When I Finally Stopped Running
A memoir of faith, family, rebellion, and redemption.
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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 life took me through choices, relationships, heartbreak, motherhood, marriage, loss, and more than a few detours.
Today, I share my journey because even the difficult chapters helped shape the woman I am today.
My story is one of rebellion, redemption, and finally learning to stop running.
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.
My memoir tells the story behind those years, 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 where I take the conversation beyond my memoir. Through honest conversations about faith, family, relationships, forgiveness, purpose, and the lessons life has taught me, I want to encourage people who are still trying to find their way.
Some episodes will come from my own experiences. Others will explore the lessons those experiences taught me and the conversations we sometimes avoid having.
This is a place for testimony, reflection, encouragement, and real conversations about what it means to keep growing.
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.
You are never too far beyond God’s reach.
Author • Speaker • Podcast Host
Nadine Martin Jones
Nadine Martin Jones is the author of When I Finally Stopped Running and host of From Rebellion to Redemption.
Through writing, speaking, and podcasting, she shares stories and conversations centered on faith, redemption, purpose, family, and the lessons found along life’s unexpected roads.
Her message is simple: Your story isn’t over.
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The story is still being written.
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Contact
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