To help myself and men overcome spiritual warfare, I spent four years identifying 19 areas I feel men are struggling with. I feel most men are like me and do not like to just sit down and read a non-sports book. Therefore, I divided the book into a four week easy reading study guide that should only take men 20 - 30 minutes a day to read. Because I know how important the weekends are to men and their desire for sports and other hobbies, the book is structured to appear as interaction sessions as if the reader is attending a 20 business day workshop. The areas men struggle with are divided into the four week sessions discussing Living in the Flesh, Focus on the Family, Idolatry, and Healthy Living. These four week sessions touch on topics such as lust, flirting, marriage, parenting, sports, cars, physical health, and emotional health. I feel addressing sinful topics that men are facing, using my life as testimonies, and structuring the book where you must list your testimonies will make men know that they are not alone and that others have gone through, going through, or may go through. This approach will help men open up and take a closer look at their lives. MAJ (Ret) Melvin T. Whittenburg is a born-again Christian who was once a casualty of Satan's IED's, was a sinner who fell down, but through the grace of God was allowed to survive his battle wounds and get back up and share his story of Surviving Battle Wounds. The many Battle wounds he received makes him a living testimony of how God can turn your life around. The Battle Wounds he received from Living in the Flesh, not Focusing on his Family causing him a divorce, Idolizing other Gods, not properly screening and having Health issues such as cancer were all forgiven by God. It is these testimonies that make him qualified to speak on the subject of Surviving Battle Wounds.
(From the Preface) Traces in the Dust focuses upon the African American families and residents of Carbondale since the founding of the Carbondale Township (1852). It is meant to provide a glimpse of the growth, progress, and development of the Black American community in the city through the exploration of recorded data and oral history.
WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZEA New York Times Book Review and Atlantic Monthly Editors' ChoiceThomas Jefferson denied that whites and freed blacks could live together in harmony. His cousin, Richard Randolph, not only disagreed, but made it possible for ninety African Americans to prove Jefferson wrong. Israel on the Appomattox tells the story of these liberated blacks and the community they formed, called Israel Hill, in Prince Edward County, Virginia. There, ex-slaves established farms, navigated the Appomattox River, and became entrepreneurs. Free blacks and whites did business with one another, sued each other, worked side by side for equal wages, joined forces to found a Baptist congregation, moved west together, and occasionally settled down as man and wife. Slavery cast its grim shadow, even over the lives of the free, yet on Israel Hill we discover a moving story of hardship and hope that defies our expectations of the Old South.
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