YOUNG AND ANOINTED

Malcolm loved God. He served faithfully. He carried a genuine anointing. And every Sunday he stood to minister, he carried a secret that nobody discerned.

Young and Anointed: The Science of Getting Back Up is the book the church rarely writes. Told through the story of Malcolm, a gifted young minister whose calling outran his character, it traces the path that almost every fall follows: the open door that never announces itself, the lie that says it will never happen to me, the boundaries that erode one ordinary evening at a time, and the hidden battle that grows stronger the longer nobody knows it exists.

But this is not a book about falling. It is a book about the gap between anointing and maturity, and about the God who restores. Walking through David and Bathsheba, Samson and Delilah, Joseph in Potiphar's house, and the unforgettable contrast between Peter and Judas, it lays out the five biblical laws of getting back up: how to tell conviction from condemnation, how to own a failure completely, how to receive forgiveness fully, how to submit to the process, and why restoration always ends in assignment.

And it refuses to stop at the altar call. In a chapter almost nobody writes, it answers the question every restored believer eventually faces: what do you do when the repentance is real but the appetite survives?

Written by a pastor in the voice of a father, for sons and daughters in the faith. For the young and called. For the currently hidden. For everyone who has ever fallen and wondered whether God was finished with them.

He is not.

These are the things I wish I knew.