3
16: The Numbers of Hope
- Christian Living
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson
- Published: 2022
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Publisher's Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Discover how amazingly deep, wide, long, and high God’s love is for you. Sometimes life appears to fall to pieces and can seem irreparable. We’ve all had our fair share of disappointments, loss, or hardships. But for every challenge there is a breathtaking promise: It’s going to be okay. How can we know? Because God so loved the world. In 3:16, pastor and New York Times bestselling author Max Lucado encourages you to study closely the “Hope Diamond of the Bible”: John 3:16. Max says of his favorite verse, “Every time I recall these words, they are fresh and as stunning as my first encounter with them. The mind-bending awareness of God’s limitless love, his incalculable sacrifice, and the priceless teaching at the core. How can we not review it again and again? I want this generation, and all who come after, to look closely at the key promise of God and choose the gift beyond all gifts.” Throughout this updated and expanded edition of 3:16, Max will invite you to: Stand in awe of how deep, wide, long, and high God’s love is for you Understand more fully the living hope you have through Jesus’ death and resurrection Rest in the assurance that salvation is a gift from God, not something you can earn If you know nothing of the Bible, start here. John 3:16 invites you to know God’s love deeply and intimately. And once you accept God’s love, your life will never be the same. If you know everything in the Bible, return here. Let John 3:16 become the banner of your life, so much so that the message of God’s unending and unbending love overflows from you to others. 3:16 also includes a 40-day devotional designed to help you draw closer to your loving Savior.
Endorsements (19)
“This is the first verse that I learned as a child and it changed my life. To most ten-year-olds, these would be sweet words to recite to Mom and Dad to make them smile. To me they were a lighthouse in the darkness, a concrete promise when everything else seemed untrue and a hope that could not be extinguished. Over forty years later I wrap the truth of these words around me every day as I look for others who are lost at sea, betrayed and hopeless. All the literature in the world cannot compete with the treasure contained in these twenty-six words.”
“We can all endure a great deal of pain and grief, and general ‘life-is-not-fair’ experiences when we know who loves us, and how incredible and incomprehensible the joy is that awaits us.”
“Out of great need is born great faith. I have seen both. 3:16 brings life and faith to a hope-starved world. May we embrace its message anew.”
Bishop. John K. Rucyahana
“John 3:16 is the foundation of my faith. A picture of undeserved, unconditional, and unwavering love from a Father to his kids.”
“When I was a boy I used to hug a rubber hot water bottle in bed at night to beat off the chill air from the frigid Irish Sea. Comfort! I woke up wet, cold, and miserable. The rubber hot water bottle had perished. It had slowly deteriorated, imperceptibly disintegrated and was ultimately useless. Perished! That can happen to humans too—and God so loved the world that He gave us Jesus so that we would not perish but have everlasting life.”
“I love John 3:16 because it is the gospel in a nutshell. It shares God’s great love for us, and our great need for him.”
“There are hundreds of verses in Scripture that are of significant importance to me. But this is the most important verse in the Bible.”
“This is the promise that bears hope for the hopeless. When we finally realize ‘I can’t do this on my own’ this is the Father responding, ‘I know, so I’ve done it for you.”
“By twenty I was visibly unraveling mentally and emotionally. It would take the harrowing experience of living as an agoraphobic before I considered God’s intervening love and relinquished my heart to Christ. 3:16 is the undeniable address my sanity, safety, and eternal security takes refuge in.”
“God’s love is not some mere sentiment, but rather something that He showed in a tangible way. God offers to us the gift of eternal life. To receive a gift, you must reach out to accept it, and then open it.”
“John 3:16. What an amazing scripture—God loved us while we were quite unlovable people. He reached out to us when we were unreachable. Knowing that we would fail Him, deny Him, and spurn this unconditional love, He still gave . . . unconditionally!”
“John 3:16 is one of the most powerful verses in Scripture. I can’t think of another verse that the gospel hinges on so clearly as John 3:16. Over the years, this verse was displayed behind my father’s platform at all his Crusades. Max Lucado’s 3:16: The Numbers of Hope is refreshing and insightful. May the powerful Gospel message of this verse bring hope to all who read.”
“Max gave us humor and charm in Hermie and Wormie. Now he has given us faith and wisdom.”
“My friend Max Lucado has done it again! He’s taken the most beloved passage of Scripture, unwrapped its deepest truths revealing the greatest expression of God’s love. 3:16’s message of hope will show you how much you matter to God. This is a must-read for anyone.”
“I’m a sucker for a simple love story. Want to learn why on earth you are on this earth? Want to learn how to really love? Read this book. Max has taken the single most important (and simple) verse in the Bible and dissected it for those of us who need to keep it simple.”
“At the heart of our worship is the message of John 3:16. The story still inspires—out of God’s great love was born great sacrifice. In 3:16, Max makes new and fresh one of the oldest and deepest truths of our faith. I cannot help but sing and shout and dance from a grateful and humble heart when I think of what God has done for me and all of humanity. How great is our God!”
“Whether you are kicking the tires of Christianity or you cut your teeth on a church pew, 3:16 promises to broaden your horizons and further your understanding of God’s most fundamental, life-transforming promise—the promise of eternal life.”
“Max Lucado brings words, and now numbers, to new life. The truth in 3:16 is life changing, and nobody makes it more relevant for today and compelling for the future than our friend Max.”
“One of America’s favorite authors helps us to see this precious gem from a variety of perspectives, each of which sheds additional light on an inexhaustible truth.”
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