Everything starts with identity. Our identity affects what we see, value, believe, and act upon. And no identity is more fundamental than "we are children of God" (Romans 8:16). But what we often fail to understand is that our heavenly heritage is both a fact and a choice. The challenges of the modern world make devoting our whole selves to following the Lord and His servants increasingly difficult. Too often we fail to examine the forces influencing our thoughts, so we confine ourselves to beliefs and positions that are contrary to the commandments of God. Advancing beyond the perimeter of our mental fences requires a new way of thinking and acting. In Our Divine Identity, author Joshua Savage reaches out to those who struggle to make sense of current events and the Lord's commandments and offers tools to navigate obstacles with clarity and reason. As you explore the influences that shape who you are and what you believe, you will learn how to prioritize your divine identity as a child of God and see things "as they really are and really will be." Discover how to identify the many facets of identity that govern your thoughts and actions. use the "nine tools of knowing" to process and evaluate new and old information. find the patience and faith to keep moving forward even with limited knowledge. Embracing your divine identity is an ongoing process of self-discovery and truth seeking. With the tools in this book, make informed steps to unlock your eternal potential as a child of God.
In a landmark book straight from the heart comes a story of two brothers who share a bond so strong it can never be broken. As they grow older, their lives take different paths, the older brother attempting to live a normal existence while the younger wastes away from drugs. Will the older be able to save him or will it cause his downfall as well?
It's June in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, and the only thing that's hotter than the pavement is Bartholomew Augustus Savages personal and professional life. August, a self-described beach bum who takes his retirement in installments, is neither a police officer nor a licensed private investigator; rather, he's a self-described "waste management consultant who professionally and discreetly takes out the waste for a fee. But to his friends on the beach, and his land lady, Mrs. Agnes, all of whom are clueless about his true profession, hes just good ole August, a brother surfer, and good tenant. A combat hardened Ex-Navy Seal and Ex-French Foreign Legionnaire. Augusts business cards read B.A. Savage, and most business comes via the internet. Just as hes claiming an especially gratifying victory in a game of beach volleyball, August receives an encrypted email. Terminate a 107 year old nazi in Argentina expounding Naziism by way of an underground movement. With his commandeered sailboat the Nauti-Buoy he travels to the shores of Buenos Aires, land of the Tango. There August poses as a vagabond pirate and locates his target and starts the stalking game. August, has stumbled onto some dicey jobs before, but nothing like the one hes just uncovered, with a bizarre twist. Thrust back into his old roots of death-dealing, August proudly stamps his seal of approval, B.A. Savage, where he shows a marked propensity to exact revenge for the ill-treatment and death of one of his new friends. Told in Augusts distinctive humorous voice, in turns sarcastic and sensitive, Savage Tango will appeal to fans of Jimmy Buffet, Carl Hiaasen, John D. MacDonald, Bob Morris, and Robert B. Parker (RIP).
Our hero August returns as Mr. Savage. After a brief hiatus in the Caribbean August returns home to find his landlady’s life has been turned upside down. The entire mass of her fortune has gone missing, and the only lead he can sniff out is a dejected relative who arrived unannounced while he was away. August wastes no time snooping around and discovers the poor relative is in trouble with the mafia in Las Vegas, owing them a ton of money. It is pay or die. August places his life on hold to help the only woman in his life that is like a mother to him. Using his skills and black-market connections he sets out to find her missing fortune. He does what the authorities can’t, and finds himself on an action packed quest for justice that crisscrosses the continental United Sates. Once in Las Vegas, he realizes that to continue his quest he must join the mafia, and must navigate his way inside through a test. A test he passes skillfully. Once inside, Mr. Savage uncovers a conspiracy to take control of one of the world’s most important internet resources. He must navigate a minefield of power, greed and murder to neutralize the mafia before it’s too late. When the house says it always wins, Mr. Savage proves them wrong, only to turn the house into a savage house. Savage House is a story of whit, and ultimately making his own luck, even when he’d been dealt an unsteady hand.
