ACT & College Preparation Course for the Christian StudentYour ACT score is key in determining college scholarships and admissions. Prepare to excel with The ACT & College Preparation Course for the Christian Student, written by James P. Stobaugh, an experienced ACT/SAT grader, graduate of Harvard and Rutgers, as well as Princeton & Gordon Conwell seminaries. With these 50 devotion-based lessons, Stobaugh expects "Christian students should score 4 5 points higher on the exam." Whether used over the course of a year or in 50 days, high school teens will: Master stress reduction techniques and test-taking skills Complete exercises designed to hone their English, Mathematics, Reading, and Science skills Improve reading skills, vocabulary development, and comprehension Strengthen essay skills for the optional writing portion of the exam Develop and strengthen their faith in God and the authority of His Word. This course also offers a free downloadable workbook available at nlpg.com/ACTwkbk. |
Contents
Introduction
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Lesson 1 The Loss of Transcendence
| 15 |
Lesson 2 The Way the Truth and The Life
| 19 |
Lesson 3 What is Truth?
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Lesson 4 Finish the Race
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Lesson 5 I Cant Think
| 33 |
Lesson 6 Masters of Disguise
| 37 |
Lesson 7 Crossing the Creepy Line
| 44 |
Lesson 30 Jeremiah
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Lesson 31 Read a Good Book
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Lesson 32 Peanut Butter and Jelly
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Lesson 33 Making Do
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Lesson 34 Humans Cannot Bear Much Reality
| 180 |
Lesson 35 What is Love?
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Lesson 36 The Anointed Elite
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Lesson 37 Home
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A Different Kind of Hero
| 50 |
Lesson 9 Pretending
| 55 |
Lesson 10 Bokononism
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Lesson 11 Moral Man and Immoral Society
| 65 |
Lesson 12 Under My Bed
| 69 |
Lesson 13 The Evangelical Revolution Part I
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Lesson 14 The Evangelical Revolution Part II
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Lesson 15 HO HO HO
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Lesson 16 Prophetic Imagination
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Lesson 17 Modernism
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Lesson 18 Home
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Lesson 19 History
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Lesson 20 James Jesse Bayne
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Lesson 21 Uncle Roy
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Lesson 22 Redolent Gardens
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Lesson 23 Man and Beast
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Lesson 24 Divine Contradiction
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Lesson 25 Convenient Delusions
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Lesson 26 The Iconoclast
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Lesson 27 A Gathered Inheritance
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Lesson 28 Rewriting History
| 151 |
Lesson 29 Daddy
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Lesson 38 An Excuse to be Redeemed
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Lesson 39 Elevators
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Lesson 40 A New Creation
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Lesson 41 Toleration
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Lesson 42 The Cry of Modern Man
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Lesson 43 The Stranger
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Lesson 44 Is There Anything Else?
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Lesson 45 Life Like a Dream Is Lived Alone
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Lesson 46 The Closing of the American Mind
| 240 |
Lesson 47 A Parable
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Lesson 48 Fires of Life
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Lesson 49 Philosophy
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Lesson 50 Honey Bunny
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Endnotes
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Answers
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Appendix A Vocabulary Helps
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Appendix B Book List
| 300 |
Appendix C Reading Journal
| 321 |
Appendix D Devotional Journal
| 322 |
Appendix E Greek Morphemes Index
| 323 |
Appendix F Latin Morphemes Index
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Common terms and phrases
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