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    The Prodigal Comes Home: My Story of Failure and God's Story of Redemption
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    The Prodigal Comes Home: My Story of Failure and God's Story of Redemption

    By Michael English

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    A painfully honest story of human weakness and God's unending forgiveness.

    Thirteen years ago, amidst scandal, sin, and shattered lives, Michael English fell from the pinnacle of the Christian music world. In 1994, newspapers around the world blared the headline, "Gospel Singer Named Artist of the Year Turns in His Awards After Confirming He Had an Affair with a Fellow Married Singer." From 1994 to 2002 Michael English's life went from bad to worse. Public shame, divorce, broken relationships, drug addiction, even homelessness. But in 2002, God reached out and rescued Michael from himself. Today Michael is whole again, and in this book he tells his story of redemption.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas Nelson
    Release dateFeb 17, 2008
    ISBN9781418554682

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    • 3/5
      Anyone who was a fan of Christian music in the early '90s will remember vividly the story of Michael English. At least, the beginning of the story. Most of us had no idea what happened to him after the scandal that ruined his Christian musical career along with the woman (and the band) with whom he had an affair.But that story was really just the beginning of the story of Michael English. What happened next will fascinate and horrify you. Michael took a long road of self destruction that ended with him nearly in prison and/or dead.This book is almost as likely to depress you as it is to open your eyes. I say that only because Michael's story IS depressing and sad... However, it's also a great example of God's love for all of us and how His mercy is enough to lift us from the lowest depths of depravity and despair. No one, especially not Michael English, will ever stop wondering what his life could have been like had he not made the bad decisions he made, but all of us can be thankful that another one of God's lambs has been brought back into the flock.This book isn't especially well written nor does it go into some of the details some people would probably like to hear. But it is a good story and worth reading.
    • 5/5
      This could have been just a come-back career vehicle. Instead, thanks to English's bare vulnerability, if not humility, and Vincent's flair for good storytelling, this is a spiritual autobiography. I didn't understand how severe addiction to painkillers could be before reading this book. But this isn't just an addiction book. It is also a book about the family of gospel music and its personalities, as well as the story of an ordinary man saved by the steady pulse of Goodness.