FROM PERDITION TO SALVATION: The Life and Times of a Convert

For much of his life, Shane MacQuarrie would have described himself as selfish, lost, and beyond saving. Raised with only a passing awareness of God, he spent his childhood, teenage years, and time in military service searching for meaning in all the wrong places — including a season exploring Wicca and Druidry when his first marriage began to fall apart. Everything changed in 2014. In the midst of a painful divorce, a spiral into depression, and a night that brought him to the edge of suicide, Shane stumbled into a small Church of the Nazarene in Washington State. What began as a reluctant visit turned into a transformation that would redefine the rest of his life. He picked up a Bible for the first time with real intention, found community in an unexpected place, and slowly began to rebuild — not just his faith, but his character, his relationships, and his sense of purpose. The years that followed were far from easy. Shane candidly recounts the messy, ongoing work of healing: a new marriage to his wife Natalie, the loss of family members, painful estrangements, a cross-country move to Oklahoma, and the daily grind of ministry life. Through it all, he became a chaplain — not to a traditional congregation, but to the unchurched, the overlooked, and the dying. His work at a senior living community, his walk alongside a niece battling self-harm, and his effort to reconcile a fractured family all reveal a man learning, in real time, what it means to love the way he believes he was loved first. This is not a polished conversion story wrapped in a neat bow. It is an honest, sometimes uncomfortable account of a man who spent years running from God, hit bottom, and found grace waiting for him there. Written as both memoir and testimony, the book closes with a direct, heartfelt invitation to the reader — an open door to the same faith that changed the author’s life. Life and Times of a Convert is a story of failure, redemption, and the slow, ongoing work of becoming a new person — for anyone who has ever wondered if they, too, are beyond saving.
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Author/Artist:“Rev” MacQuarrie, Chaplain Shane
Binding: Hardcover
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