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by
Rick Warren
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February 18 - March 10, 2019
Great souls are grown through struggles and storms and seasons of suffering.
You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.
You can have a lot to live on and still have nothing to live for.
Aim instead for “the better life”—serving God in a way that expresses your heart.
For instance, your brain can store 100 trillion facts. Your mind can handle 15,000 decisions a second, as is the case when your digestive system is working. Your nose can smell up to 10,000 different odors. Your touch can detect an item 1/25,000th of an inch thick, and your tongue can taste one part of quinine in 2 million parts of water.
We don’t realize how truly unique each of us is. DNA molecules can unite in an infinite number of ways. The number is 10 to the 2,400,000,000th power. That number is the likelihood that you’d ever find somebody just like you. If you were to write out that number with each zero being one inch wide, you’d need a strip of paper 37,000 miles long!
To put this in perspective, some scientists have guessed that all the particles in the universe are probably less than 10 with 76 zeros behind it,
“Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.”
“If my life is fruitless, it doesn’t matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn’t matter who criticizes me.”
God determines your greatness by how many people you serve, not how many people serve you.
Nothing was beneath him, because he came to serve. It wasn’t in spite of his greatness that he did these things, but because of it,
Great opportunities often disguise themselves in small tasks.
Servants focus on others, not themselves. This is true humility: not thinking less of ourselves but thinking of ourselves less.
This is what it means to “lose your life”—forgetting yourself in service to others.
unfair advantage
When Jesus is your Master, money serves you, but if money is your master, you
become its slave.
Wealth is certainly not a sin, but failing to use it f...
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Servants of God are always more concerned about min...
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I encourage
you to talk with your pastor and begin a Kingdom Builders’ group in your church. For help see appendix 2.
The closer you get to Jesus, the less you need to promote yourself.
“You will be my witnesses,”4 not “You will be my attorney.”
because unbelievers see pastors as professional salesmen, but see you as a “satisfied customer,” so they give you more credibility.
What my life was like before I met Jesus How I realized I needed Jesus How I committed my life to Jesus The difference Jesus has made in my life
God gives us different passions so that everything he wants done in the world will get done.
A great commitment to the Great Commandment and the Great Commission will make you a great Christian.
