En Manos de la Gracia - Serie Favoritos = In the Grip of Grace Paperback - 2011

Max Lucado naci en 1955 en San Angelo, Texas, y se cri en Andrews, Texas, siendo el menor de cuatro hijos. Su padre era un mecnico de campos petrolferos de Exxon que, segn recuerda Lucado, siempre ola a limpiador de grasa. "Me resulta fcil ver a un Dios amoroso y bondadoso, porque mi padre lo era", dice. Su madre era una enfermera que creci trabajando en los campos de algodn.

Lucado pas por un perodo de rebelin contra los valores de sus padres y su Dios durante su adolescencia y hasta la universidad. Pero no pas mucho tiempo antes de que se sintiera atrado por sus races, por Dios. Se cas, pas un tiempo sirviendo como misionero en Brasil, y regres a los Estados Unidos, donde comenz a trabajar como ministro de la iglesia y a escribir en el lado.

El secreto del xito

Por lo que dicen, Max Lucado no es un hombre consumido por las ventas, los premios y los logros. A menudo rechaza las entrevistas con los medios de comunicacin porque le impiden cumplir con sus compromisos familiares y ministeriales. Pasa la mayor parte de su semana sirviendo como ministro principal en la Iglesia Oak Hills de San Antonio, Texas. Y est realmente sorprendido por su propio xito, ms impresionado por su esposa y sus tres increbles hijas que por su exitosa carrera de escritor.

Max Lucado was born in 1955 in San Angelo, Texas, and raised in Andrews, Texas, the youngest of four children. His father was an Exxon oil field mechanic who, Lucado remembers, always smelled of grease cleaner. "It makes it easy for me to see a God who is loving and kind--because my dad was," he says. His mother was a nurse who grew up working in the cotton fields.

Lucado went through a period of rebellion against his parents' values and their God during his teens and into college. But it wasn't long before he found himself drawn back to his roots, back to God. He married, spent time serving as a missionary in Brazil, and returned to the States, where he began working as a church minister and writing on the side.

Secret to Success

From all accounts, Max Lucado is not a man consumed by sales, awards, and achievements. He often turns down media interviews since they impede on family and ministry commitments. He spends the bulk of his week serving as senior minister at Oak Hills Church in San Antonio, Texas. And he is truly surprised by his own success--more impressed by his one-in-a-million wife and three amazing daughters than by his successful writing career.