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Soul Survivor #1
The Mind Siege Project
Accompanied by six Bible studies and a CD featuring contemporary Christian artists, a narrative of at-risk teens tackles the issue of either choosing to live by the world's ideas or by God's wisdom. Original.
164 pages, Paperback
First published August 4, 2001
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Tim LaHaye
780 books2,292 followersTimothy "Tim" F. LaHaye was an American evangelical Christian minister, author, and speaker, best known for the Left Behind series of apocalyptic fiction, which he co-wrote with Jerry B. Jenkins.
He has written over 50 books, both fiction and non-fiction.
He has written over 50 books, both fiction and non-fiction.
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May 6, 2009
This call to arms is a great book about Christians engaging the dominant culture, filled with great examples of what it means to be the salt of the earth, seasoning things around you.
Most helpful may be the recommended reading listed in the appendix. The list of over 200 books contains some remarkable works that have not gotten the publicity they deserve.
Most helpful may be the recommended reading listed in the appendix. The list of over 200 books contains some remarkable works that have not gotten the publicity they deserve.
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October 30, 2020I think the characters are a bit too stereotyped -- the jock, the African-American and the Hispanics, the good Christian, the wavering Christian, the flirt...and they rarely upend those stereotypes. It also seems somehow too scripted, didactic for my taste. Maybe it's just that I've seen what good Christian fiction cane be like, and this is not quite it.
January 18, 2024
In proclaiming truth, Christian apologist Ravi Zacharias has suggested that the principles and concepts postulated on the level of more formalized expressions of thought must often be exhibited in a more literary or artistic manner in order to permeate the broader popular culture. Tim LaHaye attempts to accomplish this by taking the ideas he first elaborated in Mind Siege: The Battle For Truth and translating them into the novel The Mind Siege Project.
In The Mind Siege Project, a group of high school social studies students set on a boat trip on the Chesapeake Bay for a lesson in diversity and moral relativism. The class ends up learning that these ideas have dire consequences not considered in the more sedate setting of academic discussion.
Readers will be both amused and irritated at the hypocritical nature of contemporary understandings of tolerance as exposed by LaHaye and coauthor Bob Demoss. The shortcomings of this widespread ideology are laid bare in the group sessions where the facilitator sponsoring the field trip in the name of diversity upholds the rights of the individual when it comes to abortion but flat-out tells a student whose missionary parents were murdered overseas that they more or less got what they deserved.
The incoherence of the relativistic lifestyle is further brought home when a student is critically injured when she decides she is her own determinant of right and wrong by violating specific rules of safety set down ironically by the very teacher postulating rules do not exist.
Unlike LaHaye’s other literary undertakings such as Left Behind that deal with grand cosmic events pertaining to the end of the world over which the average person has little impact whatsoever one way or the other, The Mind Siege Project provides insight into the many mindsets and perspectives one is likely to encounter in an academic setting or the workplace. Furthermore, LaHaye and Demoss are to be commended for their sympathetic portrayal of the spiritual struggle the Christian faces in walking the line between desiring the acceptance of one’s peers and the obligation to take a stand for the Lord without regard for the impact upon one’s own popularity for doing so.
However, the authors do go overboard in this tale of adventure set on the high seas in insinuating it is somehow a Christian’s obligation to donate bodily organs to people little more than strangers or at best mere acquaintances. Such is not really a moral claim one can propagate as an ethical imperative to impose upon the remainder of the Christian community unless one has, shall we say, already given of themselves in this manner. How many kidneys have you given away, Dr. LaHaye?
From The Mind Siege Project, readers will take away the lesson that not everyone is always as they appear to be and that it’s not always the quiet people you have to be leery of.
by Frederick Meekins
In The Mind Siege Project, a group of high school social studies students set on a boat trip on the Chesapeake Bay for a lesson in diversity and moral relativism. The class ends up learning that these ideas have dire consequences not considered in the more sedate setting of academic discussion.
Readers will be both amused and irritated at the hypocritical nature of contemporary understandings of tolerance as exposed by LaHaye and coauthor Bob Demoss. The shortcomings of this widespread ideology are laid bare in the group sessions where the facilitator sponsoring the field trip in the name of diversity upholds the rights of the individual when it comes to abortion but flat-out tells a student whose missionary parents were murdered overseas that they more or less got what they deserved.
The incoherence of the relativistic lifestyle is further brought home when a student is critically injured when she decides she is her own determinant of right and wrong by violating specific rules of safety set down ironically by the very teacher postulating rules do not exist.
Unlike LaHaye’s other literary undertakings such as Left Behind that deal with grand cosmic events pertaining to the end of the world over which the average person has little impact whatsoever one way or the other, The Mind Siege Project provides insight into the many mindsets and perspectives one is likely to encounter in an academic setting or the workplace. Furthermore, LaHaye and Demoss are to be commended for their sympathetic portrayal of the spiritual struggle the Christian faces in walking the line between desiring the acceptance of one’s peers and the obligation to take a stand for the Lord without regard for the impact upon one’s own popularity for doing so.
However, the authors do go overboard in this tale of adventure set on the high seas in insinuating it is somehow a Christian’s obligation to donate bodily organs to people little more than strangers or at best mere acquaintances. Such is not really a moral claim one can propagate as an ethical imperative to impose upon the remainder of the Christian community unless one has, shall we say, already given of themselves in this manner. How many kidneys have you given away, Dr. LaHaye?
From The Mind Siege Project, readers will take away the lesson that not everyone is always as they appear to be and that it’s not always the quiet people you have to be leery of.
by Frederick Meekins
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April 22, 2021Its starts all simple what some of the students think its fun to be gone on a bone for about a week Its a place where the teacher thought they could learn to first hand respect people whose believes are different from there's.
but one of them was keen on murdering himself aboard. None expected the events that took place especially from the beginning but many quickly adjusted . all was going on fine till towards the end of the journey when nothing could to seem to go wrong and one of the girls Kate broke the rule but the consequent was very dear to all of them. it nearly costed her life and it put to test the one and only girl Jodi .
Jodi from the very beginning was ready to make new disciples but even from the first day it did not go her way
Now she has to give her blood to Kate due to the rare blood group they share. Well many would be willing to go to that extent but the next question makes even me to hasitate.Would you offer your kidney. Yet you are still living. I would say No. but she indeed pass the test and laid her life for such a person. It makes the book so amazing.
but one of them was keen on murdering himself aboard. None expected the events that took place especially from the beginning but many quickly adjusted . all was going on fine till towards the end of the journey when nothing could to seem to go wrong and one of the girls Kate broke the rule but the consequent was very dear to all of them. it nearly costed her life and it put to test the one and only girl Jodi .
Jodi from the very beginning was ready to make new disciples but even from the first day it did not go her way
Now she has to give her blood to Kate due to the rare blood group they share. Well many would be willing to go to that extent but the next question makes even me to hasitate.Would you offer your kidney. Yet you are still living. I would say No. but she indeed pass the test and laid her life for such a person. It makes the book so amazing.
June 22, 2023
I grabbed this book because it takes place close to where I grew up, the Chesapeake Bay. I didn't know that this book was part of a series until now when I just finished it.
The Mind Siege Project - "Eight teens volunteer for a diversity experiment and end up in a battle for survival"
IT WAS SO GOOD!
The Mind Siege Project - "Eight teens volunteer for a diversity experiment and end up in a battle for survival"
IT WAS SO GOOD!
January 20, 2016
A decent book, but not as edge of your seat as one might think from the description. Some suspense. Some thought provoking discussions could arise from it. Good insight into the judgment of individuals based on outward appearance.
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