{"product_id":"9781450042123","title":"Step Generation: An American Emplosion","description":"Basically, the enemy we face in our country today is not an enemy attacking  \u003cbr\u003efrom the outside of our border but an enemy embedded within. Freedom cannot  \u003cbr\u003ethrive if the family unit does not survive. Without an understanding of noble  \u003cbr\u003esacrifice, serving others, or divine accountability, we are doomed. The time is  \u003cbr\u003ecritical. We need men to step up to the plate of leadership, we need women to  \u003cbr\u003ecome alongside, and we need abandonment to be abandoned.  \u003cbr\u003eAs mentioned on the backside of this book, I am a product of this loose  \u003cbr\u003elifestyle myself, and as I matured into a young adult, I just fell into my place  \u003cbr\u003eof hurting and misleading others too. This may be a similar lifestyle that  \u003cbr\u003eyou are in or came from. I did not truly understand the destruction that I  \u003cbr\u003ewas distributing until I looked at the wake I was leaving behind me in this  \u003cbr\u003elifestyle. So where did my personal change come from in my life? First of all,  \u003cbr\u003emy personal change wasn't as easy as a oil change at Walmart. No it was more  \u003cbr\u003elike an engine overhaul by NASCAR. Disassembly of thoughts and lifestyle is  \u003cbr\u003epart of of the process. Reassembly with perseverance, grace, and love is must  \u003cbr\u003ein order to foster a changed life. Between the self help books, shots of tequila,  \u003cbr\u003eA.C.A. meetings, a couple sixpacks, some acid trips, divorce, counciling, and  \u003cbr\u003elosing my car a couple times, plus a dozen or so girlfriends, I finally opened a  \u003cbr\u003ebook my grandmother had given me. This book introduced me to Jesus. Now  \u003cbr\u003eplease don't drop this book and run. I'm not here to convert or preach, but  \u003cbr\u003eI wouldn't be honest if I didn't mention the Bible and Jesus. Through both  \u003cbr\u003eI've learned the ability to love others as I would have liked to be loved as a  \u003cbr\u003echild, sacrificial, unadulterated, and kind-love that leads to the building up  \u003cbr\u003eof others, not only to build my family directly but mankind as a whole. People  \u003cbr\u003eobviously learn how to love by the example given them by their parents. The  \u003cbr\u003emodel lived out before them is the foundation of which they'll build their lives on. Women won't reach their full potential as an adult until they have made the  \u003cbr\u003edecisions required of a mother, and boys won't grow up and become men until  \u003cbr\u003ethey are challenged to serve their own family and not themselves.  \u003cbr\u003eEven if you don't believe in the Bible as an inspired word of God, Jesus  \u003cbr\u003etaught us to be accountable to something bigger than ourselves and to love  \u003cbr\u003eour neighbor as ourselves. If we could just put those two things into action,  \u003cbr\u003e\"first\" in our lives, then our families' lives. Our communities would thrive  \u003cbr\u003eand not have to get into welfare lines, abortion lines, or battle lines . . .  \u003cbr\u003eThis book and workbook to follow are designed to give you, the reader, a  \u003cbr\u003ebetter perspective of how challenging the step life can be. Whether you're the  \u003cbr\u003eparent or the stepparent, the challenges and frustrations will be unique to your  \u003cbr\u003emarriage. Sometimes you may feel like you're shipwrecked on an island all alone  \u003cbr\u003ein the ocean of life, because when you speak to friends or family they don't have  \u003cbr\u003ean ex to deal with. They don't have children to deal with children that aren't  \u003cbr\u003ebiologically theirs. They don't have the feelings of frustration when the other  \u003cbr\u003eparents rules are mentioned in defiance or that parent does something that you  \u003cbr\u003edisagree with and you have no control to change their influence. Anyway, these  \u003cbr\u003ethings and more will be dealt in later chapters, so read on, soldiers.","brand":"Xlibris Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47140500308208,"sku":"9781450042123","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781450042123_p0.jpg?v=1763831856","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781450042123","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}