When I first published my story of conversion from Crime to Christ on the 11th February 2001, under the title, 'Converted on LSD Trip', I thought every one would be delighted to hear the good news. So I asked the Principal of Fareham College, where I was employed as a lecturer, to write a foreword to my book. I was very disappointed, surprised and hurt at his response. He said he would have nothing to do with a book, either privately or publicly, that overtly referred to drug taking. It was like he had judged the book by its cover and title, and so this volume is a reprint of the original story but more. I understood he was a Christian and thought that he would have been delighted and pleased to hear my story and have it told to all the world. You see I had written all about my past criminal life as a youth, my imprisonment for violence and drug taking, that led to my downfall. It was when I was down and at rock bottom experiencing the horrors during a bad trip on LSD that I cried out to God for help, asking Jesus please help me. He answered me on the 16th of January 1970 saying He was with me and would never leave me and that what I had been going through was nothing compared to what hell was like. You see the title of my book was, 'Converted on LSD Trip' and on its front cover was a write-up of the court case where I confessed to 24 crimes and a three-year career of undetected crimes, along with my former profligate life. So one thing I learned, some people judge a book by its cover. So this time my book has a different title and a different cover and written to remind my readers, religious and none religious friends, family and acquaintances that we have all sinned and cannot throw stones at others thinking we are better than them for as the Apostle Paul wrote 'such were some of you'. In other words, we are all in need of the salvation that I write about and have experienced. I was saved from a lifetime of crime, immorality, drug taking and hell having no peace with God, and I live to tell the story.
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AUTHOR'S FOREWORD 1 CONFESSION TO 24 CRIMES 2 MY EARLY LIFE 3 GARSTON INFANT SCHOOL 4 SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS 5 OUR MOVE TO WILSTONE 6 AYLESBURY: OUR NEW HOME 7 I MEET MRS. GRACE KNIGHT 8 OUR ROCK GROUP 9 THE BUBBLE CAR 10 CANTERBURY PRISON 11 MY RELEASE FROM BORSTAL 12 CONVERSION FROM CRIME TO CHRIST 13 WHAT AFTER SALVATION 14 WHAT TO DO WITH STOLEN GOODS 15 GOING TO CHURCH 16 GETTING A JOB 17 PENTECOSTAL HOLINESS BIERTON 18 WORKING FOR GRANADA TV RENTALS 19 BIERTON STRICT AND PARTICULAR BAPTISTS 20 I JOIN THE BIERTON CHURCH 21 CATERHAM STRICT BAPTIST HOLIDAY 22 BIERTON GOSPEL STANDARD CAUSE 1981 23 A CALL TO PREACH THE GOSPEL 24 THE PAPAL VISIT, 1982 25 I GO FISHING FOR MEN 26 WADDESDON STRICT BAPTIST CHAPEL 27 TRUTH CAUSES A DIVISION 28 JOHN METCALFE TYLER'S GREEN CHAPEL 29 I LEAVE THE BIERTON CHURCH 30 OUR MOVE TO SNAILBEACH 31 WE MOVE TO LUTON 32 MANIC DEPRESSION OR BIPOLAR DISORDER 33 THE ROAD DIVIDES 34 A DRAMATIC CHANGE IN MY LIFE 35 NUMBER 2 HAYLING CLOSE 36 MICHAEL AND THE PHILIPPINES 37 MY DIVORCE, AUGUST 1996 38 MY MARRIAGE AND 11 HAYLING CLOSE 39 OUR FIRST SEPARATION 40 OUR SECOND AND FINAL SEPARATION 41 HOW MY LIFE WAS EFFECTED 42 MICHAEL'S CALL FOR HELP 43 OUR FIRST MISSION TO THE PHILIPPINES 2001 44 OUR SECOND MISSION TO THE PHILIPPINES 45 A REVOLT IN NEW BILIBID PRISON 46 FIRST PETITION AGAINST TROJAN HORSE 47 SECOND PETITION AGAINST TROJAN HORSE 48 THE WORK PLANTED IN BAGUIO CONTINUES 49 MY RETURN TO THE UK 50 MICHAEL'S DEATH AND BURIAL 51 TESTIMONY 41 MICHAEL JOHN CLARKE 52 ESSENCE OF MY LEARNING 53 NO REST FOR THE SOLE OF MY FEET 54 BIERTON PARTICULAR BAPTIST COLLEGE