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Shaped by God Max Lucado.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Wheaton, Ill. Tyndale House Publishers c2001Description: xviii, 173 pages color illustrations ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 0842355189
  • 9780842355186
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 242 21
LOC classification:
  • BV4832.3 .L83 2002
Contents:
Acknowledegments -- Foreword -- Introduction: The blacksmith's shop -- Part one: The pile of broken tools -- 1. The pile of broken tools -- 2. I am very weary -- 3. Now, don't get carried away! -- 4. Sour grapes -- 5. Billie resigns -- 6. For the love of a stranger and the lack of a name -- 7. Mercy, not sacrifice -- 8. Who is righteous? -- 9. Hope for Leo? -- 10. Judas, the man who never knew -- 11. The hope that went ignored -- 12. Eyes that never see; ears that never hear -- 13. New wine is for fresh skins -- Part two: On the anvil -- 14. On the anvil -- 15. Anvil time -- 16. Footprints of Satan -- 17. Thump-thud, thump-thud -- 18. Who pushes your swing? -- 19. Juan-lunch -- 20. Life from the press box -- 21. The value of a relationship -- 22. No more curtain! -- 23. Have you seen Jesus? -- 24. A good heart, but... -- 25. The hiker -- 26. The day my plate was broken -- 27. Putting your beliefs where your heart is -- 28. Someday -- 29. "God, don't you care?" -- 30. The blunted ax -- 31. Valentine's Day, 1965 -- 32. Open manholes and sudden sin -- 33. Who's in charge here? -- Part three: An instrument for noble purposes -- 34. An instrument for noble purposes -- 35. Today I will make a difference -- 36. The tested tunnel -- 37. The movement that was doomed to fail -- 38. Communication is more than words -- 39. Nonnegotiable love -- 40. Singlehood: Mistake or mission? -- 41. The poison tongue -- 42. The day of the question. The question! -- 43. Five votes of confidence -- 44. The wedding prayer -- 45. Sarah -- 46. The sonar fish finder -- 47. Triumphant...forever! -- 48. The makings of a movement -- Conclusion: Emerging from the anvil -- 49. Off the anvil
Summary: "Sometimes the process of being shaped by God can be painful and difficult, but in this collection of short and inspiring readings, author Max Lucado encourages us to look beyond the challenges of the moment to the joy of knowing that God is crafting us into tools fit for the Master's hand." --Book jacket.
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Originally published under title: On the anvil. 1985.

Acknowledegments -- Foreword -- Introduction: The blacksmith's shop -- Part one: The pile of broken tools -- 1. The pile of broken tools -- 2. I am very weary -- 3. Now, don't get carried away! -- 4. Sour grapes -- 5. Billie resigns -- 6. For the love of a stranger and the lack of a name -- 7. Mercy, not sacrifice -- 8. Who is righteous? -- 9. Hope for Leo? -- 10. Judas, the man who never knew -- 11. The hope that went ignored -- 12. Eyes that never see; ears that never hear -- 13. New wine is for fresh skins -- Part two: On the anvil -- 14. On the anvil -- 15. Anvil time -- 16. Footprints of Satan -- 17. Thump-thud, thump-thud -- 18. Who pushes your swing? -- 19. Juan-lunch -- 20. Life from the press box -- 21. The value of a relationship -- 22. No more curtain! -- 23. Have you seen Jesus? -- 24. A good heart, but... -- 25. The hiker -- 26. The day my plate was broken -- 27. Putting your beliefs where your heart is -- 28. Someday -- 29. "God, don't you care?" -- 30. The blunted ax -- 31. Valentine's Day, 1965 -- 32. Open manholes and sudden sin -- 33. Who's in charge here? -- Part three: An instrument for noble purposes -- 34. An instrument for noble purposes -- 35. Today I will make a difference -- 36. The tested tunnel -- 37. The movement that was doomed to fail -- 38. Communication is more than words -- 39. Nonnegotiable love -- 40. Singlehood: Mistake or mission? -- 41. The poison tongue -- 42. The day of the question. The question! -- 43. Five votes of confidence -- 44. The wedding prayer -- 45. Sarah -- 46. The sonar fish finder -- 47. Triumphant...forever! -- 48. The makings of a movement -- Conclusion: Emerging from the anvil -- 49. Off the anvil

"Sometimes the process of being shaped by God can be painful and difficult, but in this collection of short and inspiring readings, author Max Lucado encourages us to look beyond the challenges of the moment to the joy of knowing that God is crafting us into tools fit for the Master's hand." --Book jacket.

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