Jesus Receives You
April 18, 2025 | Max Lucado
How does God accept us? I know how he accepted me. I was a twenty-year-old troublemaker on a downhill path. I’d spent five years claiming to be God’s son on Sunday mornings and buddying with the devil on Saturday nights. I was a...
Great Joy
April 17, 2025 | Max Lucado
When the angels announced the arrival of the Messiah, they proclaimed “good news of a great joy” (Luke 2:10 RSV). They did not proclaim “bad news of a great duty.” Where did we get the notion that a good Christian is a...
Joy and Abundance
April 16, 2025 | Max Lucado
Jesus was accused of much, but of being a grump, sourpuss, or self-centered jerk? Nope! People didn’t groan when he appeared. They didn’t duck for cover when he entered the room. He called them by name, he listened to their stories...
No Ordinary Night
April 15, 2025 | Max Lucado
Only one word describes the night that Jesus came—ordinary. No reason to expect a surprise. An ordinary night with ordinary sheep and ordinary shepherds. And were it not for a God who loves to hook an extra on the front of the ordinary...
A Great Descent
April 14, 2025 | Max Lucado
Gabriel had his orders: take the message to Mary. Must be a special girl, he assumed. But Gabriel was in for a shock. Mary was a Jewish peasant who’d barely outgrown her acne and had a crush on a guy named Joe. But Gabriel followed...