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Emphasize reconciliation, not resolution. It is unrealistic to expect everyone to agree about everything. Reconciliation focuses on the relationship, while resolution focuses on the problem. When we focus on reconciliation, the problem loses significance and often becomes irrelevant.
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Be careful how you think; your life is shaped by your thoughts.
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God's purpose is greater than our problems, our pain and even our sin.
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Patience is a form of faith. It says, "I trust God. I believe that God is bigger than this problem."
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You were created to add to life on earth, not just take from it. God wants you to give something back.
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Through salvation our past has been forgiven, our present is given meaning, and out future is secured.
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Long before you were conceived by your parents, you were conceived in the mind of God.
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Then Jesus changed the situation. When he paid for our sins on the cross, the veil in the temple that symbolized our separation from God was split from top to bottom, indicating that direct access to God was once again available.
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God uses his Word, people and circumstances to mold us. All three are indispensable for character development. God's word provides the truth we need to grow, God's people provide the support we need to grow, and circumstances provide the environment we need to grow.
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God has a purpose behind every problem. He uses circumstances to develop our character. In fact, he depends more on circumstances to make us like Jesus than he depends on our reading the Bible.
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One of the ways we reflect God's love and bring him glory is to accept each other just as he accepts us. This means we accept others' quirks and look past their faults in order to see a person created in the image of God.
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The Bible is clear that God considers 40 days a spiritually significant time period. Whenever God wanted to prepare someone for his purposes, he took 40 days...
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HALF of America pays NO taxes. Zero. So they're happy for tax rates to be raised on the other half that DOES pay any taxes.
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We discover that meaning and purpose only when we make God the reference point of our lives.
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Nothing else you do will ever matter as much as helping people establish an eternal relationship with God.
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There's a Grand Designer behind everything. Your life is not a result of random chance, fate, or luck. There is a master plan. History is His story. God is pulling the strings.
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Those who have hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment.
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It's all for him.
The ultimate goal of the universe is to show the glory of God. It is the reason for everything that exists, including you. God made it all for his glory. Without God's glory, there would be nothing.
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Other people are going to find healing in your wounds. Your greatest life messages and your most effective ministry will come out of your deepest hurts.
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Only in hindsight do we understand how God intended a problem for good.
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Great opportunities may come once in a lifetime, but small opportunities surround us every day.
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Today there really aren't that many Fundamentalists left; I don't know if you know that or not, but they are such a minority; there aren't that many Fundamentalists left in America. … Now the word "fundamentalist" actually comes from a document in the 1920s called the Five Fundamentals of the Faith. And it is a very legalistic, narrow view of Christianity, and when I say there are very few fundamentalists, I mean in the sense that they are all actually called fundamentalist churches, and those would be quite small. There are no large ones.
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If you are serious about changing your life, you are going to have to get into the Bible. You need to read it, study it, memorize it, meditate on it, and apply it.
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Fear is a self imposed prison that will keep you from becoming what God intends for you to be. You must move against it with the weapons of faith and love.
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When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you'll never get back.Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time
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Rick Warren
Born:
January 28, 1954
(age 70)
Bio:
Richard Duane "Rick" Warren is an American evangelical Christian pastor and author.
Known for:
The Daniel Plan: 40 Days to a Healthier Life (2013)
The Purpose Driven Church (1995)
God's Answers to Life's Difficult Questions (1985)
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