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By Max Lucado

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Max Lucado is a preacher with a storyteller's gift — a pastor's heart and a poet's pen. Max's message is simple: God loves you; let him. Max serves the people of Oak Hills Church in San Antonio, Texas. He preaches and writes to the hurting, the guilty, the lonely, the discouraged.

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Let’s Stop This Frenzy

07.18.2019

Attempts at “self-salvation” guarantee nothing but exhaustion. We scamper and scurry, trying to please God, collecting merit badges and brownie points and scowling at anyone who questions our accomplishments. The result? We are the weariest people on earth. We so ...

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07.18.2019 Let’s Stop This Frenzy Attempts at “self-salvation” guarantee nothing but exhaustion. We scamper and scurry, trying to please God, collecting merit badges and brownie points and scowling at anyone who questions our accomplishments. The result? We are the weariest people on earth. We so ...
07.17.2019 Let Grace Happen I became a Christian about the same time I became a Boy Scout, and I made the assumption that God grades like the Boy Scouts do– on a merit system. Good scouts move up. Good people go to heaven. So ...
07.16.2019 Christ’s Sacrifice is Personal Christ took away your sins. He endured not just the nails of the Romans, the mockery of the crowd, and the spear of the soldier, but he endured the anger of God! God didn’t just overlook your sins, lest he ...
07.15.2019 Set Free From Guilt We are incarcerated by our past. We have been found guilty! Our executioner’s footsteps echo against stone walls. We sit on the floor of the dusty cell, awaiting our final moment. We don’t look up as he opens the door. ...
07.12.2019 You Have an Advocate Not all guilt is bad. God uses appropriate doses of guilt to awaken us to sin! God’s guilt brings enough regret to change us! Satan’s guilt on the other hand, brings enough regret to enslave us. Don’t let Satan lock ...
07.11.2019 Satan’s Destructive Lies Satan’s condemnation brings no repentance or resolve…just regret! Satan has come to steal, kill, and destroy. To steal your peace, to kill your dreams, to destroy your future. Satan has deputized people to peddle his poison. Friends dredge up your ...
07.10.2019 Voices in Our Head Voices in our head whisper, “You aren’t good enough!” “You’ll never improve.” “You failed—again!” Voices in our world. Voices in our head. Who is this morality patrolman who issues a citation at every stumble? Does he ever shut up? No. ...
07.09.2019 God Gives a Second Chance She was only five years old when you took the photo. Cheeks freckled by the summer sun, hair in pigtails. That was twenty years ago. Three marriages ago. A million flight miles and e-mails ago. Today she walks down the ...
07.08.2019 Christ in You, the Hope of Glory When grace happens, Christ enters. Christ in you, the hope of glory! For many years, I missed this truth. I believed all the other prepositions: Christ for me, Christ with me, Christ ahead of me. But I never imagined that ...
07.05.2019 God as a Heart Surgeon Grace is God as heart surgeon! Grace is God cracking open your chest, removing your heart, poisoned as it is with pride and pain, and replacing it with his own. God’s dream isn’t just to get you into heaven, but ...
07.04.2019 Grace is God’s Best Idea Your dad makes you come to church, but he can’t make you listen. At least that’s what you’ve always muttered to yourself. But this morning you listen because the preacher speaks of a God who loves prodigals, and you feel ...
07.03.2019 A Spiritual Transplant of the Heart Grace! The bank gives us a grace period. The seedy politician falls from grace. Musicians speak of a grace note. We use the word for hospitals, baby girls, kings and pre-meal prayers. We talk as though we know what grace ...
07.02.2019 God’s Answer for the Mess of Life You stare into the darkness. The ceiling fan whirls above you. Your husband slumbers next to you. In minutes the alarm will sound, and the demands of the day will shoot you like a clown out of a cannon into ...
07.01.2019 God’s Grace Comes After You God’s grace! It has a wildness about it. A white-water, rip-tide, turn-you-upside-downess about it. Grace comes after you! Some years ago I underwent a heart procedure. I asked the surgeon, “You’re burning the interior of my heart, right?” “Correct,” he ...
06.28.2019 The Gifts of God God gives us wonderful gifts. He gives us his work on the cross and in the resurrection. As a result, your sin brings no guilt, and the grave brings no fear. He give us his energy. You can do all ...
