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    This is Love: The Extraordinary Story of Jesus
    This is Love: The Extraordinary Story of Jesus
    This is Love: The Extraordinary Story of Jesus
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    This is Love: The Extraordinary Story of Jesus

    By Max Lucado

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    Join Max Lucado as he takes you on a journey into the life of the One who gave Himself to win your heart.

    Jesus was both divine and human, common yet extraordinary: a one-of-a-kind God-man who befriended sinners and outwitted death. But the truly amazing thing about Him is His love. His love never falters, never withholds. His love never gives up, never stops short. His love goes the distance.

    With stunning photographs and rich, classic design, This Is Love will steer you on a life-changing voyage through the poignant story of the death, resurrection, and unsurpassed legacy of Christ.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas Nelson
    Release dateJan 2, 2012
    ISBN9781400319749
    This is Love: The Extraordinary Story of Jesus
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    Max Lucado

    Since entering the ministry in 1978, Max Lucado has served churches in Miami, Florida; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and San Antonio, Texas. He currently serves as the teaching minister of Oak Hills Church in San Antonio. He is the recipient of the 2021 ECPA Pinnacle Award for his outstanding contribution to the publishing industry and society at large. He is America's bestselling inspirational author with more than 150 million products in print. Visit his website at MaxLucado.com Facebook.com/MaxLucado Instagram.com/MaxLucado Twitter.com/MaxLucado Youtube.com/MaxLucadoOfficial The Max Lucado Encouraging Word Podcast

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    • 4/5
      An awesome reminder of the love Jesus Christ has for us and the sacrifice he made to save us. An easy read with a powerful message.
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      This was a great collection of selections from Lucado’s books about Jesus’s death and resurrection.

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    This is Love - Max Lucado

    9781400320066_INT_0001_001

    THIS IS

    LOVE

    The Extraordinary Story of Jesus

    MAX LUCADO

    9781400320066_INT_0003_001

    THIS IS LOVE

    © 2009 Max Lucado. All rights reserved.

    Published in Nashville, Tennessee, by Thomas Nelson®. Thomas Nelson® is a registered trademark of Thomas Nelson, Inc.

    All rights reserved. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or any other—except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

    Thomas Nelson, Inc. titles may be purchased in bulk for educational, business, fund-raising, or sales promotional use. For information, please e-mail SpecialMarkets@ThomasNelson.com.

    Scripture references are from the following sources: The NEW KING JAMES VERSION (NKJV) ©1979, 1980, 1982, 1992, 2002 Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publisher. The Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. The Message (MSG), copyright © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group. New American Standard Bible (NASB), © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by the Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. The New Century Version®(NCV). Copyright © 2005 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. The Amplified Bible (AMP). The Amplified New Testament, copyright © 1954, 1958, 1987 by the Lockman Foundation. The Living Bible (TLB), copyright © 1971 by Tyndale House Publishers, Wheaton, Illinois 60187. All rights reserved. The Contemporary English Version (CEV) © 1995 by the American Bible Society. All rights reserved. The Revised Standard Version of the Bible (RSV), copyright © 1946, 1952, 1971 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA.

    Compiled by Terri Gibbs

    Editorial Supervision: Karen Hill, Executive Editor for Max Lucado

    Development Editor: Lisa Stilwell

    Design: Koechel Peterson & Associates, Inc., Minneapolis, MN

    Photographs unless otherwise noted are from photos.com

    4-5 Flickr.com | Fort Photo; Flickr.com | aycee_2000 (Alan Carmichael)

    ISBN 978-1-4003-2006-6

    ISBN 978-1-4041-7510-5

    This book is a portion of the previously published His Name Is Jesus, ISBN: 978-14041-418-6736

    www.thomasnelson.com

    Printed and bound in China

    CONTENTS

    Preface

    His Death

    His Resurrection

    His Legacy

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    PREFACE

    JESUS WAS, AT ONCE, COMMON AND NOT; alternately normal and heroic. One minute blending in with the domino players in the park, the next commanding the hell out of madmen, disease out of the dying, and death out of the dead. Who was this man who spoke as easily with kids and fishermen as widows and waves? It is the question that has echoed down through the centuries to us today.

    HIS STORY WAS EXTRAORDINARY. He called himself divine, yet allowed a minimum-wage Roman soldier to drive a nail into his wrist. He demanded purity, yet stood for the rights of a repentant whore. He called men to march, yet refused to allow them to call him King. He sent men into all the world, yet equipped them with only bended knees and memories of a resurrected carpenter.

    WE CAN’T REGARD HIM AS SIMPLY A GOOD TEACHER. His claims are too outrageous to limit him to the company of Socrates or Aristotle. Nor can we categorize him as one of many prophets sent to reveal eternal truths. His own claims eliminate that possibility.

    WHO IS HE? My prayer is that as you read this book Jesus will emerge from a wavy figure walking out of a desert mirage to become the touchable face of a best friend. My idea is simple. Let’s look at some places he went and some people he touched. Join me on a quest for his God-manness. You may be amazed.

    More important, you may be changed.

    MAX LUCADO

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    HIS DEATH

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    It encircled the angels and starstruck the shepherds

    in the Bethlehem pasture.

    Jesus radiates it.

    John beheld it.

    Peter witnessed it on Transfiguration Hill.

    Christ will return enthroned in it.

    Heaven will be illuminated

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