Cultures collide in Melting Pot. Take a short journey with Paco, Demetrius, Will, and Hong. Paco works to earn money so that he can return to his family in Mexico. Demetrius has plans to become famous. Will wants to become independent and be sober. Hong wants his children to acknowledge him. These men live parallel lives. Yet they soon discover that no matter how separate our lives and our cultures may be, they are deeply intertwined...
As a young man recently entering the priesthood, Jacob discovers that his idea of the world has changed. He questions his beliefs, and in the process attempts to find a solution to the burning in his soul.
Bartholomew August Savage, aka August, is a former Navy SEAL and former French Foreign Legionnaire with a reputation within the higher echelons of society for his marked propensity of waste management. Whether hunting drug lords and child traffickers or saving defenseless children, Mr. Savage is effective and deadly. But even August has ghosts in his past and demons that need to be kept in check. And nothing is more wicked than the peril he must face in Savage Seas. Newly hired for a contract hit by a world power to put an end to another terrorist, Mr. Savage is looking forward to getting his teeth into another mission, but things start going awry, and faster than he could have imagined: his mark was killed seconds before he had the opportunity to strike, a secret meeting between a Russian intelligence officer, a Chinese official, and ISIS terrorists in Shanghai, China. Things aren’t over, though. August encounters missing nuclear warheads, a straw-market of emails leading to ISIS sympathizers, and zealot Americans willing to see the destruction of the UNITED STATES. Each episode seems discrete and separate, yet Mr. Savage finds the timing disturbing. What are the connections? Is he being baited? With the help of his old friend Marcus L. Guerrero, also a former Navy SEAL and a TEU Unit team leader, the two try to figure out where all this activity is headed, but as they both discover, there is no way to predict where the real threat will be: a hashtag clan of ISIS terrorists that the world never saw coming, just like 9/11. When Mr. Savage discovers that America’s military might has been ordered to stand down, he sets out on a mission to do what he does best, kill the enemy and save the innocent. Will this bond of two rough men so devoted to their country be enough that their success literally means saving the United States of America from nuclear fallout?
In recent years, the study and teaching of Native American oral and written art have flourished. During the same period, there has been a growing recognition among historians, anthropologists, and ethnohistorians that Indians must be seen not as the voiceless, nameless, faceless Other but as people who had a powerful impact on the historical development of the United States. Literary critics, however, have continued to overlook Indians as determinants of American—rather than specifically Native American—literature. The notion that the presence of Indian peoples shaped American literature as a whole remains unexplored. In The Demon of the Continent, Joshua David Bellin probes the complex interrelationships among Native American and Euro-American cultures and literatures from the mid-seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. He asserts that cultural contact is at the heart of American literature. For Bellin, previous studies of Indians in American literature have focused largely on the images Euro-American writers constructed of indigenous peoples, and have thereby only perpetuated those images. Unlike authors of those earlier studies, Bellin refuses to reduce Indians to static antagonists or fodder for a Euro-American imagination. Drawing on works such as Henry David Thoreau's Walden, William Apess' A Son of the Forest, and little known works such as colonial Indian conversion narratives, he explores the ways in which these texts reflect and shape the intercultural world from which they arose. In doing so, Bellin reaches surprising conclusions: that Walden addresses economic clashes and partnerships between Indians and whites; that William Bartram's Travels encodes competing and interpenetrating systems of Indian and white landholding; that Catherine Sedgwick's Hope Leslie enacts the antebellum drama of Indian conversion; that James Fenimore Cooper and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow struggled with Indian authors such as George Copway and David Cusick for physical, ideological, and literary control of the nation. The Demon of the Continent proves Indians to be actors in the dynamic processes in which America and its literature are inescapably embedded. Shifting the focus from textual images to the sites of material, ideological, linguistic, and aesthetic interaction between peoples, Bellin reenvisions American literature as the product of contact, conflict, accommodation, and interchange.
