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God made every one of us a sexual being, and that is good. Attraction and arousal are the natural, spontaneous, God-given responses to physical beauty, while lust is a deliberate act of the will.

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