Max Lucado (born January 11, 1955) is a best-selling Christian author and writer and preacher at Oak Hills Church (formerly the Oak Hills Church of Christ) in San Antonio, Texas.
Relationships don't thrive because the guilty are punished but because the innocent are merciful.
Fear may fill our world, but it doesn’t have to fill our hearts.
Those in the circle of Christ had no doubt of his love; those in our circles should have no doubt about ours.
He saw you in your own Gethsemane and He didn't want you to be alone. . He would rather go to hell for you than to haven without you.
Worry is irrelevant. It alters nothing. When was the last time you solved a problem by worrying about it?
Baptism separates the tire kickers from the car buyers.
Aren't you glad that God doesn't give you only that which you remember to thank him for?
In March 2011 I'm trying to decide on a sermon series that I will preach in January 2012. So, I'm about six months out.
I don't get asked a lot of questions about science and the Bible, for example. Probably people just know I'm not very smart and I don't have an answer to those anyway.
God's love never ceases. Never. Though we spurn him. Ignore him. Reject him. Despise him. Disobey him. He will not change. Our evil cannot diminish his love. Our goodness cannot increase it. Our faith does not earn it any more than our stupidity jeopardizes it. God doesn't love us less if we fail or more if we succeed. God's love never ceases.
No person [should] walk out into the world to begin the day until he or she has stood beneath the cross to receive God’s love.
God created marriage. No government subcommittee envisioned it. No social organization developed it. Marriage was conceived and born in the mind of God.
We're also a multi-site church, so we have other pastors on other campuses who want to read the message before the video plays on the weekend services. So it just works better for me.
No place is too common.
I don't get asked a lot of questions about who is the best political candidate or what my position is on what the Senate is about to do.
Philosophers can debate the meaning of life, but you need a Lord who can declare the meaning of life.
I don't get the impression that most sources of media - like television and movies - are trying to get out a positive message, necessarily. My impression is they're trying to get a message out that promotes their personal opinion, position or belief and they're trying to do something that makes money. They want to turn a buck.
Others have promised and failed. But God has promised and succeeded. He loves you with an unfailing love.
The Bible is full of stories of men and women who've found themselves in frightening situations but who chose to look up rather than look down - look up in faith - and God got them through it.
For seven years ancient Israel could not be stopped in the Joshua book. I have found this to be a great imagery and analogy for the Christian life. As Christians, we have the same images. We've come out of Egypt (been saved) we've crossed over, and Jesus Christ is our Moses and our Joshua.