MEADVILLE, Pa. (PRWEB) August 16, 2018
“Johnathan Ivey: The Man behind the Monster”: a searing memoir chronicling the life of an MMA legend turned Christian dad. “Johnathan Ivey” is the creation of published author, Charlie Dykstra, a minister, Christian counselor, radio talk show host, and MMA enthusiast.
Dykstra shares, “No one could ever guess what the Leg Lock Monster is really like by his appearance. It would take a book about him to help people to understand who he is. So I am writing one. My task is to explain the single most complex, intriguing, and surprisingly honorable person I have ever known.
After years of bonding with the monster, he asked me to do his biography. Writing the life story of Johnathan Ivey is a complicated thing. The first thing that came to my mind was where even to begin? My first effort is to just break the ice on it all, and then I will tell from the very beginning how an underprivileged child became a legendary fighter and father in a category all his own.
As soon as Johnathan and I became friends, I noticed we were opposites. We both loved mixed martial arts (MMA), but that is where the similarities ended. I may have made almost all conservative decisions in life and kept my dreams restricted to hobbies. He, on the other hand, shunned all practicality and fulfilled his dreams with total determination at the expense of many beneficial things. Perhaps that is why we mix so well. I became a voice of reason in his reckless life, and he became an inspiration to chase dreams in my boring one.”
Published by Christian Faith Publishing, Charlie Dykstra’s new book is a beautiful living portrait of self-sacrifice in the name of love.
Dykstra masterfully shows the overlap between the brutal world of professional fighting and Christianity in an authentic way in the face of dissenters.
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