{"product_id":"from-crime-to-christ-matthew-maher-9780998630663","title":"From Crime to Christ: Could I Have Saved Me?","description":"As soon as the door shut hard behind us, I felt different inside. No longer an 18-year-old kid with twenty scholarship offers to play football, no longer a son, a boyfriend. No longer anything but what I'd be known as from here on out, which was number 98463. This was the first of four prison sentences that I would serve. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJail had taught me nothing other than how to commit more crimes. All the years I've spent in prison were with the mindset that anyone who sought God was weak. I had reverence for religion, but not the people. I was a persecutor of Christians, Catholics, Muslims; of all who spoke of God, yet I called myself a spiritualist. I knew there was something out there, but whatever it was, it had no use for me and I had none for it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eI blamed God for my life of misery and pain. I always thought of the line from Milton's \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/i\u003e as my motto, \"I'd rather rule in hell than serve in heaven.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd that's what I did. Until one day, when I died.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Matthew Maher, John Paladino\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0998630667\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780998630663\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e 55:11 Publishing LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 258\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.54d","brand":"Matthew Maher","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46602792206591,"sku":"9780998630663","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8c62c494-13cc-4f92-8bc2-d0724942e5db.jpg?v=1739695303","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/from-crime-to-christ-matthew-maher-9780998630663","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}