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.
You need someone to lift your spirits. You need someone to look you in the face and say, "This isn't the end. Don't give up. There is a better place than this. And I'll lead you there.
Praise is the highest occupation of any being
You see, it's one thing to accept Him as Lord, another to recognize Him as Savior - but it's another matter entirely to accept Him as Father.
What I try to do is narrow the sermon series down to one big question. In this case the question is: What happens when grace happens? I knew I wanted to preach about grace. I just felt as if it was time for our church to be refreshed and see the beauty of God's grace - the uniqueness of the Christian grace as compared to the teachings of other world religions on forgiveness.
Be quick to pray. Stop talking to yourself. Talk to Christ.
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.
Faithful servants have a way of knowing answered prayer when they see it, and a way of not giving up when they don't.
God knows what it's like to be a human. When I talk to him about deadlines or long lines or tough times, he understands. He's been there. He's been here.
The worship of safety emasculates greatness.
I simply think God is greater than our weakness. In fact, I think it is our weakness that reveals how great God is.
The English name Jesus traces its origin to the Hebrew word Yeshua. Yeshua is a shortening of Yehoshuah, which means "Yahweh saves. "
I get one hour, really 25 minutes in a sermon on a weekend, to combat all the hours of the week that people are told you are what you have through billboards, commercials, and sitcoms, and so forth.
Love like there's no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again.
If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it. If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it. He sends you flowers every spring and a sunrise every morning. . . Face it, friend. He is crazy about you!
I love everything about the Christmas season.
I was never really lead by [my parents] and didnt sense any leading from the Lord to go into writing.
God's blessings are dispensed according to the riches of his grace, not according to the depth of our faith.
There is no way our little minds can comprehend the love of God. But that didn't keep him from coming.
Does God understand you? Find the answer in Bethlehem.
Very, very rarely will I leave San Antonio to speak somewhere else. I used to do that, and it just about wore me out, so I quit traveling.