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Grace is God as heart surgeon, cracking open your chest, removing your heart - poisoned as it is with pride and pain - and replacing it with his own.
Max Lucado
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Max Lucado
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 11
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San Angelo
Texas
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It's up to me to promote my faith and somebody else to promote theirs. Let the government just protect our right to do so.
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God offers authentic LOVE. His devotion is the real deal. But He won't give you the genuine until you surrender the imitations.
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We celebrate the First Advent to whet our appetites for the Second. We long for the next coming.
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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?
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I'm a preacher first and a writer second, although my role is changing a bit at the church. I'm going to bring on a co-teacher, but I'll still be a pastor and a writer.
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