Rick Warren's Blog, page 545

Your Kids Need Your Compassion

If you want to know how to be a good parent and build a strong family, you don���t have to look online or go to a bookstore. Look no further than the greatest book ever written on parenting: God���s Word, the Bible.

Three Reasons We Need to Walk with Others

When you���re going through a season of loss, you need not only the support of other people, you also need the perspective of other people. When you experience loss, you don���t see the whole picture. Your pain narrows your focus, and you need people to help you see the big picture. We need each other desperately in a season of loss.

Let the Church Help You Heal After a Loss

When you���re going through a season of loss, you need not only the support of other people, you also need the perspective of other people. When you experience loss, you don���t see the whole picture. Your pain narrows your focus, and you need people to help you see the big picture. We need each other desperately in a season of loss.

In a Season of Loss, Release Your Grief

The Bible says when you go through a season of loss, the first thing you need to do is release your grief.

Loneliness Is Longing for Relationship with God

What you often call loneliness is really homesickness for God. You���ve just never recognized it. You were made to have a personal, intimate relationship with Jesus Christ, a relationship that God is dying to have with you. In fact, his Son did die so you could have it. Nothing is ever going to compensate for that ��� no person, no experience, no drug, no success, no thing, no possession. Nothing is going to fill that aching hole in your heart that God created for himself. He wants you to know him.

When You���re Lonely, God Is with You

When you���re lonely, where is God? He���s where he has always been: right beside you. He is with you even if you don���t feel it. The Bible says over and over that if you have a relationship with Christ, then God is with you all the time. He says, ���I am with you always, to the very end of the age��� (Matthew 28:20b NIV). He���s always with you. You���re never really fully alone.

Don���t Let Your Loneliness Lead to Bitterness

Paul says in 2 Timothy 4:16, ���The first time I was brought before the judge, no one came with me. Everyone abandoned me. May it not be counted against them��� (NLT).

Don���t Waste Your Season of Loneliness

What should you do when you go through a season of loneliness? The answer is illustrated in the life of Paul in 2 Timothy 4, when he was in prison and awaiting his execution.

Sow in This Season to Reap God���s Blessing

Every farmer knows that what you sow in one season, you will reap in another season. You plant in the spring, and you harvest in the fall.

Every Season of Life Has a Purpose

Life is full of contrasts. We go through mountains, and we go through valleys. We go through successes, and we go through failures. We have wins, and we have losses.

In weather, there are four seasons. But in your life, there are dozens of different seasons. And every season of life includes both good and bad times.