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In a world of upward mobility, choose downward servility.

Max Lucado

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Max Lucado
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 11
Author
Theologian
Writer
San Angelo
Texas
Servility
Downward
Mobility
Upward
Choose
World

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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.
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No one wants your worries...not even you. Anxiety comes at a high cost. Let Jesus lead you beside still waters.
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Be gone, sorrow, sickness, wheelchairs, and cancer! Enough of you, screams of fear and nights of horror! Death, you die! Life, you reign!
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Our society is just less open to platitudes, more open to stories.
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Others have promised and failed. But God has promised and succeeded. He loves you with an unfailing love.
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Worry is irrelevant. It alters nothing. When was the last time you solved a problem by worrying about it?
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Gratitude. More aware of what you have than what you don't. Recognizing the treasure in the simple - a child's hug, fertile soil, a golden sunset. Relishing in the comfort of the common.
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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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Never let the church become a place where it's just a Las Vegas display place for you to show off.
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Which would you prefer? To be king of the mountain for a day? Or to be a child of God for eternity?
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Staying engaged with God is absolutely essential for getting through a tough time.
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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.
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Deflating inflated egos is so important to God that He offers to help.
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