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Armed and Dangerous Graduate's Edition
This book of Bible promises for teens is the ultimate graduation book. It gives God's perspective on a variety of issues and concerns that will arm your teenager with the truth.
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First published January 1, 1991
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Jorge Luis Borges
1,601 books14.5k followersJorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known works, Ficciones (transl. Fictions) and El Aleph (transl. The Aleph), published in the 1940s, are collections of short stories exploring motifs such as dreams, labyrinths, chance, infinity, archives, mirrors, fictional writers and mythology. Borges's works have contributed to philosophical literature and the fantasy genre, and have had a major influence on the magic realist movement in 20th century Latin American literature.
Born in Buenos Aires, Borges later moved with his family to Switzerland in 1914, where he studied at the Collège de Genève. The family travelled widely in Europe, including Spain. On his return to Argentina in 1921, Borges began publishing his poems and essays in surrealist literary journals. He also worked as a librarian and public lecturer. In 1955, he was appointed director of the National Public Library and professor of English Literature at the University of Buenos Aires. He became completely blind by the age of 55. Scholars have suggested that his progressive blindness helped him to create innovative literary symbols through imagination. By the 1960s, his work was translated and published widely in the United States and Europe. Borges himself was fluent in several languages.
In 1961, he came to international attention when he received the first Formentor Prize, which he shared with Samuel Beckett. In 1971, he won the Jerusalem Prize. His international reputation was consolidated in the 1960s, aided by the growing number of English translations, the Latin American Boom, and by the success of Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. He dedicated his final work, The Conspirators, to the city of Geneva, Switzerland. Writer and essayist J.M. Coetzee said of him: "He, more than anyone, renovated the language of fiction and thus opened the way to a remarkable generation of Spanish-American novelists."
Born in Buenos Aires, Borges later moved with his family to Switzerland in 1914, where he studied at the Collège de Genève. The family travelled widely in Europe, including Spain. On his return to Argentina in 1921, Borges began publishing his poems and essays in surrealist literary journals. He also worked as a librarian and public lecturer. In 1955, he was appointed director of the National Public Library and professor of English Literature at the University of Buenos Aires. He became completely blind by the age of 55. Scholars have suggested that his progressive blindness helped him to create innovative literary symbols through imagination. By the 1960s, his work was translated and published widely in the United States and Europe. Borges himself was fluent in several languages.
In 1961, he came to international attention when he received the first Formentor Prize, which he shared with Samuel Beckett. In 1971, he won the Jerusalem Prize. His international reputation was consolidated in the 1960s, aided by the growing number of English translations, the Latin American Boom, and by the success of Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. He dedicated his final work, The Conspirators, to the city of Geneva, Switzerland. Writer and essayist J.M. Coetzee said of him: "He, more than anyone, renovated the language of fiction and thus opened the way to a remarkable generation of Spanish-American novelists."
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August 10, 2025
Growing up as a child in Southern California and watching the Buffalo Bills (among other NFL teams) on TV from 1990 to 1997 on regional broadcasts from the networks of ABC, NBC, CBS, and ESPN helped give me some serious and deep knowledge of the career of Bills legendary quarterback Jim Kelly. So, when I decided one day in June 2025 to pick up 𝗔𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗱 & 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿𝗼𝘂𝘀 which is the autobiography of Kelly I knew what I was getting into.
𝗔𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗱 & 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿𝗼𝘂𝘀 is the autobiography of Kelly up until Super Bowl XXVI or the 1991 season. Kelly wrote this book to give Bills fans, NFL fans, and the media at the time (the book was published in 1992) a detailed look at how he became one of the best football players in the NFL from the late 1980s up until 1991. Within this book, I appreciated Kelly giving us readers an unbiased and nonpartisan analysis of his football career.
Kelly really gave Bills fans or just fans of his at the time just what they wanted in this book, which was game recaps (from his perspective) from the 1986 to 1991 Bills seasons, his thoughts on certain players that he played with on the Bills, the struggles and triumphs that he had as a football player in high school and college, and more. He even discussed how heartbreaking it was for him to lose Super Bowls XXV and XXVI, and it was refreshing for me to read his thoughts on losing those Super Bowls because he was on the front lines of both of them.
