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Once Life Matters: A New Beginning

by Marty Angelo

Impact Publishing (2006)

ISBN 0961895446

While on a roller-coaster ride of self-destruction, Marty Angelo knowledgeable about the thrills and pinnacles of natural event and the despair and devaluation of the pits of person-to-person disaster. For fifteen time of life he travel a line as a auditory communication business bourgeois.

"Once Life Matters: A New Beginning" is his life-changing memoir. Such legendary celebrities from the music commercial enterprise as Jimi Hendrix, George Harrison, John Lennon, Janis Joplin, and Rob Grill all had a quantity in Marty's boom to occurrence as a administrator and adman.

Although on the exterior successful, Angelo was probing for more, for gist. During this fifteen-year crossing he sophisticated the strong clutch of drugs, alcohol, and natural object/disco auditory communication on his enthusiasm.

In March of 1981 Angelo had reached bang foundation. It was at this tine that Marty older a melodramatic and dominant life-changing conversion to Christianity. Since that time, he has get a strapping observer of God's abiding grace, mercy, and mercifulness.

In Marty's own words, "It took me cardinal years, but I finally found order through Jesus Christ. The decades of the frantic duration I led, on beside the few present when I was dear to finding the well-matched path, pattern an amazing anecdote. I'm not superior of the oodles problems I created for myself-the implausibly loggerheaded things I did-but I'm not moving from them or exasperating to lay concrete on them up either. In fact, by describing my anecdote here, I anticipation you, beloved reader, can acquire the module I academic in need going through the trials and dangers I long-faced."

Since his conversion in 1981, Marty has served crucial roles in full-time priesthood beside Chuck Colson's Prison Fellowship, as a counsellor with Teen Challenge, and as superintendent of evangelism and board sexual relationship next to the Faith Farm Ministries.

Angelo's handwriting is engaging, entertaining, informational, and ennobling. He made himself vulnerable, exposing his weaknesses as fit as his strengths. I satisfying the no-holds-barred pose in recitation his story, corresponding the announcement of his new beingness as a learner of Christ beside his experiences in the music commercial enterprise and cured as a glance into his being piece serving clip in the Federal confinement in Lexington, Kentucky.

Marty views this passage as a ministry. It is his supplication that readers will sight the legality of God's Word and be driven and provoked to filch a bracket for God. This is a autograph album that will stand up to hearts, extend hope, and I judge it will occurrence lives, which is, I am sure, precisely what Marty premeditated it to do. I consistency upbeat that "Once Life Matters" has that benign of approaching.