A conversation with Max Lucado - S11.E1
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🗓️ 7 October 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Max Lucado is one of the best-selling Christian authors of all time. His books have sold a hundred-million copies in 56 languages. He's been called “America’s pastor” by Christianity Today, and he's served as the pastor of San Antonio’s Oak Hills Church since 1988. In this conversation with Warren Smith he talks about his new book: Help is Here: Finding Fresh Strength and Purpose in the Power of the Holy Spirit.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Warren Smith and I'd like to welcome you to a new season of Listening In. |
| 0:10.9 | Today you'll be listening in on my conversation with Pastor and author, Max Lucada. |
| 0:16.2 | He has a new book and it's called Help Is Here, Finding Fresh Strength and Purpose in |
| 0:22.3 | the Power of the Holy Spirit. |
| 0:23.9 | I pray in the mornings and I say, Lord, today I've got this, this, this, and this. |
| 0:29.0 | Would you go ahead of me please? |
| 0:31.3 | Would you help me? |
| 0:32.3 | I tend to get anxious or I tend to get worried or I tend to get wound up? |
| 0:36.6 | Would you please go ahead of me? |
| 0:40.0 | It's possible that Max Lucada is the best-selling Christian author of all time. |
| 0:45.3 | His books have sold 100 million copies in 56 languages. |
| 0:50.0 | They've included children's books, Bible commentaries, even fiction. |
| 0:54.2 | He's been called America's Pastor by Christian today, but he is actually the real pastor of |
| 1:00.8 | a real church. |
| 1:02.2 | He's been the pastor of San Antonio's Oak Hills Church since 1988, nearly 35 years. |
| 1:08.9 | So is it possible that a man with this kind of experience can learn something new about |
| 1:16.0 | God at this stage in his life? |
| 1:18.4 | Max Lucada says, yes, and in fact, the book we're discussing today includes a startling |
| 1:24.8 | anecdote about Lucada's own relationship with the Holy Spirit that will come as a surprise |
| 1:31.4 | to many long-time listeners to his sermons and readers of his books. |
| 1:37.0 | But I'll let Max tell that story, which he does near the end of our conversation today. |
| 1:42.0 | That's a conversation that Max Lucada had with me from his office in San Antonio. |
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