Chained But Still Chosen

By Rodney A Clark

What if incarceration does not have to be the final definition of your life?

Chained, But Still Chosen: Still Loved. Still Called. Still More Than Your Past. is a Christ-centered message of hope, healing, deliverance, restoration, responsibility, and spiritual freedom written especially for those behind prison walls.

Rodney A. Clark Sr. does not minimize crime, consequences, broken trust, or the pain experienced by victims and families. Instead, the book begins with an essential truth: genuine transformation requires honesty and responsibility, but responsibility does not require living permanently under shame and condemnation.

Throughout the journey, readers are challenged to confront the prisons that can exist within a person even when the physical prison doors eventually open: guilt, shame, hatred, unforgiveness, addiction, fear, destructive thinking, and bondage to the past.

Drawing upon Scripture and the transforming message of Jesus Christ, the book addresses issues including:

Guilt, shame, and personal responsibility

Anger, forgiveness, and emotional wounds

Addiction and destructive patterns

Damaged relationships and broken trust

Family, children, and becoming a different influence

Identity, integrity, accountability, and purpose

Spiritual restoration and freedom in Christ

The message is not that the past does not matter. It is that the past does not have to become the final chapter.

Whether a reader is serving a short sentence, facing years of incarceration, preparing for release, or simply searching for evidence that life can still have meaning, Chained, But Still Chosen offers an invitation to begin experiencing freedom from the inside out.

Jesus declared:

"If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed."

John 8:36 (KJV)

Prison walls may restrict where you can go, but they cannot place you beyond the reach of God's grace.

Still Loved.

Still Called.

Still More Than Your Past.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HNF23R44
• ISBN13: 9798182897990
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Rodney A. Clark Ministries
• Length: 736 Pages
• Weight: 2.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"