In his book, Outlive Your Life: You were Made to Make a Difference, Max Lucado challenges his readers to live lives of compassion. The only real way that our lives can last and have significance, is if we are focused on living for and serving others.
Through a multitude of stories, Max inspires the reader to see past themselves. He begins most (all but one) chapters with a verse from the first dozen chapters in Acts. He builds off the image that Luke paints of the early church to show how that same principle can be lived out in our current culture and context.
This is neither the first, nor the last of Lucado’s books that I will read. I must, however, say that this book did not capture me as some of his earlier writings have. At times I found it hard to focus on the text and it seemed more of a discipline to push through those passages. Overall, if you are looking for some inspiration and good stories of others who have learned the secret of outliving their life, this is a decent book to pick up.
You can pick it up at: Amazon (Kindle) or Christian Book Distributors (ePub).
Disclaimer: I received a free copy of this book through the Booksneeze program of Thomas Nelson publishers.
