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Rick Warren

Rick Warren


Richard Duane "Rick" Warren is an American evangelical Christian minister and author. He is the founder and senior pastor of Saddleback Church, an evangelical megachurch located in Lake Forest, California, currently 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 devotional, The Purpose Driven Life, which has sold over 30 million copies, making Warren a New York Times bestselling author.

Warren holds conservative theological views. While holding traditional evangelical views on social issues such as abortion, same-sex marriage, and stem-cell research, Warren has called on churches worldwide to also focus their efforts on fighting poverty and disease, expanding educational opportunities for the marginalized, and caring for the environment.
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mientras que lo que no se ve es eterno.
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I am your Creator. You were in my care even before you were born.” ISAIAH 44:2 (CEV)
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God says there is a direct relationship between how I use my money and the quality of my spiritual life. How I manage my money (“worldly wealth”) determines how much God can trust me with spiritual blessings (“true riches”).
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We don’t praise God to feel good, but to do good.
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It is not always convenient or comfortable, and sometimes worship is a sheer act of the will--a willing sacrifice.
topics: worship  
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God keeps his promise, and he will not allow you to be tested beyond your power to remain firm; at the time you are put to the test, he will give you the strength to endure it, and so provide you with a way out.
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I am focusing all my energies on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead.” 14
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Dios sonríe cuando lo amamos por encima de todo. Noé amó a Dios más que a nada en el mundo, ¡incluso cuando nadie más lo amaba! La Escritura afirma que «durante toda su vida Noé cumplió fielmente la voluntad de Dios y disfrutó una estrecha relación con Dios».3 Lo que Dios más desea es tener una relación de amor contigo. La verdad más asombrosa del universo es que nuestro Creador quiere estar en comunión con nosotros. Dios nos creó para amarnos, y anhela que nosotros también lo amemos. Él dice: «Porque más me deleito en la lealtad que en el sacrificio, y más en el conocimiento de Dios que en los holocaustos».4 ¿Sientes palpitar la pasión de Dios en este versículo? Él te ama de todo corazón y desea, en reciprocidad, que tú también lo ames. Como el anhelo de Dios es que lo conozcamos y pasemos tiempo con él, aprender a amarlo y ser amado por él debería ser el mayor objetivo de nuestra vida. No hay ninguna otra cosa que tenga tanta importancia. Jesús lo llamó el mandamiento más importante. Dijo: «Ama al Señor tu Dios con todo tu corazón, con todo tu ser y con toda tu mente … Éste es el primero y el más importante de los mandamientos».5
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Pero al final, lo más importante no es lo que otros dicen de tu vida, sino lo que Dios diga.
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For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible, . . . everything got started in him and finds its purpose in him. COLOSSIANS 1:16 (MSG)
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The cliché is true: People don't care what we know until they know we care.
topics: listening  
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It is God’s way of arousing us from spiritual lethargy. Your problems are not punishment; they are wake-up calls from a loving God. God is not mad at you; he’s mad about you, and he will do whatever it takes to bring you back into fellowship with him. But there is an easier way to reignite your passion for God: Start asking God to give it to you, and keep on asking until you have it. Pray this throughout your day: “Dear Jesus, more than anything else, I want to get to know you intimately.” God told the captives in Babylon, “When you get serious about finding me and want it more than anything else, I’ll make sure you won’t be disappointed.
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Glory in your weaknesses. Paul said, “I am going to boast only about how weak I am and how great God is to use such weakness for his glory.”21
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The easiest way to discover the purpose of an invention is to ask the creator to explain it.
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Every time you forget that character is one of God’s purposes for your life, you will become frustrated by your circumstances. You’ll wonder, “Why is this happening to me? Why am I having such a difficult time?” One answer is that life is supposed to be difficult!
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The Christian life is more than just commitment to Christ; it includes a commitment to other Christians.
topics: commitment  
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Mucho de nuestro estrés se debe al deseo de control total. ¡La vida es una lucha, pero lo que muchas personas ignoran es que la nuestra, como la de Jacob, es en realidad una lucha con Dios! Queremos ser Dios, y de ninguna manera podremos ganar esa lucha. A.W. Tozer dijo: «Muchos aún están confusos, buscando; apenas hacen pequeños progresos porque todavía no se han rendido del todo. Todavía pretendemos dar órdenes y entrometernos en la obra de Dios en nosotros». No somos Dios, y nunca lo seremos. Somos seres humanos. Cuando pretendemos ser Dios acabamos pareciéndonos a Satanás, que pretendía eso mismo. Aceptamos nuestra humanidad con el intelecto, pero no con las emociones. Cuando nos enfrentamos a nuestras propias limitaciones, reaccionamos con irritación, enojo y resentimiento. Queremos ser más altos (o más bajos), más inteligentes, más fuertes, más talentosos, más hermosos y más ricos. Queremos tener de todo y hacer cualquier cosa, y nos disgustamos cuando eso no ocurre. Al darnos cuenta de que Dios dota a otros con las características que no tenemos, respondemos con envidia, celos y autocompasión.
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C.S. Lewis dijo: «Hay dos tipos de personas: los que le dicen a Dios: “Sea hecha tu voluntad”, y aquellos a quienes Dios les dice: “Muy bien, entonces, hágase tu voluntad”».
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Self-worth and net worth are not the same.
topics: worth  
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Today we often feel we must “get away” from our daily routine in order to worship God, but that is only because we haven’t learned to practice his presence all the time. Brother Lawrence found it easy to worship God through the common tasks of life; he didn’t have to go away for special spiritual retreats.
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