Loading…

This Changes Everything: How the Gospel Transforms the Teen Years is unavailable, but you can change that!

My name is Jaquelle, and I'm a teenager. I like football movies, sushi, and dark chocolate. But the biggest, most crucial, most significant thing about me is that my life's task is to follow Jesus. He is the One who changed my life. That's what this book is about. It's for teenagers eager to reject the status quo and low standards our culture sets for us. It's for those of us who don't want to...

First, because it shows us that sin is very bad but grace is better. Because of sin, everybody after Adam and Eve is born imperfect. We’re instinctively broken and depraved rebels against God (Rom. 3:9–12). It sounds harsh, but it’s true. Nobody’s born loving God. Instead, our natural inclination is to hate him. The gospel is only good news because there’s bad news. That terrible news is that sin is real, and we are sinners. The punishment for our sin is death (Rom. 6:23). We rebelled against an