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Your most profound and intimate experiences of worship will likely be in your darkest days - when your heart is broken, when you feel abandoned, when your out of options, when the pain is great - and you turn to God alone.

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Rick Warren
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 28
Pastor
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San Jose
California
Richard Duane Warren
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