication. Please contact Youth Specialties via e-mail (YS@YouthSpecialties. com) to report URLs that are no longer operational and replacement URLs if available.

      Cover design by SharpSeven Design

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      DEDICATION

      This book is written for my son Dax, who will be starting middle school this year. I hope as you grow, you might read some of what your dad has written and learn from my pain.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      COVER PAGE

      TITLE PAGE

      COPYRIGHT

      CHAPTER 1: WALK OR RUN?

      CHAPTER 2: DECISIONS, DECISIONS

      CHAPTER 3: GOD’S PLANS FOR US

      CHAPTER 4: GOD’S MORAL STANDARDS AND YOU

      CHAPTER 5: USING WISDOM TO MAKE DECISIONS

      CHAPTER 6: FOUR HELPFUL PRINCIPLES FOR MAKING WISE CHOICES

      STEP 1: DON’T ACT IN HASTE

      STEP 2: GATHER INFORMATION

      STEP 3: EVALUATE YOUR MOTIVES

      STEP 4: SEEK GUIDANCE

      CHAPTER 7: PROJECTION: PUTTING IT INTO PRACTICE

      THREE ACCEPTANCE LETTERS

      A BAND BUS TRIP

      NO BCIS THIS FRIDAY

      AN EXPRESSION OF ART

      JUST MAKING OUT

      SLEEPING WITH HIS BEST FRIEND?

      TWO MIDTERMS ON FRIDAY

      FIVE-FINGER DISCOUNT

      LOST TRACK OF TIME

      ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

      SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      I’d like to thank my intern Jill Miller for helping put together the case studies at the end of this book. I’d like to thank Aaron Giesler and Chris Lyon for reading the manuscript and giving me feedback. I’d like to thank Randy Southern, my editor, who makes writing books easier for me and made this book more readable for everyone. I’d also like to thank Garry Friesen, whose book Decision Making and the Will of God brought much clarity to my study of Scripture regarding this subject.

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      CHAPTER 1

      WALK OR RUN?

      I’m not much of an athlete. Since I’m the oldest of four boys, you might assume I spent my days playing ball in the backyard with my brothers. But that wasn’t me. Other than a short stint with a local soccer program, I didn’t have much experience with major sports like baseball, basketball, or football when I was a kid.

      When I got to high school, it seemed like most guys were playing at least one sport, so I thought I should participate in one too. But I wanted something of the non-contact variety, so that left only golf and track. And since the seasons for those two sports ran concurrently, I had to choose between them.

      Golf was a game I’d never ventured to play outside of a miniature golf course. But I loved the idea of it, and I was pretty sure I’d enjoy the game. However, I was also a fairly fast runner; I thought I might excel in certain track and field events. Which to choose?

      I prayed about my decision, and I asked everyone I knew for advice. But when it came time to make the choice, my major influence was my PE coach. Of all the people I knew at that time in my life, I respected him the least. While I was in his class, he called me every name in the book; he even insulted my mother a few times. This man couldn’t comprehend how a 15-year-old boy had grown up without the least bit of knowledge as to how to play football. So he responded the only way he knew how: He

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