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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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Speak Up

10.14.2019

Not only did Jesus not make it to the deathbed of Lazarus, he didn’t make it to the burial. He was four days late. Martha was forthright. “Lord, if only you had been here my brother would not have died” ...

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10.14.2019 Speak Up Not only did Jesus not make it to the deathbed of Lazarus, he didn’t make it to the burial. He was four days late. Martha was forthright. “Lord, if only you had been here my brother would not have died” ...
10.11.2019 Peace in the Middle East Brian Reed served in a military unit in Baghdad, Iraq, in the fall of 2003. He and his unit went on regular street patrols to protect neighborhoods and build peace. It was often a thankless, fruitless assignment. Brian said his ...
10.10.2019 Love the Sinner The catchphrase “hate the sin and love the sinner” fits nicely on a bumper sticker, but how do we embed the principle in our hearts? Maybe these ideas will help. Reserve judgment. Let every person you meet be a new ...
10.09.2019 Grace, Truth, and Acceptance How does Jesus receive us? I know how he treated me. I was a twenty-year-old troublemaker on a downhill path. Though I’d made a commitment to Christ a decade earlier, you wouldn’t have known it by the way I lived. ...
10.08.2019 Responding to Your Opposite You Matthew was an apostle, a gospel writer. But before he was Matthew he was Levi, a Jew who worked for the Roman IRS. As long as Rome got its part, the tax collectors could take as much as they wanted. ...
10.07.2019 A Model of Servanthood In the hallway of my memory hangs a photograph. It’s a picture of two people— a man and a woman in the seventh decade of life. The man lies in a hospital bed in the living room, not in a ...
10.04.2019 It’s Your Serve “And whoever desires to be first among you, let him be your slave— just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many” (Matthew 20:27–28). Jesus ...
10.03.2019 Jesus Served His Disciples The disciples were on the Sea of Galilee when they heard Jesus call out from the shore. When they reached the beach, they saw the most extraordinary sight. Jesus was cooking! He told them, “Come and eat breakfast” (John 21:12). ...
10.02.2019 Quiet Servants “For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another” (Galatians 5:13). Quiet servants. The supporting cast of the kingdom of God. They seek to ...
10.01.2019 Happiness in Intercessory Ministry Nothing activates happiness like intercessory ministry. The scripture says, “Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God” (1 John 3:1). So you come, not as a stranger, but as ...
09.30.2019 Prayer is All You Need We have the opportunity to offer heartfelt prayers for every person we see. The attendant at the grocery store. The nurse in the doctor’s office. You don’t have to tell them of your intercessory prayer. When we seek to bless ...
09.27.2019 The Power Posture Someone you know is under attack. Your neighbor is depressed. Your sibling is off track. Your child is facing an uphill challenge. You may not know what to say. You may not have resources to help. But you have this– ...
09.26.2019 The Greatest Greeting in History Researchers at Pennsylvania State University concluded that “huggers are happier.” Another study linked hugging with a diminished rate of sickness. So greet people for your sake and experience the joy of showing people that they matter. And greet people for ...
09.25.2019 The Fine Art of Saying “Hello” “Greet one another with a holy kiss.” Paul gave these instructions to the Romans and repeated them to other churches. Twice to the Corinthians (1 Cor. 16:20 and 2 Cor. 13:12); and then to the Thessalonians (1 Thess. 5:26). Peter ...
09.24.2019 Joy in the Success of Others We are not God’s gift to humanity. God can use each of us, but he doesn’t need any of us. We are valuable but not indispensable. You love. But who loved you first? You serve. But who served the most? ...
09.23.2019 Ministry Vs. Vain Ambition “Lord, doesn’t it seem unfair to you that my sister just sits here while I do all the work? Tell her to come and help me!” (Luke 10:40). Of all the ironies. Martha was in the presence of the Prince ...
09.20.2019 The Society of the Bent Timber One of my favorite places on earth is a grove that sits on the Guadalupe River. It’s a peaceful place. And trees, oh the trees. They weather the winters and celebrate the summers. And they are all bent. There is ...
