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Why is this happening to me? Why am I having such a difficult time? One answer is that life is supposed to be difficult! It’s what enables us to grow. Remember, earth is not heaven!

Rick Warren

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Rick Warren
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 28
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Richard Duane Warren
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Your spiritual family is even more important than your physical family because it will last forever. Our families on earth are wonderful gifts from God, but they are temporary and fragile, often broken by divorce, distance, growing old, and inevitably, death.
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When I am playing with my grandchildren, that brings glory to God. So I don't think glory to God is simply serious. I do think that there is glory of God in laughter.
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Many people are reluctant to show mercy because they don't understand the difference between trust and forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past. Trust has to do with future behavior.
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Blessed are the uncool for they shall be happy without needing the approval of others.
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But no one who is lost has lost one ounce of value to God. Even if you don't have a relationship with him, you have immense value to God.
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Fellowship is a place of grace, where mistakes aren't rubbed in but rubbed out. Fellowship happens when mercy wins over justice.
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Receiving, reading, researching, remembering, and reflecting on the Word of God are all useless if we fail to put what we learn into practice.
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In Psalm 72, Solomon prays for power and fame but he says the purpose of influence is to speak up for others and one is the immigrant. He doesn't delineate between legal and illegal.
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A church must grow larger and smaller at the same time. Larger through worship and smaller through small groups.
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People need fewer 'ought-to' sermons, and more 'how-to' sermons. The deepest kind of teaching is that which makes a difference in people's day-to-day lives. Jesus spoke to the crowd with an interesting style. When God's Word is taught in an uninteresting way, people don't just think the pastor is boring, they think God is boring!
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I first start with weep with those who weep, rejoice with those who rejoice, be sympathetic, show tenderness and brotherly kindness.
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If you have felt hopeless, hold on! Wonderful changes are going to happen in your life as you begin to live it on purpose.
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You can like somebody without agreeing with all of their policies.
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The Bible says that governments can do things that I'm not supposed to do as an individual. God has not put the law in my hands. He's put the law in the government's hands.
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Growing marriages aren't determined by how much you have in common but by how graciously you deal with your differences.
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Start today by practicing constant conversation with God and continual mediation on his Word. Prayer lets you speak to God mediation lets God speak to you.
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Every church is flawed. Still, you'd better learn to love it since it's the only group Jesus said he's taking to Heaven.
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We're going to worship in eternity. So what does God want me to do while we're here on earth? Practice. Practice worshipping.
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I could imagine God saying to a lot of us, Hey, I'm God, and you're not. You're not the general manager of the universe. And the greatest stress reliever is take God seriously, but don't take yourself seriously.
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When you use your life for God's glory, everything you do can become an act of worship
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