Outlive Your Life: You Were Made to Make a Difference

by Max Lucado

Overview

These aredifficult days inour world’s history. Billions of people are poor, millions go hungry or thirsty every day. Disease claims thousands of lives daily. But you and I have been given an opportunity to make a big difference. What if we did? What if we rocked the world with hope? Infiltrated all corners with God’s love and life? We are created by a great God to do great works. He invites us to outlive our lives, not just in heaven, but here on earth.Let's live our lives in such a way that the world will be glad we did.

AdditionalOutlive Your Lifeproducts include:

• Outlive Your Life,audio book - 9780849946127
• Make a Difference,booklet - 9780849946134
• One Hand, Two Hands, children's book - 9781400316496
• You Were Made to Make a Difference, teen book - 9780849920691
• You Changed My Life, gift book - 9781404187832
• Outlive Your Life,DVD-based study - 9781418543945
• Outlive Your Life,participants guide - 9781418543952

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780849946134
Publisher:	Nelson, Thomas, Inc.
Publication date:	09/14/2010
Edition description:	Unabridged
Pages:	275
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 5.50(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

More than 120 million readers have found comfort in the writings ofMax Lucado. He ministers atthe Oak Hills Church in San Antonio, Texas, where he lives with his wife, Denalyn, and a sweet but misbehaving mutt, Andy.

Editorial Reviews

Lucado points to the first 12 chapters of Acts in the Bible to encourage listeners to put their love for Christ into action by loving those in need. Acting with compassion, he believes, can change the course of human suffering. Dan Butler ably delivers the author’s examples of individuals whose actions have “rocked the world with hope.” Especially inspiring is Butler’s narration of real-life stories of compassionate individuals, particularly seniors such as 80-year-old Edith, who works with cancer patients, and Page, who makes doll-size clothes for premature infants. Butler’s enthusiastic delivery emphasizes the author’s pointed message: "God's secret weapon in the war on poverty includes your kitchen table and mine." G.D.W. © AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine

MARCH 2011 - AudioFile

Megaseller Lucado (3:16--The Numbers of Hope) celebrates his 25th year in publishing with a call to Christians to use "our one-of-a-kind lifetimes and once-in-history opportunity" to "alter the course of human suffering." With his typical folksiness, Lucado uses the first 12 chapters of the biblical book of Acts as a springboard, describing how God uses Galilean fishermen--and each of us--to change the world. Familiar biblical stories--Ananias and Sapphira, the Greek-speaking widows, Peter's dream--take on new meaning as Lucado urges Christians to look beyond their usual lives. "None of us can help everyone. But all of us can help someone. And when we help them, we serve Jesus," he writes simply. Lucado provides discussion questions for group or personal use, as well as ideas for action. The book is the lead item of a wide array of related products, including an audiobook, greeting cards, Bible, children and youth material, curriculum, and gift books. Lucado shows fans both longtime and new that he remains, after all these years, a powerful voice in the call to authentic Christianity. (Sept.)

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