“Neither are you [an exception to acceptance]. So for heaven’s sake, accept your acceptance.”- Max Lucado, God Never Gives Up on You “Now thank we all our God / With hearts and hands and voices, / Who wondrous things has done, / In whom His world rejoices; / Who from our mother’s arms / Has […]
“This book is for members of the Tilted Halo Society. For struggles among us and the fumbler within us. . . . We mean well, but do well? Well, we don’t always. We have breakthroughs, but breakdowns as well, often in the same hour. . . . . We have not forgotten [our failures]. But […]
Help is Here: Finding Fresh Strength . . . Max Lucado titles his latest book Help is Here: Finding Fresh Strength and Purpose in the Power of the Holy Spirit (Thomas Nelson, 2022). Currently, Max serves as Teaching Minister of Oak Hills Church in San Antonio, Texas. Most significantly, Pastor Lucado asserts, it’s not God’s […]
“What a joy divine, / what a priceless gift, / God I’m yours and you are mine. / Let my restless soul / be still and know / I am leaning on your everlasting arms.”- Matt Maher and Lizzie Morgan, Leaning “I have said all this while I am still with you. But the one […]
“Deep down every hurting heart knows/ We need the healer. / And only Jesus is the healer.” – Healer, Casting Crowns “The final coming of Christ . . . will be, in his own time, the final denouement of God, who is the blessed controller of all things.”- 1 Timothy 6:14-15 (PHILLIPS) My hometown of […]
3:16 – The Numbers of Hope Max Lucado updated 3:16 – The Numbers of Hope in 2022. Thomas Nelson originally published the book in 2007. Pastor Lucado currently serves as Teaching Minister at Oak Hills Church in San Antonio, Texas. First, the author notes, tracing problems to their beginnings serves as the best method to […]
Made for This Moment: Courage for Today . . . (Thomas Nelson, 2021) You Were Made for This Moment: Courage for Today and Hope for Tomorrow is the latest book from Max Lucado. Max currently serves as Teaching Minister at Oak Hills Church in San Antonio. Early in the first chapter, Pastor Lucado poses this […]
“Sing high, sing low, sing to and fro,/ Go tell it out with speed,/ Cry out and shout all round about,/ That Christ is Lord indeed.”- Listen Lordlings Unto Me, 16th century Gascony carol “Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, ‘Glory to God in the […]
“When did you first realize that life was not going to turn out the way you thought? . . . In that moment a Siberian cold settled over your life. Your world became an arctic circle of dark days, long nights, and bitter weather. Winter . . . . The entire world seems wrapped in […]
“God is to problems what a hurricane is to a mosquito. No match.”- Max Lucado, You Were Made for This Moment “For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place. . . . And who knows but that you have come to your royal position […]
“So when I fight I’ll fight on my knees / With my hands lifted high. / Oh God, the battle belongs to you. / And every fear I lay at your feet. / I’ll sing through the night, / The battle belongs to you.”- Phil Wickham “This is what the LORD says to you: ‘Do […]
“[Mark 5:36] describes the critical principle for seeing the unseen. Ignore what people say. Block them out. Turn them off. Close your ears. And if you must, walk away. . . . Faith sometimes begins by stuffing your ears with cotton.”- Max Lucado, Begin Again (2021) “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the […]