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Max Lucado

Max Lucado

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Max Lucado is a preacher with a storyteller’s gift—a pastor’s heart and a poet’s pen. Max’s sermons begin at home with the congregation at Oak Hills Church, which he has led for more than two decades. It is in this setting that his stories are first told, from a pastor’s heart. Eventually some of these sermons and stories are refined and fashioned into books that are shared far beyond the walls of Oak Hills and the city limits of San Antonio, Texas. Max’s words have traveled around the world in more than 41 languages via more than 100 million individual products.

Max Lucado’s first book, On the Anvil, was published in 1985. 2013 brings the release of Max’s 30th trade book, You’ll Get Through This (September), which beautifully illustrates Lucado’s ongoing mission to encourage the brokenhearted and to remind all readers of the healing love of God. Max and family moved back to Texas in 1988, and Max has been a minister at Oak Hills Church ever since. Max and Denalyn have three grown daughters, two in ministry, one in publishing, and one son-in-law, also serving in ministry.


Max Lucado is a best-selling Christian author and minister of writing and preaching at Oak Hills Church (formerly the Oak Hills Church of Christ) in San Antonio, Texas. Lucado has written more than 50 books with 28 million copies in print.

After serving as the pulpit minister for 20 years, Lucado announced in early 2007 that he was stepping down due to health concerns related to atrial fibrillation. Lucado has since assumed the ministry role of writing and preaching at Oak Hills. He co-pastors the church with one of Willow Creek's former teaching pastors, Randy Frazee.

Lucado was named "America's Pastor" by Christianity Today magazine and in 2005 was named by Reader's Digest as "The Best Preacher in America." He has been featured on The Fox News Channel, NBC Nightly News, Larry King Live, and USA Today. His books are regularly on the New York Times Best Seller List. He has been featured speaker at the National Prayer Breakfast.
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Sunsets steal our breath. Caribbean blue stills our hearts. Newborn babies stir our tears. But take all these away—strip away the sunsets, oceans, and cooing babies—and leave us in the Sahara, and we still have reason to dance in the sand. Why? Because God is with us.
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Can anything separate us from the love Christ has for us?
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God answered our question before we asked it. So we’d see his answer, he lit the sky with a star. So we’d hear it, he filled the night with a choir. So we’d believe it, he did what no man had ever dreamed. He became flesh and came to live among us. He
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when your tongue is sharp enough to slice a rock. How
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I hope we win the game tonight.” “I hope I pass my final tomorrow.” We often use the word hope as a wish for something to happen. But hope in God is something far deeper. It’s knowing that he’s in control, that he loves us, and that our future is secure in him.
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Sometimes your God-inspired gesture is exactly what a hurting soul needs to survive another day. DECEMBER 6 Don’t become partners with those who reject God. How
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When you have God, you always have hope.
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God gets it. When you reach out to him, he’s not looking for fancy words that would impress your English teacher. He sees your heart. A groan, a look, a sigh—he speaks every language. He understands.
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El titular del libro de Ester dice: El alivio vendrá. . . ¿serás parte de él?
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do the best, you put a smile on God’s face. What could be better than that?
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Do not remember the former things, Nor consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing, Now it shall spring forth; Shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness And rivers in the desert.” ISAIAH 43:18–19
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God is too gracious to ask you to do something you hate
topics: inspirational  
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Don’t characterize loners as aloof or crowd seekers as arrogant. They may be living out their story.
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The snake pulled back the curtain to the throne room and invited Eve to take a seat. Put on the crown. Pick up the scepter. Put on the cape. See how it feels to have power. See how feels to have a name. See how it feels to be in control! Eve swallowed the hook. The temptation to be like God eclipsed her view of God.
topics: god , sin  
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Ponder the achievement of God. He doesn't condone our sin, nor does he compromise his standard. He doesn't ignore our rebellion, nor does he relax his demands. Rather than dismiss our sin, he assumes our sin and, incredibly, sentences himself. God's holiness is honored. Our sin is punished....and we are redeemed. God does what we cannot do so we can be what we dare not dream: perfect before God.
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Jesus can move mountains, so he can and will act on your behalf. He loves you! So receive his love and his power. Quit doubting the King of Kings and teacher of all teachers. Believe in him and step in the resurrection power that is already yours in Christ Jesus. He is who he says - believe him! The Lord exposes our weaknesses so we'll come to him and find our rest and hope in him. He wants you to come to him and stop imaging terrible scenarios. Has he not brought you this far? That's the creator of the ends of the Earth in your court! On your side! He is for you, not against you. Trust in him. Worship him. Take your position in praise and prayer and he will set ambushes for the enemy. - letter by Mrs Lucado.
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Just look what they did to me!” we defy and point to our hurts. “Just look what I did for you,” he reminds and points to the cross.
topics: forgiveness  
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We do our way into better feelings. We do not feel our way into better doing.
topics: forgiveness  
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We prefer to get salvation the old-fashioned way: We earn it. To accept grace is to admit failure, a step we are hesitant to take. We opt to impress God with how good we are rather than confessing how great he is.
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That’s what guilt is: a healthy regret for telling God one thing and doing another.
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