losing the cape -- a book review

Dan Stanford's Losing the Cape:  The Power of Ordinary in a World of Superheros builds on a central truth:  "As bad as the world is right now, we don’t need a superhero to come save the day".  And in its twenty-one chapters, Stanford explores a number of people -- both biblical and everyday -- who live lives that are ordinary miracles of divine work. 

Stanford encourages us to focus on our sphere of influence, use what we have on hand, rely upon God and not our works, and to stop expecting works of great importance to look big and earth shattering -- sometimes the biggest thing to someone may come in the form of a small, seemingly insignificant gesture.  To the person, however, it means the world.

Losing the Cape is an easy read -- each chapter is just a few pages.  And Stanford's conversational style make it a comfortable book to explore a very timely message.  There are places you'll find encouragement -- and others where you'll find challenge.  But when you take this book seriously, it may well change God's world in all the ways God's redemption is seeking reconciliation with it.
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I received a free copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for my honest review here.