Gambling with Eternity: The Loser Wins!
Dusty McLemore. Athens, Alabama: Lindsay Lane Publishing. 170 pp. (Paperback).
A young Alabama man has a gambling addiction. It gets worse and worse, endangering his marriage and his future. Time after time, he vows he will stop gambling but he always goes back to it. His life is crumbling and he owes his bookie an impossible sum.
Fast forward from 1979 to the present. That compulsive gambler has been gloriously saved, stopped gambling and paid back all of the money he owed to his bookie. Most surprising of all, that young man is now pastor of a church with more than 2,500 members.
“Gambling with Eternity” is the autobiography of Dusty McLemore, pastor of Lindsay Lane Baptist Church, Athens. Because of the growth of the church under his leadership, other pastors and church staff members are likely to be interested in what McLemore has to say. Because of his amazing story, lay people also will be interested in reading about the change brought about in his life.
The book is well written for the most part, although it could have benefited from more editing. The minor issues are not enough to diminish the impact or the enjoyment of the book.
—By Martine Bates Fairbanks, TAB book reviewer
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