Quote

I get one hour, really 25 minutes in a sermon on a weekend, to combat all the hours of the week that people are told you are what you have through billboards, commercials, and sitcoms, and so forth.

Max Lucado

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Max Lucado
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 11
Author
Theologian
Writer
San Angelo
Texas
Minutes
Sermon
Told
Commercials
Week
Sitcom
Hours
Sermons
Really
Weekend
People
Combat
Forth
Sitcoms
Hour
Billboards

More quotes by Max Lucado

Image
What Christ does in us and through us will always be 'exceedingly abundantly above all we ask or think.'
Max Lucado
Image
The strength of a story is that it stays with people and it gives an opportunity for that story to connect with people where the Holy Spirit intends for it to do so.
Max Lucado
Image
Heaven is God's answer to any suffering you may face.
Max Lucado
Image
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.
Max Lucado
Image
God is kind, but he is not soft. He takes us firmly by the hand and leads us into a radical life change.
Max Lucado
Image
To call yourself a child of God is one thing. To be called a child of God by those who watch your life is another thing altogether.
Max Lucado
Image
I don't know if I'll always be a pastor.
Max Lucado
Image
We will never be cleansed until we confess we are dirty. And we will never be able to wash the feet of those who have hurt us until we allow Jesus, the one we have hurt, to wash ours.
Max Lucado
Image
I think you have to be very careful about any story that puffs you up.
Max Lucado
Image
If we could solve the problem of who we are and where we are going, that it would have a huge impact on the culture and waterfall in on some of the more practical and social issues.
Max Lucado
Image
Are you on the eve of change? Embrace it. Accept it. Don't resist it. Change is not only a part of life, change is a necessary part of God's strategy. To use us to change the world, he alters our assignments.
Max Lucado
Image
Gratitude is a dialysis of sorts... it flushes the self-pity out of our systems.
Max Lucado
Image
The difference between mercy and grace? Mercy gave the prodigal son a second chance. Grace gave him a feast.
Max Lucado
Image
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.
Max Lucado
Image
Discover this mystery: as you help others face their days, you put life into your own. And life is exactly what many people need.
Max Lucado
Image
Has worrying about tomorrow every changed it?
Max Lucado
Image
Democracy is the right choice and is the greatest form of government ever created.
Max Lucado
Image
Forgiveness doesn't diminish justice it just entrusts it to God. He guarantees the right retribution.
Max Lucado
Image
A few songs with Him might change the way you sing. Forever.
Max Lucado
Image
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.
Max Lucado