Rick Warren
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If You Want to Change Your Life, Here’s Where You Should Start
For change to happen in any area of your life, whether it’s financial, vocational, educational, mental or relational, you have to begin with the physical. Why? It’s because your body affects your behavior. Your muscles affect your moods and your motivation. Your physiology can actually affect your psychology. Romans 12:1 says, “I urge you therefore, brothers,
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How Do You Get God’s Grace?
“For, ‘Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved'” (Rom. 10:13, MEV). Heaven will be amazing. You’ll be reunited with loved ones who know the Lord. You’re going to be rewarded for your faith. You’re going to be reassigned a position of work that you love to do. You’ll be released from
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Stress Management: Simply Don’t Worry
“Be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and supplication with gratitude, make your requests known to God” (Phil. 4:6, MEV). The No. 1 source of stress in your life is not work. It’s worry. Work doesn’t keep you up at night; worry does. God is very clear in the Bible what He thinks
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Generosity: The Spirit of Christmas
“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.” (John 3:16, MEV). During this Christmas season, you’ll hear one word more than any other. It’s not “merry,” “tree,” “Santa,” or even—unfortunately—”Jesus.” It’s “gift.” Starting on Black Friday (and sometimes even before then), we begin
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How to Make a Fresh Start After Committing Sexual Sin
“If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9). God’s standards never change. Premarital sex is unacceptable. It always has been. It always will be. Living together without getting married is unacceptable to God. It always has been. It always
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Rick Warren: Sexual Purity Begins With a Commitment
“How shall a young man keep his way pure? By keeping it according to Your word“ (Psalm 119:9, MEV). Is it possible in the 21st century to live a sexually pure life—to refrain from sex before marriage and stay sexually faithful during marriage? Yes! But it has to start with a commitment. The Bible says, “How can
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4 Steps to Forgiving Others
“Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outbursts, and blasphemies, with all malice, be taken away from you. And be kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God in Christ also forgave you” (Eph. 4:31-32). Too many of us don’t really understand what forgiveness is. We struggle through all kinds of misconceptions about what it means
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Not Trusting God Leads to a Great Deal of Stress
“Some trust in chariots, and some in horses, but we will remember the name of the Lord our God” (Psalm 20:7, MEV). Everyone trusts something. The question is, what—or who—do you trust? Our society tends to spurn trust—or at least we say we do. We’re skeptical of everyone and everything. We don’t trust the government. Employees don’t
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6 Ways to Maintain Integrity
“But we have renounced the secret things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by expressing the truth and commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God” (2 Cor. 4:2, MEV). Integrity demands that every area of your life is treated with the same intensity.
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7 Transformational Characteristics of Mercy
“But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy”(James 3:17, MEV). Mercy is like a diamond; it is multi-faceted. Here are seven facets of mercy. I guarantee if you’ll learn how to be an agent of mercy,
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God Is Always Present, No Matter How You Feel
When you are a baby Christian, God gives you a lot of confirming emotions and often answers the most immature, self-centered prayers so you’ll know He exists. But as you grow in faith, He will wean you of these dependencies. God’s omnipresence and the manifestation of His presence are two different things. One is a
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RICK WARREN: 7 Ways God Will Evaluate Your Faithfulness
Note: This article originally appeared on Charismamag.com in September 2013. I’m going to give you a sneak peek at your final exam. You’re going to stand before God one day, and He’s going to evaluate your faithfulness. He’s going to look at seven different aspects of your life to judge your faithfulness, and you should be
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Why Satan Loves Detached Believers
A church family will help keep you from backsliding. None of us are immune to temptation. Given the right situation, you and I are capable of any sin. God knows this, so He has assigned us as individuals the responsibility of keeping each other on track. The Bible says, “But exhort one another daily, while it
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Can God Love You More Than He Does Now?
Human love wears out; that’s why we have so many divorces. I know a lot of people who are not divorced, but they don’t love their spouses anymore. There’s a limit to human love. It dries up! That’s why you have to have God’s love in your marriage—in all your relationships—if they are going to
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Why God Doesn’t Grow Us By Leaps and Bounds
“[T]hat you put off the former way of life in the old nature, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind; and that you put on the new nature, which was created according to God in righteousness and true holiness” (Eph. 4:22-24). Although God could instantly
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