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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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The Power of a Seed

05.24.2019

“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 ...

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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 ...
05.09.2019 Prisoners of Pride You’ve seen the prisoners of pride. The alcoholic who won’t admit his drinking problem. The woman who won’t talk about her fears. The businessman who rejects help while his dreams fall apart. In 1 John 1:9, the apostle wrote “If ...
05.08.2019 Empty Vessels My power shows up best in weak people (2 Corinthians 12:9). Those words were spoken by God. He was looking for empty vessels more than strong muscles. Paul proved it. Paul had been hell-bent on keeping the kingdom pure by ...
05.07.2019 Everything is Possible With God A rich young ruler once asked Jesus, “What must I do to get eternal life?” He thought he could find eternal life by his own strength. But Jesus said, “What is impossible with men is possible with God” (Luke 18:27). ...
05.06.2019 The Sacred Summit Matthew 5:1 says, “When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up on the mountainside and sat down.” America is in a hurry! Time has skyrocketed in value because of its scarcity. He invites you and me, “Come to me, all ...
05.03.2019 One Decision Away From Joy In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus promises joy nine times! But this joy is not cheap. Observe the sequence. First, we recognize we are in need…we are poor in spirit. Next, we repent of our self-sufficiency…we mourn. We quit ...
05.02.2019 God’s Sacred Delight One moment he was royalty; the next he was in poverty. He was ridiculed and accused of a crime he never committed. They killed him. He was buried in a borrowed grave. He should have been bitter or angry. But ...
05.01.2019 God’s Love for His Children Certain things about God are easy to imagine. I can imagine him creating the world and suspending the stars. I can envision him as almighty, all-powerful, and in control. I can fathom a God who knows me, who made me, ...
04.30.2019 Engraved on God’s Hand “See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands” (Isaiah 49:16). Those are God’s words. Your name is not buried in some heavenly file. God needs no name tag to jog His memory about you. Your name is ...
04.29.2019 The Celebration God loves surprises. He appears in the strangest of places and does the strangest of things. He arches rainbows in the midst of thunderclouds. And he calls people by name in a cemetery. Mary Magdalene was surprised to hear her ...
04.26.2019 God Loves to Surprise Us The last few days had brought nothing but tragedy. Mary Magdalene was there to hold her arm around the shoulder of Mary the mother of Jesus. She was there to close his eyes. And now she takes her spices to ...
04.25.2019 The Other Side of Death’s River A missionary in Brazil discovered a tribe of Indians in a remote area. A contagious disease was ravaging the population. To get medical attention they would need to cross a river—a river, they believed, was inhabited by evil spirits. The ...
04.24.2019 A Silenced Boast A Hanoverian countess was known for her disbelief in God and her conviction that no one could call life from a tomb. Before her death, she ensured that her tomb would be a mockery to belief in the resurrection. It ...
04.23.2019 Move the Stone Standing in a cemetery, Jesus issued a command, “Move the stone.” There was no singing at the funeral Jesus attended. Mourning. Weeping. Wailing. People shuffled about aimlessly, their eyes full of fear. The foreboding news reminded them of their own ...
04.22.2019 The Sparkle of Eternity The fifth chapter of Mark tells the story of a synagogue leader who reached the point where desperation exceeded dignity. He begged Jesus to heal his dying daughter. And Jesus did, with a look on his face that said, Come ...
04.19.2019 Don’t Cry Jesus and his disciples stop as the funeral procession passes by. The widow at the back of the procession is burying her only son. Tonight she will make dinner for one and conversation with none. When Jesus sees the mother, ...
04.18.2019 God vs. Death Death is the bully on the block of life. “Your time is coming,” he taunts. Oh, we try to prove him wrong. We jog. We diet. But we know that we will only, at best, postpone it. That is why ...
04.17.2019 An Eleventh Hour Gift “We deserve to die for our evil deeds, but this man hasn’t done one thing wrong.” These words were spoken on Skull’s hill by a thief. After a life of crime, he’s reached the bottom—a crossbeam and three spikes. He ...
04.16.2019 You Can Come Home What do you do when your failures suck the sandy foundation of your future out from under you? Well, you can blame the world. Failure invites finger pointing and buck passing. You are the victim, and the world is your ...
04.15.2019 Behold the Redeemer From Heaven For some, Jesus is the Rabbit’s Foot Redeemer—a good luck charm used to get you out of a jam. For many he’s an Aladdin’s Lamp Redeemer— Your wish is his command. For others, Jesus is a Game Show Redeemer— Let’s ...
