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    Our Ultimate Hope: 7 Days of Promise to Renew Your Soul
    Our Ultimate Hope: 7 Days of Promise to Renew Your Soul
    Our Ultimate Hope: 7 Days of Promise to Renew Your Soul
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    Our Ultimate Hope: 7 Days of Promise to Renew Your Soul

    By Max Lucado

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    In Our Ultimate Hope, Max Lucado unpacks the undeniable problem of fallen mankind and the unshakable promise God offers of “no condemnation.” With scripted prayers and guided questions to help renew your soul, Our Ultimate Hope is the perfect companion to Unshakable Hope.

    The realization of our moral debt sends some people into a frenzy of good works. Life becomes an unending quest to do enough, be better, accomplish more. A pursuit of piety. We attend church, tend to the sick, go on pilgrimages, and go on fasts. Yet deep within is the gnawing fear, What if, having done all that, I’ve not done enough?

    Other people respond to the list, not with activity, but unbelief. They throw up their hands and walk away exasperated. No God would demand so much. He can’t be pleased. He can’t be satisfied. He must not exist. If he does exist, he is not worth knowing.

    Two extremes. The legalist and the atheist. The worker desperate to impress God. The unbeliever convinced there is no God. Can you relate to either of the two? Do you know the weariness that comes from legalism? Do you know the loneliness that comes from atheism?

    What do we do? Are despair and disbelief the only options?

    Join Max on a soul-renewing guide through Scripture’s ultimate hope: “There is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus” (Rom. 8:1).

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas Nelson
    Release dateAug 7, 2018
    ISBN9781400212118
    Our Ultimate Hope: 7 Days of Promise to Renew Your Soul
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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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    Our Ultimate Hope - Max Lucado

    © 2018 Max Lucado

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    Contents

    Introduction: The Eternal Promise

    DAY 1: Let Go and Let God

    DAY 2: What Would You Ask of God?

    DAY 3: What to Do with Fear

    DAY 4: When Nothing Goes Right

    DAY 5: Cleaned Up from the Inside Out

    DAY 6: Bitter to Blessed

    DAY 7: God Gets You

    Notes

    The Eternal Promise

    There is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

    —ROMANS 8:1

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