On the AnvilThe craftsman uses various instruments in shaping his tools - hammers, forges, anvils. Some of the tools now lie on a junk pile, broken, outdated, dull, rusty. There, heaped in a cob-webbed corner, they have become useless, never fulfilling the purposes for which they were created. Other tools are still on the anvil, being melted down, molten hot, malleable, changeable. They wait on the anvil, being shaped by the craftsman's hammer, becoming in the sometimes painful process what they were meant to be. They become tools of usefulness: sharpened, primed, defined, mobile. They lie ready in the craftman's toolchest, available to their master, ready to fulfill their calling. We are all somewhere there in the craftman's shop. |
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User Review - Rebecca Trheadgill - Christianbook.com
I received this as a graduate and it was a perfect gift. When as a graduate I had questions on what to do next, where will God lead me, does he truly have a plan? This book covered so many things on being shaped by our creator and encouraged me greatly. Read full review
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User Review - libraryclerk - LibraryThingMax Lucado has such a wonderful way with words. As he says in his foreward these are pieces were composed when he was an associate pastor. His symbolism is quite unique to me and very well thought ... Read full review
Contents
PART ONE The Pile of Broken Tools | xix |
The Pile of Broken Tools 3 | xx |
Am Very Weary 5 | xx |
Now Dont Get Carried Away | 9 |
Sour Grapes | 11 |
Billie Resigns | 13 |
For the Love of a Stranger and the Lack of a Name | 15 |
Mercy Not Sacrifice | 21 |
The Day My Plate Was Broken | 83 |
Putting Your Beliefs Where Your Heart Is | 85 |
Someday | 87 |
God Dont You Care? | 91 |
The Blunted Ax | 93 |
Valentines Day 1965 | 95 |
Open Manholes and Sudden Sin | 97 |
Whos in Charge Here? | 103 |
Who Is Righteous? | 23 |
Hope for Leo? | 25 |
Judas the Man Who Never Knew | 27 |
The Hope That Went Ignored | 29 |
Eyes That Never See Ears That Never Hear | 31 |
New Wine Is for Fresh Skins | 37 |
PART TWO On the Anvil | 39 |
On the Anvil | 41 |
Anvil Time | 45 |
Footprints of Satan | 49 |
ThumpThud ThumpThud | 51 |
Who Pushes Your Swing? | 55 |
JuanLunch | 59 |
Life from the Press Box | 63 |
The Value of a Relationship | 67 |
No More Curtain | 73 |
Have You Seen Jesus? | 75 |
A Good Heart But | 77 |
The Hiker | 79 |
PART THREE An Instrument for Noble Purposes | 105 |
An Instrument for Noble Purposes | 107 |
Today I Will Make a Difference | 109 |
The Tested Tunnel | 111 |
The Movement That Was Doomed to Fail | 115 |
Communication Is More than Words | 119 |
Nonnegotiable Love | 125 |
Mistake or Mission? | 129 |
The Poison Tongue | 133 |
The Day of the Question The Question | 135 |
Five Votes of Confidence | 141 |
The Wedding Prayer | 143 |
Sarah | 145 |
The Sonar Fish Finder | 147 |
Triumphant Forever | 153 |
The Makings of a Movement | 157 |
CONCLUSION Emerging from the Anvil | 159 |
Off the Anvil | 161 |
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