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Worry is to joy what a Hoover vacuum cleaner is to dirt: might as well attach your heart to a happiness-sucker and flip the switch.

Max Lucado

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Max Lucado
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 11
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San Angelo
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I think creative preaching is redundant.
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It was a matter of going back through a lot of sermons and remembering the questions and conversations, where these ideas came from. So the book [Max on Life] is really kind of a second chance to answer these questions.
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Don't measure the size of the mountain talk to the One who can move it.
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God loves you because He has chosen to do so.
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You may go days without thinking of God, but there's never a moment when He's not thinking of you.
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Indeed, baptism is a vow, a sacred vow of the believer to follow Christ. Just as a wedding celebrates the fusion of two hearts, baptism celebrates the union of sinner with Savior.
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The purpose of the Bible? Salvation. God's highest passion is to get His children home. His book, the Bible, describes His plan of salvation. The purpose of the Bible is to proclaim god's plan and passion to save His children.
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The idea of a spiritual heart transplant is a vivid image to me once you have the heart of somebody else inside you, then that heart is there. Jesus' heart is inside me, and my heart is gone. So if God were to place a stethoscope against my chest, he would hear the heart of Jesus Christ beating.
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It's one thing for me to tell people not to worry. It's another thing entirely to quote Matthew 6, where Jesus says, Why do you worry? The birds of the air, the flowers of the field... He says, I tell you, do not worry.
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I think I could do better in my approach to application. I think I could do better in preaching practical sermons.
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If you're feeling pain, express that to the Lord. If you're feeling worried, express those worries. One passage that gives me comfort is in Psalms, Chapter 11, verse 3, it reads, When all that is good falls apart, what can good people do? That's really the question of the day.
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Filter your pain through the brevity of this life and the unending beauty of the next.
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Give your problems to Christ before your problems get to you.
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God's greatest blessings often come costumed as disasters. Any doubters need to do nothing more than ascend the hill of Calvary.
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Sometimes when you read the Bible, you find yourself asking, How does this book know that about me? How does it know that about our world - especially when it was written so long ago?
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Live in such a way that the world will be glad you did.
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No one can do everything, but everyone can do something
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In our faith we follow in someone's steps. In our faith we leave footprints to guide others. It's the principle of discipleship
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Next time a sunrise steals your breath or a meadow of flowers leave you speechless, remain that way. Say nothing, and listen as Heaven whispers, Do you like it? I did it just for you.
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Most of my sermons are inspirational, and I believe people need that encouragement.
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