Thoughts By Max Lucado

2024-04-19

Confession

Confession! It’s a word that conjures up many images—some not so positive.

2024-04-12

Patience Freely Offered

God does more than demand patience from us; He offers it to us. Patience is a fruit of His Spirit. It hangs from the tree of Galatians 5:22: “The Spirit produces the fruit of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.”

2024-04-03

When You Face a Wall of Fear

Perhaps standing before you is a wall of fear. Brick upon brick of anxiety and dread. Haunting you are the kings of confusion. “Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world. ” (1 John 4:17).

2024-03-29

Father, Forgive Them

The dialogue that Friday morning was bitter. From the religious leaders, “He saved others but he can’t save himself.”

2024-03-26

Changed from the Inside Out

The stumbles of a toddler do not invalidate the act of birth. And the stumbles of a Christian do not annul his spiritual birth.

2024-03-19

Give Us This Day our Daily Bread

There are times when we literally push ourselves back from the table. Then there are those days when we have to eat our broccoli.

2024-03-16

God Gets into Our Lives

What the hand is to the glove, the Holy Spirit is to the Christian . . . God gets into us. At times, imperceptibly. Other times, disruptively.

2024-03-09

Love Covers a Multitude of Sins

One thing is sure. They love you! No makeup. No power tie. No status jewelry. No layers of images. Just unkempt honesty.

2024-03-05

Worry is Optional

Some of us have postgraduate degrees from the University of Anxiety. We go to sleep worried that we won’t wake up.

2024-03-02

What Makes Heaven Heavenly

Heaven is a perfect place of perfected people with our perfect Lord. You’ll love it! Never weary, selfish, or defeated.

2024-02-20

God Has a Plan

Has God permitted a time of darkness in your world? But be assured, God has a pattern. He has a plan. He is not finished.

2024-02-17

The Dynamics of Mercy

Jesus says the merciful are shown mercy. Forgiving others allows us to see how God has forgiven us.

2024-02-13

Fretting is Futile

No one has to remind you of the high cost of anxiety. (But I will anyway). Worry divides the mind. Anxiety is an expensive habit. Of course, it might be worth the cost if it worked. But it doesn’t. Our frets are futile.

2024-02-05

The Prison of Pride

Blessed are those who know they’re in trouble and have enough sense to admit it!

2024-02-02

Call it Grace

Apart from Christ you are not holy. So how can you go to heaven? Only believe. Accept the work already done, the work of Jesus on the cross.

2024-01-23

What’s Done is Done

“The wages of sin is death.” Sin is fatal. Your failures are not fatal, my friend! We have a father who cares for us in spite of our failures

2024-01-17

Worry Stoppers to Bring Peace

Here are eight worry-stoppers, found in the letters of the word P-E-A-C-E-F-U-L. First, P - Pray, first. “Casting the whole of your care upon Him …” E -Easy, now. “Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him.” A -Act on it. Be a doer, not a stewer.

2024-01-16

Obedience Leads to Blessing

Security comes as we put God’s precepts into practice. We’re only as strong as our obedience.

2024-01-08

Amazing Grace

“Tis grace hath brought me safe thus far, and grace will lead me home.” When John Newton penned this promise, he did so out of personal experience

2024-01-05

God’s Love

God loves you. Personally. Powerfully. Passionately. Others have promised and failed. But God has promised and succeeded.

2023-12-30

Assurance of Victory

What is unique about the kingdom of God is that you are assured of victory. You have won! You are assured that you will someday stand before the face of God and see the King of kings.

2023-12-21

The Best is Yet to Be

In Matthew 1:23 God called himself Immanuel, which means God with us. Not just God made us,

2023-12-15

Christ in You

God in us! Have we sounded the depth of this promise? With God in you, you have a million resources you didn’t have before. Can’t stop worrying? Christ can. And he lives within you. Can’t forget the past, forgive the jerk, or forsake your bad habits? Christ can! And he lives in you.

2023-12-11

Wounded by Words

If you have suffered or are suffering because of someone else’s words, you’ll be glad to know that there is a balm for this laceration. Read 1 Peter 2:23