Max Lucado
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My Tagline:
Use you uniqueness to take great risks for God!
My Interests:
Prayer, Worship, God, Charity, Books, Travel, Family, Marriage, Parenting
My organizations and affiliations:
Oak Hills Church in San Antonio
What is your current spiritual mood?:
Peaceful
What's your spiritual type?:
Confident Believer - I have found the right path and am fully committed to it.
About Me
Max Lucado has the heart of a pastor and the pen of a poet. He is a preacher who writes and a writer who preaches, though none would call him preachy. This unique combination of gifts led Christianity Today to label him "America’s Pastor," but he prefers to go by "Max" and leave the titles behind.
Since 1985 this Texas pastor has taken pen to paper, sharing his heart and his stories with readers around the globe. And readers have responded, snapping up more than 50 million copies of his 60 plus titles during the last two decades.
Every year, Max’s books are consistently among the best selling and most well-reviewed books in the industry. He is the first and only author to win the ECPA Christian Book of the Year award three times (1999 for Just Like Jesus, 1997 for In the Grip of Grace and 1995 for When God Whispers Your Name). And his name has become a fixture on national bestseller lists – a Max Lucado title has appeared on the CBA hardcover bestseller list every month for more than a dozen years. His works regularly appear on the Publishers Weekly religion bestseller lists and have graced the USA Today and New York Times bestseller lists more than once.
Max Lucado is one of the rare authors who can craft memorable books for readers of all ages, races and creeds. He has written bestselling books for both children and adults, from illustrated storybooks to nonfiction and biblical commentary. Though he is known best for his nonfiction books for adults, Max won Campus Life magazine’s "favorite author" designation so consistently that the category was deleted from the teen reader’s annual awards.
Max’s gift of turning a phrase has turned into one of Hallmark’s most popular branded greeting cards lines, selling 5.5 million cards in just three years. His word and stories have been repackaged in just about every format imaginable, including DVDs, CD-ROMs, music CDs, apparel, giftware, calendars, study Bibles and even plush products. And his books have been translated into more than 23 languages worldwide.
Yet all these books and products find their wellspring in a single source: the pulpit at OakHillsChurch in San Antonio, Texas. All Max’s books for adults have been birthed as sermons for the congregation at Oak Hills Church -- perhaps one of the reasons Readers Digest dubbed him "America’s Best Preacher" in 2005.
Max and Denalyn Lucado just celebrated 25 years of marriage in August 2006. They served as missionaries in Brazil before coming to San Antonio, where they have lived since 1998. Their three almost-grown daughters, (Jenna, Andrea, Sara) recall no other home. Both the heart and the pen of this pastor/writer have found fertile ground under the Texas sun.
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Location: San Antonio, Texas
Gender: Male
Occupation: Senior Pastor
Relationship Status: Married
Faiths:
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The Inspirational Bible - May 8, 2008 - 04:40 PM
I wanted to tell you how much the Inspirational Bible changed my life.. I love it as much as I did when I first purchased it several years ago. I have met you a couple times in Oklahoma City..Thanks for being a messenger for Christ..Susana (Suzi)