Max Lucado’s Cast of Characters

I received Cast of Characters in July, but left it behind as I went on vacation. Then it got lost among the accumulations of summer. I am so sorry it did. This is a delightful, humorous, but very poignant look at some famous and not-so-famous people in the Bible. I wish I had read it earlier.


Max Lucado re-introduces us to God’s “cast of characters”, showing us how ordinary they were, but how we can learn valuable lessons by watching them in the stories they enact in the pages of Scripture. There are the obvious, such as Peter, Job, Paul and Joseph. There are the obscure, such as Mephibosheth. And there are characters from parables who come alive in a fresh way at the pen of Lucado.

Through all these people, Lucado focuses not so much on them, but the God behind them: the “Uncommon God” in Whose hands we all are. We are urged to allow God to work us and work through us to do uncommon things, as He did with all the twenty plus examples in the book.

The book is an easy read, refreshing and challenging. Each chapter is followed by questions to help the reader (or a group of readers) assimilate the lesson offered by the character(s) of that chapter.

Treat yourself to Max Lucado’s Cast of Characters.