Sign-In
Cart
Agony of a Wasted Youth: A Second Chance
Paperback
Classic FictionLiterary Fiction
Please select the version of book you would like to purchase.
ISBN13: 9798465192781
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 26 2021
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.41 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 26 2021
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.41 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Samuel was once every parent's dream-a brilliant, disciplined, God-fearing boy raised in a loving Christian home, educated in prestigious schools, and destined to become a great cardiologist. But sometimes, the road to destruction does not begin with a great fall. It begins with a small compromise.
A mobile phone introduces him to pornography. Bad friendships expose him to temptation. Gambling awakens his hunger for quick money. Soon, the promising young man abandons his education and plunges into the dangerous world of internet fraud. Wealth, women, luxury and reckless living follow, but so do deception, violence, crime and bloodshed. The boy his parents once called Timothy becomes a man they scarcely recognize.
A mobile phone introduces him to pornography. Bad friendships expose him to temptation. Gambling awakens his hunger for quick money. Soon, the promising young man abandons his education and plunges into the dangerous world of internet fraud. Wealth, women, luxury and reckless living follow, but so do deception, violence, crime and bloodshed. The boy his parents once called Timothy becomes a man they scarcely recognize.
Then everything collapses.
Arrested and sentenced to decades in prison, Samuel watches the dreams of his youth disappear behind prison walls. The fortune he accumulated is lost, his education is abandoned, his family is devastated, and the future he once imagined seems irretrievably gone. After fourteen years in prison, an unexpected uprising gives him freedom-but freedom comes with a terrible realization: he is forty-one years old, with nothing to show for the prime years of his life except regret, shame and the painful memories of a wasted youth.
Yet Samuel's story does not end there.
When he returns home broken and empty-handed, the family he once disappointed opens its arms to him. His brothers offer him a future, his parents offer him love, and God offers him something even greater-a second chance. But can a man truly rebuild a life after wasting its best years? Can grace reach someone who has fallen so far? And can yesterday's failure become the foundation for tomorrow's purpose?
Agony of a Wasted Youth is a gripping and deeply moving story of temptation, choices, consequences, family, forgiveness, redemption and the transforming power of grace. It is both a warning to the young and a message of hope to anyone who believes that a wasted past means a wasted future.
Because sometimes, the greatest miracle is not that a person never falls.
It is that, after falling, God gives him another chance to rise.
Arrested and sentenced to decades in prison, Samuel watches the dreams of his youth disappear behind prison walls. The fortune he accumulated is lost, his education is abandoned, his family is devastated, and the future he once imagined seems irretrievably gone. After fourteen years in prison, an unexpected uprising gives him freedom-but freedom comes with a terrible realization: he is forty-one years old, with nothing to show for the prime years of his life except regret, shame and the painful memories of a wasted youth.
Yet Samuel's story does not end there.
When he returns home broken and empty-handed, the family he once disappointed opens its arms to him. His brothers offer him a future, his parents offer him love, and God offers him something even greater-a second chance. But can a man truly rebuild a life after wasting its best years? Can grace reach someone who has fallen so far? And can yesterday's failure become the foundation for tomorrow's purpose?
Agony of a Wasted Youth is a gripping and deeply moving story of temptation, choices, consequences, family, forgiveness, redemption and the transforming power of grace. It is both a warning to the young and a message of hope to anyone who believes that a wasted past means a wasted future.
Because sometimes, the greatest miracle is not that a person never falls.
It is that, after falling, God gives him another chance to rise.
Also from
Iheme, Kingsley
Understanding the Mosaic Law: God's Covenant, Justice, and the Fulfillment of Redemption in Christ
Iheme, Kingsley
Paperback
$15.60
Success from the Cradle to the Grave: A Lifetime of Purpose, Faith, and Legacy
Iheme, Kingsley
Paperback
$19.20
Building Your Own Life: A Journey From Self-neglect To Self-respect, Purpose, And Lasting Freedom
Iheme, Kingsley
Paperback
$16.80
Understanding the Book of Revelation: Unveiling Jesus, Understanding Prophecy, Embracing Hope
Iheme, Kingsley
Paperback
$24.00
The Seedtime and Harvest: Understanding The Biblical Principle of Sowing And Reaping
Iheme, Kingsley
Paperback
$16.80
Also in
Classic Fiction
James Fenimore Cooper: The Leatherstocking Tales Vol. 1 (Loa #26): The Pioneers / The Last of the Mohicans / The Prairie
Cooper, James Fenimore
Hardcover
From $19.99
Four Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew, a Midsummer Night's Dream, the Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night
Shakespeare, William
Paperback
From $5.99
Before Gatsby: The First Twenty-Six Stories
Bruccoli, Matthew J.
Baughman, Judith
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Paperback
$50.74
The Princess Bride Deluxe Limited Edition: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure
Goldman, William
Paperback
$20.90
The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of the Lord of the Rings
Tolkien, J. R. R.
Paperback
$17.99
The Lord of the Rings Illustrated by the Author: Illustrated by J.R.R. Tolkien
Tolkien, J. R. R.
Hardcover
$81.00
The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure
Goldman, William
Hardcover
$38.00
The Pilgrim's Progress: A Readable Modern-Day Version of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress (Revised and easy-to-read)
Bunyan, John
Vermilye, Alan
Paperback
$15.19
Frankenstein, Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Stoker, Bram
Shelley, Mary
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Paperback
$9.45