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I'm first a pastor and then a writer.

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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We get a lot of unsolicited manuscripts here. Im not even a publisher, but we get several a week. I dont read them, but I do glance through some of them, and some people dont need to be writing, they have something else.
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Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner!
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One person told me that Christians believe in a king. We believe in a King Jesus who oversees the affairs of mankind. Maybe we're reaching for an earthly king.
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Has worrying about tomorrow every changed it?
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I don't know how to answer the problem of deep pain without a deep hope in eternity.
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Heaven is beyond our imagination . . . . At our most creative moment, at our deepest thought, at our highest level, we still cannot fathom eternity.
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I think you have to be very careful about any story that puffs you up.
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In March 2011 I'm trying to decide on a sermon series that I will preach in January 2012. So, I'm about six months out.
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I've never really prided myself as being quick on my feet.
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I don't have any desire to retire in the sense of not doing anything. Because as long as the Lord gives me strength I want to keep writing and keep preaching. I love what I do.
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It's against God's nature to remember forgiven sins
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Jesus said, My Father is the gardener...He trims and cleans every branch that produces fruit so that it will produce even more fruit.
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God is not a miser with his grace. Your cup may be low in cash or clout, but it is overflowing with mercy.
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Worry divides the mind.
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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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God would rather give up His son..than give up on us
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I think there is, not in the sense that I enjoy it, but that it's an important question. It's the question, Does the presence of pain mean God doesn't care? Does God not love me anymore? I think that's a very common connection we tend to make.
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Do you purchase the first tree you see? Of course not. You search for the right one. You walk the rows. You lift several up and set them down. You examine them from all angles until you decide, This one is perfect. You have a place in mind where the tree will sit. Not just any tree will do. God does the same.
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Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.
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To live as God's child is to know that you are loved by your Maker not because you try to please him and succeed, or fail to please him and apologize, but because he wants to be your Father. Nothing more.
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