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    In Love's Service
    In Love's Service
    In Love's Service
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    In Love's Service

    By Steven M. Mandala

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    This story takes you on a journey beyond the bounds of reason and emotion, on an epistemic search for answers to lifes reasons for loss and pain. Inspired by the authors own life, we are taught why scars of our past persist and what true love really means.

    Taking place within the confines of a small cell, a man is given a choice to either let the past bind his future and suffer in vain or to use the abrasions of his life to answer his own questions about purpose, love, and reality. The choice he is confronted with is the same choice we all have been given. Are you ready to know what it means to love and be loved?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateJul 12, 2012
    ISBN9781449757205
    In Love's Service
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    Steven M. Mandala

    Steven M. Mandala, a writer, speaker, and philanthropist, is an evangelical Christian. He is a member of Liquid Church in New Brunswick, New Jersey, speaker at New Jerusalem Pentecostal Church in Passaic, New Jersey, and a volunteer for various prison ministries. Besides ministry, he works as an apprentice in Monmouth Junction, New Jersey. In 2010, Mr. Mandala was sentenced to six years in prison for charges including money laundering and grand larceny—crimes committed while employed as a stockbroker in New York City. He was released on good behavior after twenty months of incarceration. Steven resides in Metuchen, New Jersey, with his wife. This is his first novel.

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