Max Lucado
Max Lucado
Max Lucadois a best-selling Christian author and writer and preacher at Oak Hills Churchin San Antonio, Texas...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
CountryUnited States of America
love-is anchors heaven
You have a God who hears you, the power of love behind you, the Holy Spirit within you, and all of heaven ahead of you. If you have the Shepherd, you have grace for every sin, direction for every turn, a candle for every corner and an anchor for every storm. You have everything you need.
thinking talking views
I'd like to think I'm going upriver in talking about world-view topics rather than particular political or controversial topics.
believe giving scripture
I really believe the purpose of Scripture is to give us this authoritative handbook.
believe follow glory god save works
I don't believe our works save us, but I believe they follow us into heaven and bring glory to God.
strong temptation scripture
The temptation is for us to share our own opinions, our own thoughts and to speak from the whole realm of possibility. We can't do that as pastors. We need to have a strong voice of conviction, and the way we can do that is through Scripture.
book thinking pastor
All 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 I've been accused of having no unpublished thought.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.
strong jesus trying
Theres a verse thats meant a lot to me ever since I was in my early 20s. 2 Timothy 2:8, Paul told Timothy to remember Jesus Christ, descended from David and raised from the dead. Thats a good principle, that if my theology, my whole life can be focused on remembering Jesus. Just trying to remember who He is, what He did, being strong in what He did and what He accomplished.
believe thinking president
I believe you select a president who best represents what you think are the values that God wants us to have.
thinking giving dollars
Not everybody can create a foundation that's worth a billion dollars, but all of us can figure out those things we do. I really think God loves us too much to give us an assignment we don't enjoy doing.
thinking suffering despair
It's one thing to be discouraged. It's another thing to have despair. Despair is when you think there's just no end to this [suffering]. There's no solution for this. Despair is when you think that your suffering has no purpose, and your suffering has no end.
thinking justice church
I think that a church should be setting the pace for social justice.
thinking views people
Kind of the bottom line for me, I don't think people come to the church where I preach to hear my view on politics.
book writing pastor
All my books come out of sermons, and I'm really a pastor who writes rather than a writer who pastors.
children father trying
To live as God's child is to know that you are loved by your Maker not because you try to please him and succeed, or fail to please him and apologize, but because he wants to be your Father. Nothing more.