Author Profile – Mark Malmin
Title: Turning Adversity Into Success
Why I wrote my book: I wrote this book with the intention and hope that it would offer a thought-provoking analytical approach to overcoming adversity for Christians. Why aren’t more Christians living an abundant life filled with joy and other fruits of the Spirit? Why is the journey so hard? This book examines how we shoot ourselves in the foot at times if we don’t follow the biblical principles of success that are available to us through Christ. Woven into the various chapters is the concept of the Great Commission and the idea that “missionary work” is when we live the driveway of our residence. Finally, the book was written to attract nonbelievers and seekers to Christ, and to that end, it explores the issues of sin and our need for Christ and his precious blood that was shed for the remission of our sin.
About me and my book: I was raised in the church as a preacher’s kid (PK) and a missionary kid (MK). I am basically a preacher at heart with a passion for evangelism and missions. Ironically, my career was in law enforcement. I had a wonderful career arresting murders, rapists, child molesters, thieves of every sort, and drug dealers who never went to Sunday School when they should have! My view is that police work is missionary work!
Favorite part about working with Bethany Press/BelieversPress? I think what attracted me to Bethany Press more than anything was their mission statement and commitment to the gospel of Christ. It struck a cord deep in my heart that we were sharing the same goal…the good news of Christ. Our mission is not books: our mission is the Great Commission and it just happen to involve the medium of print.
A tip for others: Since this was my first book I learned a lot. One of the biggest things I learned is that editing is time consuming and repetitive. If you want to get it right, edit, edit and re-edit. I must have had a million revisions to my manuscript before it was truly ready for print.
Why I wrote my book: I wrote this book with the intention and hope that it would offer a thought-provoking analytical approach to overcoming adversity for Christians. Why aren’t more Christians living an abundant life filled with joy and other fruits of the Spirit? Why is the journey so hard? This book examines how we shoot ourselves in the foot at times if we don’t follow the biblical principles of success that are available to us through Christ. Woven into the various chapters is the concept of the Great Commission and the idea that “missionary work” is when we live the driveway of our residence. Finally, the book was written to attract nonbelievers and seekers to Christ, and to that end, it explores the issues of sin and our need for Christ and his precious blood that was shed for the remission of our sin.
About me and my book: I was raised in the church as a preacher’s kid (PK) and a missionary kid (MK). I am basically a preacher at heart with a passion for evangelism and missions. Ironically, my career was in law enforcement. I had a wonderful career arresting murders, rapists, child molesters, thieves of every sort, and drug dealers who never went to Sunday School when they should have! My view is that police work is missionary work!
Favorite part about working with Bethany Press/BelieversPress? I think what attracted me to Bethany Press more than anything was their mission statement and commitment to the gospel of Christ. It struck a cord deep in my heart that we were sharing the same goal…the good news of Christ. Our mission is not books: our mission is the Great Commission and it just happen to involve the medium of print.
A tip for others: Since this was my first book I learned a lot. One of the biggest things I learned is that editing is time consuming and repetitive. If you want to get it right, edit, edit and re-edit. I must have had a million revisions to my manuscript before it was truly ready for print.