𝗔𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗱 & 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿𝗼𝘂𝘀 was true to its chronological/autobiographical basis. The book began with Kelly discussing his upbringing and then his football beginnings in East Brady, Pennsylvania. The book then moved on to his college career at Miami (Florida) where he described going from a nobody among the quarterback room to an NFL first round prospect in the 1982 season. Then he talked about his days as a prolific passer with the USFL'S Houston Gamblers from 1984 to 1985. And finally, he got to the part that all his fans were waiting for, the Bills part of his career which he started writing about in chapter 5 (Warming Up in Buffalo) on page 78. Then Kelly ended the book in chapter 11 (Picking Up the Pieces) where he discussed the 1992 Pro Bowl, his personal feelings on losing Super Bowl XXVI, and reflecting on his career up until the '91 season.
One of the most revealing items he discussed in this book took place on page 8. It was on that page where Kelly talked about his wanting to quit football at age 8 because he found the sport boring, but a crucial intervention and threat of body beating by his brothers convinced him to resume his football career. Thank God he listened to his brothers. When I read that I was like dang, I know a lot of future stars had humble beginnings with the sport in their Pop Warner and/or high school days, but I never heard of bodily harm from siblings convincing a football player to resume their playing careers.
In chapter 1 (The East Brady Bunch) I also found out that his move to quarterback in 1969 at the age of 9 improved his attitude and his outlook on football. And as they say, from 1969 and on the rest was history for Kelly. Man, chapter 1 was a trip for me to read because I found out how Kelly grew up and why he even cared about being a football player. Also, in that chapter I learned that it was his dad and his brothers (but mainly his dad) who set him on a path to football stardom. Maybe the best quote in the book came on page 11 of chapter 1 and it goes, "Everything my father did was with an eye toward the future." Jim's dad knew that he was his own and his family's golden ticket out of East Brady, so he worked with his son day and night to make sure that Division I college football and the NFL were in his son's future. When you have a brilliant or talented kid(s), it is your job as a parent to help cultivate, curate, and guide that kid(s) academic, athletic, musical, etc. pursuits and goals and Jim's did that. Good for them.
Chapter 1 was one of the better chapters in this book in my opinion, as that chapter revealed Jim's relationship with his father, how he interacted with his brothers and the fact that all of them played for East Brady High. I also found out that the high school that Jim attended no longer exists because of declining enrollment in the 1980s.
The book really started to pick up or stimulate my interest when I got to chapter 2 (From a Blizzard to a Hurricane) where Kelly started discussing his Miami Hurricane football career. It was in that chapter where he talked about two things that could have made him transfer out of Miami to Tennessee or some other Division I school. First of all, the head coach who recruited him to Miami, Lou Saban, ran a veer or running game-based offense in 1978 (Kelly's true freshman season at Miami) when he thought they were going to run a Pro-Style offense (passing game based, and that was the offense Saban said he was going to run when he recruited Kelly). Then after the 1978 season Saban left Miami for the University of Army to be their head coach. Saban's leaving Miami after the '78 season ended up being a blessing in disguise as the new head coach Howard Schnellenberger ended up being one of the most influential people in Kelly's football career. And you guessed it, Kelly made sure to write about Schnellenberger's influence in his career from 1979 to 1982.
In Chapter 4 (Running, Shooting, and Making History) Kelly did one of the best things he could have done for this book and for fans' knowledge of the game. The Run n Shoot offense that the USFL's Houston Gamblers ran in the 1984 to 1985 period was fun to watch and full of big passing plays, 4,000 and 5,000 yard passing seasons by Kelly, lots of touchdowns and other exciting events, but Kelly knew better. In that chapter he talked about the beating that he took in that offense which included his getting sacked 111 times combined in the two seasons he played for the Gamblers. Thank God when he got to the Bills he had running backs, tight ends, and better offensive linemen blocking for him. He also revealed on page 77 of that chapter that he would have stayed with the USFL as long as it existed, which means that he may have never played for the Bills or the NFL period if that league (USFL) hadn't ended after the 1985 season. That could have been just speculative talk when he was writing this book, but you never know. But I have a hard time believing that Kelly would have played in the USFL for the rest of his pro playing career with the NFL on the horizon, and him knowing that he was an NFL caliber quarterback in every sense.
In essence, 𝗔𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗱 & 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿𝗼𝘂𝘀 was revealing, it had humor, it was candid, objective, and it was a necessary read for fans of Jim Kelly and the Bills during the period in which it was written.
