A very special guest on Open House this week... The author of over 50 books, with 28 million copies in print, in 2005 Reader's Digest dared to call him "The Best Preacher in America”. His name is Max Lucado. He’ll tell us how he found his place in the world, how we can find ours, and how a ‘cure for the common life’ is available to those of us stuck in the doldrums.

And with John Howard and Kevin Rudd set to address churches around Australia this week, we’ll analyse what they had to say about faith and politics, and take your calls in repsonse.