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    Traveling Light: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear
    Traveling Light: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear
    Traveling Light: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear
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    Traveling Light: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear

    Written by Max Lucado

    Narrated by Max Lucado

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    Weary travelers. You've seen them -- everything they own crammed into their luggage. Staggering through terminals and hotel lobbies with overstuffed suitcases, trunks, duffels, and backpacks.

    Backs ache. Feet burn. Eyelids droop.

    We've all seen people like that.

    At times, we are people like that -- if not with our physical luggage, then at least with our spiritual load.

    We all lug loads we were never intended to carry. Fear. Worry. Discontent. No wonder we get so weary. We're worn out from carrying that excess baggage. Wouldn't it be nice to lose some of those bags?

    That's the invitation of Max Lucado. With the Twenty-third Psalm as our guide, let's release some of the burdens we were never intended to bear.

    Using these verses as a guide, Max Lucado walks us through a helpful inventory of our burdens. May God use this Psalm to remind you to release the burdens you were never meant to bear.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas Nelson
    Release dateJan 21, 2012
    ISBN9781418591618
    Author

    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
      I haven't read many of Max Lucado's books. I like to think about the complexity and contrasts inherent in being a Christian. I like my theology complicated and messy. But there are times when what I really need is comfort, reassurance, and certainty. This is what I find in Lucado's work. This book begins with the premise that many of us are not traveling light. We are bearing heavy burdens and often feel like we have to bear them alone. Lucado uses the 23rd Psalm to help us see that we are not intended to bear those burdens alone. The 23rd Psalm provides an alternative: "The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want." Each chapter of the book focuses on one line of the 23rd Psalm, a Psalm that I cannot recite without hearing my grandmother's words in my head. The result is not any shocking insights, but rather a welcome reminder of ideas that echo throughout the Bible and throughout my Christian upbringing - words that I needed to hear right now.

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    • 5/5
      Learn how to cast your cares and burdens on the lord
    • 5/5
      I’m a man of a few words:”this book is just amazing!”
    • 5/5
      Great view of the 23rd Psalm. A book I reread.
    • 5/5
      As always, I enjoyed another Lucado book. But this was my first time to "listen" to his book. All the while, I thought the voice I was hearing was a voice talent. Amazing that it was Max Lucado himself!

      Psalm 23 has always been one of my favorite, and it was beautiful how Lucado matched the burdens in life that we must dispose with the verses of this psalm.

      As a writer, Max Lucado has that unique talent of making his readers laugh, and then cry. His books pierce into the heart and cause his readers to think, really think deeply about their lives.

      A big plus for me is that his writing is quite poetic as well.
    • 5/5
      excellant worth reading over and over
    • 3/5
      Some good wisdom from psalm 23, but not as inspiring as other max lucado books I've read