Best-selling author and pastor Max Lucado offers his insights on how to live with an eye toward purpose and the big picture in his latest book God’s Story, Your Story: When His Becomes Yours (Zondervan).

Pastor of Oak Hills Church in San Antonio, Max is a prolific author with more than 60 books to his credit.

God’s Story, Your Story helps people make sense out of their own circumstances in their search for purpose.

“Everything changes when you know the rest of your story,” writes Lucado (God’s Story, Your Story, page 22).

“We need to know where we came from. Knowing connects us, links us, bonds us to something greater than we are. Knowing reminds us that we aren’t floating on isolated ponds but on a grand river.

That’s why God wants you to know his story. . . And we are a part of it.” (God’s Story, Your Story, page 20)

In true Lucado style, he poignantly tells personal stories from his encounters with family, friends and strangers.

The 288-page book journeys with readers through God’s stories in the New Testament, intersecting Lucado’s personal stories with his thought-provoking comments on how to apply this to each reader’s life. Readers will be comforted, entertained and challenged.

A small group curriculum is available for churches to use for either small groups or as pulpit material for the entire congregation to participate. Each church member will learn how to incorporate God’s story with his or her own through materials and sermon resources at Church-wide Journeys.

A teen edition is also available. Targeted for teens ages 13-16, stories from the New Testament are illustrated through contemporary examples to help teens see how God is at work in lives today. Max lays out a roadmap designed by God to help each teen reach the destination God has planned for him or her.

Exclusive Internet Webcast Special

In a partnership with the great folks at Ambassador, I am pleased to present the exclusive Webcast Special, “God’s Story, Your Story," on my blog.

Special guests Sheila Walsh and J.J. Jasper provide moving testimonies that offer powerful real-life examples of God’s redemptive work...

Sheila Walsh is a recording artist, author and speaker, who discovered God was working in her own story in the midst of an emotional and spiritual breakdown.

J.J. Jasper is an on-air host for American Family Radio who shares of God’s peace after the death of his son, Cooper, who was tragically killed when the quadrunner J.J. was driving flipped over.

Every Christian has a story

My friends at The A Group were chosen by Zondervan to lead in the marketing efforts to get Max's new book out everywhere. They have created His is Mine, an amazing media-rich website where you can tell your own story .

This site offers a unique opportunity for you to join Max's online documentary about the journeys of life. Real life. Tell how God has woven the unfailing fabric of His word through your heart and mind. Go now. Someone is waiting to hear your story.

Don't miss the Webcast Special, "God's Story, Your Story," available now for download.