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Part One: The Pile of Broken Tools
1: The Pile of Broken Tools
2: I Am Very Weary
3: Now, Don’t Get Carried Away!
4: Sour Grapes
5: Billie Resigns
6: For the Love of a Stranger and the Lack of a Name
7: Mercy, Not Sacrifice
8: Who Is Righteous?
9: Hope for Leo?
10: Judas, the Man Who Never Knew
11: The Hope That Went Ignored
12: Eyes That Never See; Ears That Never Hear
13: New Wine Is for Fresh Skins
Part Two: On the Anvil
14: On the Anvil
15: Anvil Time
16: Footprints of Satan
17: Thump-Thud, Thump-Thud
18: Who Pushes Your Swing?
19: Juan—Lunch
20: Life from the Press Box
21: The Value of a Relationship
22: No More Curtain!
23: Have You Seen Jesus?
24: A Good Heart, But . . .
25: The Hiker
26: The Day My Plate Was Broken
27: Putting Your Beliefs Where Your Heart Is
28: Someday
29: “God, Don’t You Care?”
30: The Blunted Ax
31: Valentine’s Day, 1965
32: Open Manholes and Sudden Sin
33: Who’s in Charge Here?
Part Three: An Instrument for Noble Purposes
34: An Instrument for Noble Purposes
35: Today I Will Make a Difference
36: The Tested Tunnel
37: The Movement That Was Doomed to Fail
38: Communication Is More than Words
39: Nonnegotiable Love
40: Singlehood: Mistake or Mission?
41: The Poison Tongue
42: The Day of the Question. The Question!
43: Five Votes of Confidence
44: The Wedding Prayer
45: Sarah
46: The Sonar Fish Finder
47: Triumphant . . . Forever!
48: The Makings of a Movement
Conclusion: Emerging from the Anvil
49: Off the Anvil
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ON THE ANVIL
by
MAX LUCADO
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To my mother and father,
two people with the courage of a giant,
and the heart of a child.
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