Max Lucado
Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day. If I succeed, I will give thanks. If I fail, I will seek his grace. And then, when this day is done, I will place my head on my pillow and rest.Collection: Kindness
When you're full of yourself, God can't fill you. But when you empty yourself, God has a useful vessel.Collection: Emptiness
If you knew Jesus was coming tomorrow, what would you do today? Then do it!Collection: Jesus
God gives us people to love and things to use, not things to love and people to use.Collection: Christian
The people who make a difference are not the ones with the credentials but the ones with the concern.Collection: Business
God is God. He knows what he is doing. When you can’t trace his hand, trust his heart.Collection: Heart
You may go days without thinking of God, but there's never a moment when He's not thinking of you.Collection: Christian
Love like there's no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again.Collection: Marriage
You weren't an accident. You weren't mass produced. You aren't an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the earth by the Master Craftsman.Collection: Positive
The key is this: Meet today's problems with today's strength. Don't start tackling tomorrow's problems until tomorrow. You do not have tomorrow's strength yet. You simply have enough for today.Collection: Keys
For all its peculiarities and unevenness, the Bible has a simple story. God made man. Man rejected God. God won't give up until he wins him back. God will whisper. He will shout. He will touch and tug. He will take away our burdens; he'll even take away our blessings. If there are a thousand steps between us and him, he will take all but one. But he will leave the final one for us. The choice is ours. Please understand. His goal is not to make you happy. His goal is to make you His. His goal is not to get you what you want; it is to get you what you need.Collection: Giving Up
What if you woke up this morning and had only the things you thanked God for yesterday?Collection: Morning
God has enough grace to solve every dilemma you face, wipe every tear you cry, and answer every question you ask.Collection: Inspirational
I try to help people see they're going to have these times in which they turn away, in which they deny Christ and their faith grows cold, their convictions weakened; but Jesus is waiting.Collection: Jesus
It's important to preach like there's a broken heart on every pew. That's always been a phrase that stuck with me. Not everybody is having a tough time, but you can bet your buck that there's a good tenth of your church that's going through a hard season. There really is a broken heart on every pew.Collection: Heart
Michael Jordan once said that the most peaceful moments of his life were on a basketball court, because that's the only place he knew exactly what to do. And to me the most peaceful moments in my ministry are in the pulpit because that's when I really know what I'm going to do.Collection: Basketball
I try to help people see that God uses pain, that pain is one of the ways God shapes us into the kind of beings He wants us to be for eternity.Collection: Pain
Theres some inherently unique characteristics of Christianity, the chief of which is that Christianity teaches that we are saved by what Christ has done for us, instead of we are saved by what we do for God.Collection: Unique
Christianity teaches salvation by grace through faith, every other religion teaches salvation through works and merit.Collection: Grace
I don't think God is a gender. He presents himself as a father but he comes to us with the tenderness of a mother. In some of the parables, he is the housewife who cleans the house looking for the lost coin. So I think we can miss the point if we get too concerned about the gender of God.Collection: Mother
It works well for me to go ahead and prepare the sermon with a chapter in mind. What that does is to force me to be very thrifty in my language, tighten up my words and not ramble so much. It puts some fiber in the sermon.Collection: Mind
If I'm a young mom or young dad, I can find a great source of strength. God has promised that He will help me to be the mom or dad that He wants me to be. He has promised to be with me every step of the way. He has promised that He will never leave me or forsake me. These are wonderful promises that I can learn to trust and build a life on.Collection: Mom
I think there is something about a story that is enduring. Stories take on a life of their own.Collection: Thinking
Bread of Life? Jesus lived up to the title. But an unopened loaf does a person no good. Have you received the bread? Have you received God's forgiveness?Collection: Jesus
I am very confident in preaching.Collection: Preaching
Maybe you've had the experience where somebody's asked you a question and you give an answer, then later in the day you think, "Oh, I wish I'd said that!" I tend to journal these things and put the answers in sermons.Collection: Thinking
My main concern is with the anxiety that has settled upon America.Collection: America
A story does that: it will reach out and hook somebody and hold them for just a few moments while you unpack this story in their presence.Collection: Hook
My conversations with Trump supporters have left me with more questions than answers.Collection: Answers
It deeply concerns me that somebody who knows little or nothing about the Christian faith would hear Mr. Trump call himself a Christian and then make a decision based on the Christian faith, based on his behavior.Collection: Christian
For those who never pray, maybe now you will. For those of us who attempt to pray, maybe we can pray more.Collection: Praying
When I was a young kid, my dad, a man of few words, told my brother and me, "Boys, Christmas is about Jesus." I thought about what he said, and I began asking the Christmas questions. I've been asking them ever since. I love the answers I've found.Collection: Brother
Does God understand you? Find the answer in Bethlehem.Collection: Doe
To me that's always a little satisfying - to find an underdeveloped topic and start developing it.Collection: Littles
We're also a multi-site church, so we have other pastors on other campuses who want to read the message before the video plays on the weekend services. So it just works better for me.Collection: Weekend
The English name Jesus traces its origin to the Hebrew word Yeshua. Yeshua is a shortening of Yehoshuah, which means "Yahweh saves."Collection: Jesus
I want a real take-home quality to the sermon, so I built the whole sermon series around the word grace, those five letters.Collection: Real
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.Collection: Writing
Fear may fill our world, but it doesn’t have to fill our hearts.Collection: Heart
That's what I'm hoping we can all do, is come together in a spirit of prayer.Collection: Prayer
The moment Mary touched God's face is the moment God made his case: there's no place he will not go.Collection: Faces
Does God care if I'm sad? Look at the tear-streaked face of Jesus as he stands near Lazarus's tomb.Collection: Jesus
Heaven is God's answer to any suffering you may face.Collection: Heaven
Bitterness is the trap that snares the hunterCollection: Hunters
Revenge is the raging fire that consumes the arsonist.Collection: Revenge
We're all travelers, all sojourners.Collection: Sojourners
Nothing fosters courage like a clear grasp of grace... & nothing fosters fear like an ignorance of mercyCollection: Ignorance
A few songs with Him might change the way you sing. Forever.Collection: Motivational
I don't like hassles. But I love Christmas because it reminds us how "God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God" (Rom. 8:28 NLT).Collection: Christmas Love