You Were Made to Make a Difference
An Interactive Teen Devotional to Finding Your Calling and Enacting Change
- Children & Youth
- Bible Studies & Devotionals
- Publisher: Tommy Nelson (Thomas Nelson)
- Published: 2010
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Publisher's Description
Can God really use a teen for His Kingdom? You Were Made to Make a Difference shows how every teen has the power to effect change in their community and the world through small steps of faithfulness and acts of service. Adapted from the encouraging devotional for adults, Outlive Your Life, this much-needed book for teens explores how faith and community interact, how youth can be a part of social activism through their faith, and how God made each of us to be a light in the world. Featuring practical tips to make a significant change in one’s community along with real-life stories from those who have already done just that, You Were Made to Make a Difference shows how tweens and teens can deepen their faith and see how God can use them. Max Lucado and Jenna Lucado Bishop crafted this devotional for tweens and teens and offer facts about the world in need and how a little service or volunteering goes a long way; encouragement that God has a plan for you and can use you where you are; graphics about what makes each of us uniquely individual and wonderfully human; and interactive elements such as journaling prompts, reflection questions, and space to write service goals for your community. Give your child the gift of knowing who they are in God and how to start an outreach project in their neighborhood. This teen devotional is perfect for families who want their children to feel secure in their faith; a present to commemorate a decision of faith, baptism, or confirmation; and a gift for an Easter basket, Christmas present, or other religious holiday. Teens will learn that their role in life is bigger than themselves, and that they’re not too young to make a difference for God.
Endorsements (27)
“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.”
“Pastor Max tells all folks how to move from Bible studies to Bible doins.”
“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.”
“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
“Master storyteller Max Lucado reminds us that the gospel must be good news for everyone in our world—and of the joy that comes with serving as Christ’s hands and feet in a world that needs us.”
“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 church—to love and serve one another through Jesus Christ.”
“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 will—or should—break your own heart open, up, and out in ways that will bless you beyond your imagination.”
“This book is a call to arms—both yours and mine— to embrace those who have little or nothing. As Max Lucado says, ‘the challenge can create a team.’ Won’t 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.”
“Millions have received the gift of compassion from the writings of Max Lucado. Now he gives us another gift—the call to compassion. Read and unleash.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“It is easy to be overwhelmed by the vastness of need in our world today. But Max Lucado’s 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 church—it will enable us to begin the lives of meaning and significance for which God has created his people.”
“There has not been a clearer call to God’s 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.”
“Max Lucado’s deft and gentle look at the early church reveals us contemporary Christians as a sleepy, amnesiac people. We’ve 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.”
“With his trademark blend of lofty lyricism and earthy insight, Max Lucado artfully weaves together stories of hope—real-life accounts that incite and sustain the belief that change is possible through perhaps the unlikeliest of people—regular folk like you and me!”
“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.”
“There has never been a better time for believers to show God’s love, to sing His love to the nations. Thanks, Max, for reminding us that we each are designed to make a difference.”
“Max is a writer who disguises his genius well—he makes the most profound truth understandable to people like me. And then something miraculous happens. This truth changes your heart and, ultimately, somebody’s else’s world.”
“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!”
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