Life Preparation Series

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Grown But Not Ready: Why College Kids Still Struggle with Life

Graduation caps fly, parents cheer, and the world says: “You’re grown now.” But behind the celebration, thousands of young adults step into independence only to find themselves unprepared for real life.

This book is a wake-up call. It dismantles the illusion that a diploma equals adulthood, exposing the gap between cultural promises and real-world pressures. Young adults are told they’re ready — but debt, loneliness, weak faith, and lack of life skills prove otherwise.

Grown But Not Ready doesn’t stop at pointing out the problem — it equips readers with the truth and tools they need to bridge the gap. Through prophetic insights and practical steps, this book helps young adults:

• Recognize the illusions that keep them stuck.
• Navigate choices about college, trades, work, and      calling.
• Survive (and thrive) in their first jobs and financial      decisions.
• Confront the debt trap head-on.
• Build life skills that classrooms ignored.
• Guard relationships and faith in environments designed      to test them.

🔥 Prophetic Disruption: “The world says you’re grown, but maturity is not automatic — it must be chosen.”

This book is not just for students. Parents, mentors, and leaders will also find it a roadmap for preparing the next generation.

🔗 Tie to the Series

As the first book in the Life Prep Series, Grown But Not Ready lays the foundation. It exposes the cracks in the system and explains why the rest of the series is needed. Every other book becomes a toolbox to fill the missing pieces this one uncovers.

✨ Whether you’re stepping into adulthood for the first time or guiding someone who is, this book is the mirror that reveals where you really stand — and the map that shows you where to go.

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Life Skills 101: Building Practical Wisdom in a Foolish World

Most young adults leave home with a diploma in one hand and a smartphone in the other — but no clue how to actually live. They can solve equations, analyze literature, or code apps… but they don’t know how to cook a meal, pay a bill, or keep a home in order.

This is no accident. Culture has trained a generation to chase knowledge without wisdom, degrees without discipline, and comfort without responsibility. The result? Adults who look independent on paper but still live like dependents in practice.

Life Skills 101 is the handbook schools forgot to give you. From cooking and cleaning to budgeting and car care, it covers the everyday survival skills that form the backbone of real independence. But it doesn’t stop there — it shows how these “little things” are actually acts of stewardship and worship.

Readers will learn how to:

• Feed themselves without draining their bank accounts.
• Keep a home that reflects order and peace.
• Manage transportation, insurance, and the basics of      mobility.
• Build healthy money habits that prevent cycles of debt.
• Dress with confidence and purpose.
• See every act of stewardship as a way of honoring God.

🔥 Prophetic Disruption: “If you can’t manage your own room, don’t expect God to trust you with His Kingdom.”

🔗 Tie to the Series

As the second book in the Life Prep Series, Life Skills 101 builds directly on the reality check of Book 1 (Grown But Not Ready). Once the illusion of adulthood is exposed, this book gives the first set of tools to survive and thrive. It lays the groundwork for later books on money (Book 4) and faith-driven independence (Book 7).

✨ This isn’t about chores — it’s about character. The little things you master today will either empower you or enslave you tomorrow.

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Healthcare & Stewardship: Navigating the System Without Losing Yourself

You can’t fulfill your calling if you’re too sick, too stressed, or too weighed down by a system designed to profit off your pain. The truth is: most young adults know more about TikTok trends than about their own insurance coverage. They know how to binge shows but not how to rest. They medicate anxiety but don’t know how to steward peace.

Healthcare & Stewardship equips readers to take control of their health — physically, mentally, and spiritually. It teaches how to engage the healthcare system without being enslaved to it, and how to see health not just as survival, but as stewardship of the temple God gave you.

Inside, readers will learn:

• How to understand insurance, ER vs. urgent care, and      preventive checkups.
• Why mental health is real — and how to fight anxiety,      depression, and burnout.
• The traps of prescription culture, and how to take      responsibility when treatment is needed.
• Daily habits of fitness, rest, and nutrition as      spiritual discipline, not vanity.
• The role of prayer, healing, and community support in      wholeness.

🔥 Prophetic Disruption: “The world will sell you medicine before it teaches you stewardship. But God’s wisdom keeps you free.”

🔗 Tie to the Series

As the third book in the Life Prep Series, this volume connects survival skills (Book 2) with financial stability (Book 4). Health is the silent foundation of everything — you can’t chase vision if your body or mind collapses. It also looks forward to Book 7 (Mastering Independence), showing that true adulthood requires wholeness in body, soul, and spirit.

✨ This isn’t just about healthcare — it’s about health freedom. Steward your body well, and you’ll be strong enough to run your race.

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Money & Work: Escaping Debt Traps and Building True Stability

Money is not the root of all evil — but the love of it is. Still, in this world, money moves everything. Jobs, bills, credit, housing, taxes — they dictate much of early adulthood. The tragedy is that most young people walk straight into slavery disguised as opportunity: student loans, credit cards, payday advances, and get-rich-quick schemes.

Money & Work rips the mask off those traps and equips readers to build stability without selling their soul. It’s not just about surviving paycheck to paycheck — it’s about learning the Kingdom way of stewardship, hard work, and freedom.

Inside, readers will discover:

• Why debt feels normal but is actually a chain.
• How to navigate paychecks, taxes, and job culture.
• How to build credit wisely without letting it control      you.
• Renting vs. owning — making housing decisions that      don’t bury you.
• How to avoid financial scams, from payday loans to      empty “security nets.”
• God’s blueprint for wealth: not hoarding, but building      and giving.

🔥 Prophetic Disruption: “The system wants you in debt so you’ll stay in chains. But Kingdom stability is freedom — and freedom is wealth.”

