Your weaknesses are not an accident but deliberately allowed, very interesting phrase, deliberately allowed in your life for the purpose of demonstrating His power through you.

Rick Warren

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There's two kinds of thinking. There is conjunctive thinking and there's disjunctive thinking. Disjunctive thinking says it has to be either/or. Now clearly, there are some either/or's - I either trust Christ or I don't. I'm either pregnant or I'm not. But a lot of thinking in Scripture, when it comes to theology is, in my opinion, conjunctive thinking. It's both/and. I believe that and I believe that.

two believe thinking

There are accidental parents, but there are no accidental children. There are illegitimate parents, but there are no illegitimate children.

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We're going to fellowship in eternity. We know that because that's all who's going to be there - is believers. What does God want us to do here? Practice - learning how to love, learning how to fellowship here.

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We're going to worship in eternity. So what does God want me to do while we're here on earth? Practice. Practice worshipping.

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All things work for bad for those living in opposition to God and... by Rick Warren

All things work for bad for those living in opposition to God and insist on having their own way.

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God has a purpose behind every problem. by Rick Warren

God has a purpose behind every problem.

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I first start with weep with those who weep, rejoice with those who rejoice, be sympathetic, show tenderness and brotherly kindness.

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I do know I'm going to heaven. I have read all of the Scriptures and the passages that define paradise and things like that. To me, what matters is I'm going to be with Jesus and I'm going to be in his presence. Every knee will bow and every tongue will confess. At that point, you know some to judgment, some to salvation.

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I think one day Madonna's going to say Jesus is Lord, one day Muhammad is going to say Jesus is Lord, Hitler will say Jesus is Lord.

one-day jesus thinking

That's one of those questions I'm asked more often than anything else. Will my dog go to heaven? And I say well, the lion will lay down with the lamb.

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I do believe that the Kingdom of God is present wherever Jesus is king. That's my definition of the Kingdom of God.

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God owes me nothing. He doesn't have to work for anything good in my life. That is only for those who are called according to His purpose.

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God does not owe me an explanation for what He does in my life. And if I am looking for that to feel better about my suffering, then I'm not going to get it.

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I have the greater glory of God, the history is His story, that He is in charge and ultimately He knows what He's doing.

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Read the genealogy of Jesus, and you have to see how the four women in that genealogy God used their sins for His glory.

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To me, heaven is a real place. I don't believe it's a state of be... by Rick Warren

To me, heaven is a real place. I don't believe it's a state of being.

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I believe that - love is a choice. I believe that we love, that if I'm forced to love you then I don't know that I've really loved you.

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Jesus says in Matthew 25, no man knows the day nor the hour, neither the angles nor the son but only the Father which is in heaven. Now if Jesus didn't know when he was coming back, it's crazy for me to try to think.

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What is the glory of God? It is who God is. It is the essence of His nature; the weight of His importance; the radiance of His splendor; the demonstration of His power; the atmosphere of His presence.

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I have done political things, I couldn't care less about politics. I have zero interest in politics, really. They don't allure me. I have no interest in them, because if I could believe the law could change people's behavior then I would become a politician. But only Christ can change the heart.

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