Rick Warren's Blog, page 539

A Surprising Spiritual Truth from Coal

These days you don���t have to go to church to watch a worship service. You can just stay home and see it online. You can stay in your pajamas, and make a late breakfast.

Find Friends Who Build You Up

Let���s agree upfront that God wants you to have non-believers as friends. God wants you to love everyone, show kindness to everyone, and be able to help everyone. If you don���t have any non-Christian friends, you won���t be around anyone who needs to hear the Good News.

Study What���s Real to Detect What Isn���t True

The only way to really know what���s fake is to know what���s real. The U.S. Treasury Department trains its agents to spot counterfeit bills by giving them authentic ones to examine, touch, and recognize. There are many ways to counterfeit, but there���s only one version of the real bills.

Successful Learning Starts by Immersing in God���s Word

To really excel in whatever you���re learning (whether it���s a new skill, a new theory, or about a new person), you must first steep yourself in God���s Word.

Disciples of Jesus Never Stop Learning

All leaders are learners. There are no exceptions. If you���re teaching in a classroom, caring for kids as a stay-at-home parent, or serving in a customer service role, you���re leading someone. And to do that more effectively, you need to keep learning.

When Your Education Tests Your Faith, You Have Three Choices

Education is vitally important to all of us. It���s one of the few parts of our lives that should never end. We should always be learning. The Bible describes it as a key to a successful life (Proverbs 19:8).

Become A Lifelong Learner

Many people spend their younger years getting an education. Hopefully, that commitment to education continues. We should all become lifelong learners.

How to Make a Case to Someone in Authority

As a believer, you will face some situations when you need to convince someone in authority which direction they should go or when you need to make an appeal for someone to change their mind about a decision.

God Uses the Humble

God uses humble people. When Daniel told King Nebuchadnezzar he wouldn���t eat Babylonian food, the young Hebrew could have acted with defiance and vitriol.

Stand True to What You Believe

You see it over and over in Scripture. God uses people who show courage, people who stand up when everyone else sits down.

Just look at Daniel. Daniel is one of only two people in history to whom God revealed how the world ends (the other is the apostle John). God used Daniel like few men in human history