Hey everybody, welcome to the Dream Big Podcast and I always have fun doing these but it's

even more fun when I have a good friend and somebody that I respect.

He's been called the kind of pastor to the country and it's not something that he would

boast about but he's a humble voice and a voice I trust in my life and so let me just

welcome Max Lucato, Max how you doing buddy, good to see you.

I'm very great, it's really great to see you.

I love talking to you, your enthusiasm is contagious and I'm happy to catch a case of it.

Yeah, ever once in a while, you know, things in life and all that, for everybody listening

and it just gets complicated and so we have to decide you can just fake a bunch of like

happiness and just that that would be out of touch but you can just choose some joy

in the middle of it to say, what am I thankful for, why am I thankful for it.

One of the things that people know about you is that you've been a pastor to so many,

including me, but you also have a balance like faith and hope and have dealt with and

have waited into the tragedies.

I know you have a book that's just coming out called Help Is Here, Facing Life's Challenge

is with the power of the Spirit, tell us about it, why this book, why right now, talk

to us about it.

Well, the book is all about the Holy Spirit.

I love talking about the Holy Spirit and I find that people are fascinated by the idea

of God's presence at work on our planet available to any person who is a desirous of

receiving strength and help and so it's good news, it's good news, it's like announcing

that well there is help, there is hope and at this time I decided to write a book about

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