09.19.2019 Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff D. L. Moody was one of the most influential Christians of his generation. He led thousands of people to faith and established many institutions of education and training. He was famous for saying, “Right now I’m having so much trouble ...
09.18.2019 A Beam in Your Eye “Why do you notice the little piece of dust in your friend’s eye, but you don’t notice the big piece of wood in your own eye?” (Matthew 7:3). Anyone who thinks Jesus never cracked a joke hasn’t read these words ...
09.17.2019 Don’t Pet the Peeves There is a way the world should be run. And when others behave in ways we don’t like, we call that a pet peeve. Not a colossal divide or a legal violation…just a pet peeve. You know, joy is such ...
09.16.2019 The Gift of Encouragement Every person needs to hear a “wonderful.” Here is why. Companies spend billions of dollars to convince us that we are chubby, smelly, ugly and out-of-date. Inadequacy indwells a billion hearts. Would you distribute encouragement? Will you make some happiness ...
09.13.2019 The Michelangelo Impact Three years into my role as senior minister of our church, a former senior minister returned to live in our city and serve on our staff. Charles Prince was thirty years my senior, Harvard educated, and a member of the ...
09.12.2019 Jesus Affirms Peter Encouragement occurs when we “come alongside and call out.” Jesus modeled this. Peter was prone to speak too soon and boast too much. Yet Jesus saw something in the heart of this crusty fisherman worth calling forth. Jesus asked his ...
09.11.2019 A Crowd of Encouragers God is “the God who gives endurance and encouragement” (Romans 15:5). God encourages us. So does Jesus. Jesus called the Holy Spirit paraklétos, the noun form of the very word for encouragement. Scripture encourages us. “The Scriptures, according to Romans ...
09.10.2019 Encourage One Another My big brother used to pick on me. For Dee no day was complete unless he had made mine miserable. He stole my allowance. He called me a sissy. But all his cruel antics were offset by one great act ...
09.09.2019 Agents of Happiness Jesus wants to bring joy to the people of this generation, and he has enlisted some special agents of happiness to do the job. You and me! It’s not an easy task. The people in our world can be moody, ...
09.06.2019 Jesus Wants Us to Be Happy Jesus was accused of much, but he was never described as a grump, sourpuss, or self- centered jerk. People didn’t groan when he appeared. He called people by name. He listened to their stories. He answered their questions. He visited ...
09.05.2019 The Unexpected Door to Joy Jesus said, “It is more blessed to give than to receive” (Acts 20:35). The words of Jesus are spot- on. When you give, it has a boomerang effect. Happiness happens when we give it away. That is such great news! ...
09.04.2019 Doing Good Does Good for the Doer Doing good does good for the doer. Research bears this out. When volunteers were put in a functional MRI scanner and were told they would be giving some of their money to charity, the areas of their brains associated with ...
09.03.2019 Changing Doors As one Harvard professor said, “We think money will bring lots of happiness for a long time, yet actually it brings a little happiness for a short time.” We’ve all seen happy peasants and miserable millionaires, right? There is another ...
09.02.2019 Mr. Happy Man Ninety-two-year-old Johnny Barnes stands on the edge of a roundabout in Hamilton, Bermuda, and he waves at people as they drive past. He’s not asking for money or begging for food. He’s making people happy. “I love you!” he shouts. ...
08.30.2019 Why We Worship Worship adjusts us. It lowers the chin of the haughty and straightens the back of the burdened. It bows the knees, singing to him our praise. It opens our hearts, offering to him our uniqueness. Worship properly positions the worshiper. ...
08.29.2019 The Gifts God Brings Long before you knew you needed grace, your Father had you covered! “Christ died for us while we were still sinners” (Romans 5:8). Before you knew you needed a Savior, you had one! And when you ask him for mercy, ...
08.28.2019 Religious and Yet Lost A person can be religious and yet lost. Attending church won’t make you God’s child. You must accept his offer. “For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God” (1 ...
