Max Lucado

I've seen Max Lucado's books around for years, but until recently I had never actually read one. A few weeks ago Theresa brought home several of his children's books from school, and we read them together. These were about the Wemmicks and their various foibles. The Wemmicks are wooden creatures fashioned by Eli, the Woodcarver, who is obviously intended to represent God in his relationship with his human image-bearers. The Wemmicks are constantly engaging in oneupsmanship and status-seeking, and Eli has to keep reminding them they needn't do this and that he loves them as they are.

The stories are innocuous enough and reaffirming of children's self-esteem, but given that they were written by a professed christian author, one would expect to see more evident references to sin and redemption, which are conspicuous by their absence — at least from the Wemmick books. Others can perhaps tell me whether he rectifies this defect in his other books. I hope so.