"Six Hours One Friday" Max Lucado

I recently finished reading the book "Six Hours One Friday" by Max Lucado. Max has such a way of making the life of Christ relevant to today. In this book he goes through the six hours of Christ's death hanging on the cross and in each chapter he eloquently articulates the pain and suffering that Jesus went through both before and leading up to his death on the cross. He is an artist at revealing how much Jesus' love for you and me was at the forefront of his sacrifice. There are two particular chapters that stood out to me. First, was chapter 10 "The Golden Goblet". Lucado, in this chapter, is able to lead you from the beginning to the end of the narrative that is the Bible. He connects the fall of man and the restoration and redemption of man together in this chapter. He shows in a beautifully crafted chapter how the King was there in the beginning fighting for us and how on one terrible friday to redeem his fallen children he drank the cup of sin and shame that the whole world had accumulated and shattered the hold the enemy had, he redeems humanity by taking there place on a cross. The second is chapter 13, "The Eleventh Hour", Lucado presents this chapter from the view of the thief who repented on the cross. He shows the mercy and grace of Jesus threw the eyes of a man who in his last moments comes to understand who he hangs next to. The Son of God unjustly accused of a crime he didn't commit and crucified with no fault of his own. Truly the man they mock as king, must be king, otherwise why would they need to kill him. "Could it be?" That this man is who he claims to be? That this man is the Son of the living God? He has done nothing good with his life up to this point but it is in the final moments of his life that he finds the most important decision looming over him. He has the opportunity to change everything in a glimpse and he does and Lucado takes you through his journey up to that moment and the conversation with the King that changed everything.