Pros of 𝗔𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗱 & 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿𝗼𝘂𝘀: I really appreciated the 1986 to 1991 Bills recaps that Kelly wrote because they set the scene of those seasons of how he felt about those games and those seasons as a whole. I also liked how Jim expressed in many parts of the book his love for his family as well as how supportive they were of him and his athletic and business pursuits. I also appreciated how Kelly read the room so to speak, meaning that most of this book was about football. He knew very well what the target audiences were for this book which were Bills fans and NFL fans.
Cons of 𝗔𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗱 & 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿𝗼𝘂𝘀: I would have liked for Kelly to reveal some background stories or secrets (that were approved of course by those teammates) about his Bills teammates from 1986 to 1991 that me and other NFL fans, Bills fans, and the media didn't know about. I understand this was Kelly's autobiography, but no background stories or secrets on linebackers Darryl Talley, Shane Conlan, or Ray Bentley or fullback Jamie Mueller, wide receiver and special teams star Steve Tasker, and others? Come on Jim.
In closing, 𝗔𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗱 & 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿𝗼𝘂𝘀 was a revealing and informational book on the career of Bills Hall of Fame quarterback Jim Kelly. I learned a lot about that man from reading this book, plus, the book makes me appreciate his football career even more. The book is old as heck (published in 1992) but much of its contents which includes family values, football strategy and concepts, and the appreciation for how good the Bills were during the 1988 to 1991 period still stand up 33-years later. I would recommend this book to any Buffalo Bills fan and any NFL fan who loves the history of that league.
𝗔𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗱 & 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿𝗼𝘂𝘀 is the autobiography of Kelly up until Super Bowl XXVI or the 1991 season. Kelly wrote this book to give Bills fans, NFL fans, and the media at the time (the book was published in 1992) a detailed look at how he became one of the best football players in the NFL from the late 1980s up until 1991. Within this book, I appreciated Kelly giving us readers an unbiased and nonpartisan analysis of his football career.
Kelly really gave Bills fans or just fans of his at the time just what they wanted in this book, which was game recaps (from his perspective) from the 1986 to 1991 Bills seasons, his thoughts on certain players that he played with on the Bills, the struggles and triumphs that he had as a football player in high school and college, and more. He even discussed how heartbreaking it was for him to lose Super Bowls XXV and XXVI, and it was refreshing for me to read his thoughts on losing those Super Bowls because he was on the front lines of both of them.
𝗔𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗱 & 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿𝗼𝘂𝘀 was true to its chronological/autobiographical basis. The book began with Kelly discussing his upbringing and then his football beginnings in East Brady, Pennsylvania. The book then moved on to his college career at Miami (Florida) where he described going from a nobody among the quarterback room to an NFL first round prospect in the 1982 season. Then he talked about his days as a prolific passer with the USFL'S Houston Gamblers from 1984 to 1985. And finally, he got to the part that all his fans were waiting for, the Bills part of his career which he started writing about in chapter 5 (Warming Up in Buffalo) on page 78. Then Kelly ended the book in chapter 11 (Picking Up the Pieces) where he discussed the 1992 Pro Bowl, his personal feelings on losing Super Bowl XXVI, and reflecting on his career up until the '91 season.
One of the most revealing items he discussed in this book took place on page 8. It was on that page where Kelly talked about his wanting to quit football at age 8 because he found the sport boring, but a crucial intervention and threat of body beating by his brothers convinced him to resume his football career. Thank God he listened to his brothers. When I read that I was like dang, I know a lot of future stars had humble beginnings with the sport in their Pop Warner and/or high school days, but I never heard of bodily harm from siblings convincing a football player to resume their playing careers.
In chapter 1 (The East Brady Bunch) I also found out that his move to quarterback in 1969 at the age of 9 improved his attitude and his outlook on football. And as they say, from 1969 and on the rest was history for Kelly. Man, chapter 1 was a trip for me to read because I found out how Kelly grew up and why he even cared about being a football player. Also, in that chapter I learned that it was his dad and his brothers (but mainly his dad) who set him on a path to football stardom. Maybe the best quote in the book came on page 11 of chapter 1 and it goes, "Everything my father did was with an eye toward the future." Jim's dad knew that he was his own and his family's golden ticket out of East Brady, so he worked with his son day and night to make sure that Division I college football and the NFL were in his son's future. When you have a brilliant or talented kid(s), it is your job as a parent to help cultivate, curate, and guide that kid(s) academic, athletic, musical, etc. pursuits and goals and Jim's did that. Good for them.
