In 2015, marriage equality became legal all over the United States. Even the top three major American team sports accept out players. Despite these milestones, teenage bullying resulting in deaths because of suicide is being documented throughout the USA. Did these teenagers die in vain? Is that attraction a lifestyle or a real authentic life? Adam and Steve: The Rules for Men Who Are Attracted to Other Men is written as an easy-to-read, smart, sexy, and provocative road map about same-sex attraction along with this authors findings that this is a real culture. Primarily, this book will speak to three different audiences. One is a teen or preteen male attracted to the same sex who may be discovering his own sexuality or is being bullied because of it. The other is the adult male who may understand his sexuality but not his obligation to others who come behind him. The third group is the parent or family member who just wants to be supportive.
Kate is apprehensive about meeting her son Joey for the first time in thirteen yearsthe first time since she gave birth to him and relinquished custody to the father, Michael Shaw. Shes invited to Michaels home where he lives with his husband, Stuart Shaw, a restaurant manager. Kate feels a bit uncomfortable, and this turns to shock when she discovers naked pictures of Joey on Stuarts phone. Thinking her son is in danger from a pedophile stepfather, she and her husband, Larry, sue for custody of Joey. For Stuart, the possible loss of his stepson culminates a lifetime of victimization by homophobes, whether it be his mother, classmate, employer, the average man in a bar letting loose after a hard days work, or the judge who decides his familys fate. Michael and Stuart must discover who took the pictures in order to prove Stuart didnt do anything to endanger his stepson and to regain custody of Joey. Stuart refuses to be a victim and demands to be heard, but that could change his destiny. A novel of legal intrigue, Adam and Steve explores the timely subjects of child custody, prejudice against homosexuality, and gay marriage laws as Michael and Stuart face a difficult struggle to maintain their family.
This book is meant to help you on your journey out of bondage. I will tell you step-by-step how I was able to make this turnaround in my life with the help of the Lord guiding me all the way. It is never too late to give your life to God. The Lord is willing and waiting. Dont let fear hold you back another minute. All things are possible to those who believe. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord (Colossians 3:16).
Inside Apple reveals the secret systems, tactics and leadership strategies that allowed Steve Jobs and his company to churn out hit after hit and inspire a cult-like following for its products. If Apple is Silicon Valley's answer to Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory, then author Adam Lashinsky provides readers with a golden ticket to step inside. In this primer on leadership and innovation, the author will introduce readers to concepts like the "DRI" (Apple's practice of assigning a Directly Responsible Individual to every task) and the Top 100 (an annual ritual in which 100 up-and-coming executives are tapped a la Skull & Bones for a secret retreat with company founder Steve Jobs). Based on numerous interviews, the book offers exclusive new information about how Apple innovates, deals with its suppliers and is handling the transition into the Post Jobs Era. Lashinsky, a Senior Editor at Large for Fortune, knows the subject cold: In a 2008 cover story for the magazine entitled The Genius Behind Steve: Could Operations Whiz Tim Cook Run The Company Someday he predicted that Tim Cook, then an unknown, would eventually succeed Steve Jobs as CEO. While Inside Apple is ostensibly a deep dive into one, unique company (and its ecosystem of suppliers, investors, employees and competitors), the lessons about Jobs, leadership, product design and marketing are universal. They should appeal to anyone hoping to bring some of that Apple magic to their own company, career, or creative endeavor.
