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The Max Lucado Encouraging Word Podcast

387: When You Always Want More Than You Have

The Max Lucado Encouraging Word Podcast

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Christianity, Talk Radio, Religion & Spirituality

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Hello, friend. I hope you’re having a good day. Today’s episode is a bit of a history lesson. We’re going back to first century Rome, to the time of the apostle Paul and the emperor Nero. Readers of the New Testament have learned a lot from Paul, but the life of Nero offers a critical lesson as well.

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0:03.4

Hello there, my friend. I sure hope you're having a good day.

0:09.7

Today's episode is a bit of a history lesson.

0:12.7

We're going back to first century Rome, to the time of the Apostle Paul and the Emperor

0:18.8

Nero.

0:20.3

Readers of the New Testament have learned a lot from Paul,

0:23.6

but the life of Nero offers a critical lesson as well.

0:32.6

I wish you could have met my dog, Molly.

0:35.6

Boy, she was a good dog.

0:38.9

As golden retrievers are, she was the best friend to everybody she saw.

0:44.5

Her tail would wag.

0:47.8

She would be happy.

0:49.7

I often want to have a personality of a dog.

0:53.1

You know, because dogs are just, they think everybody is going to be their best friend.

0:59.3

And you would have loved Molly.

1:01.5

And she would have loved you, especially if you gave her a dog biscuit.

1:07.7

Want her to go outside?

1:08.8

Throw a dog biscuit outside.

1:10.1

Want her to sit, hold up a dog biscuit.

1:12.7

Want her to fetch a stick, give her a dog biscuit.

1:15.4

She loved dog biscuits.

1:18.1

And it seemed like she could just eat them as often as you offered them.

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