🔗 Tie to the Series

As the fourth book in the Life Prep Series, this volume is the financial anchor. It builds on the survival skills of Book 2 (Life Skills 101) and the health awareness of Book 3 (Healthcare & Stewardship), then points forward to Book 7 (Mastering Independence), where money, health, and relationships integrate into mature adulthood. Without financial stability, every other area eventually crumbles.

✨ This isn’t just about money — it’s about freedom. Escape the debt traps, embrace true work ethic, and build a foundation that will last.

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Relationships & Boundaries: Surviving the Social Media Age

The fastest way to build or break a young life is through relationships. Friendships, dating, sex, family, and now—screens and social media—shape identity more than almost anything else. The problem? Most young adults are building connections with no boundaries, guided more by Instagram likes and TikTok trends than by truth and wisdom.

Relationships & Boundaries confronts the chaos head-on. This isn’t a soft “be nice and choose good friends” manual. It’s a prophetic wake-up call: without boundaries, love becomes bondage, and without God’s covering, intimacy becomes counterfeit.

Inside, readers will face:

• Why friendships and peer pressure can make or break      your destiny.
• How hookup culture and pornography rewire intimacy.
• Why family honor still matters when you’re becoming      independent.
• How social media forges false identities and steals      real connection.
• How to build healthy, lasting love rooted in covenant,      not compromise.

🔥 Prophetic Disruption: “What you call love may actually be lust. What you call freedom may actually be bondage. Boundaries aren’t walls—they’re guardrails for destiny.”

🔗 Tie to the Series

As the fifth book in the Life Prep Series, this volume deals with the most dangerous battlefield for young adults today: relationships in a digital, sexualized, and approval-driven culture. It builds directly from Book 1 (Grown But Not Ready, which warns of relational traps on campus), and it prepares the ground for Book 6 (Faith on Your Own), where identity and allegiance to Christ must stand strong in hostile environments.

✨ This book will not coddle. It will expose lies, cut through counterfeit intimacy, and call readers to a love that builds instead of breaks.

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Faith on Your Own: Owning Christ Outside Your Parents’ House

When you leave home, your parents’ prayers can cover you—but they cannot carry you. Their faith can’t save you in the dorm room, on the job, or when life hits hard. If your walk with Jesus is secondhand, the world will strip it from you in a heartbeat.

Faith on Your Own is not about “going to church more.” It’s about building a covenant with Christ that cannot be shaken by professors who mock Him, bosses who pressure you, or friends who walk away. This book refuses to coddle borrowed religion. It calls you to ownership.

Inside, readers will learn:

• Why borrowed faith always collapses under fire.
• How to wrestle with doubt without losing truth.
• How to find real community when church culture      disappoints.
• How to pray, study, and hear God when no one is forcing      you.
• How to recognize false teachers and counterfeit      gospels.
• How to stand alone with courage when school, work, or      culture mocks your faith.

🔥 Prophetic Disruption: “God has no grandchildren. He only has sons and daughters. If your faith isn’t yours, it won’t last.”

🔗 Tie to the Series

As the sixth book in the Life Prep Series, this is the spiritual backbone of the collection. Every other book—about money, skills, health, or relationships—collapses without this one. It expands the warning from Book 1 (Grown But Not Ready) about losing faith after leaving home, it complements Book 5 (Relationships & Boundaries) by grounding love in Christ, and it points forward to Book 7 (Mastering Independence), showing how unshakable faith anchors adulthood.

✨ This book is the sword of the series. It doesn’t just equip—it cuts through cultural Christianity and calls young adults to build a faith that survives fire.

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Mastering Independence: Thriving in Life Without Losing Your Soul

Adulthood is more than bills, jobs, and relationships. It’s about stepping into maturity with clarity, strength, and Kingdom purpose. Too many young adults survive their 20s but never thrive — drifting into cycles of debt, broken relationships, and empty careers.

Mastering Independence is the capstone of the Life Prep Series. It pulls together everything — faith, money, health, relationships, calling — and shows how to build a life that is not just independent, but anchored in God. This is about more than “adulting.” It’s about dominion.

Inside, readers will learn:

• Why mere survival is not God’s plan — thriving is.
• How to integrate finances, health, faith, and      relationships into one whole life.
• How to align career choices with Kingdom calling, not      just a paycheck.
• How to resist systemic traps that want your compliance,      not your freedom.
• How to step into leadership and legacy, multiplying      what God gave you.

🔥 Prophetic Disruption: “Independence without surrender to Christ is just another kind of slavery. True mastery is living free in Him.”

✍️ About the Author

Will Bourne is a U.S. Army veteran, entrepreneur, author, and speaker with a heart for raising up a generation that knows who they are in Christ and refuses to bow to cultural lies. As the lead contributor of  Bourne Again Media, his mission is simple but disruptive: break systems of bondage and build Kingdom leaders who thrive in every area of life.

Will’s own journey — from military service to business leadership, from personal failures to spiritual renewal — fuels his passion for equipping young adults with tools that are both practical and prophetic. He knows firsthand that survival skills are not enough; without vision, faith, and integrity, independence collapses. That’s why his writing blends hard-earned wisdom with uncompromising truth, guiding readers beyond “adulting” into true Kingdom adulthood.

As a husband, father of a blended family, and mentor to many, Will writes with raw honesty and a grace-driven conviction that resonates across generations. His books, teachings, and media platforms challenge readers to live with courage, clarity, and eternal impact.

🔥 Core conviction: Independence without Christ is slavery; but in Him, you are free to live, lead, and leave a legacy.