Chapter 1 was one of the better chapters in this book in my opinion, as that chapter revealed Jim's relationship with his father, how he interacted with his brothers and the fact that all of them played for East Brady High. I also found out that the high school that Jim attended no longer exists because of declining enrollment in the 1980s.
The book really started to pick up or stimulate my interest when I got to chapter 2 (From a Blizzard to a Hurricane) where Kelly started discussing his Miami Hurricane football career. It was in that chapter where he talked about two things that could have made him transfer out of Miami to Tennessee or some other Division I school. First of all, the head coach who recruited him to Miami, Lou Saban, ran a veer or running game-based offense in 1978 (Kelly's true freshman season at Miami) when he thought they were going to run a Pro-Style offense (passing game based, and that was the offense Saban said he was going to run when he recruited Kelly). Then after the 1978 season Saban left Miami for the University of Army to be their head coach. Saban's leaving Miami after the '78 season ended up being a blessing in disguise as the new head coach Howard Schnellenberger ended up being one of the most influential people in Kelly's football career. And you guessed it, Kelly made sure to write about Schnellenberger's influence in his career from 1979 to 1982.
In Chapter 4 (Running, Shooting, and Making History) Kelly did one of the best things he could have done for this book and for fans' knowledge of the game. The Run n Shoot offense that the USFL's Houston Gamblers ran in the 1984 to 1985 period was fun to watch and full of big passing plays, 4,000 and 5,000 yard passing seasons by Kelly, lots of touchdowns and other exciting events, but Kelly knew better. In that chapter he talked about the beating that he took in that offense which included his getting sacked 111 times combined in the two seasons he played for the Gamblers. Thank God when he got to the Bills he had running backs, tight ends, and better offensive linemen blocking for him. He also revealed on page 77 of that chapter that he would have stayed with the USFL as long as it existed, which means that he may have never played for the Bills or the NFL period if that league (USFL) hadn't ended after the 1985 season. That could have been just speculative talk when he was writing this book, but you never know. But I have a hard time believing that Kelly would have played in the USFL for the rest of his pro playing career with the NFL on the horizon, and him knowing that he was an NFL caliber quarterback in every sense.
In essence, 𝗔𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗱 & 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿𝗼𝘂𝘀 was revealing, it had humor, it was candid, objective, and it was a necessary read for fans of Jim Kelly and the Bills during the period in which it was written.
Pros of 𝗔𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗱 & 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿𝗼𝘂𝘀: I really appreciated the 1986 to 1991 Bills recaps that Kelly wrote because they set the scene of those seasons of how he felt about those games and those seasons as a whole. I also liked how Jim expressed in many parts of the book his love for his family as well as how supportive they were of him and his athletic and business pursuits. I also appreciated how Kelly read the room so to speak, meaning that most of this book was about football. He knew very well what the target audiences were for this book which were Bills fans and NFL fans.
Cons of 𝗔𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗱 & 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿𝗼𝘂𝘀: I would have liked for Kelly to reveal some background stories or secrets (that were approved of course by those teammates) about his Bills teammates from 1986 to 1991 that me and other NFL fans, Bills fans, and the media didn't know about. I understand this was Kelly's autobiography, but no background stories or secrets on linebackers Darryl Talley, Shane Conlan, or Ray Bentley or fullback Jamie Mueller, wide receiver and special teams star Steve Tasker, and others? Come on Jim.
In closing, 𝗔𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗱 & 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿𝗼𝘂𝘀 was a revealing and informational book on the career of Bills Hall of Fame quarterback Jim Kelly. I learned a lot about that man from reading this book, plus, the book makes me appreciate his football career even more. The book is old as heck (published in 1992) but much of its contents which includes family values, football strategy and concepts, and the appreciation for how good the Bills were during the 1988 to 1991 period still stand up 33-years later. I would recommend this book to any Buffalo Bills fan and any NFL fan who loves the history of that league.
October 11, 2014
A useful reference of Bible verses by topic. Verses from KJV and NIV.
I’ve grouped some topics by similarity in my notes below.
