Thoughts By Max Lucado

2023-07-18

Hard Hearted

A hard heart ruins, not only your life, but the lives of your family members.

2023-07-09

The Secret of Forgiveness

You will never forgive anyone more than God has already forgiven you. Only by letting him wash your feet can you have strength to wash those of another.

2023-07-05

You’re Not Alone

Have you ever gone to the grocery on an empty stomach? You’re a sitting duck when you do. When you’re lonely, you do the same in life.

2023-07-01

God’s Ways are Right

We live beneath the protective palm of a sovereign King who superintends every circumstance of our lives and delights in doing us good.

2023-06-28

God is at Work in Us

It took prison to show me how empty life is without God.”

2023-06-03

Untying Knots

Life gets tangled. People mess up. God loves to untie the knots when our life gets messy.

2023-05-23

When the Storm Doesn’t Stop

When in a storm can you turn your eyes away from the stormy world and look into the wonder of God? Here are 5 promises you can recite:

2023-05-19

Like Sheep

When David said in Psalm 23, “The Lord is my Shepherd,” couldn’t he have come up with a better metaphor than a shepherd for sheep?

2023-05-11

God’s Loving Pursuit

Dare we envision a God who follows us? Who pursues us? Who chases us? Who tracks us down and wins us over? Who follows us with "goodness and mercy" all the days of our lives?

2023-05-07

A Prayer for Troubled Times

A Prayer for Troubled Times. Father, We are sad, Father. And so we come to you. We don’t ask you for help; we beg you for it.

2023-05-02

Eternal Happiness

“God has planted eternity in the hearts of men.” Ecclesiastes 3:10, TLB You will never be completely happy on earth, simply because you were not made for earth.

2023-04-29

My Grace is Sufficient

‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness'” (2 Corinthians 12:7-9).

2023-04-22

Hope Restored Along the Way

“He restores my soul.” (Psalm 23) Our Shepherd majors in restoring hope to the soul. Whether you are a lamb lost on a craggy ledge or a city slicker alone in a deep jungle, everything changes when your rescuer appears.

2023-04-19

Meet Your Fears with Faith

Meet Your Fears with Faith “...and teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Matthew 28:20

2023-04-03

Let Your Gentleness Be Evident to All

The Greek word translated here as “gentleness” describes a temperament that’s seasoned and mature. It envisions an attitude fitting to the occasion, levelheaded and tempered. This gentleness is “evident to all.”

2023-03-26

A Heavenly Affirmation

Each of us has a fantasy that our family will be like the Walton's, an expectation that our dearest friends will be our next of kin. Jesus didn't have that expectation.

2023-03-21

An Unearthly Love

Live full lives, full in the fullness of God. Mark it down: God loves you with an unearthly love.

2023-03-14

The Cure for Ingratitude

1st Thessalonians 5:18 tells us to “give thanks in everything!” In everything? In trouble, in the hospital, in a fix, in a mess, in distress? JESUS DID.