06.27.2019 No Fear of Judgment According to 1 John 4:17 and 18, “So we will not be afraid on the day of judgment …perfect love expels all fear.’” Perfect love is a perfect knowledge of the past and a perfect vision of the future. You ...
06.26.2019 Filled Up With God’s Love When Christ rose from the dead, he never reminded the disciples of their betrayal and desertion. They outran the guards, but they couldn’t outrun the love of Christ. Desert God—he’ll still love you. Deny God—he’ll still love you. Doubt God—he’ll ...
06.25.2019 Receive His Love In Romans chapter 8, Paul asks five life-changing questions: 1. “Won’t God, who gave us Christ, also give us everything else?” God won’t leave us to fend for ourselves. 2. “If God is for us, who can ever be against ...
06.24.2019 Going Deep In Ephesians 3:17, Paul says, “May your roots go down deep into the soil of God’s marvelous love.” The supreme surprise of God’s love is that it has nothing to do with you. “God is love” the scripture says. God ...
06.21.2019 God is Your Guardian According to Psalm 91:14, “The LORD says, ‘I will rescue those who love me. I will protect those who trust in my name.’” God is your guardian, separating you from evil. So, why do bad things happen to us? You ...
06.20.2019 Angels Watching Over You Two adjectives capture the biblical image of angels: many and mighty. They are mentioned in over three hundred scriptural references. Revelations 5:11 describes angels around the heavenly throne, “and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and ...
06.19.2019 You Don’t Have to Worry “Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything” (Philippians 4:6). God offers you and me the possibility of a worry-free life. Jesus said, “Can all your worries add a single moment to your life! Of course not” (Matthew 6:27). Worry ...
06.18.2019 In God We (Nearly) Trust Drink deeply from God’s Lordship. He authors all itineraries. He knows what is best. No struggle will come your way apart from His purpose, presence, and permission. What encouragement this brings. You are never the victim of nature or the ...
06.17.2019 God Knows What is Best Sovereignty. This important biblical word defines itself. Zero in on the middle portion of the term. See the word within the word? Sove-reign-ty. To confess the sovereignty of God is to acknowledge the reign of God, his regal authority and ...
06.14.2019 It’s Not All Up to You God never promises an absence of distress. But he does promise the assuring presence of his Holy Spirit. The Spirit seals you. Ephesians 1:13 says, “Having believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit.” God ...
06.13.2019 God’s Glove God has work to do. And he uses our hands to do it. What the hand is to the glove, the Spirit is to the Christian. God gets his fingers into our lives, inch by inch reclaiming his territory. As ...
06.12.2019 Waiting for Power Jesus told the disciples, “Stay here in the city until the Holy Spirit comes and fills you with power from heaven” (Luke 24:49). Jesus’ word to the doubting disciples? Wait. So, as many as 120 souls huddle in the same ...
06.11.2019 Rely on His Energy Paul once asked the Galatian church a question. “You began your life in Christ by the Spirit. Now are you trying to make it complete by your own power? That is foolish” (Galatians 3:3). I used to think there were ...
06.10.2019 A Heart Headed Home The apostle Paul wrote, “God sent [Christ] to buy freedom for us who were slaves to the law, so he could adopt us as his very own children” (Galatians 4:5). Heaven knows no stepchildren or grandchildren. God says we are ...
06.07.2019 The Shadow of Death Ducking the shadow of death dominates our days. Sleep more. Exercise regularly. Eat less fat, more protein. But you know, no one ducks death forever. God’s perspective is different in Ecclesiastes 7:1, “The day you die is better than the ...
06.06.2019 Defined by God’s Grace In Galatians 2:16 the Apostle Paul says, “No one will ever be saved by obeying the law.” We become right with God, not by doing what the law commands, but by trusting in Jesus Christ. Ephesians 2:4-9 explains how we ...
06.05.2019 God’s Salvation Song The ultimate disaster is carrying your sins to your casket. Christ responds to universal sin with a universal sacrifice, taking on the sins of the entire world. But God’s salvation song has two verses. One, He took your place on ...
06.04.2019 The Infection of Sin is Universal No culture, no nation, no person sidesteps the infection of sin. You can blame the plague of sin on a godless decision. Adam and Eve ignored God’s will…and sin, with death on its coattails, entered the world. The sinful mind ...
