Loves fellow strugglers, skeptics, & seekers. Served Saddleback for free for 43 yrs. Wrote some books. Training 1.2 M pastors in 171 nations. #FinishTheTask
I live in the State of Grace
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When people are in deep pain they don't need explanations, advice, encouragement, or even Scripture. They just need you to show up and shut up. Just be WITH them. It’s the healing ministry of presence. #RealComfort
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My biggest regret in 53 years of ministry is that I didn’t do my own personal exegesis sooner on the 4 passages used to restrict women. Shame on me.
I wasted those 4 yrs of Greek in college & seminary. When I finally did my proper “due diligence”, laying aside 50 years of
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Sometimes God removes a person from your life for your own protection.
Do not run after them.
Trust God.
He knows what He's doing.
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After almost 43 yrs of pastoring Saddleback Church, Kay & I are announcing that God is calling us to step aside for the next generation! We feel deep love & humble gratitude for our church family. What a faith adventure its been! Now we're called to 2 new ministries. More later
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Prayer is not getting my way in heaven, but getting God’s will on earth. "Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven"(Matt 6:10)
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Integrity is a habit, not a feeling.
You speak the truth, keep your promises, and do what's right
even when it's unpopular or you don't feel like it.
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We may have different views but I love Ellen DeGeneres. Her hilarious comedy is always clean & never hurts people. She's a great humanitarian.Most of all she's a KIND soul in an unkind,uncivil culture. Bless you Ellen! I used your example in a sermon on kindness today. Rick
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And if anyone says mean things about you, just bless them back. They're revealing THEIR character, not yours.
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If you’re not spending time with God on a daily basis, you won't be able to handle it when the pressure is on. You’ve got to make time to listen during a daily time with God. Whatever it takes to keep the focus on God, do it! #RickWarren #PurposeDriven
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God lets you pick HOW LONG your tough journey to spiritual maturity will take. The length will depend on 2 things: how quickly you obey him and how deeply you trust him when it doesn't make sense.
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44 yrs ago today.
“We’re still having fun & she’s still the One!”
From our marriage came Saddleback on 4 continents, Purpose Driven, Global PEACE plan, Daily Hope, HIV&MentalHealth initiatives & millions of changed lives. Thank you Lord for a journey you started with just 2!
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Believers Behaving Badly never invalidates the Gospel. Instead it validates it, because Jesus insisted we all need a Savior because we're all hopelessly broken. I desperately need God's grace. You do too.
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"We have forgotten God.We've vainly imagined,in the deceitfulness of our hearts,that all these blessings were produced by our superior wisdom and virtue. We've become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming grace, too proud to pray...” Lincoln 3/30/1863
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We need Servant Leaders like this!
In North Macedonia, an 11 yr old girl with Down syndrome was bullied by classmates and removed from class when other kid’s parents complained about her. So the nation's President traveled to her city and personally escorted her to school!
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Today I'm praying for my fellow pastors who happen to be in their 30s. Don't get worn out & discouraged. Pace yourself. Ministry is a marathon Your ministry matters to God and we need you to finish your Race. The reward is SO worth it.
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Temptation is just a choice, and you can always use that choice for your own good. Every time you FEEL like doing the wrong thing but CHOOSE to do the right thing, you GROW. It's how you develop spiritual muscle and maturity.
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I'm speechless, grieving deeply for Black men shot by police and retaliation shootings of police. We need Revival in America!
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After 3 weeks of house arrest recovering from surgery, it felt great today to get back to my daily hike in the canyons around Saddleback mountain. “He restores my soul.”
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When you don't feel like praying... you're not praying what you feel!
Faking kills prayer.
Tell God your true feelings -ALL of them.
You can't be #CloseToGod without being #HonestToGod
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I’m angry & disgusted to hear of Robert Morris’ sexual abuse of a child & heartbroken for Cindy Clemishire. To sexually use a 12 yr old child, then continue it for yrs, is not merely an “inappropriate relationship.” It’s a crime. Sexual child abuse is an evil punishable by law. One can’t just confess when caught & move on with no consequences.
