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A Love Worth Giving : Living in the Overflow of God's Love

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I always enjoy Max Lucado's literary style and approach. His writing reads like a friendly conversation and while the material is often presented as an admonishment, because of the tone one is never left feeling judged but rather encouraged.

The best sections were those on selfishness and our inability to get out of our self to truly love others. I enjoyed the way he weaves in personal examples of his own struggles, those daily little things that set us off on ego-centric benders, with instructions of God's example of what true love for others looks like.

Like all his work, the only complaint is that the book is too short. The topics are weighty and deserve more devoted analysis. He seems to be unsure of whether he is writing a quick and simple devotional or an in depth study. However, it is a quick and enjoyable read.

A final thought on the content. If you have struggled with selfishness or any of the other human traits which keep us focused on self, not on God and others, you may be shocked to see how clearly your own behaviors are called out. All of us are far more transparent that we would like to think, and this book showed me just how I fall short, and challenged me to strive for something more.

We Love, because He (Jesus) first loved us. John 4:19

Have you ever tried to Love someone who was difficult to Love? It's not so easy. Has there been a time you had married the wrong spouse, got into the wrong career, or got mixed up with the wrong friends. There's one guarantee that you'll get it right is the One who has unconditional Love gives you a Life-Eternally in a world much better than this life. The first step to true love is not towards otheres but towards Him. Besides you can't give what you don't have. We've forgotten the first step for relationships. The secret-living Loved. It can't be found in marriage or friendship. If you're running low on Love, had your last dose of forgiveness, hit rock bottom on patience. If you tried to give what you haven't received why not try this book to help you receive it.

Lucado takes the best loved scripture, I Corinthians 13 one step at a time. He expands on all the characteristics of Love into the infinite, measureless boundaries of God's Love. If we were to be reminded of how we should or could Love just like Jesus. Taking it one step at a time. Beginning with patience, then kindness all the way to enduring all things where Love NEVER Fails. Rather then a scripture to remind us of Love we can't produce, let it remind us of a Love we cannot resist-God's Love. When you were left at the altar, with a broken heart, an empty bed, broken home, in the hospital. When you're left to say, "Does anybody love me?" Listen to heaven's answer. God loves you. His Love is Personal. With all the Power and Passion He can give. Others have promised and failed. But God has promised and succeeded. He loves you with an unfailing love. His Love-if you will let it-can fill you and leave you with a Love worth giving. If anyone is thirsty for His Love--I recommend this!

Max's lastest book is one of the best he has written. This book not only speaks of how we can love people no matter what, but goes through the life of Christ and show us how He loved us first. It makes loving anyone seem possible. I walked away amazed at how much Christ loved me and how I wanted to share that with others. Having only had this book less than a month I have already loaned it to my pastor and to a person who is trying to figure out who this Christ-person is.
The thing that Max does so well is he puts even simple Christian theology into physical ideas that make you understand and remember them. This is exactly what he does with this book. He takes 1 Corinthians 13 (The Love Chapter) walks through every quality giving a definition of the quality, an example of Christ's performance of the quality, and how you and I can recieve THEN give this quality to others.
If you are searching for a way to understand Christ's love, this is a great book. If you are searching for how to love someone more, better, or for the first time, this is a great book. If you just want to read another of Max's masterpieces, this is a great book. Keep on writing Max...you haven't lost the touch yet!

This is the first Lucado book that I've read and I am enjoying it quite a bit. This book is so easy to read, which is suprising to me as a lot of these christian non-fiction books aren't. The message is clear and well written. I've been inspired to true love towards God and people.
I recommend it, and I believe God will use it to redefine to you what love really is, what it means, and stands for.

Max Lucado truly defines love. Not on the superficial levels. On the deepest levels. He uses humor and his every day life experience to show that we are loved (by God) and that we can love others althought sometimes loving is difficult.

Max Lucado has become an author that I look to for clear concise and spirit led counsel. His book A Love Worth Giving touched that area in me that had never been opened before. We really need to let God love us!!! His love is there if we would just receive it. Do yourself a favor and get this book, especially if you have not yet let God's love in.

In this book, Max Lucado takes his readers to the verses: 1 Corinthian 13:4-8 (Love is Patient, and so on) and carefully explains what each verses mean. The secret to loving according to Lucado is living loved. His style of writing is very conversational, and easy to understand. Lucado provides real life examples together with biblical stories to illustrate his points. Most readers would find this book beneficial in understanding love and relationship. I especially like the end when he gently reminds his readers that at the end of the day, relationships matter more than anything in the world, including a college diploma or a nice car.

I highly recommend this book as his explanation of love is done very well and this would make a great gift to families and friends. At the end of the book, discussion questions of each chapters are included to increase understanding on the materials covered. The book's strongest points are the Lucado's friendly writing and his message of love and forgiveness.

Max Lucado opened my eyes and answered a lot of questions I have had. Words cannot express the positive impact this book has had on me. After reading it I read He still moves Stones, And the Angels were Silent, and have ordered more books written by Max Lucado. All I can say is thank you and God bless.

Max Lucado is amazing! Not only is this book a must read for Christians, it is also a great book to give those who don't know Christ because it shows Him in His essence. I recently read another book titled The Gravel Drive by Kirk Martin that every parent must read, but that can also be used for evangelism. I read excerpts at thegraveldrive.com and was hooked! Like Lucado, the author knows how to explain with simplicity the nature of God. Please keep on writing Max!

I am only 1/4 of the way through this book, but I think this is a MUST HAVE book for all believers, especially new ones. I myself have been born again for exactly 8 years this month, but I've been drifting for the last two of them and this book has really blessed me.

I agree with the unfavorable reviewer on one point, this book is very basic. But I for one think that sometimes we need to get back to the basics to start fresh. Everything doesn't have to be the most spiritual, the deepest, or the most profound to be moving and inspirational.

I started crying at word one (that's word one in the acknowledgements), and I couldn't figure out why. I said Lord, why am I crying, I haven't even really read anything yet. I'll never get through this is I'm crying the whole time. Well, the reason I was crying is because this book, these words, and the author are anointed. And that's important in my book. As I said, the book has really blessed me. So whoever you are, wherever you are, if your are a new Christian, or a veteran, this book should be apart of your collection. GET IT!