When I Finally Stopped Running
A memoir of faith, family, rebellion, and redemption.
Cover, release date, and purchase information will be added as the book gets closer to launch.
Author • Speaker • Podcast Host
From Rebellion
to Redemption
A story of faith, transformation, and discovering that you are never too far beyond God's reach.
Meet Nadine
There is purpose in the journey.
My story didn’t begin with having everything figured out.
I grew up as a preacher’s kid, surrounded by church, faith, and family. I knew from a young age that God had placed a calling on my life, but knowing you are called and being ready to walk in that calling are two very different things.
I became a mother at sixteen, and the years that followed took me through choices, relationships, heartbreak, motherhood, marriage, loss, and more than a few detours. For a very long time, I ran from the very thing I knew God was calling me toward.
But God never stopped reaching for me.
Today, I share my story not because every chapter of my life was pretty, but because every chapter became part of the journey that brought me here.
My story is one of rebellion, redemption, and finally learning that you can run from your calling, but you can never run beyond God’s reach.
Read My Story →My Story
I spent years running.
Long before I understood where my life would take me, I knew there was a calling on my life.
But life happened.
I made choices. I made mistakes. I became a teenage mother. I experienced love, heartbreak, marriage, divorce, motherhood, grief, new beginnings, and seasons when I thought I had traveled too far in the wrong direction to ever find my way back.
Through it all, God remained.
My memoir tells the story behind the woman I am today, including the parts that were painful, complicated, funny, uncomfortable, and sometimes difficult to admit.
This isn’t a story about a perfect Christian life.
It’s the story of what happened when I finally stopped running.
More of the Journey
This story continues. Future books in the memoir series will have a home here as they are completed.
The Podcast
From Rebellion to Redemption
There are some stories that need more than pages.
From Rebellion to Redemption is a faith-centered podcast where I talk about the lessons I’ve learned through my own journey and encourage others who may feel as though they have gone too far for God to reach them.
I spent years running from my calling. Through this podcast, I want to have honest conversations about faith, rebellion, forgiveness, family, relationships, purpose, and what it really means to find your way back to God.
You don’t have to have everything figured out. You don’t have to have a perfect past. And your story doesn’t have to be finished for God to begin using it.
You are never too far beyond His reach.
EPISODES COMING SOONListening links will be added when the show is published.
My Message
Your past does not get the final word.
For years, I believed some of my choices defined who I was.
They didn’t.
I’ve learned that redemption doesn’t erase your story. It gives your story purpose.
Somebody else may need the testimony you were once ashamed to tell. That’s why I share mine.
If my story helps one person realize that it’s not too late to turn around, start again, answer the call on their life, or believe that God still has a purpose for them, then sharing it was worth it.
Author • Speaker • Podcast Host
Nadine Martin Jones
Nadine Martin Jones is the author behind When I Finally Stopped Running and the host of From Rebellion to Redemption.
Through writing, speaking, and podcasting, she shares a message centered on faith, redemption, purpose, and the belief that no matter how far life takes you from where you were meant to be, your story isn’t over.
Her work is rooted in one message:
You are never too far beyond God’s reach.
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