For the integrity of Christ’s Body, God insists “Expel the wicked person out of your church!” 1 Cor. 5:13 Perpetrators are to be publicly fired, not allowed to resign.
Child abuse STILL enrages Jesus: “If anyone offends one of these little ones, it would be better for him to have a millstone hung around his neck and drowned in the sea. “ Matt.18:6.
Until the Church realizes the soul-destroying trauma of sexual abuse, the pattern will continue. Kay still remembers the horror of being molested in church as a little girl. Prov. 31:8
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There’s no way I can see and correct my own sins and weaknesses, if I’m focused on criticizing yours. So which do you think God wants us to focus on?
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What you FEEL is not always REAL.
What is REAL is not always RIGHT.
What feels NATURAL is not always HEALTHY.
What is POPULAR is not always BEST.
What you THINK is not always TRUE.
Give yourself permission to NOT believe everything you think.- Rick Warren
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This Monday morning I'm praying for all you single parents getting kids off to school by yourself. May God bless your efforts.
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You rarely have the time to help someone, but if you have the heart, you'll make the time.
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As a parent who lost one of my children to gun violence, I beg you to pray for the grieving parents of Uvalde.
You'll quickly forget this horror and move on, but they will have to carry this grief the rest of their lives.
Don't forget them.
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Listen for God's voice in everything you do, everywhere you go; he's the one who will keep you on track.
Proverbs 3:6(Msg)
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I truly feel sorry for men who deprive their souls of learning profound spiritual truth from godly women hindered by their belief that NO WOMAN can TEACH them anything.
Grateful for my grandmother, mom, wife, sister, daughter & books by sisters in Christ who've taught me so much
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Men:It only takes your sperm to have a child, but it takes wisdom,sacrifice,patience,unselfishness & God to FATHER a child
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43 yrs ago I preached my 1st sermon to the 1st service of Saddleback church, called
"The Beginning of a Miracle!"
I shared the specific PROMISES of God we would base the new church on.
Today, as my LAST message as Senior Pastor,
I'll re-preach that 1st message! Watch online
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Please pray for the families of 80 of our Christian brothers and sisters killed in the Benue State of Nigeria by Fulani militants.
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"As believers in our Lord Jesus, you must never treat people in different ways according to their outward appearance" James 2:1
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God is not mad at you; He is mad ABOUT you. No man or woman will ever love you like your Creator does. It's the reason you're alive. God IS love, and he made you so he could love you.The only reason you can give & receive love is because He made you in his image.
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When someone is in pain, listen with two ears: Imagine using one ear to hear what that person is saying and use the other to hear what God wants to say to you about it, and what He might want to say through you.
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People can’t relax if they confuse their WORK with their WORTH.
Your net-worth has no connection to your self-worth
Your value is never based on your valuables
It’s not what you do, but WHO designed you that determines your value.
You were made BY God & FOR God. He loves you!
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God's will is found in God's Word. Stop looking for a vision and start looking for a verse!
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Never let people put you on a pedestal. A pedestal is a prison. It messes up your mind because humans aren't created to be idolized. Only God deserves worship.
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God's Will is found in God's Word. Stop looking for a sign, and start looking for a verse.
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Don't worry what others are thinking about you because they aren't. They're thinking about themselves too.
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HYPOCRISY: The 2023 SBC will kick out churches for having a woman preach WHILE honoring Charles Stanley, SBC President who was saved through a WOMAN PREACHING! "As Mrs. Wilson preached,the Spirit struck me to the core! When she gave the invitation I was the first down" Stanley
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You’ll save yourself pain and heartache if you follow one simple rule: Slow down when you’re angry or hurt. #DailyHope
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In Scripture, a pastor was NOT a guy who stood behind a pulpit,in a church building, holding a Bible,preaching to a crowd.
There were no church bldgs until the 4th century
No pulpits until the 9th century
No printed Bibles til the 15th
A pastor was a small group (house) leader!
