Everett Piper - Grow Up!: Life Isnt Safe, but Its Good

Praise for

Grow Up!

Dr. Everett Pipers book Not a Day Care had the impact of a neutron bomb. In his groundbreaking sequel, Grow Up!, Dr. Piper continues the prophetic message that all need to hear but few have had the courage to say. Thank God someone tells the truth without apology!

Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas

If you want to slap todays current insanity in the face, read Dr. Everett Pipers new book, Grow Up! No one does a better job of identifying, addressing, and correcting the problems we confront with truth and wisdom.

Kevin D. Freeman, host of Economic War Room with Kevin Freeman on BlazeTV

Dr. Everett Piper thinks with clarity and speaks with forcefulness, a welcome relief from much of contemporary evangelicalism. If you want to be coddled, dont read this. But if your heart hungers for truth from a modern-day Jeremiah, keep reading.

Dr. Jim Garlow, CEO of Well Versed

Dr. Piper is one of those under-the-radar thinkers who deserves more attention. His latest book, Grow Up!, should catapult him to the higher ranks of thoughtful people whose faith in the virtues and beliefs of our founders can endure if we will renew them.

Cal Thomas, syndicated columnist

Dr. Piper understands that a nation of children will cower in fear, while only adults have the courage to fight for freedom. Grow Up! is a book that everyone must read.

Trevor Shakiba, president of Shakiba Capital

Dr. Pipers wit and wisdom are once again on full display, as evidenced by his advice and admonition for younger generations to grow up rather than wake upbecause wokeness is an obstacle on the path toward personal accountability.

Bob Frantz, Salem Media radio host

Our culture is in desperate need of a clarion call to adult common sense. Dr. Everett Piper is that voice of reason and clarity. Hes the adult in the room calling out the childishness and foolishness of the woke crowd that expects to be coddled.

Patty David, contributor to The Wesleyan Resistance

Powerful, prophetic, and immensely clarifying! If your head is spinning as a result of the chaos our culture is drowning in, read this book. Dr. Pipers pen cuts through the chaos and brings hope for the future.

Jeff Keaton, president and CEO of Renewanation

Everett Pipers Not a Day Care diagnosed the root cause of our social ills: immaturity. More and more Americans just dont want adult responsibilities. Now with Grow Up!, Piper prescribes the cure to the problems plaguing our country. Young Americans who want to lead happy and fulfilled lives should make it a national bestseller.

Dennis Prager, nationally syndicated radio talk show host and bestselling author of The Rational Bible

If there was ever a time that we needed to stop acting like a nation of spoiled adolescents and grow up, its now. Piper says it bestlife isnt safe, but its certainly worth living to the fullest.

Sam Sorbo, actress, radio host, and author

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To my grandchildren,

Though I know you not yet, may these words ring true as you move beyond the elementary teachings and be taken forward to maturity.

Much love,

Grandpa (with kudos to Saint Paul)

I ts 1984, and we are living in schizophrenic times.

Dickensian times. Orwellian times. The best of times, but yet the worst. Times where we demand the truth while reveling in our lies. Times of great material gain but of even greater moral loss. Times of calling good evil and evil good; bitter sweet and sweet bitter. Times of the tolerant not tolerating what they find intolerable.

For all of our technological advancement, we have witnessed shocking mental decline. Silicon Valley magnate Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook honors our Constitutions commitment to free speech and equality, but his companys staff censors paragraphs of the Declaration of Independence because they find it to be antithetical to diversity and inclusion. California legislators, who claim to be proponents of truth and fairness for all, propose legislation that would make it unlawful, even for those within the church, to provide products or services that specifically help congregants learn how to govern their behavior within the boundaries of what the Bible says is fair, right, moral, and true.

These are times when the Colorado Civil Rights Commission denies an artist the civil right to paint, craft, and bake images consistent with his moral convictions and to produce art that accurately reflects his worldview and his passions.

These are times when colleges and universities in nearly every state of the union are issuing speech codes that require faculty and students to stop honoring the millennia-old practice of using gender-specific pronouns and, instead, immediately adopt the tortured grammatical nonsense of ze, zer, zim, and zis. Weve seen this happen at storied institutions such as UC Berkeley, the purported birthplace of free speech.

These are times when Jews such as Dennis Prager, David Horowitz, and Ben Shapiro are protested, shunned, and banned by those who claim to stand against ghettos, gulags, and racism. Times when Candace Owens, a black woman, is heckled out of a restaurant by a bunch of white students chanting, Down with white supremacy.

These are times when those who claim to champion democracy will boycott a restaurateur who dares to participate in the democratic process. These same cultural elites no longer even attempt to hide their disdain for the self-evident truths upon which our country and our culture was founded. Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of association, freedom of expression, and freedom in general are now considered antiquated and inferior ideas that should be discarded and replaced by the capricious whims of a governing class that believes the unwashed masses are too foolish to manage their own freedom.

They promote intolerance under the banner of tolerance and fascism under the flag of freedom.

From our schools, where open debate and proper grammar are now prohibited, to our places of work, where ordinary Americans can be put out of business for advocating the wrong causes in their private life, no place is safe from the vindictive rage of the cultural elites.