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
book writing pastor
All my books come out of sermons, and I'm really a pastor who writes rather than a writer who pastors.
writing giving long
I don't have any desire to retire in the sense of not doing anything. As long as the Lord gives me strength I want to keep writing and keep preaching.
book mean writing
I think theres just this mystique of writing a book that appeals to people. A person has to really check their motives and say, Am I really being called by God to do this? Or is this just something that would look neat in my funeral? I dont mean to be harsh but I think a person really needs to, so they wont be disappointed.
mom dad writing
How my relationship with my parents influenced my writing, really not at all. My dad was a mechanic, my mom a nurse.
writing people week
We get a lot of unsolicited manuscripts here. Im not even a publisher, but we get several a week. I dont read them, but I do glance through some of them, and some people dont need to be writing, they have something else.
writing exercise interesting
All I did was collect a few of the questions I've been asked through the years, write up a brief response and put them in this publication. As a pastor, you get asked questions and receive emails. Many of them I had answered, but just in conversation. So we kind of re-crafted the question and answered it. It turned out to be an interesting exercise. I hope it's encouraging for people.
country writing boys
I noticed people would read these short articles I was assigned to write for our church bulletin and they would say, Boy, thats good stuff. I got letters from people around the country saying, Thats really good. And I thought, Is it really?
writing kind backwards
I never told anybody I wanted to write, I kind of fell into it backwards.
writing parent lord
I was never really lead by [my parents] and didnt sense any leading from the Lord to go into writing.
writing people remember
I remember enjoying writing those, theres two clues of a gift: you enjoy doing it and people enjoy you doing it.
writing godly people
My parents, they were good, godly people, but they never said, You need to write.
writing giving people
Listen carefully to the feedback your readers give you. Dont write unless people want you to write, a lot of people write just because they want to write.
writing people singing
If you get a lot of good feedback from people, thats a sign that you have a strength or gift in writing, if not ... try singing.
writing guy other-guys
I co-pastor now, so I preach six months, then another guy preaches six months. So that's really why I'm preparing for January, because I'll finish in June; then I'll be writing and doing other projects for the rest of the year.