3: 16: The Numbers of Hope (Audio)
Overview
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*Featuring Max’s comforting voice, this updated and expanded edition of 3:16 is the first full-length audiobook read by America’s pastor, Max Lucado.*
Sometimes life appears to fall to pieces and can seem irreparable. We’ve all had our fair share of disappointments, loss, or hardships. But for every challenge there is a breathtaking promise: It’s going to be okay. How can we know? Because God so loved the world.
In 3:16, pastor and New York Times bestselling author Max Lucado encourages us to study closely the “Hope Diamond of the Bible”: John 3:16.
Max says of his favorite verse, “Every time I recall these words, they are fresh and as stunning as my first encounter with them. The mind-bending awareness of God’s limitless love, his incalculable sacrifice, and the priceless teaching at the core. How can we not review it again and again? I want this generation, and all who come after, to look closely at the key promise of God and choose the gift beyond all gifts.”
Throughout this updated edition of 3:16, Max will invite you to:
- Stand in awe of how deep, wide, long, and high God’s love is for you
- Understand more fully the living hope you have through Jesus’ death and resurrection
- Rest in the assurance that salvation is a gift from God, not something you can earn
If you know nothing of the Bible, start here. John 3:16 invites you to know God’s love deeply and intimately. And once you accept God’s love, your life will never be the same.
If you know everything in the Bible, return here. Let John 3:16 become the banner of your life, so much so that the message of God’s unending and unbending love overflows from you to others.
3:16 also includes a 40-day devotional read by Max to help you draw closer to your loving Savior.
- Title: 3: 16: The Numbers of Hope (Audio)
- Author: Max Lucado
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson
- Print Publication Date: 2022
- Logos Release Date: 2021
- Era: era:modern
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Audio
- Subjects: Religion › Biblical Commentary--New Testament--Jesus, the Gospels & Acts; Religion › Biblical Studies--New Testament--Jesus, the Gospels & Acts; Religion › Christian Theology--Soteriology; Religion › Biblical Meditations--New Testament
- ISBNs: 9781400234929, 9781400237760, 1400237769, 9781400235315, 1400235316, 9781400233038, 1400233038, 9781400237777, 1400237777, 9781400237784, 1400237785, 9781400235629, 1400235626, 1400234921
- Resource ID: LLS:9781400234929
- Resource Type: Media
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-12-19T06:36:10Z
Max Lucado (1955– ) is a best-selling author with over 50 books and 65 million copies in print. He’s been named “America’s pastor” and “the best preacher in America.”
Lucado studied biblical and related studies at Abilene Christian University. He served as Associate Minister at Central Church of Christ in Miami, Florida and Church Planning Missionary in Rio de Janeiro. Lucado is a minister of preaching at Oak Hill Church in San Antonio, Texas, where he has served since 1988.
In 1991, Lucado began developing a radio broadcast called UpWords Ministries. The inspirational messages featured on UpWords with Max Lucado are heard in over 1,400 radio markets around the world.
Three of Lucado’s titles have been recipients of the Gold Medallion Christian Book of the Year award: Just Like Jesus, In the Grip of Grace, and When God Whispers Your Name. Other notable titles by Lucado include Grace for the Moment and Facing Your Giants.