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"Rick Horne knows from life experience how to do what seems impossible—how to connect with teens. If you care about teenagers, if you work with teens, if you live with a teen, this book will help you reach their hearts."
- David Powlison, Adjunct Professor of Practical Theology, Westminster Theological Seminary
Publisher's Description: Get Outta My Face!, written for Christian parents, teachers, and youth workers, is about reaching angry, unmotivated, disinterested teens with biblical counsel. Such teens confused and insecure - are selfish; they want what they want, right now. They are corrupted by sin and this corruption is the cause of their problem. Despite all their sin problems, they are still made in the image of God, and this is the key to helping them. This book will help with addressing the teen's sin and bringing them to their God-given desires and godly actions. Far from dismissing or sugarcoating sin, this approach opens wide the door to evangelizing the unsaved teen and to helping the Christian teen grow in holiness and wisdom.
Author Information: Rick Horne, D.Min., serves the Lord as head of the guidance department at Delaware County Christian School in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, and directs the school counseling concentration for the Master of Education in Curriculum and Instruction at Columbia International University.
192 pages Published January 2009
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Read a review at the Biblical Counseling Coalition - Get Outta My Face!.
"Rick Horne has invested in teens his whole life. He has learned that he is more like them than unlike them. From years of first hand experience, he knows how to talk with them and his is not afraid of the tough ones. What you will read here is the wisdom of a man who has experienced the courage and hope that transforming grace can give to you and that hard teenager God has chosen for you to be near. This book is a call to action with biblical perspectives and practical steps that God can use to change the teenager and you as well."
- Paul David Tripp, Paul Tripp Ministries and author of Age of Opportunity: A Biblical Guide to Parenting Teens
"Rick Horne knows teens—the kind that won't talk and those that won't stop talking. If you have a teenager, you need this book. In fact, don't wait for the teen years! Arm yourself now with the timeless truths from this book that counsels moms and dads with gospel-hope for teenage trials."
- Dave Harvey, Sovereign Grace Ministries and author of When Sinners Say "I Do"
"I can't say if it's because I'm a professional youth worker or if it's because I'm not a professional counselor - maybe it's all of the above - but, what I can say is that I found this book, Get Outta My Face, to be especially helpful. I've known Rick Horne and his ministry for a long time, and this book really demonstrates the values that give his counseling ministry such integrity. First of all, he's down-to-earth and practical. Secondly, he knows real, live teenagers with real world issues. He's not afraid to bump against the "messiness" of authentic relationships - whether those relationships are parent to child, youth worker to student or student to teacher. And, most of all, Rick treasures the wisdom that comes to us in God's Word. He understands it to be more than just platitude and "niceness", kind of a watered down Mr Rogers Goes to the Holy Land. The four process features of his Wisdom-Framed, Solutions-Initiated Youth Counseling (SI Counseling) offer parents, teachers, counselors and youth workers an excellent resource for dealing with some of the hard issues we have to reckon with if we really love our kids."
- Duffy Robbins, Professor of Youth Ministry, Eastern University, St. David's, PA
"Get Outta My Face journeys beyond the clash of teen's desires for respect, privileges, freedom and "being treated better than they deserve" with the harsh realities of personal responsibilities under others' authority. Drawing upon the lessons from the Biblical book of Proverbs, Dr. Horne teaches to gently come alongside teenagers, jointly uncovering what they don't want, and formulating wise solutions they will desire to embrace. In this way students confront themselves and, with a mature mentor, engage to responsibly change self-destructive (or self-deluding) behavior.
Over the last ten years I have admired the way Rick and Betty Horne have applied these truths in their own family (through some tempestuous years) as well as at the school and am grateful Rick has codified them for our instruction and the sake of the next generation."
- Carroll Wynne, Family Ministries Pastor, Tenth Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia
"How do you reach someone who wants to be unreachable? How do you help someone who's not looking for help? Those are questions Rick Horne addresses and addresses well. He knows from life experience how to do what seems impossible—how to connect with teens. If you care about teenagers, if you work with teens, if you live with a teen, this book will help you reach their hearts."
- David Powlison, Adjunct Professor of Practical Theology, Westminster Theological Seminary
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