Rick Warren

Rick Warren

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  • Get Your Priorities Straight, Recapture Your Ministry Joy

    A lot of people – including those of us in ministry – are looking for joy in all the wrong places. As pastors, we want to find it in a bigger church, a more effective ministry, and often the accolades of our peers and church members. Yet we do this in vain. We won’t find joy there.

  • Don’t Let Legalism Kill Your Joy in Ministry

    Legalism is a ministry killjoy. It destroys the natural joy that comes from serving others in ministry like nothing else I’ve seen. I’ve seen more ministries ruined by legalism than anything else.

  • How to Dream Bigger

    Everybody needs a dream. Whenever you first got involved in ministry, you probably started with a big dream. Unfortunately, as you get into that ministry, your dreams shrink to the size of the situation. Probably the very first time you got involved in ministry you could foresee great things. Yet as we go on, circumstances tend to shrink our dreams

  • Some Facts about Fruit

    One of my fondest memories of growing up is my father’s garden. It seemed my dad grew everything in his garden. In fact, he always grew enough to feed the entire neighborhood.

  • The Six Convictions Saddleback is Built On

    You tend to base your decisions on one of four motivations in life: circumstances, conveniences, criticisms, or convictions. Yet only decisions that are based on your convictions will last and leave a lasting legacy.

  • Relationships are Essential for Spiritual Growth

    Your people will not grow on their own.

  • To Fulfill Your Life Mission, Get in Shape in 2007

    Did you know your body is a tool? God can use it to fulfill his purposes in the world. But you must cooperate first.

  • How to be Used by God this Christmas

    God is not arbitrary about who he chooses to use.

  • How to Worship When You are Wounded

    Everybody goes through wounding experiences in life – even those of us in ministry. Whether these wounds are physical, spiritual, emotional, or relational, they’re either in your life now or they’re coming. So what do we do when we’re wounded? Worship. It’s the only antidote to our pain.