Rick Warren
Rick Warren
Richard Duane "Rick" Warrenis an American evangelical Christian pastor and author. He is the founder and senior pastor of Saddleback Church, an evangelical megachurch in Lake Forest, California, that is the eighth-largest church in the United States. He is also a bestselling author of many Christian books, including his guide to church ministry and evangelism, The Purpose Driven Church, which has spawned a series of conferences on Christian ministry and evangelism. He is perhaps best known for the subsequent book...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth28 January 1954
CitySan Jose, CA
CountryUnited States of America
Measured against eternity, our time on earth is just a blink of an eye, but the consequences of it will last forever.
Let me tell you how worthwhile you are. You are infinitely valuable to God. First, God created you. Second, Jesus died for you. Third, he puts his Spirit within you. Fourth, he wants you to be with him forever in eternity. That's how valuable you are to God. You are infinitely valuable to God.
What happens outwardly in your life is not as important as what happens inside you. Your circumstances are temporary, but your character will last forever.
At most, you will live a hundred years on earth, but you will spend forever in eternity.
Your spiritual family is even more important than our physical family because it will last forever.
You dont judge the strength of an army by how many soldiers sit and eat in the mess hall, but by how they perform on the front line. Likewise a churchs strength is not seen in how many show up, but in how many serve in the ministry.
Faithful servants never retire, ... You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.
Life is all about stewardship. It all belongs to God - he just loans it to us for a short period of time. The first command God gave to man was to take care of the Earth, which includes managing and protecting the environment.
We really don't know when and where Joe began to display any signs of intoxication.
I'm Southern Baptist, our church is Southern Baptist, and we cooperate in SBC missions support at every level,
I think everybody has brokenness. There's no doubt about that. We live in a fallen world. This is not heaven. Everybody has scars. Everybody is hurting somewhere, I guarantee you that. Everyone has a hidden hurt.
It basically means the bar closes and everything you've got invested is lost.
It comes from service. It is by giving our lives away that we find meaning, because that's the way we're wired, I believe, by God.
What you see from the highway will be brick. It's going to be a pretty building.