Thoughts By Max Lucado

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.

2023-03-10

God’s Doing What’s Best for Us

He doesn’t delight in our sufferings, but He delights in our development".

2023-02-25

What to Do with Worry

Next time you’re worried about your health or house or finances or flights, take a mental trip up the hill. Take your anxieties to the cross

2023-02-19

I’m Here

"You are all around me--in front and in back--and have put your hand on me." Psalm 139:5 Pause and listen as His Majesty whispers ever so gently,

2023-02-09

Disarming Anxiety

Your goal is not to know every detail of the future. Your goal is to hold the hand of the One who does; and never, ever let go!

2023-02-06

What You Were Made to Do

Your existence is not accidental. Your skills are not incidental. God shaped each person in turn!

2023-02-03

Look to the Source of Help

Look to the Source of HELP: God—your rescuer, has the right vision. He also has the right direction. Maybe you need your hope restored.

2023-01-28

Your Kindness Quotient

How kind are you? What is your kindness quotient?

2023-01-24

Leave Your Guilt at Calvary

Do you carry a load of guilt? So many do. If our spiritual baggage were visible, do you know what you would see? Suitcases of guilt, bulging with binges, blowups, and compromises. The kid with the baggy jeans and the nose ring? He’d give anything to retract the words he said to his mother.

2023-01-20

Give Thanks

Gratitude gets us through the hard stuff. To reflect on your blessings is to rehearse God’s accomplishments. To rehearse His accomplishments is to discover His heart. Gratitude always leaves us looking at God and away from dread. So practice gratitude!

2023-01-17

Trust God to Lead

Worrying is one job you cannot farm out—but you can overcome it! And there’s no better place to begin than Psalm 23:2. “He leads me beside the still waters,”

2023-01-15

Fear Can Cause Us to Worship Safety

When fear shapes our lives, safety becomes our god. We worship the risk-free life.

2023-01-05

God’s Joy

God's Joy. His is a joy which consequences cannot quench. His is a peace which circumstances cannot steal.

2022-12-26

Filling Our Minds with God’s Love

What happens when we fill our minds with thoughts of God’s love? Will standing beneath the downpour of his grace change the way we feel about others?

2022-12-19

He Lives Within You

The virgin birth is more, much more, than a Christmas story; it is a picture of how close Christ will come to you. The first stop on his itinerary was a womb. Where will God go to touch the world? Look deep within Mary for an answer.

2022-12-15

We Need A Saviour

"For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace" Isaiah 9:6

2022-12-02

God is Faithful

Our God is a promise-keeping God? Others may make a promise and forget it. But if God makes a promise, he keeps it.

2022-11-17

Loneliness

Loneliness. Could it be one of God’s finest gifts? Scripture says, “Perfect love casts out fear.”

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