Max Lucado - Outlive your life : you were made to make a difference

Praise for
Outlive Your Life

Outlive Your Life is a road map for your life journey that will leave you few regrets and will inspire you to be all that God intended. This is one of those rare books that can change your life.

Richard Stearns
President, World Vision US; and author, The
Hole in Our Gospel

Pastor Max tells all folks how to move from Bible studies to Bible doins.

Denver Moore
Best-Selling author, Same Kind of Different
as Me

A powerful collection of stories and biblical truths that will keep you awake long after you read it, wondering and, hopefully, scheming how to outlive your life.

Ron Hall
Best-Selling author, Same Kind of Different
as Me

Some books change the reader; some books change the world. This book will do both. This astounding writer has shaped my worldview for twenty-five years. With this book we all can enter into a practical partnership to expand the kingdom and care for the vulnerable.

Dr. Joel C. Hunter
Senior pastor, Northland, A Church
Distributed

Master storyteller Max Lucado reminds us that the gospel must be good news for everyone in our worldand of the joy that comes with serving as Christs hands and feet in a world that needs us.

Jonathan T. M. Reckford
CEO, Habitat for Humanity International

The only way of changing the world for good is for Christians to take seriously our call to be the light of Christ. My friend Max is calling the church, which is you and me, to be the churchto love and serve one another through Jesus Christ.

Chuck Colson
Founder, Prison Fellowship and Colson
Center for Christian Worldview

This may well be the most important book you will read this year... or for several years. Max Lucado always writes with simple grace, beauty, and imagination. Here he opens his heart in a way that willor shouldbreak your own heart open, up, and out in ways that will bless you beyond your imagination.

Leighton Ford
President, Leighton Ford Ministries

This book is a call to armsboth yours and mineto embrace those who have little or nothing. As Max Lucado says, the challenge can create a team. Wont you join our team and invest your life in something that will live, nourish, and give relief long after you are gone? Read this book and see how you can make a difference right where you live.

Luci Swindoll
Author and speaker, Women of Faith

Millions have received the gift of compassion from the writings of Max Lucado. Now he gives us another giftthe call to compassion. Read and unleash.

John Ortberg
Pastor and author, Menlo Park Presbyterian
Church

Every now and then you hear a call that is so clear, so true, that you know without a shadow of a doubt it comes from the very heart of God. This book contains such a call. If we listen, it just might change the world.

Sheila Walsh
Speaker, Women of Faith; and best-selling
author, Beautiful Things Happen When a
Woman Trusts God

What does it really mean to love thy neighbor? Max Lucado suggests that our neighbor is not only the family next door but also the one struggling for survival on the other side of the globe. Outlive Your Life is an inspirational call for Christians to put their faith into action and reach out to those in desperate need.

Jim Daly
President and CEO, Focus on the Family

Max Lucado demonstrates what the compassion preached by Jesus in the Beatitudes looks like when it is lived out in everyday life in these early days of the twenty-first century. To all of us who are called by God to make a difference for good, this book is an inspiring instruction manual.

Tony Campolo
Professor Emeritus, Eastern University

It is easy to be overwhelmed by the vastness of need in our world today. But Max Lucados accessible, encouraging, and powerful call to each of us to love Christ by loving those in need around us is a powerful gift to the churchit will enable us to begin the lives of meaning and significance for which God has created his people.

Gary Haugen
President and CEO, International Justice
Mission

There has not been a clearer call to Gods people to think strategically about world poverty while being challenged to act decisively. Outlive Your Life will ignite the passion for the poor that God desires to be found in each Christ follower.

Dr. Barry Slauenwhite
President, Compassion Canada

Max Lucados deft and gentle look at the early church reveals us contemporary Christians as a sleepy, amnesiac people. Weve forgotten our earthly purpose is to care, not for ourselves but for the poor and excluded. Outlive Your Life is a refreshing wake-up call, offering us a real sense of mission and our true identity as difference makers in a messed-up world.

Greg Paul
sanctuarytoronto.ca; author, The Twenty-Piece
Shuffle and God in the Alley

With his trademark blend of lofty lyricism and earthy insight, Max Lucado artfully weaves together stories of hopereal-life accounts that incite and sustain the belief that change is possible through perhaps the unlikeliest of peopleregular folk like you and me!

Jamie McIntosh
Founder and Executive Director,
International Justice Mission Canada

God takes ordinary people to be his agents of transformation in the world and uses them in extraordinary ways. Outlive Your Life shows how this has happened in the past and applies it to the challenges now before us. It speaks to our God-given possibilities and shows a way to live that might change you forever.

Tim Costello
CEO, World Vision Australia

There has never been a better time for believers to show Gods love, to sing His love to the nations. Thanks, Max, for reminding us that we each are designed to make a difference.

Michael W. Smith
Best-Selling Christian music artist

Max is a writer who disguises his genius wellhe makes the most profound truth understandable to people like me. And then something miraculous happens. This truth changes your heart and, ultimately, somebodys elses world.

Kathie Lee Gifford
Cohost, NBCs The Today Show

My good friend Max Lucado never ceases to amaze me, and he has done it again! Reading Outlive Your Life inspires and encourages me to want to go out and help to change the world!

Mac Powell
Third Day

Max Lucado is a living example of someone who most definitely will outlive his life because he has his eye on what people ultimately need: the Savior. Legacyoutliving your lifemaking your life count... there is no one more qualified to write about these things than Max Lucado.

Dino Rizzo
Lead Pastor, Healing Place Church

Max Lucado takes readers on a journey of generosity, justice, and caring. He challenges us to see the full gospel of Jesus at work in the lives of those who have and those who dont. Outlive Your Life is rich with stories of people whose love for their neighbors is only matched by their love for God. Max, you are right: we were made to make a difference.

Dave Toycen
President and CEO, World Vision Canada

One of my favorite communicators and one of my favorite topics. I love Max Lucado and was riveted, inspired, and blown away by Outlive Your Life. He makes the things we believe to be impossible not only doable... but compelling.

Mary Graham
Women of Faith

No one is better qualified to creatively inspire us to make a difference than Max Lucado. His call for a resurgence of compassion and service is compelling. For your legacys sake I encourage you to read this book.