Meet Mr. Smith
This is a book unlike any other. Its premise is “finding great sex”, but this is not your typical Christian sex book. In an allegorical fiction-esque style, this book creatively investigates God’s ancient blueprint for lasting romance and (ahem) incredible sex. (Don’t worry, the content is not graphic or gross!) Whether you are single or married, this book provides the missing ingredients to that create truly fulfilling love, sex and romance. We can’t say much more about it without giving away the secret of this book, but here are some comments from a few readers who got their hands on the pre-published manuscript:
Meet Mr. Smith is…
Ingenious! (Becki, 28) Absolutely phenomenal (Ryan, 27) Awe-inspiring (Rachel, 21)
A masterfully woven story (Melody, 31) Fabulously creative (Corey, 29)
A treasure trove (Bethany, 22) Enchanting (Lindsay, 27) Deeply touching (Amy, 28)
Everything I want (Levi, 23) Compelling (Jessica, 20) A taste of Heaven on earth (Kendra, 22)
Utterly remarkable (Ben, 20) An incredible twist (Sarah, 22) Fresh and Funny (Tim, 22)
Magnificent and more beautiful than a fairy tale (Courtney, 20)
The First 90 Days of Marriage — Building the Foundations of a lifetime
Leslie and I believe that a thriving marriage, not just a surviving one – should be the aim of every couple. The first few months of a new marriage is like the “wet concrete” stage of a relationship – the habits, both good and bad, lock into place. Roles become defined. Communication methods settle themselves in for the long haul. Sexual and emotional intimacy gets off to either the right or wrong start. Every couple has a choice of how they are going to begin their proverbial ride into the sunset. If you proactively maximize your first 90 days of marriage, you will avoid years of heartache, disillusionment, and having to “un-learn” all the wrong habits that were set in those early months.
Marriage is serious business. It’s intense, it’s challenging – it’s important work. However, we hope this book will display that marriage is also romantic, fun, and full of magical wonder. Marriage will likely be one of the hardest things you will ever do. But marriage should also be one of the most enjoyable things you ever do. This book is full of practical insight with chapters such as “How to Stay Madly in Love Through Life’s Ups and Downs”, “How to Tackle Life as a Team” and “How to Build the Ultimate Romantic Sanctuary”. Leslie and I greatly enjoyed writing this book, and we pray it will help young couples everywhere lay the foundation for a God-scripted, ever-after relationship that only gets better with time. Whether you are soon to be married, have been married many years, or simply want to gain God’s perspective for marriage in your single years, we believe you’ll greatly benefit from this book.
A Perfect Wedding — Inviting the Author of Romance to Make Your Day Beautiful
In this little book, Leslie and I desire to dust off God’s ancient path – a path that leads couples to the perfection of marriage intimacy. What makes a perfect wedding, and subsequently, a perfect marriage? The answer is not roses, rhymes, tender rhetoric, or even raw grit and determination. Rather, the Author of romance Himself wants to be your Wedding Planner. A wedding day doesn’t define a great and lasting marriage, but like a pulse, it identifies the life at the center of it. Humanly built wedding days set up couples for humanly marred marriages, but God-crafted wedding days provide a foundation for a beautiful lifetime of profound shared intimacy.
A wedding day is a taste of what’s to come. The tenor of a wedding day can often be the tenor of an entire marriage. Is a wedding about you, the bride and groom? Or is it about Someone greater than you? Those who learn the answer to this all-important question correctly unlock the great mystery of marital success. If you are like many other couples in our generation who long for something more than mediocrity in your future marriage, then get off to the right start by assigning God the position of Wedding Coordinator. This book displays how breathtakingly beautiful your wedding day (and your marriage) can be when the Author of lasting love becomes the Guest of Honor.
Included with this book is a CD of five original wedding songs that Leslie and I wrote and recorded in our own studio – each song is an expression of one of the specific truths written about in this book, and each one includes a performance track as well. One of our favorite songs on this album is a new wedding version of Faithfully – the full-length song that was originally included with When God Writes Your Love Story. Couples all around the country have used Faithfully in their weddings to express the beauty of a God-written love story.
Teaching True Love to a Sex-at-13 Generation — The Ultimate Guide for Parents
God has so much more for our children than pop-culture conformity, spiritual atrophy, and sexual preoccupation. But for our kids to be numbered among the rare few that push aside the mediocre life of selfishness and press forward into God’s endless frontier, they need parents who are unwilling to let them settle in the land of compromise. Great parents, submitted to the vast potential of God, raise up great children. As Eric and I have traveled this country and interacted with countless young people, we have heard the desperate desire for godly teammates echoed over and over again among the younger generation. Our prayer is that this book will equip you, as a parent or leader, to become the answer to this generation’s most urgent need.