06.03.2019 The Dehydrated Heart Your body is 80 percent fluid. Stop drinking and see what happens. Coherent thoughts vanish, skin grows clammy, and vital organs wrinkle. Deprive your heart of spiritual water, and your dehydrated heart will send desperate messages—hopelessness, loneliness, resentment. Where do ...
05.31.2019 To Hear the Applause of Heaven The Beatitudes end with this compelling promise— “Great is your reward in heaven!” (Matthew 5:12). The Book of Revelation could be called the Book of Homecoming. In Revelation 21 verse 2, John describes heaven as a “bride beautifully dressed for ...
05.30.2019 A Kingdom Message Some months ago, I was late to catch a plane out of the San Antonio airport. I wasn’t terribly late but I was late enough to be bumped and have my seat given to a standby passenger. When the ticket ...
05.29.2019 The New Kingdom Jesus sent a message to an imprisoned John the Baptist. “The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cured, and the deaf hear” (Matthew 11:5). Jesus sent John a message about a unique, invisible kingdom, where ...
05.28.2019 The Dungeon of Doubt “Are you the one who was to come, or should we expect someone else?” (Matthew 11:3). John the Baptist asked this question of Christ. John was in deep trouble; he was in jail and Jesus was silent. Anytime the faithful ...
05.27.2019 The Greasy Pole of Power There are certain things you can do that no one else can, and you are alive to do them. But there’s a canyon of difference between doing your best to glorify God and doing whatever it takes to glorify yourself. ...
05.24.2019 The Power of a Seed “Blessed are the peacemakers,” (Matthew 5:9). Jesus said. The principle for peace is the same as the principle for crops– Never underestimate the power of a seed. Somebody in your world desperately needs a word of peace. Want to see ...
05.23.2019 Temple Builders and Savior Seekers The next time you enter an assembly of worship, watch the people. You can tell the ones who remember the slain one. They’re wide-eyed and expectant. They don’t yawn while receiving a gift from the king himself! You can also ...
05.22.2019 The Pure in Heart Will See God Scripture says, “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God” (Matthew 5:8). Note the order of this beatitude. First, purify the heart, then you will see God. You change your life by changing your heart. How do ...
05.21.2019 The Dynamic of Mercy “Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy” (Matthew 5:7). Jesus says the merciful are shown mercy. Forgiving others allows us to see how God has forgiven us. The dynamic of giving grace is the key to understanding ...
05.20.2019 Resentment Can Be Deadly Resentment is the cocaine of the emotions, causing our blood to pump. And our energy level to rise. There is a dangerous point at which our anger ceases to be an emotion and becomes a driving force. That’s why bitter ...
05.17.2019 Hungering and Thirsting Jesus said, “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled” (Matthew 5:6). For what are you hungering and thirsting? The way we clutch our possessions and our pennies, you’d think we couldn’t live without ...
05.16.2019 A Satisfied Thirst “This cup is the new covenant in my blood,” Jesus explained, holding up the wine. These words recorded in Luke 22:20 must have puzzled the disciples. For generations, the Jews had observed the Passover by sacrificing lambs. It was enough ...
05.15.2019 The Bandit of Joy The bandit of joy is Fear. Fear of death, fear of failure, fear of God, and fear of tomorrow. His arsenal is vast. His goal? To create cowardly, joyless souls. We try unsuccessfully to face our fears with power, possessions, ...
05.14.2019 The Meek Will See Christ There is one word that describes the night Jesus came—ordinary. The sky, the sheep, the shepherds—all ordinary. A small cathedral outside Bethlehem marks the supposed birthplace of Jesus. You can enter the main edifice and admire the ancient church. You ...
05.13.2019 The Glory in the Ordinary God’s most powerful tools are the simplest. Consider the rod of Moses. God made a stick become a snake, then become a stick again. Perhaps he can do something with stubborn hearts and stiff-necked people. Consider five smooth stones and ...
05.10.2019 Touches of Tenderness My child’s feelings are hurt. I tell her she’s special. My child is injured. I do whatever it takes to make her feel better. My child is scared. I won’t go to sleep until she is secure. Moments of comfort ...

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