About Pursued: God’s Relentless Pursuit and a Drug Addicts Journey to Finding Purpose
We had lit a forest on fire…
We were stoned as crap…
My sister was calling 9-1-1…
As I watched the flames dance across the twilight sky, consuming everything in their path, I realized they represented my life. In my pursuit of pleasure and partying, I had ignited an addiction worse than any forest fire. After five arrests, a dozen allegations, a v-squad of cop cars chasing me down center street, and years of worshipping all the wrong things led me to the brink of death, I finally found hope in life. This is a story of how the initially enthralling and sometimes humorous pursuits of drugs, sex, and success cannot satisfy in the way that they promise, but there is One who can.
Embark on a journey of hysteria, weeping, and laughter as you realize you are not quite so singularly broken as perhaps you once thought.
This book is just as much for those who are facing addiction as it is for their friends, mentors, counselors, and teachers. For all those high schoolers and college students thinking that drinking and partying is the high-life, this will hit home. For all those graduates and working professionals striving relentlessly to build a name for themselves through accomplishments, wealth, status, luxury, and success, this book will resonate.
Maybe you’re at your wit’s end, believing that you will never heal, you will always be broken. Maybe you’re in the trenches of addiction or maybe you recently took your first hit or shot. Either way, these humorous pursuits, sorrowful stories, and powerful truths will help you know you’re not alone in your battles and your hardships. More than that, this book will empower you to stand and fight for yourself and for those you love!
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Since being rescued from the clutches of addiction, Michael has traveled to, volunteered, and lived in over 35 countries. He has spoken in jails, rehabs, detention centers, treatment centers, churches and schools with an unquenchable passion to help people find and experience the love of God which he rejected and missed out on for so many years.
Some of Michael’s favorite memories are from when he worked with Youth With A Mission (YWAM) and Operation Mobilization (OM). Living in a tent for five months, he had to shower with a water bottle as he served across southern Africa, empowering locals, planting churches, and helping remove injustices oppressing children. Another team lived in a van and slept on church floors for six months across Europe as they served gypsies and orphans, creating education and distribution programs alongside local churches. When he lived in Asia for two years, he was adopted by the underground church, learned an eastern language, danced with a hundred grannies across the town square, and fended off rabid monkeys with the broom from fantasia.
After four years of international service, Michael returned to the United States to complete a Master’s Degree in Intercultural Studies and Community Development. After that, he pastored a small Presbyterian church in the heart of Mormon country for three and a half years. He currently has five jobs, all but one of which is related to writing. He also runs two ministries in conjunction with his church Calvary Mountain View: a weekly Bible study for juvenile delinquents at private and state-run facilities, and Evangelism Explosion. Both efforts are aimed at helping those who are facing addiction, homelessness, helplessness, depression, suicide or lack of purpose.