So, as a father I did find the second book "Piercing The Darkness" to be more disturbing. Both books are good for that. We need to be disturbed from time to time. The enemy wants us to be complacent and stories like this can wake you up.
These were both written almost 40 years ago but they could have just as easily been written today. The same trends, the same problems, the same attitudes are all even worse today.
Paul wrote truly in Ephesians 6
"Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might. Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil.
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
Therefore, take up the full armor of God, so that you will be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm. Stand firm therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; in addition to all, taking up the shield of faith with which you will be able to extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
With all prayer and petition pray at all times in the Spirit, and with this in view, be on the alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints, and pray on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in the opening of my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel, for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in proclaiming it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak."
Pray also for me that I also will live up to that example, that God would empower me to speak boldly in His name. Pray for humility and insight into my own failings so that I will seek forgiveness and reconciliation when I fall. Pray for guidance for my thoughts and actions so that I will be a worthy ambassador of our risen King. Pray that I finish this race and fight the good fight.
I ask these things not for my own glory, but for the glory of Jesus the Christ.
Maranatha!
Our Lord is coming again!
ImYour Huckleberry
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