If the younger generation is ever to escape the slime of the culture and experience vibrant successful relationships and marriages, they need parents who will rise to the challenge and point them to God’s highest. We pray that this message will inspire you to embrace that sacred call. This book is not written from a parent-to-parent perspective. Rather, this book is written from the perspective of the younger generation. We want this book to serve as a voice to you from today’s young people. We want to help articulate their perspective and help you better understand what they need and desire from you as parents and leaders. We pray the words contained within these pages will give you a vision for your amazing role in the transformation of a generation, and offer you the practical tools to see that vision become a reality.
Note: This book is also a great tool for young people who desire to reach their own peers, or those a few years younger, with God’s perspective on romance and relationships.
“This book is a blaring wakeup call to parents of teenagers, a valuable tool to help parents navigate the treacherous waters of adolescence.”
The Dallas Morning News
Authentic Beauty — The Shaping of a Set-Apart Young Woman
For most of my young adult life, I had known Jesus Christ only as the One who had saved me from my sins. I had been looking to an earthly romance to fulfill the deepest desires of my heart. I had been searching for an earthly prince to rescue me, to carry me away to his castle, to love and cherish me forever – to fulfill my feminine desire for tender romance. Like so many modern young women, I gave myself to one shallow relationship after the next, only to end up lonely and heartbroken. I looked to human relationships to meet needs in my heart that only Jesus Christ was meant to fill.
And then I encountered my true Prince, Jesus Christ. I looked deeply into His loving eyes and was stunned to realize that He was everything that my feminine heart had ever hoped for or desired. He was the heroic, gallant Knight I had been searching for. He was the one who had given up His very life to rescue me, to carry me away to His land to cherish me forever. He was the one with whom I could share the deepest, most beautiful, most intimate love story imaginable.
That is where true romance is found – in Jesus Christ. My love story with Eric, though beautiful, is only a reflection of a far more spectacular love story…my romance with my Heavenly Prince. Until Jesus Christ becomes the Lover of our soul – the very center of our existence – we will always be looking in the wrong places to fulfill our feminine longing for tender romance. We will end up broken-hearted and disillusioned, time and time again. Christ alone can truly fulfill the desires of our heart.
Authentic Beauty is a personal and practical book message about becoming a set-apart young woman in today’s perverse generation. It explores the boundless opportunities God has for the life of a young woman who makes Christ the first love of her heart and allows Him shape every aspect of her existence.
“Leslie Ludy hits the mark in challenging high school and college-aged women to live a ‘set-apart" life’ Skillfully combining Scripture and common sense to demonstrate the "how" of biblical femininity...”
CCM Magazine
“Leslie Ludy effectively employs the power of her own story to show young women in a practical way the romance of a lifetime with their Savior, Jesus Christ…It is a book all young women will want to read.”
Christian Retailing
“A precious gem of a book by a princess of an author.”
Beverly Lewis, New York Times bestselling author
God’s Gift To Women — Discovering the Lost Greatness of Masculinity
I’m not a guy that’s all hyped up for grunting and giving off foul odors, I’m a guy that is passionate about men being true men. And I’m convinced that true manhood, polished by the hand of God, is nothing short of an awe-inspiring gift to womanhood.
Contrary to the vibe that a title like God’s Gift to Women gives off, this book is not merely about how men can more effectively relate to women. I believe that we as men can never hope to become a gift to women until we gain a complete vision of Christ-built manhood. We live in a generation of “burpin’ and scratchin’” male mediocrity. Most of our modern-day examples of manhood are self-serving, perverted, and depraved. We are taking this second-rate version of masculinity into our marriages, our families and our lives as men. I believe we need a new standard for masculinity – a standard that is not shaped by our culture, but by the very person of Jesus Christ. That standard is the core of this book’s message.
If you were hoping for a book about relating to women, don’t worry; there is plenty of that subject covered in the upcoming pages. But for us to learn to effectively relate to women, we must first learn to effectively relate to the Creator of women – Jesus Christ. We must learn the world-altering secrets of Christ-built, warrior-poet manhood. If you are a guy interested in discovering amazing, culture-shaping masculinity – don’t miss this book! And if you are girl interested in motivating the guys in your life toward something better – don’t miss this book!