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Since all humans are “made in God’s image”(Genesis 1:26) with God-given dignity(Psalm 8:5) racism is evil and bigotry is wickedness.The massacre of people praying in Christchurch is a despicable act that should cause both tears and resolve to unite against acts of inhumanity.
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Easter was curtailed, not cancelled. It was simplified, not stopped.
You can't cancel the resurrection because it already happened and it split history into BC and AD.
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You've heard it said: "Love the sinner & hate their sin"
I'd rather: Love everyone & hate MY OWN sin.
I don't know how some find so much time to
condemn others. Do they never sin?
"Whatever measure you use to judge others
will be used to measure how you're judged" Jesus
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In Heaven, YOU will be a minority!
Get used to it.
Most Christ-followers in the world don’t look like you, think like you, or vote like you.
They’re saved by grace thru faith,
Jesus-lovers from every era of time & place
If diversity scares you, you’ll hate heaven.
Rev. 5:9
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I apologize. I wrote poorly.
I don't believe Jesus was a centrist. He stands far above it all. “My kingdom is not of this world..." Jn.18:36
Jesus demands our total allegiance as the center of our lives.
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Sometimes God removes a person from your life for your own protection. Don't run after them.
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When you're small,they ignore you. When you grow,they criticize you. When you succeed,they resent you. Keep focused on God!
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Every great comeback first requires a setback. What you're going through is a season of life, not the end of your life.
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I just finished speaking to Twitter employees by Zoom who invited me to talk about The Purpose Of Life. Thanks everyone! I read them my quote that Starbucks printed on their cups after Starbucks asked me to write something for them when #PurposeDrivenLife was first published.
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The first job of leadership is to love people. Leadership without love is manipulation.
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The farther I get from God, the more my life will be deformed.The closer I get to God, the more my life will be transformed.
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Satan doesn't need to possess you if he can deceive. If you believe the lies he plants in your mind, he's defeated you.
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Right now, 30,000 members of Saddleback church are joining together for a night of prayer, grieving, repentance and sorting out our emotions after the deaths of Ahmad Aubury and George Floyd. Please join us: facebook.com/saddleback.com
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I am more proud of @Simone_Biles than ever. She has given such a magnificent example of wisdom under pressure.
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A safe life is a wasted life. God made you for far, far more than the life you let your fears define for you.
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A small step of progression is a thousand times better than a delayed step of perfection. Perfectionism procrastinates and paralyzes progress.
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Habakkuk's cry is still true 2,600 yrs later: "Must I forever see this sin and misery all around me? Wherever I look, I see destruction and violence. I am surrounded by people who love to argue and fight." Habakkuk 1:3 (NLT)
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Anytime I hear preachers say "I LOVE TO PREACH!" that never impresses me. So what? You may just like the attention & adrenaline rush. Instead, what I want to know is: Do you LOVE THE PEOPLE you preach to? That's what really matters. Without love, it's just noise. 1 Cor. 13:1
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A Pedestal is Prison. It messes up your mind because humans aren't designed to be idolized. Only God deserves worship.
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I don’t have to be anti-men to be pro-women
I don’t have to be anti-white to be pro-black
I don’t have to be anti-truth to be pro-grace
I don’t have to be anti-others to be pro-Jesus
Jesus was “full of grace AND truth”
I need both in my life today.
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I don’t have to be anti-men to be pro-women
I don’t have to be anti-white to be pro-black
I don’t have to be anti-truth to be pro-grace
I don’t have to be anti-others to be pro-Jesus
Jesus was “full of grace AND truth”
I need both in my life today.
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My patience with mean or angry or judgmental folks increased greatly when a friend taught me to stop asking (in my mind) "What's WRONG with you?"
and start asking (in my mind) "What HAPPENED to you?"
What made you so angry or mean?
Hurt people hurt other people
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Jesus never asks us to change ourselves.
He asks us to chose him.
Then he does the changing
in his power and in his way.
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I I believe and trust the Bible because Jesus did. He continuall lived by it, quoted it, and used it to help others.