THE STORY: A stage manager, headset and prompt book at hand, brings the house lights to half, then dark, and cues the creation of the world. Throughout the play, she's in control of everything. In other words, she's either God, or she thinks she is
God Did TOO Make Adam & Steve is short and concise yet filled with powerful and thought provoking content. Whether you are accepting of gay people and their families, opposed to the idea of gay relationships or somewhere in between, this book is designed to help readers replace blistering rhetoric with meaningful dialogue and deal with issues in a calm manner. Regardless of where you stand on the issue of equality for same sex couples, after reading this book you will approach the issue with deeper insight, increased understanding and the confidence to engage in meaningful conversation. Although marriage equality is a legal reality in America, a lot of controversy and misunderstanding still surrounds the issue. Many parents and families still struggle, some to the point of severely strained relationship. Wherever families are on their journey, God Did TOO Make Adam & Steve helps parents, siblings and friends of LGBT people to move towards love, support and acceptance. Religious differences still divide us and cause us to engage in heated and sometimes hurtful conversations. This book empowers people to engage in civil discourse in a non-threatening way. Writer Denny Smith brings a traditional background, a public school education, a social conscience, and a parent's love to the controversial issue of marriage equality. This book will lead you to consider... Is Sexual Orientation a "choice" or is it inherent? Is the love between two gay people any different than the love between a man and a woman? Is gay marriage really a threat to the institution of marriage? Is it possible for us to disagree without being disagreeable? Based on personal insight, scholarly reference, scriptural context, God Did TOO Make Adam & Steve confronts ideologues and bashers who would deny legal rights and human dignity to LGBT citizens. It drives a nail, although amicable, through the facade of political and religious extremism that denies that all men and women, regardless of sexuality, are children of a loving Creator. God Did TOO Make Adam & Steve is more than an academic text or social treatise, it is a saga of love and justice that supports the growing belief of mainstream America that marriage is a personal issue, constitutionally guaranteed.
This book is not about Eve. Instead, it is about the woman that was made when Adam was made. If you have ever wondered about Genesis story with respect to Adam trying to find a helpmate ; this will help you understand. God did not forget to make a woman for Adam, nor did Adam, initially, go around a see if any of the animals were compatible with him. By the way, Adam quickly determined that the skunk would not make a good helpmeet. Also, I must tell you, snakes did not have legs in the Garden of Eden. The Bible doesn't say that, so don't go believing that the Bible is wrong in its description of Adam and the whole Garden of Eden visual description as laid out by Moses.
Knowing God truly, experiencing Him deeply. What would it look like to genuinely love God with our head AND our heart? To have a faith marked by right thinking AND right feeling? To know God deeply AND worship him passionately? Too often, Christians act as though these things are at odds with one another. But what if God intends for us to possess a Christianity that is radically committed to biblical truth, in a way that did not diminish the life of the heart, but actually intensified it? Adam Ramsey invites us to engage both our minds and our emotions in our walk with God as we gaze at him until our hearts sing. He sums it up like this: "My hope in these following pages is to paint a biblical portrait of what God is actually like, so that we can gaze upon him together until our hearts can’t help but sing. To behold him in such a way that our daily experience is transformed with a deepened awareness of who it is we pray to, who it is that is with us, and who it is that we are loved by. To let God’s truth set our hearts on fire." If you yearn for God but desire a clearer biblical picture of this God whom you love, or if you have been walking with God for a while now, but your experience of him has become settled or dry, then this book is for you.
The OKC Thunder's big man shares the unlikely story behind his indomitable sense of determination and his journey from Rotorua, New Zealand to stardom in the NBA. Steven Adams overcame extreme odds to become a first-round prospect in the 2013 NBA draft. From there he signed a major contract with the Oklahoma City Thunder -- making him New Zealand's highest-paid athlete ever -- and went on to forge a reputation for his intense, physical style of basketball. Adams takes you inside the draft process from the fascinating whirlwind tour of pre-draft workouts with dozens of teams to the draft itself where dreams are made or dashed and the Gatorade bottles on every table are glued shut. He reveals what it's like to be a rookie in the league, getting pushed around and elbowed -- or worse. He takes the court alongside superstars like Russell Westbrook, Paul George, Carmelo Anthony, and Kevin Durant; and matches up against legendary big men like Tim Duncan, DeAndre Jordan, Dwight Howard, and Draymond Green. Adams recounts the Thunder's rise through the victories and the heartbreaks and how the resilient team has a bright future ahead. In this intimate account of his life story so far, the seven-foot center also reflects on his humble upbringing as one of fourteen children, the impact of his father's death when he was just thirteen, the multiple challenges and setbacks he has faced, and what basketball means to him. Told with warmth, humor, and humility, My Life, My Fight is a gripping account from an emerging superstar.
