I don't have any desire to retire in the sense of not doing anything. Because as long as the Lord gives me strength I want to keep writing and keep preaching. I love what I do.
Max LucadoI try to help people see they're going to have these times in which they turn away, in which they deny Christ and their faith grows cold, their convictions weakened; but Jesus is waiting.
Max LucadoI try to help people see that God uses pain, that pain is one of the ways God shapes us into the kind of beings He wants us to be for eternity.
Max LucadoThe Bible urges us to be respectful to all people, especially people with whom we have disagreements, to never libel people, to never label people.
Max LucadoVengeance fixes your attention on life's ugliest moments. Is this where you want to look? Remember: God dispenses perfect justice.
Max LucadoI think the hardest questions had to do with suffering. It had to do with all of our church members and friends passing through difficult times. Sometimes it's the global climate: tsunamis, earthquakes, radiation. I think these kinds of questions are absolutely the most difficult, yet we need to be ready to respond to them because we have to be able as pastors to walk people through these valleys, these tough times in their lives.
Max LucadoScot McKnight stirs the treasures of our Lord's life in an engaging fashion. He did so with The Jesus Creed, and does so again with 40 Days Living the Jesus Creed. Make sure this new guide for living is on your shelf.
Max LucadoNature is God's first missionary. Where there is no Bible there are sparkling stars. Where there are not preachers there are spring times... If a person has nothing but nature, then nature is enough to reveal something about God.
Max LucadoGod is kind, but he is not soft. He takes us firmly by the hand and leads us into a radical life change.
Max LucadoWhen God looks at you, he doesn’t see you; he sees the One who surrounds you. That means that failure is not a concern for you. Your victory is secure.
Max LucadoThe purpose of the Bible is simply to proclaim God's plan to save His children. It asserts that man is lost and needs to be saved. And it communicates the message that Jesus is the God in the flesh sent to save His children.
Max LucadoBread of Life? Jesus lived up to the title. But an unopened loaf does a person no good. Have you received the bread? Have you received God's forgiveness?
Max LucadoIt works well for me to go ahead and prepare the sermon with a chapter in mind. What that does is to force me to be very thrifty in my language, tighten up my words and not ramble so much. It puts some fiber in the sermon.
Max LucadoDa Vinci painted one Mona Lisa. Beethoven composed one Fifth Symphony. And God made one version of you.
Max LucadoAll of my sermons become books. I've been accused of having no unpublished thought. I encourage pastors to do that. I think there are so many great sermons that never really get circulation.
Max LucadoAnger is the noise of the soul; the unseen irritant of the heart; the relentless invader of silence.
Max LucadoAll I know is that the stable is empty, and the horse is gone. The rest I don't know. Whether [in the future] it be a curse or a blessing, I can't say. All we can see is a fragment. Who can say what will come next [and what is good or bad in the long run]?
Max LucadoWhere we might think of sin as slip-ups or missteps, God views sin as a godless attitude that leads to godless action.
Max LucadoWe need hope. There's nothing worse than to live a life of despair. For a person to have no hope just sucks the blue out of every sky.
Max LucadoOur God is abundant in love and steadfast in mercy. He saves us, not because we trust in a symbol, but because we trust in a Savior.
Max LucadoListen carefully to the feedback your readers give you. Dont write unless people want you to write, a lot of people write just because they want to write.
Max LucadoGod sees us with the eyes of a Father. He sees our defects, errors and blemishes. But He also sees our value.
Max LucadoGod never promises to remove us from our struggles. He does promise, however, to change the way we look at them.
Max LucadoFear results in fight or flight. Anxiety creates doom and gloom. Fear is the pulse that pounds when you see a coiled rattlesnake in your front yard. Anxiety is the voice that tells you, Never, ever, for the rest of your life, walk barefooted through the grass. There might be a snake...somewhere.
Max LucadoI think the current book [for Christian apologetics] is by Lee Strobel, its called A Case for Christ.
Max LucadoI firmly believe that the purpose of life is not this life. It is to equip us, whatever our role is going to be in the next life. And understanding God's story is really where I find the significance and purpose in my own story.
Max LucadoWhether or not storms come, we can not choose. But where we stare during a storm, that we can.
Max LucadoLove, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day.
Max LucadoMatthew loved the magi. He gave their story more square inches of text than he gave the narrative of the birth of Jesus. He never mentions the shepherds or the manger, but he didn't want us to miss the star and the seekers. It's easy to see why. Their story is our story.
Max LucadoWhat I may intend for a story to communicate and what a story ends up communicating could be two different things. And it could be an even more positive thing.
Max LucadoDoes God care if I'm sad? Look at the tear-streaked face of Jesus as he stands near Lazarus's tomb.
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