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Preach Like Max
Lucado.
Boil it down to one sentence, wrap a story around it, and lead back to grace.
- ✓8 of his sermons, studied start to finish
- ✓Ten steps to preach the way he did
- ✓A fill-in outline in his shape, 9 pages
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— Why he’s one of the greats
Boil it down to one sentence, wrap a story around it, and lead back to grace.
Max Lucado has preached at Oak Hills Church in San Antonio since 1988, and his sermons have become books read in more than 50 languages. He still serves Oak Hills as teaching minister. His secret: he boils every message down to one sentence, then wraps a story around it. “Truth can arrive within the story and ride latent,” he told Preaching in 2006. He retells Bible scenes as if they happened last Tuesday, salts them with gentle self-deprecating humor, and coins a line you can carry out the door (“Focus on giants and you stumble; focus on God and your giants tumble”). Every road leads back to grace.
- 1988He came to Oak Hills Church in San Antonio
- 150M+Books sold
- 2005Reader’s Digest named him “America’s Best Preacher”
What makes his style unique
“He’ll make you cry, but the tears are more cathartic than they are manipulative or simply sentimental.”
— Who wrote this
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— What you get
What’s inside
Preach Like Max Lucado — Boil it down to one sentence, wrap a story around it, and lead back to grace..
- 01Why he’s one of the greatsThe story, the numbers and what made his style his own.
- 02What he does8 of his sermons, studied start to finish, and the shape they share.
- 03How he does itTen steps to preach the way he did.
- 04His outlineWhere the time goes, movement by movement.
- 05Write one like Max LucadoA fill-in outline in his shape, ready for your own text.
- 06SourcesEvery quote and number, cited.
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