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 More Quotes by Rick Warren More Quotes From Rick Warren I'm definitely not postmillennial. And I do not believe in bringing in the Kingdom by human means, in no sense of the matter. Rick Warren kingdoms mean believe We have to be even more Christocentric because of the influence of Islam today. Rick Warren islam influence today Bible makes that really clear that there are rewards in heaven. I believe there is reassignment. In other words, faithful in little things I will trust you in much. And if you have not been faithful with that which is not his own, who will give you your own. And if you've been unfaithful with unrighteous mammon who's going to trust you the true riches of heaven. Rick Warren giving heaven believe I do not believe God is responsible for my sins, some people may. But I believe that my own weaknesses are father-filtered and just as much as God touched Jacob's hip and he walked with a limb the rest of his life, that I have certain emotional weaknesses that are there to keep me dependent on God. Rick Warren emotional believe father Our hope is a certainty based on the truths that God is in complete control of our universe and that He loves us. Rick Warren universe certainty Jonathan Edwards is without a doubt the most brilliant mind America ever produced. I'm not talking about theologian; I'm talking about mind and everybody. I put him above Einstein and everybody else. Rick Warren doubt talking america The eternal salvation of a single soul is more important than anything else you will ever achieve in life. Rick Warren achieve important soul Heartless praise is not praise at all. It is worthless and an insult to God. Rick Warren heartless insult praise Our goal is to make God look good in the universe. Rick Warren universe goal looks The most important is to prepare you for eternity. Rick Warren eternity important The number one problem in our society today is short-term thinking. Rick Warren our-society numbers thinking How does God teach me love? By putting me around unlovely people. How does God teach me joy in the middle of grief? Not happiness, which is based on happenings. How does God teach me peace? Not when I am out fishing and everything is going my way and it doesn't get better than this. But in the middle of chaos. How does God teach me patience? By putting me in His waiting room. Rick Warren waiting-rooms grief fishing I would say that God custom designed my weaknesses. I am not making God responsible for my sins. Rick Warren responsible weakness sin We are commanded to recognize His glory, honor His glory, declare His glory, praise His glory, reflect His glory, and live for His glory. Rick Warren glory honor praise To me, thinking with the mind of Christ means to be thinking in light of eternity, which is what Colossians is all about; and that our lives are hid with Christ in God and that eternity, we're going to spend far more time on the other side of death than this side. Rick Warren light mean thinking From the very beginning, I started preaching when I was 16 years old. So I began studying Scripture very seriously. I had done over a hundred revivals in Baptist churches before I was 20. So I am studying the Scripture as a kid and I'm noticing that Christians often wanted to excuse God from things that God doesn't need excusing from. Rick Warren christian kids years Some people want tolerance to mean now that all ideas are equally valid. That's nonsense. There are some things that are right and there are some things that are wrong. Rick Warren mean people ideas I'm naturally inclined to have sex with every beautiful woman I see. But that doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. Rick Warren beautiful mean sex I am opposed to the redefinition of marriage. Rick Warren I don't think gay marriage is any threat to marriage. I think divorce is a bigger problem to marriage than anything else. Rick Warren divorce gay thinking