“How do you combine a great sense of humor, a powerful commitment to truth, and subject matter at the pinnacle of our country’s most critical need? Eric Ludy just did it!”
Joe White, president, Kanukuk Kamps
When God Writes Your Love Story — The Ultimate Approach to Guy/Girl Relationships
This book has provided the foundation for a whole new way of thinking about relationships among today’s younger generation. Rather than building a love story the way the world does (with a few Christian morals tacked on for good measure) this book introduces readers to a far superior way of building a love story…God’s way. After all, God is the One who invented the concept of romance in the first place! And God doesn’t need to imitate the world’s way of building a relationship…He has His very own perfect, amazing, beautiful way of writing a love story, and it is far more fulfilling and romantic than anything Hollywood could ever concoct. Leslie and I believe that the foundation for an amazing, lifelong love story begins even before you meet your future spouse, by allowing the Author of romance to script your love story and show you how to love like He loves. Rather than chasing after temporary relationships, this book challenges readers to give the “pen” to God and allow Him to script their love story in His own perfect time and way.
In this book, we take readers through the “Four Secrets to an Amazing Love Story” – practical things that you can do now to prepare for a love story that will go the distance. From learning to love your spouse even before you meet them, to understanding the difference between mere abstinence and true purity; from practicing the skills of tenderness and selflessness that will make you a superhero spouse, to experiencing God’s best in your single years; from understanding renewed purity to making your parents your teammates – this book is loaded with inspiration, motivation, and practical insight for experiencing a God-written love story.When God Writes Your Love Story has shaped an entire generation’s thinking in regard to romance and relationships. If you want to experience the very best God has for you in this area of your life – don’t miss this important message!
“Creative, challenging, intuitive, and inspirational!”
Joe White, president, Kanukuk Kamps
“Straightforward and unabashed. This book will help you gain a new perspective on romance God’s way!”
Beverly LaHaye, Concerned Women for America
“If you want to build a God-honoring relationship, you can’t afford to miss this book.”
Les and Leslie Parrott, authors of Saving Your Marriage Before it Starts
When Dreams Come True — a love story only God could write
Whenever anyone says to us, “So tell us about your love story” we tell them to read When Dreams Come True. Our love story, in our humble opinion, was (and is) one of the most amazing in the history of the world. Not because of our own romantic ability – rather, because God Himself scripted the details. All of the struggles, doubts, hopes, fears, failures and triumphs of our relationship are captured in this book. During our single years and throughout our love story, Leslie and I both kept detailed journals, which we drew from when putting this book together. As a result, this story provides an intimate peak inside our hearts and minds during the process of building a God-written love story. It’s written like a novel, but the story is true. If you want a clear example of what a Heaven-built romance can look like, this is the book for you. If you have ever struggled with the idea of giving God full control of this area of your life, this book will offer you a refreshing vision of hope.
“This book will help young people navigate the relationship minefield with their character and integrity not only intact – but soaring!”
Bill McCartney, founder of Promise Keepers
“In a world where true love is so often replaced by heartache and one-night stands, Eric and Leslie offer a vital message of hope that we desperately need to hear!”
Josh McDowell
When God Writes Your Life Story — Experiencing the Ultimate Adventure
Today’s young people long to live a life that really counts. But often, they don’t know how. Too many in the younger generation live an aimless, purposeless existence – lacking direction, focus, and passion. They are desperately seeking answers to the riddles of life…Why am I here? What am I supposed to be doing? And how am I supposed to get it done? This book helps you tackle these daunting questions. It provides a practical roadmap into the boundless potential of a Christ-built life. It’s more than a book about finding your purpose; it’s about the life-altering effect that God—the Author of adventure—can have upon your purpose.
What ever happened to historical, world-altering Christianity? This book seeks to introduce modern young people the heroic existence of Christians in history past. Leslie and I believe that the Christian life isn’t meant to be dull and predictable, but the greatest adventure of all time. This adventure turns ordinary young men and women into heroes for Truth; top-level agents in the service of the Most High God. It transforms the impossible challenges of life into amazing opportunities to see the power of God at work. It awakens an aimless generation to a whole new kind of existence – an existence scripted by the God of the impossible. Highly motivational yet extremely practical, When God Writes Your Life Story features a hands-on Field Guide section, highlighting the Seven Landmarks of a God-scripted adventure to help you reach new heights in vital areas such as goal setting, personal development and spiritual growth.
For a generation longing to live a life that counts, this book opens a whole new world of possibilities. Get ready to discover how breathtaking the adventure can be…when God writes your life story.