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If you love Jesus, we may serve on different teams, but we're in the same league of receiving His grace and forgiveness.
Today on #Crux: In Orange County, bishop and pastor model Catholic/Evangelical ties cruxnow.com/interviews/2017/…
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Dear Friends in Rwanda, I want to email you some very important news. I'll be back in Kigali Nov. 28 to Dec 2. Email me Rick@FinishingTheTask.com so I can update you. Ndabakunda mwese! Ndagarutse murugo!
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Jesus didn't die on the Cross to be "one of the ways" or even "the best way" for us to get to heaven. "I'm THE way." Jesus
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What you FEEL is not always REAL.
What is REAL is not always RIGHT.
What feels NATURAL is not always HEALTHY.
What is POPULAR is not always BEST.
What you THINK is not always TRUE.
Give yourself permission to NOT believe everything you think.
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FRIENDS, I know most of you aren’t SBC, so I apologize for my SBC posts in next 7 days. I’m denied access by Exec Com staff to all SBC communication channels so I’ll use this to make my points. Then on Jun.13, I’ll get back to you! Love you! I love to grow stuff! From my garden
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Heartbroken by what has happened in Orlando. Join me today in praying for the families and victims of this tragedy. #Orlando
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Worry all you want, that won't change ANYTHING . Pray about ANYTHING, that'll change EVERYTHING. #SEEKTOFIND #PRAY34
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My wife Kay was molested in church as a child. The continuing dribble of #SBCcoverup stories is sickening & enraging. Decades of sexual abuse #COVERUPS by evil institutional leaders have tarnished the good name of every local SBC church. They should be fired now & prosecuted.
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ISIS is evil.
You don't ignore evil.
You don't negotiate with evil.
Good people stop evil.
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"He flatters himself and does not hate or even recognize his guilt. The words from his mouth are nothing but trouble and deception. He has stopped doing what is wise and good. He invents trouble while lying on his bed. " Psalm 36:2-4 (GWT)
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Every Superbowl I wear one of my older brother's FOUR SuperBowl rings from his years with the SF 49ers during the Joe Montana dynasty, He's now in heaven.
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Long before you were conceived by your parents, you were conceived in the mind of God. He thought of you first. It is not fate or coincidence that you are breathing at this very moment. You are alive because God wanted to create you! #RickWarren #PurposeDriven #PurposeDrivenLife
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God can get GLORY from ALL of your STORY- even the parts you'd rather hide or forget. We're all trophies of grace!
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The SBC allows churches to disagree on interpreting 6 essential doctrines of our salvation in Christ
You just don't dare call a female staff (who's done 100s of funerals & pastoral care for 26 yrs) a pastor
That gets you kicked out.
Strange what matters most to some Baptists
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Example of poor planning.
"Plan carefully what you do, then it will turn out right." Proverbs 4:26 (TEV)
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Thank you everyone for the birthday greeting videos you've sent. I've smiled, laughed, cried, and bowed my head in gratitude for you. YOU all are such a blessing to me. Kind friends are priceless.
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You shouldn’t trust anybody who thinks they’ve got God and his ways all figured out: they reshape God to fit their tidy little box of rational, man-made systematic theology. I believe in the inerrancy of Scripture. I do not believe in the inerrancy of anyone’s interpretation of it, even mine. That’s why we must approach God’s Perfect Word with humility, and we must offer our interpretation the same way. No imperfect human can perfectly interpret God’s Word all the time. So beware of those who never admit “I could be wrong on this…” They deny 1 Cor. 13:9: “Our knowledge is incomplete and our ability to speak what God has revealed is incomplete.” (GW) “For we only know in part and can only prophesy in part.”(NIV) “We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete.” (Mes) If you believe God endorses every one of your biases, you’ve made God into your own image.
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God's will is found in God's Word.
Stop looking for a sign,
and start looking for a verse.
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If you see a church service on TV using a different style than yours, just thank God it reaches people you never will.
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I've found distress to be beneficial to my life & ministry because it drives me to depend more on God & less on myself.
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