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What makes a Christian a Christian is not perfection but forgiveness.

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Max Lucado
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 11
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Theologian
Writer
San Angelo
Texas
Forgiveness
Perfection
Christian
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Forgive and give as if it were your last opportunity.
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I don't have a lot of time in the sermon anyway. The sermon is only 25 minutes, which to me is frighteningly short. So I feel as if I need to get into that pretty quickly and make it as practical and accessible as possible.
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We will find grace to help us when we need it
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The Bible is full of stories of men and women who've found themselves in frightening situations but who chose to look up rather than look down - look up in faith - and God got them through it.
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I think we live in slavery to fear. Most people don't have an answer to the death question and really don't even have a philosophy. That is a puzzle to me. I think even if I was not a Christian, I would want to at least have a personal solution to the death question. Otherwise, death is just a frightening thing.
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The lack of God-centeredness leads to self-centeredness.
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God comes on his own terms. He comes when commands are revered, hearts are clean, and confession is made.
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Jesus will press his thumb against the cheek of humanity and wipe away all tears.
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A story does that: it will reach out and hook somebody and hold them for just a few moments while you unpack this story in their presence.
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One of the greatest gifts we can give people is the hope that their death is nothing to fear - you know, not that it has no fear in it, but the promise of scripture is that God will lead us through the valley of the shadow of death.
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Who are they to give stars or dots? They're Wemmicks just like you. Eli to Punchinello (p. 25)
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We're all travelers, all sojourners.
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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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Filter your pain through the brevity of this life and the unending beauty of the next.
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God's mercies are new every morning. Receive them.
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If we think that this life is all there is to life, then there is no interpretation of our problems, our pain, not even of our privileges. But everything changes when we open up to the possibility that God's story is really our story too.
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Regardless of the circumstances that surrounded your arrival, you are not an accident. God planned you before you were born.
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Live in such a way that the world will be glad you did.
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If I succeed, I will give thanks. If I fail, I will seek His grace.
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If you concern yourself with your neighbor’s talents, you’ll neglect your own. But if you concern yourself with yours, you could inspire both!
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