Speedmusings: For The Tough Times by Max Lucado

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

For The Tough Times by Max Lucado

I have always enjoyed Max Lucado's books and writings. His message has always been focusing the human condition onto Jesus. While our life swirls, He remains constant. While our faith falters, His grace abounds. While we stumble, He supports.

For The Tough Times is no different. This book is a refresher with respect to how God remains while we may tumble. Personally, I know that my life would be much different without the Lord. Over the last few years, I have had the wonderful experience of watching God work in such wonderful and amazing ways.

While this book is rather short, and small of stature, it contains much to help us as Christians focus our thoughts regardless of our "condition" on God and things eternal. One of my absolute favorite sections is:

"We're thinking, Preserve the body; he's thinking save the soul. We dream of a pay raise, He dreams of raising the dead. We avoid pain and seek peace; God uses pain to bring peace."

As is typical with Max Lucado's books, this one reads very smoothly, and quickly. Shorter chapters lure one to read the next. And, again as is typical, each chapter builds on the previous and provides an inspiring next step.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and will recommend it to my friends and family.

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Books Read in 2012

1 and 2 Samuel 978-0-8308-4208-7
A Public Faith 978-1-58743-298-9
A Spirituality of the Road 1-57910-795-8
A Time to Betray 978-1-4391-8903-0
Adam 978-1-59554-611-1
American Lion 978-1-4000-6325-3
Anthropological Insights for Missionaries 801042917
Big Questions, Worthy Dreams 978-0-470-90379-2
Board Member Orientation 978-1-456304911
Charlemagne 978-0-385-51670-9
Christ the One and Only 1-84227-344-2
Churches, Cultures & Leadership 978-0-8308-3926-1
Conflict Mediation across Cultures 978-0-664-25609-8
Created to Learn 978-080544727-9
Cross-Cultural Conflict 978-0-8308-1657-6
December 1941 978-1-5955-5457-4
Decision Points 978-0-307-59061-9
Deuternomy 978-0-8308-4281-0
Equipping for Missions 1-92-122-20-9
Erasing Hell 978-0-7814-0725-0
Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God 978-0-8308-3412-9
Exodus 9-780830-842025
Foundational Issues in Christian Education 978-0-8010-3593-7
How do you kill 11 Million People? 978-0-8499-4835-0
In the Garden of Beasts 978-0-307-40884-6
Jesus Calling 978-1-5914-5188-4
Joshua 978-0-8308-4206-3
Judges and Ruth 978-0-8308-4207-0
Leading Across Cultures 978-0-8308-2578-3
Leading Change 978-0-87584-747-4
Leading Cross-Culturally 978-0-8010-3605-7
Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach 978-0-7879-5967-8
Leviticus 978-0-8308-4203-2
Liberty Defined 978-1-4555-0144-1
Many Colors 978-0-8024-5048-7
Micro 978-0-06-087302-8
New Birth or Rebirth 978-1-60142-319-1
Not a fan 978-0-310-33193-3
Numbers 978-0-8308-4204-9
Obsessed 978-1-59554-078-2
Of the Imitation of Christ 0-919649-14-9
Organizational Culture and Leadership
Polk 978-1-4000-6560-8
Preparing to Serve 0-87808-260-3
Rise to Rebellion 0-345-42753-X
Seizing Your Divine Moment 0-7852-6430-2
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God 0-88368-415-2
Taking Learning to Task 978-0-7879-5227-3
The Brief Against Obama 978-1-4555-1630-8
The Civil War - Ft. Sumter to Perryville 0-307-29042-5
The Complete Christian Guide to Homosexuality 978-0-7369-2507-5
The Fear 978-0-316-05173-6
The Good and Beautiful Community 978-0-8308-3533-1
The Potters Rib 1-57383-267-7
The Questions Christians Hope No One Will Ask - 978-1-4143-1591-1
The Tehran Initiative 978-1-4143-1935-3
The Victory of Reason 0-8129-7233-3
Three 978-1-59995-314-4
Unbroken 978-1-4000-6416-8
When Homosexuality Hits Home 978-0-7369-1201-3

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20 Things You Should Read 978-1-4143-0595-0
A little exercise for young Theologians 978-0-8028-1198-1
A Matter of Days 1-57683-375-5
A Spirituality of Fundraising 978-0-8358-1044-9
Against All Gods 978-0-8308-3738-0
American Assassin 978-1-4165-9518-2
April 1865 978-0-06-089968-4
Be The People 978-0-8499-4828-2
Bonhoeffer 978-1-5955-5138-2
Christ and Culture 970-0-06-130003-5
Church History in Plain Language 978-0-7180-2553-3
Concise History of the Crusades 978-0-7425-3823-8
Damned Women – Puritan New 978-0-8014-8611-1
God Wins 978-1-4143-6666-1
God's Battalions 978-0-06-158261-5
Has Christianity Failed You? 978-0-310-36955-7
Hearing God 978-0-8308-2226-3
Heaven's Wager 849942411
Hungry for God 978-0-310-33207-7
Invitation to World Missions 978-0-8254-3883-7
John Calvin and Evangelical Theology 978-0-664-23346-4
King Leopold's Ghost 978-0-618-00190-3
Knowing God 978-0-8308-1650-7
Love Wins 978-0-06-204964-3
Love Your God with all Your Heart 1-57683-016-0
Luther the Reformer 978-0-8006-3597-8
Mastermind 978-1-59523-072-0
Nearing Home 978-0-8499-4832-9
New Testament Textual Criticism 0-8010-1074-8
No Less than Victory 978-0-345-49793-2
Origins of Life 1-57683-344-5
Perspectives on the Doctrine of God 978-080543060-8
Poems - A. M. Klein
Poems with a Purpose C. H. Lightbourn
Practicing His Presence 978-0940232013
Prophetic Untimeliness 0-8010-1260-0
Rare Earth 0-387-98701-0
Revolutions in Generosity 978-0-8024-6753-9
Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger 0-8499-4530-5
Sabbath 978-0-8499-4604-2
Sailing the Wine Dark Sea 0-385-49554-4
Saint Thomas Aquinas 978-1450516358
Salem Possessed 978-0-674-78526-7
Scouting the Divine 978-0-310-29122-0
The Final Storm 978-0-345-49794-9
The Global God 0-8010-2163-4
The Grace of God 978-0-8499-4814-5
The Grand Weaver 978-0-310-32495-9
The Lost World of Genesis One 978-0-8308-3704-5
The Next Christendom 978-0-19-976746-5
The Poems of Dr. Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
The Practice of the Presence of God 1602665702
The Prophet's Song - Dennis Tenney
The Reason for God 978-1-59448-349-3
The Rise of Christianity 978-0-06-067701-5
The Search for Christian America 0-93944315-5
The Sower 0-9799907-9-3
The Steel Wave 978-0-345-46142
The Twelfth Imam 978-1-4143-1163-0
Thunder of Heaven 978-0849945175
Tim Tebow – Through my Eyes 978-0-06-200728-5
War in the Bible and Terrorism in the 21st Century 978-1-57508-803-9
When Christians act like Christians 978-0-9717722-2-9
When Heaven Weeps 084994516X
Word Pictures 978-0-8308-3709-0

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