04.12.2019 Failures Are Not Fatal Nothing drags more stubbornly than a sack of failures. Could you do it all over again, you’d do it differently. But you can’t. And as many times as you tell yourself, What’s done is done, what you did can’t be ...
04.11.2019 Remember the Unbending Grace of Christ If we’re not teaching people how to be saved, perhaps it’s because we have forgotten the tragedy of being lost! If we’re not teaching the message of forgiveness, it may be because we don’t remember what it’s like to be ...
04.10.2019 When the Disciples Saw Jesus John 20:19 says, “On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together with the doors locked for fear of the Jews…” Did you know that the church of Jesus Christ began with a group ...
04.09.2019 Gratitude for the Greatest Gift Gratitude. It’s being more aware of what you have than what you don’t. It’s recognizing the treasure in the simple—a child’s hug, a golden sunset. Most of all, it’s a sense of the greatest gift: The Son of God, Jesus ...
04.08.2019 God Will Never Give Up! God never gives up. When on trial before the cross, people spat in his face, but he didn’t spit back. When a whip ripped his sides, he didn’t command the awaiting angels to stuff that whip down the soldier’s throat. ...
04.05.2019 The Darkness of Doubt God promised Abraham that his descendants would be as numerous as the stars and would inherit all the land. But Abraham had no son. He was facing the dreadful darkness of doubt. The same darkness you feel when you sit ...
04.04.2019 Jesus is Living Proof of God’s Love Romans 8:32 says, “He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?” That passage is so poignant. God did not spare his ...
04.03.2019 Victims of Futility In the shade of a well in a rejected land Jesus spoke to an ostracized woman, saying, “I am the Messiah.” Don’t you know His eyes must have danced as he whispered the secret to the Samaritan woman—a woman with ...
04.02.2019 God’s Formula for Fatigue The futility of life zaps strength from life. Do you know the weight of futility? Is it worth it? When I get what I want, will it be worth the price I paid? Such weariness makes the words of Jesus ...
04.01.2019 Caught in a Storm How sturdy is your life when faced with the storm of futility, wondering what is the purpose of it all? What about the storm of failure, when you blew it and let everyone down…or the storm of finality —tears, and ...
03.29.2019 He Still Moves Stones Why did God leave us one tale after another of wounded lives being restored? It isn’t to tell us what Jesus did. It’s to tell us what Jesus does. Paul says in Romans 15:4, “Everything that was written in the ...
03.28.2019 When Being Good Isn’t Good Enough Paul writes in Romans 3:10, “There is no one who always does what is right, not even one.” And he adds, “All have sinned and are not good enough for God’s glory.” Then how do you go to heaven? The ...
03.27.2019 Understanding Death By the time Jesus arrived in Bethany, Lazarus had been dead for four days. John 11:21 says that Martha confronted Jesus, saying, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” Hurt and disappointment. When we face ...
03.26.2019 When You’re Confused by God’s Actions The Bible says in Matthew 1:24 that “Joseph did what the Lord’s angel had told him to do.” I wonder what Joseph was thinking while Jesus was being born? Was a stable in Bethlehem what he had in mind? You’ve ...
03.25.2019 Seeing the Unseen We can’t see the future. It’s one limitation we all share. In Mark Chapter 5 we read about Jairus, the leader of the synagogue. The Jairus we see in this story was a desperate father begging for Jesus to heal ...
03.22.2019 When You Encounter Evil Jesus found him in a cemetery, and his story is in the fifth chapter of Mark. As Jesus stepped out of a boat, a demon-possessed man stormed out of a cave. The demons begged to be sent into a herd ...
03.21.2019 What Matters to You Matters to God The first miracle of Jesus was at a wedding—no small event. For several days, there was gift-giving, speechmaking, food-eating, and wine-drinking. Hospitality was a sacred duty. The absence of wine was a social embarrassment. Mary asks her son to help, ...
03.20.2019 When You Let God Down Peter did what he swore he wouldn’t do. Three times the salt of Peter’s betrayal stung the wounds of the Messiah. And he would never forget the look on Jesus’ face. So Peter returned to Galilee. Once again he had ...
03.19.2019 Legalism Versus Grace Nicodemus was a Pharisee. Pharisees measured spirituality by outer appearance, rules and standards. Legalism versus grace. The legalist looks at salvation as a wage earned on deeds done. Grace sees salvation as a gift based on Christ’s death. Jesus told ...
03.18.2019 Lovebursts Lovebursts. We all have them. Spontaneous affection. Tender moments of radiant love. They remind you about what matters. Jesus had lovebursts…lots of them. One of them happened when four men lowered their paralytic friend through a roof to reach Jesus. ...

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