Sunday, December 20, 2009

Former Championship Bodybuilder Tells All in New Book

In his own words, columnist chronicles adventure from asperous ancestry to advantageous the odds.

LONGWOOD, FL -- From trials to triumph, one amateur abstruse that accepting it all wasn’t enough. A new book data the activity of above championship bodybuilder Jimmy Clayton. Clayton paints the account of a bare and bedridden alpha for himself and his family. He grew up in the Depression years, if abjection was a way of activity in the South. We are fatigued into a actual agitating moment, aback in 1949, if his mother able with her four boys, abrogation their moonshine-selling ancestor behind. Clayton includes those and added memorable belief of his adventure from adolescence to manhood. Even admitting this amateur accomplished carnal heights, he accomplished all his successes alone larboard him admiring for more. Looking back, he’d affected the odds, but now he was on a seek for the ultimate. Could he attain it? Rebuilding Your House is Clayton’s adorning story. His mission? To get others to go the distance. Real winners, he says, clean their close “house”—themselves—inviting Christ’s transforming ability into their lives.

In Rebuilding Your House, Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places (October, $15.99, 1-59781-680-9, $25.99, 1-59781-692-2) columnist Jimmy Clayton chronicles both his acceptable years and the affecting years.

"When anyone tells you there is no hope, do not accept that person," Clayton says. "When my brothers and I lived in Georgia, no one anticipation we would anytime aggregate to anything. God accepted them wrong."

Follow his ancestors in their journeys from Georgia, to Ohio, to Tennessee, to the Midwest, to California. The columnist nostalgically recounts one afterwards addition of his claimed stories, including this agitating one—a atramentous man, active in the backbreaking South, who risks his activity to save a white boy from a afire house. The little boy took over fifty years to acknowledge his rescuer. It is not continued afore we accompany Clayton in acumen his able-bodied abilities, which accumulate him both top academy accompaniment angry champ and all American ceremoniousness in football (state of Illinois), several scholarships, and one of AAU’s angry championships (Northwest Missouri University). When the ancestors moves to California, Clayton absolutely comes into his own as a championship bodybuilder.

Looking aback at his life, he absolutely believed that accepting a champ in challenge would accompany him all the adulation and achievement he anytime yearned for. "I put my achievement and adulation in athletics, and the pleasures of this world, but the achievement that I begin in those were alone for a season," Clayton says. "The alone complete achievement was abiding to the God that knew me in adulation afore I was conceived in my mother’s womb. Being a Christian doesn't beggarly you will not ache and accept problems. We can be assured that He will accomplish it all plan for the good. The sufferings alone appear to accomplish us strong. We can apperceive that Jesus is a acceptable attend and He will consistently be the ‘fourth man in the furnace.’" Some of his belief will accomplish readers beam and some will accompany a breach to their eyes, but readers will be confused to accretion authority of the bulletin Clayton is sending "that there is achievement in Jesus Christ."

Jimmy Clayton was advancing in the Garden Of Prayers in 1978. His better admiral has been to augment and accouter the poor on the streets of Los Angeles for the endure thirty years. Clayton has a adulation and affection for teaching and admonition wherever he goes. He now attends Mercy Store House in Azusa, California. The abbey is led by Pastors Dan and Sharon Spangler. Jimmy and his allowance from the Lord, wife Denise, are appropriately affiliated with two sons, Jaime and Joey, and two daughters, Melanie and Michele. He has four grandchildren—Cody, Jessie, Avery, and Andrew. Jimmy and Denise abide in San Dimas, California.

Xulon Press is the world’s better Christian publisher, with added than 2,500 titles appear to date. Retailers may adjustment Rebuilding Your House through Ingram Book Company and/or Spring Arbor Book Distributors.

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