Category Archives: Max Lucado : Weekly Devotional
With Heart Headed Home
Search the faces of the Cap Haitian orphanage for Carinette. She’s been adopted. Her adoptive parents are friends of mine. They brought her pictures, a teddy bear, granola bars, and cookies. Carinette shared the goodies and asked the director to … Continue reading
The Question for the Canyon’s Edge
The canyon of death. Have you been there? Have you been called to stand at the thin line that separates the living from the dead? Have you lain awake at night listening to machines pumping air in and out of … Continue reading
Women of Winter
I THE MOURNERS DIDN’T CAUSE HIM TO STOP. Nor did the large crowd, or even the body of the dead man on the stretcher. It was the woman—the look on her face and the redness in her eyes. He knew … Continue reading
Take your job and love it
My heart took delight in all my work. Ecclesiastes 2:10 NIV Contrast two workers. The first one slices the air with his hand, making points, instructing the crowd. He is a teacher and, from the look of things, a compelling … Continue reading
Pause on Purpose
Come aside by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while. Mark 6:31 Ernie Johnson Jr. knows baseball. His father announced three decades’ worth of major-league games, following the Braves from Milwaukee to Atlanta. In the quarter century since … Continue reading
When We Love Them, We Love Him
Whenever you did one of these things to someone overlooked or ignored, that was me—you did it to me. —Matthew 25:40 (MSG) There are many reasons to help people in need. “Benevolence is good for the world.” “We all float … Continue reading
Open Your Door, Open Your Heart
Long before the church had pulpits and baptisteries, she had kitchens and dinner tables. “The believers met together in the Temple every day. They ate together in their homes, happy to share their food with joyful hearts” (Acts 2:46 NCV). … Continue reading
Unfailing Love
“Love,” Paul says, “never fails” (1 Cor. 13:8 NIV). The verb Paul uses for the word fail is used elsewhere to describe the demise of a flower as it falls to the ground, withers, and decays. It carries the meaning … Continue reading
Discover your language
Suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them. … Continue reading