Zacchaeus Made Simple

The short tax collector up a sycamore tree — one dinner with Jesus and a crooked life straightened out. Zacchaeus was the chief publican of Jericho, rich on skimmed taxes and hated by his own people. He ran, he climbed, and Jesus stopped, looked up, and called him by name.

Zacchaeus Made Simple is a Bible-first walk through Luke 19:1-10: the desperate curiosity that made a proud man run, the Savior who looked up and saw, the urgent call to come down, the joy of receiving Him, the crowd that always murmurs, the repentance that proves itself with half his goods and fourfold restitution, and the mission statement of the incarnation — "the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost."

Explicitly Trinitarian: God the Father who seeks; Jesus Christ — Son of God and Son of Man, Lord and Savior — who saves; and the Holy Spirit, who alone changes hearts and gives freedom. Every prayer is to the Father, through Jesus Christ, by the Holy Spirit.

Proof that no one is too far gone for grace. Read one chapter a day. Come honest. Come down.

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