“Maybe you've had the experience where somebody's asked you a question and you give an answer, then later in the day you think, "Oh, I wish I'd said that!" I tend to journal these things and put the answers in sermons.” ThinkingGivingSaidWishAnswersJournalSermons Author:Max Lucado
“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.” KindBookIdeasMatterRememberLife IsChanceAnswersConversationSermonsSecond ChanceMax Author:Max Lucado
“I think the hardest one had to do with suffering. It had to do with all of our church members and friends passing through difficult times. Sometimes it's the global climate: tsunamis, earthquakes, radiation. I think these kinds of questions are absolutely the most difficult, yet we need to be ready to respond to them because we have to be able as pastors to walk people through these valleys, these tough times in their lives.” PeopleThinkingNeedsKindSometimesAbleSufferingDifficultChurchWalksReadyMembersToughClimatePassingHardestPassingsValleysRadiationPastorDifficult TimesTough TimesEarthquakesPassing ThroughTsunamiChurch Members Author:Max Lucado
“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.” ThinkingMeanDoeImportantCarePainEnjoyCommonConnectionsImportant Questions Author:Max Lucado
“I see that a lot in my own life and in the lives of others.Does the presence of pain mean the absence of God?” MeanDoePainMy OwnAbsenceMy Own LifeLives Of Others Author:Max Lucado
“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.” PeopleWayWantTryingKindHelpingUsePainShapesEternityWant U Author:Max Lucado
“I don't know how to answer the problem of deep pain without a deep hope in eternity.” KnowsProblemPainAnswersKnow HowEternityDeep Pain Author:Max Lucado
“If the purpose of life is just to live this life and then die, it's hard to answer the purpose of pain question; but if we can help people see from an eternal perspective - that all of this is working together to prepare us for something higher than we've ever imagined, more noble than we've ever dreamed - then we discover some hope that we can hold on to.” PeopleIfsHardHelpingPainTogetherLife IsPurposeDiesAnswersPerspectiveHigherEternalNobleThis LifeWorking TogetherPurpose Of Life Author:Max Lucado
“I spent the better part of a week trying to figure out how to organize these stacks of 30 years of conversations and dialogues. I finally began clustering them in these different categories, and I ended up with the ones you listed.It's interesting to me the kinds of questions I haven't been called to wrestle with. For example, I don't know what this says, but I'm not asked a lot of political questions.” KnowsTryingYearsKindDifferentPoliticalInterestingWeekHavensFiguresExampleConversationDialogueCategoriesOrganize Author:Max Lucado
“I don't get asked a lot of questions about science and the Bible, for example. Probably people just know I'm not very smart and I don't have an answer to those anyway.” PeopleKnowsAnswersExampleSmartVery Smart Author:Max Lucado