God's Story, Your Story: Youth Edition
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- $15.99
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
Is there a story behind the daily drama of your life? Being a teenager isn’t always easy. From homework to after-school jobs to having to think about the future, life can feel chaotic. But did you know that the chaos and confusion, as well as the joys and excitements you experience, are part of God’s ordered plan? In this teen adaptation of God’s Story, Your Story, bestselling author Max Lucado explores the divine narrative in the New Testament, as well as several contemporary examples, to show how your everyday life is part of God’s bigger redemption story, and that God is there, no matter what you may face in your life. Real teen responses and real-life application questions are also included to help you further connect God’s narrative to your own. Because God’s story is your story—and he is adding to your chapter every day.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
You've got to love Lucado's homeboy way of spinning a yarn. Pastor and author of more than 60 books, he uses his signature style in his latest release. The theme is the ordinary. God writes his story by stepping into yours and vice versa. The grand story of human fall and redemption is filled with characters from the Bible and also from real life. We've got Joseph and Mary presented as Norm and Norma (because they're so "normal") and neighbors such as Holden, Carl, and Aunt Wanda. Lucado is the master of disarming vernacular: Jesus "slam dunks" the devil, and the devil responds by tempting Jesus to "show off in church." The book could have been a hopeful presentation because Lucado's narrative voice is so doggone likable. Unfortunately, it is formulaic to a fault: heavy with Bible verses; bloated with anecdotes; and stuffed with redundant rhetorical questions. Lucado himself captures the feeling this book will leave some readers with in his description of what "ticks off" the devil: "reading a Christian book, thinking godly thoughts, dreaming about heaven and other such blah-blah-blah." Others, doggone it, are just gonna like it.