08.27.2019 The Kingdom of God Needs You Christ takes away your sin, and in doing so, he takes away your commonness. You no longer need to say, “No one knows me” because God knows you! “LORD, you…know all about me,” David discovered. “You know when I sit ...
08.26.2019 The Great Gospel of God No one knows me, we think. People know my name, but not my heart. They know my face but not my feelings. I have a social security number, but not a soul mate. No one really knows me. The response ...
08.23.2019 Loneliness Has a Language We may relish moments of solitude—but a lifetime of it? No way! Many of us, however, are too fluent in the language of loneliness. The kids used to need me…the business once needed me…my spouse never needs me. Lonely people ...
08.22.2019 Well Done, Good & Faithful Servant God gives gifts, not miserly, but abundantly! And he doesn’t give gifts randomly, but carefully, “to each according to each one’s unique ability” (Matthew 25:15). Remember, no one else has your talents. No one. God elevates you from common-hood by ...
08.21.2019 Let Your Life Illustrate Christ Tucked away in the cedar chest of my memory is a Sunday school teacher in a small West Texas church. She gave each of us a can of crayons and a sketch of Jesus torn from a coloring book. We ...
08.20.2019 Let Your Uniqueness Define Your Path For the love of more, you might lose your purpose! Just because someone gives you advice, a job, or a promotion, you don’t have to accept it. Let your uniqueness define your path of life. Isaiah prayed, “You, LORD, give ...
08.19.2019 Consult Your Designer, Not Your Greed Jesus warns, “Be on your guard against every form of greed” (Luke 12:15). John D. Rockefeller was asked, “How much money does it take to satisfy a man?” He answered, “Just a little more.” Wise was the one who wrote, ...
08.16.2019 Examine Your Gifts and Strengths Be careful! In a desire to be great, one might cease being any good. Not every teacher is equipped to be a principal. Not every carpenter has the skill to head a crew. Not every musician should conduct an orchestra. ...
08.15.2019 You Were Made for This Listen to the way God described the builder Bezalel, “I have filled him with the Spirit of God, giving him great wisdom, intelligence and skill in all kinds of crafts. . .” (Exodus 31:3-5). Can you hear the pleasure in ...
08.14.2019 Don’t Compare Yourself to Others The apostle Paul said, “Don’t compare yourself with others. Each of you must take responsibility for doing the creative best you can with your own life” (Galatians 6:4-5). Before Thomas Merton followed Christ, he followed money, fame and society. He ...
08.13.2019 Each Person is God’s Brand New Idea God made you and broke the mold! Every single baby is a brand-new idea from the mind of God. Scan history for your replica; you won’t find it. God tailor-made you. You aren’t one of many bricks in the mason’s ...
08.12.2019 Life in Your Sweet Spot Are you living in your sweet spot? Doing what you do well—what you’ve always loved to do? That last question trips up a lot of folks. God wouldn’t let me do what I like to do—would he? Yes he would. ...
08.09.2019 The Child is the Father of the Man “The child is the father of the man,” wrote William Wordsworth. If you want direction for the future, then read your life backward. Job placement experts asked over seventy thousand people this question: “What things have you done in life ...
08.08.2019 Sculpted From Nothing Into Something Unique You are more than statistical chance— more than a marriage of heredity and society. Thanks to God, you have been “sculpted from nothing into something” (Psalm 139:15). He made you you-nique. Secular thinking, as a whole, doesn’t buy this. Society ...
08.07.2019 The Big Idea for Your Uniqueness! Scripture says, “There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink and tell himself that his labor is good” (Ecclesiastes 2:24). I just heard a groan. “But Max, my work is simply that—work! It pays my bills.” ...
08.06.2019 Your Work is Important to God God views your work worthy of its own engraved commandment. “You shall work six days, but on the seventh day you shall rest” (Exodus 34:21 NASB). Whether you work at home or in the marketplace, your work matters to God. ...

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