by Chris Maxwell | Jun 24, 2025 | Blog, Book Excerpts
—thoughts from Chapter 8 in Things We’ve Handed Down:Twelve Letters I Leave for You (based on the book The Art of Being You by Bob Kilpatrick and Joel Kilpatrick). We often picture God like a mechanic—someone we call when things break down. The engine fails, the...
by Chris Maxwell | Jun 20, 2025 | Blog, Book Excerpts
I didn’t plan to write twelve books. (Explore Chris Maxwell’s Twelve books here.) I just kept writing—because I kept living, kept hurting, kept healing, kept listening, kept learning. The words came slowly, sometimes suddenly, shaped by invitations from Jesus, by deep...
by Chris Maxwell | Jun 18, 2025 | Blog, Book Excerpts
Over the years, I’ve seen countless trends, formulas, and quick-fix strategies for growing churches. Experts share flashy solutions and promise instant results. I’m not here to do that. I’m no expert. But after decades in ministry, I’ve learned a few things—lessons...
by Chris Maxwell | Mar 3, 2025 | Blog, Book Excerpts
I continue adding comments about my latest book, Things We’ve Handed Down. So, it should not surprise you that today’s thoughts highlight the next chapter. This blog, and this chapter, come from the book Surprised by Joy from C.S. Lewis. As...
by Chris Maxwell | Feb 26, 2025 | Blog, Book Excerpts
Edges. That is what life is, mostly. Edges. Think about that today. Your life. You life as mostly edges. Calvin Miller wrote a book about his life; titled Life is Mostly Edges: A Memoir. And I wrote about him and that book—and many of his other books, in chapter...
by Chris Maxwell | Nov 30, 2024 | Blog, Book Excerpts
Chapter three in Things We’ve Handed Down is, like each chapter in the book, a letter. And it is, like each chapter, based on a book which impacted my life. And this chapter, like chapter two, is about wounds. We know about wounds. We have all experienced wounds. We...
