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
pain evil use
The Bible teaches us that God does not cause pain, but that He uses pain and evil to advance His cause and shape His servants.
pain believe world
I believe for God not to allow pain to happen in the world is for Him to extract free will from the world.
pain next filters
Filter your pain through the brevity of this life and the unending beauty of the next.
pain people wonder
Sometimes I wonder if we don't see Christ's love as much in the people he tolerated as in the pain he endured.
pain thinking stories
If we think that this life is all there is to life, then there is no interpretation of our problems, our pain, not even of our privileges. But everything changes when we open up to the possibility that God's story is really our story too.
pain mean thinking
I think there is, not in the sense that I enjoy it, but that it's an important question. It's the question, "Does the presence of pain mean God doesn't care? Does God not love me anymore?" I think that's a very common connection we tend to make.
pain mean absence
I see that a lot in my own life and in the lives of others.Does the presence of pain mean the absence of God?
pain perspective people
If the purpose of life is just to live this life and then die, it's hard to answer the purpose of pain question; but if we can help people see from an eternal perspective - that all of this is working together to prepare us for something higher than we've ever imagined, more noble than we've ever dreamed - then we discover some hope that we can hold on to.
pain problem eternity
I don't know how to answer the problem of deep pain without a deep hope in eternity.
pain fall giving
If you're feeling pain, express that to the Lord. If you're feeling worried, express those worries. One passage that gives me comfort is in Psalms, Chapter 11, verse 3, it reads, "When all that is good falls apart, what can good people do?" That's really the question of the day.
pain heart pride
Grace is God as heart surgeon, cracking open your chest, removing your heart - poisoned as it is with pride and pain - and replacing it with his own.
pain pulse ifs
If you have a pulse, you're going to have pain.
friday pain heart
No matter what the storm clouds bring, you can face your pain with courage and hope. For two thousand years ago-six hours, one Friday-Christ firmly planted in bedrock three solid anchor points that we can all cling to. For the heart scarred with futility, that Friday holds purpose. For the life blackened with failure, that Friday holds forgiveness. And for the soul looking into the tunnel of death, that Friday holds deliverance.
pain struggle heartache
Your pain has a purpose. Your problems, struggles, heartaches, and hassles cooperate toward one end-the glory of God.