Praise for Cure for the Common Life

God gave you uniqueness, a talent, a skill, one that is yours alone to use in honoring Him. Cure for the Common Life can help you find that uniqueness, the "sweet spot" that puts it all into perspective, and show you how to live it everyday so that you aren't just existing in God's creation but thriving in His plan.

Dr. Phil McGraw, #1 New York Times bestselling author and host of the
”Dr. Phil show”

We all have unique gifts that can be used for God's purposes.  Max Lucado's gift is to apply spiritual teachings to our everyday lives, as he has done with Cure for the Common Life.  Discovering God's unique plan for our lives is both humbling and inspiring:  humbling because though we are but a drop in the ocean, the Creator of the universe has a plan for our individual lives;  and inspiring as that plan becomes revealed and our unique talents and attributes get put to work in carrying it out.  In understanding the principles Max espouses, you will be inspired to live anything but the common life.

Rick Perry, Governor of Texas

Max Lucado's Cure for the Common Life provides a blueprint for staying above the malaise of quiet, desperate living.  With lyrical language, he gives valuable insights for unpacking your uniqueness to glorify God in your eternal vocation.  Reading this book will produce in many a 'thank God it's Monday' attitude.

Barry C. Black, Chaplain of the U .S. Senate

Max Lucado has done it again! This book is a jewel. I say that because he hits the nail on the head when he reveals in chapter after chapter that people cannot be anything they want to be but they can be everything God wants them to be. Read, discover, and rejoice in your sweet spot out of which you are intended to live.

Millard Fuller, Founder, Habitat for Humanity and The Fuller Center for Housing

What Jonas Salk did for polio, Max Lucado has done for aimlessness. If you’re one of the afflicted masses who feels like you’re sliding through life instead of soaring as God intended you, read this book fast! Cure for the Common Life is much more than a title--I predict it may be the vaccine that gives life purpose and hope to a whole generation.

Gene Appel, Teaching Pastor, Willow Creek Community Church, television commentator

I’m convinced that every single one of us has a “spiritual DNA” that determines our destiny in this life. Max Lucado calls it our “sweet spot.” And by reading this terrific new book, you will find yours. It’s the right book to read in Halftime or anytime.

Bob Buford, Best-selling author of Halftime and Finishing Well

Other than accepting Christ as Savior, there is no more important discovery for Christians than understanding how God uniquely equips them to work and serve. We are all individually “wired” by God “to do good works , which God prepared in advance for us to do.” Cure for the Common Life may be the most important book you will ever read if it helps you understand how God equipped you perfectly for service in His kingdom>

Richard E. Stearns, President, World Vision U.S.

Max Lucado has done it again! He has taken simple truths and made them available to all of us. In Cure for the Common Life he shows us how to identify and explore our uniqueness, motivates us to put our strengths to work and to live in our sweet spot for the rest of our life.

Ken Blanchard, Co-author of The One-Minute Manager® and The Secret

Every time I get a chance to hear Max Lucado speak, my life is blessed. Everyone who reads this book will know that they are special in the eyes of God and a very important part of His plan.

CeCe Winans

Max Lucado has the unusual gift of being able to take God’s Word, filter it through human experiences and human circumstances and have it emerge unscathed and undiluted. The person through whom it passes is transformed by the renewing of his or her mind and heart. In Cure for the Common Life Max and God do it again by showing us how we don’t have to be victims of circumstances, but live in a sweeter spot.

Cal Thomas, Syndicated Columnist and Host, “After Hours” on Fox News Channel

Max Lucado’s Cure for the Common Life leaves you feeling energized, curious to discover your own God-given “sweet spot.” He encourages you to discover your unique gifts and the specific plan that God has given each of us.

Dr. Gary Smalley, Author, founder of Smalley Relationship Center

In these pages you will leave the common life in the dust. You will learn that each person was designed as a one-of-a-kind to achieve one certain purpose. You begin to experience the fact that God has embedded in your soul the power and passion to fulfill your purpose. It is a profound message for those who long for a unity of their belief and their life in this world.

Art Miller, Founder of People Management International, Inc. and author of The Power of Uniqueness

Max Lucado, in lyric prose and with heart penetrating stories, reminds us that we are made in the image of God. Reading life backwards has never been so much fun—or so revealing.

Laurie Beth Jones, Author of Jesus, CEO and Jesus, Life Coach

To maximize life’s potential personally, professionally, and spiritually, you must know the zone in which you are the happiest and most productive. Most people never reach that utopian state because they do not know how to get there. In this book, Max Lucado shows us how to achieve that goal, which he refers to as the “sweet spot.” I am convinced that by following the detailed guidelines so beautifully written in this book, the reader will be able to find that sweet spot and add new meaning and purpose to life.

Kenneth H. Cooper, M.D., M.P.H.

I recommend this book if you fall into any of these categories:  you're working, parenting, calling the shots, serving, wondering, graduating, longing, wondering, breathing. Your focus will be refined.  Your battery will be recharged.
Ernie Johnson, Jr., Sportscaster-TNT

Destroying the myth that we can be anything we want to be, and discovering that God has a special destiny for each of us, is both inspirational and freeing. It made me look at life's journey in a brand new way.
Alan Colmes

The message of this book could change your life forever. What if you dared to believe that the God of the universe has made you so unique that without your passionate participation in this life, we would all feel the loss? God waits for us to sing his love song in our own distinct voice.
Shiela Walsh, Women of Faith speaker and Author of I’m Not Wonder Woman but God Made Me Wonderful

Max has once again “Max-i-mized” my understanding with his “sweet-spot” style, showing how much better we can be when we’re being what God created us to be.
Pastor Bob Coy, Calvary Chapel, Fort Lauderdale

This is a breakthrough book for everyone who wants God's best for their life!

Lee Strobel, author, The Case for Christ and God's Outrageous Claims

You don't have to read an entire book to write an endorsement for it--unless of course you can't put it down!  Such is the case with Cure for the Common Life.  If your life has become numbingly mundane and you've forgotten that God has a plan for your life then I suggest you block out a few hours to be reminded of your uniqueness.

Dave Stone, Southeast Christian Church

Cure for the Common Life is a celebration of the life we have been given and the blessings we have received in great abundance. Refuting the oft-aired charge that Christianity fixates on otherworldly devotion, Max Lucado transforms the everyday into a discovery of self, God, and eternal meaning. In that transformation, this beloved author offers much-needed advice to those who may have sensed a weary emptiness in their daily labors.

Kenneth W. Starr

I’m so glad for Max Lucado’s insightful call for us to live and work as we are intrinsically designed by God. 

Richard J. Foster, author, Celebration of Discipline