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
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.
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 I've been accused of having no unpublished thought.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.
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 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 miracle favors
My thinking is that miracles exist to reveal God, but miracles don't exist for God to do me any favors.
thinking people secret
One of the secrets in life is that we really lead a better life when we're living for others than we do when we're living for ourselves, and I think that's the way for our creator intended for it to be, is that if we can live for other people, we really leave this world in a different way.
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.
thinking grace definitions
The apostle Paul never seemed to exhaust the topic of grace - what makes us think we can? He just kept coming at it and coming at it from another angle. That's the thing about grace. It's like springtime. You can't put it in a single sentence definition, and you can't exhaust it.
morning prayer thinking
About four days a week, I do pretty good at having a morning prayer time. But even at that, it's a rambling sort of thing. What I have learned to do better is to try to keep my mind turned toward God and ear inclined toward God throughout the day, and I think I'm doing better at that ,but I've got a long way to go.
kindness character thinking
Be kind to yourself. God thinks you're worth his kindness. And he's a good judge of character.
prayer thinking mad
I would love to have a more earnest prayer life! In my life, prayer is the single most difficult discipline. I love God and there's something in me that would rather do things for God than talk to God. I'm not by nature a mystical, devotional person. I like to do things. And so it's a challenge for me to have a faithful prayer life, but I know God loves me and He's not mad at me. He just wishes I would slow down and turn things over to Him. And that's what I think you achieve through prayer.
thinking challenges looks
Your challenge is not your challenge. Your challenge is the way you think about your challenge. Your problem is not your problem; it is the way you look at it. You can’t always control your circumstances, but you can control the way you process them.
thinking justice church
I think that a church should be setting the pace for social justice.
book thinking trying
I think what happens is that we're so busy as pastors that we never get around to trying to turn that material into a book. It's a shame because there is so much good material out there that needs to be published.