An uneasy peace is shattered when the long dormant alfin again invade human lands. War engulfs every human country across the continent, throwing people from every walk of life into a conflict that threatens them all. As kingdoms fall and borders fail, a group of survivors struggle to fight back against invasion; meanwhile, a shadowy evil stirs, walking the earth with mysterious purpose, and a threat towards the destruction of everything. Jair is a slave on an alfin farm. After murdering one of his captors in retribution for cruel crimes against his family, he is forced to flee; instead of wondering what the world outside is like, he has no choice but to see it for himself. New to a world now at war, Jair struggles to find his place, even as something inside him awakens. He begins to wonder who --or what -- he really is. King Ederick is the ruler of a nation under siege. He is faced with the horror that there is no stopping the alfin advance; he maneuvers to save what family he can, while ensuring Coorine will stand as long as possible, a flimsy barrier that is all that stands between the alfin and the rest of the continent. Betrayal leaves his kingdom to stand alone and outmatched, as alfin plots hamstring even the oldest of allies. Tylla is an engine smith in the prestigious air ship fleet of Eeda; stranded in enemy territory during the first wave of attack, she finds herself suddenly in charge of a small band of survivors. She forges an uneasy alliance with a tribe of Fenrich barbarians, and must keep the peace between former enemies as she tries to bring her people home to safety. Old enemies are forced to become allies, friends become enemies, and betrayal is everywhere as the alfin seek to steal away control of all the lands. A scattered group of men and women are all that stand between enslavement and death, as the war comes to them from many fronts. They soon realize that they are each only a tiny piece of a grander puzzle and only by coming together do they stand a chance at ending the war. And somewhere, something far worse than the alfin begins to plot...
From the 1820s to the 1930s, Christian missionaries and federal agents launched a continent-wide assault against Indian sacred dance, song, ceremony, and healing ritual in an attempt to transform Indian peoples into American citizens. In spite of this century-long religious persecution, Native peoples continued to perform their sacred traditions and resist the foreign religions imposed on them, as well as to develop new practices that partook of both. At the same time, some whites began to explore Indian performance with interest, and even to promote Indian sacred traditions as a source of power for their own society. The varieties of Indian performance played a formative role in American culture and identity during a critical phase in the nation's development. In Medicine Bundle, Joshua David Bellin examines the complex issues surrounding Indian sacred performance in its manifold and intimate relationships with texts and images by both Indians and whites. From the paintings of George Catlin, the traveling showman who exploited Indian ceremonies for the entertainment of white audiences, to the autobiography of Black Elk, the Lakota holy man whose long life included stints as a dancer in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, a supplicant in the Ghost Dance movement, and a catechist in the Catholic Church, Bellin reframes American literature, culture, and identity as products of encounter with diverse performance traditions. Like the traditional medicine bundle of sacred objects bound together for ritual purposes, Indian performance and the performance of Indianness by whites and Indians alike are joined in a powerful intercultural knot.
Masterfully interweaving political, religious, and historical themes, Not by Reason Alone creates a new interpretation of early modern political thought. Where most accounts assume that modern thought followed a decisive break with Christianity, Joshua Mitchell reveals that the line between the age of faith and that of reason is not quite so clear. Instead, he shows that the ideas of Luther, Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau draw on history, rather than reason alone, for a sense of political authority. This erudite and ambitious work crosses disciplinary boundaries to expose unsuspected connections between political theory, religion, and history. In doing so, it offers a view of modern political thought undistorted by conventional distinctions between the ancient and the modern, and between the religious and the political. "Original. . . . A delight to read a political philosopher who takes the theologies of Hobbes and Locke seriously." —J. M. Porter, Canadian Journal of History "Mitchell's argument both illuminates and fascinates. . . . An arresting, even stunning, contribution to our study of modern political thought."—William R. Stevenson, Jr., Christian Scholar's Review
Argues that the simple dichotomy between "traditional" and "assimmilationist" Cherokee writing oversimplifies the work of many authors and silences their more nuanced voices.
By the late nineteenth century, Americans rich and poor had come to expect high-quality fresh beef with almost every meal. Beef production in the United States had gone from small-scale, localized operations to a highly centralized industry spanning the country, with cattle bred on ranches in the rural West, slaughtered in Chicago, and consumed in the nation's rapidly growing cities. Red Meat Republic tells the remarkable story of the violent conflict over who would reap the benefits of this new industry and who would bear its heavy costs"--
This definitive edition of all of Captain Joshua Slocum's writings is now being reissued in time for the 100th anniversary of Slocum's epic singlehanded voyage.
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