I was searching for sobriety
and was found by Jesus.
NOT HERE TO
GET SOBER
A new book by Mike Badolato
RELEASING JANUARY 1, 2027
THE MAN IN THE MUGSHOT
“Mommy, who is that
sad man on the screen?”
While I was preaching, my daughter saw an old mugshot of me on the screen. She turned to Shari and asked, “Mommy, who is that sad man on the screen?”
She didn’t recognize her own dad.
The dad she knew read her books, prayed with her before bed, built cardboard forts, and took her to Five Below. She’d never known me addicted to heroin. She’d never known the hopelessness behind that picture.
I remembered all of it.
When Shari told me what she’d asked, it hit me: my daughter was growing up knowing a dad I once couldn’t imagine becoming.
That’s how much Jesus had changed my life.
INSIDE THE BOOK
Four parts and a bonus chapter
01
The Sad Man
On The Screen
02
Not Here To
Get Sober
03
Learning To
Live Free
04
Free People
FOR THE LOVED ONE
If you love someone caught in addiction, I wrote for you too.
I’ve been the person my family couldn’t change. I’ve also
known the heartbreak of experiencing freedom myself
while watching people I love remain caught in addiction.
As much as I wanted it for them, I couldn’t make them
free.
The bonus chapter, Loving Someone You Cannot
Change, comes from that part of my story. It’s for the
person who keeps praying, keeps hoping, and needs
some help knowing how to keep loving.
Mike Badolato
Mike Badolato is an evangelist, author, and co-founder of
Badolato Ministries. After years of heroin addiction, he
encountered Jesus at Teen Challenge in 2014. Today, he
and his wife, Shari, travel the country and the world sharing the freedom and restoration available through Jesus. They
live in Maryland with their two children.
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RELEASING JANUARY 1, 2027
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