Mega best-selling author Max Lucado celebrates his 25th year of publishing--appropriately enough--with his 25th book, next month, describing Outlive Your Life: You Were Made to Make a Difference as "a call to compassion" for Christians.

Examining life in the first church according to the book of Acts, Lucado challenges present-day believers to live in such a way that their lives will make a difference for generations to come and even will be talked about in heaven.

"You're not even out of Acts chapter 2 before you realize that they were helping each other meet each other's needs in the community as they reached out to one another," he said. "We come with a message of the heart and the message of the body."

Practicing what he preaches, Lucado is seeing that all proceeds from the Thomas Nelson book sales go to World Vision to build water wells in northern Uganda and to the James 1:27 Foundation to minister to the needs of single mothers.

He emphasizes that every Christian can have an impact when exercising compassion. "Not one person can do everything," he said. "Bill Gates can't do everything. Barack Obama can't do everything. Not one person can do everything. Everybody can do something. All I do is challenge people to indentify one personal mission that you have."

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