Max Lucado - Cure for the Common Life

In these pages you will leave the common life in the dust. You will learn that each person was designed as a one-of-a-kind to achieve one certain purpose. You begin to experience the fact that God has embedded in your soul the power and passion to fulfill your purpose. It is a profound message for those who long for a unity of their belief and their life in this world.

Art Miller,
founder of People Management
International, Inc., and author of
The Power of Uniqueness

Max Lucado has done it again! This book is a jewel. I say that because he hits the nail on the head when he reveals in chapter after chapter that people cannot be anything they want to be but they can be everything God wants them to be. Read, discover, and rejoice in your sweet spot, out of which you are intended to live.

Millard Fuller,
founder of Habitat for Humanity
and The Fuller Center for Housing

I recommend this book if you fall into any of these categories: youre working, parenting, calling the shots, serving, wondering, graduating, longing, breathing. Your focus will be refined. Your battery will be recharged.

Ernie Johnson Jr.,
sportscaster for TNT

Max Lucado has a long history of helping us understand who God is. Now in Cure for the Common Life he helps us understand who we are. I hope everyone I know will read it. Its uncommonly good.

Mary Graham,
president of Women of Faith

Every time I get a chance to hear Max Lucado speak, my life is blessed. Everyone who reads this book will know that they are special in the eyes of God and a very important part of his plan.

CeCe Winans,
gospel music artist

We all have unique gifts that can be used for Gods purposes. Max Lucados gift is to apply spiritual teachings to our everyday lives, as he has done with Cure for the Common Life. Discovering Gods unique plan for our lives is both humbling and inspiring: humbling because though we are but a drop in the ocean, the Creator of the universe has a plan for our individual lives, and inspiring, as that plan becomes revealed and our unique talents and attributes get put to work in carrying it out. In understanding the principles Max espouses, you will be inspired to live anything but the common life.

Rick Perry,
governor of Texas

Max Lucado has done it again! He has taken simple truths and made them available to all of us. In Cure for the Common Life he shows us how to identify and explore our uniqueness and motivates us to put our strengths to work and to live in our sweet spot for the rest of our life.

Ken Blanchard,
coauthor of The One-Minute
Manager and The Secret

To maximize lifes potential personally, professionally, and spiritually, you must know the zone in which you are the happiest and most productive. Most people never reach that utopian state because they do not know how to get there. In this book, Max Lucado shows us how to achieve that goal, which he refers to as the sweet spot. I am convinced that by following the detailed guidelines so beautifully written in this book, the reader will be able to find that sweet spot and add new meaning and purpose to life.

Kenneth H. Cooper,
M.D., M.P.H.

Max Lucados Cure for the Common Life provides a blueprint for staying above the malaise of quiet, desperate living.With lyrical language, he gives valuable insights for unpacking your uniqueness to glorify God in your eternal vocation. Reading this book will produce in many a thank God its Monday attitude.

Barry C. Black,
chaplain of the U.S. Senate

Other than accepting Christ as Savior, there is no more important discovery for Christians than understanding how God uniquely equips them to work and serve. We are all individually wired by God to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Cure for the Common Life may be the most important book you will ever read if it helps you understand how God equipped you perfectly for service in his kingdom.

Richard E. Stearns,
president of World Vision U.S.

Im so glad for Max Lucados insightful call for us to live and work as we are intrinsically designed by God.

Richard J. Foster,
author of Celebration of Discipline

Cure for the Common Life is a celebration of the life we have been given and the blessings we have received in great abundance. Refuting the oftaired charge that Christianity fixates on otherworldly devotion, Max Lucado transforms the every-day into a discovery of self, God, and eternal meaning. In that transformation, this beloved author offers much-needed advice to those who may have sensed a weary emptiness in their daily labors.

Kenneth W. Starr,
dean of Pepperdine University
School of Law

Max Lucado has the unusual gift of being able to take Gods Word, filter it through human experiences and human circumstances, and have it emerge unscathed and undiluted. The person through whom it passes is transformed by the renewing of his or her mind and heart. In Cure for the Common Life, Max and God do it again by showing us how we dont have to be victims of circumstances but can live in a sweeter spot.

Cal Thomas,
syndicated columnist and host of
After Hours on Fox News channel

What Jonas Salk did for polio, Max Lucado has done for aimlessness. If youre one of the afflicted masses who feels like youre sliding through life instead of soaring as God intended you, read this book fast! Cure for the Common Life is much more than a titleI predict it may be the vaccine that gives life purpose and hope to a whole generation.

Gene Appel,
teaching pastor of Willow Creek
Community Church and television
commentator

The message of this book could change your life forever. What if you dared to believe that the God of the universe has made you so unique that without your passionate participation in this life, we would all feel the loss? God waits for us to sing his love song in our own distinct voice.

Sheila Walsh,
author of Im Not Wonder Woman but
God Made Me Wonderful

Im convinced that every single one of us has a spiritual DNA that determines our destiny in this life. Max Lucado calls it our sweet spot. And by reading this terrific new book, you will find yours. Its the right book to read in halftime or anytime.

Bob Buford,
best-selling author of Halftime and
Finishing Well

Max Lucados Cure for the Common Life leaves you feeling energized, curious to discover your own God-given sweet spot. He encourages you to discover your unique gifts and the specific plan that God has given each of us.

Dr. Gary Smalley,
author and founder of Smalley
Relationship Center

Max has once again Max-i-mized my understanding with his sweet-spot style, showing how much better we can be when were being what God created us to be.

Pastor Bob Coy,
Calvary Chapel, Fort Lauderdale

You dont have to read an entire book to write an endorsement for itunless of course you cant put it down! Such is the case with Cure for the Common Life. If your life has become numbingly mundane and youve forgotten that God has a plan for your life, then I suggest you block out a few hours to be reminded of your uniqueness.

Dave Stone,
Southeast Christian Church,
Louisville, Kentucky

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