Anxiety, depression, discouragement
1 Pet 5:6, 7
Is 26:3
Prov 3:5, 6
Matt 6:25, 31-34
Ps 55:22
Phil 4:6-7
1 John 4:4
2 Cor 4:8, 14
Gal 6:9
1 Kings 19:9-18
Ps 73:3, 13-14
Envy, discontent
Prov 23:17, 18
Luke 12:15
Heb 13:5
Phil 4:12, 13
Persecution
Matt 5:10-12
Matt 10:22
John 15:20
Rom 12:14
2 Tim 3:12
1 Cor 4:12, 13
Ps 27:1
Is 41:10
Heb 13:5, 6
Luke 12:4, 5
Witnessing
Rom 1:16
Money
Ps 37:16
1 Tim 6:17
Phil 4:19
Prov 15:16
Prov 11:28
Phil 4:11, 12
Heb 13:5
Adultery
Luke 16:18
Mark 10:12
Homosexuality
1 Cor 6:9, 10
Lev 18:22
Lev 20:13
Rom 1:24-27, 32
Divorce
Deut 22:19
Matt 19:8, 9
Mal 2:16
Matt 5:31, 32
Mark 10:11, 12
1 Cor 7:10, 11
I’ve grouped some topics by similarity in my notes below.
Anxiety, depression, discouragement
1 Pet 5:6, 7
Is 26:3
Prov 3:5, 6
Matt 6:25, 31-34
Ps 55:22
Phil 4:6-7
1 John 4:4
2 Cor 4:8, 14
Gal 6:9
1 Kings 19:9-18
Ps 73:3, 13-14
Envy, discontent
Prov 23:17, 18
Luke 12:15
Heb 13:5
Phil 4:12, 13
Persecution
Matt 5:10-12
Matt 10:22
John 15:20
Rom 12:14
2 Tim 3:12
1 Cor 4:12, 13
Ps 27:1
Is 41:10
Heb 13:5, 6
Luke 12:4, 5
Witnessing
Rom 1:16
Money
Ps 37:16
1 Tim 6:17
Phil 4:19
Prov 15:16
Prov 11:28
Phil 4:11, 12
Heb 13:5
Adultery
Luke 16:18
Mark 10:12
Homosexuality
1 Cor 6:9, 10
Lev 18:22
Lev 20:13
Rom 1:24-27, 32
Divorce
Deut 22:19
Matt 19:8, 9
Mal 2:16
Matt 5:31, 32
Mark 10:11, 12
1 Cor 7:10, 11
March 16, 2010
This book is handy and answers questions that you might have on certain topics from a Biblical perspective. Armed and Dangerous consists of a list of subjects. Each subject has its own applicable list of scriptures that address the topic. Some topics include: Abuse, adultery, anger, beauty, baptism, confidence, courage, dating, death, enemies, fear, gossip, homosexuality, hypocrisy, incest, loneliness, lust, marriage, miracles, obedience, patience, prayer, revenge, sexual immorality, shame, thought, trouble, war, God's will, worship, etc.
February 5, 2008
I just started reading it so I really havent learned anything from it yet.
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August 26, 2015
i really enjoyed thai book! its an awesome reference book
March 22, 2016
I bought this for my teenage son and he loved it... I borrow it sometimes because it is THAT good!
September 8, 2009
Okay biography; however, this was early in Jim Kelly’s career and I think a biography after his long career in professional football would’ve been a better read.
This early biography contains no substance (personal history, family history); anecdotes; no stats, etc. I believe he overstated his success and brags about ethnics, which, he doesn’t adhere to later in his life. It became fact later that he lived with his current wife before marriage and had a child out of wedlock. Not that I would hold this against someone; however, don’t state you live one way and walk a different talk later. I found this biography an overall waste of my valuable time.
This early biography contains no substance (personal history, family history); anecdotes; no stats, etc. I believe he overstated his success and brags about ethnics, which, he doesn’t adhere to later in his life. It became fact later that he lived with his current wife before marriage and had a child out of wedlock. Not that I would hold this against someone; however, don’t state you live one way and walk a different talk later. I found this biography an overall waste of my valuable time.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
August 26, 2019
This is a great book to use when you just want to go directly to a subject that you want to just speak on instead of having to search through your Bible for the book and verse. I got this book about a year and 1/2 ago. I am still using it. My Pastor suggested it to us.
June 19, 2022
Really enjoyed recounting the history of the Buffalo Bills trip to the super bowl through Jim Kelly's eyes.
November 13, 2023
Get this book. It really has down to earth straight to scripture quotes. Very inspirational! My go to on the scriptures because it has the scriptures you are looking for.
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