Cast of Characters

Cast of Characters: Common People in the Hands of an Uncommon God by Max Lucado

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Man is flawed. God is not. God will use all of us flawed human beings if we choose to be obedient.

Max writes a series of chapters of various characters throughout the Bible, trying to help us see them in a different light...maybe more the way we would see these people today. It is extremely difficult to not use our hindsight and color the people of the Bible with the indicators of what we know they will accomplish. By retelling some of the stories, you can take that spin away slightly and recognize how far many people had fallen when God picks them up to use them in amazing ways.

It is with that knowledge, that hope, that all of us can take our next step each day.

I may not have loved the book, but I do love the message that is in it. For many people, this might be exactly what they need to read. They will connect to it in a way that many other books won't connect with them. After all,
"If God can find a place for them [the characters in the Bible]...He just might have a place for us too."