Rick Warren

• 03/14/2007

  How Vulnerability Can Make Your Ministry More Effective

  There are people in your church who don’t want you to be vulnerable. They want to put a halo on you and pretend you’re never tempted. They want to believe you’re just a little bit above the crass realities of life. But that belief denies a truth of life. It’ll also keep us from having full impact in other people’s lives.
• 03/08/2007

  Six Physical Factors That Affect Your Worship Service

  Facilities and physical environment have a lot to do with what happens in a weekend worship service.
• 03/02/2007

  Eternity Talk – Not Just for Funerals Anymore

  The only time most people think about eternity is at funerals, and then it’s often shallow, sentimental thinking, based on ignorance.
• 02/22/2007

  Dry Relationship with God Will Kill Your Ministry Joy

  Lasting joy in ministry comes from knowing Christ better and better. You may think that’s obvious for those of us in ministry. Well, I wish it were more obvious. It’s way too easy to just go through the motions instead of basing your ministry on a growing relationship with Christ. In fact, your ministry will have no impact if you’re not developing a more intimate relationship with Christ.
• 02/16/2007

  Get Your Priorities Straight, Recapture Your Ministry Joy

  A lot of people – including those of us in ministry – are looking for joy in all the wrong places. As pastors, we want to find it in a bigger church, a more effective ministry, and often the accolades of our peers and church members. Yet we do this in vain. We won’t find joy there.
• 02/08/2007

  Don’t Let Legalism Kill Your Joy in Ministry

  Legalism is a ministry killjoy. It destroys the natural joy that comes from serving others in ministry like nothing else I’ve seen. I’ve seen more ministries ruined by legalism than anything else.
• 01/31/2007

  How to Dream Bigger

  Everybody needs a dream. Whenever you first got involved in ministry, you probably started with a big dream. Unfortunately, as you get into that ministry, your dreams shrink to the size of the situation. Probably the very first time you got involved in ministry you could foresee great things. Yet as we go on, circumstances tend to shrink our dreams
• 01/26/2007

  Some Facts about Fruit

  One of my fondest memories of growing up is my father’s garden. It seemed my dad grew everything in his garden. In fact, he always grew enough to feed the entire neighborhood.
• 01/17/2007

  The Six Convictions Saddleback is Built On

  You tend to base your decisions on one of four motivations in life: circumstances, conveniences, criticisms, or convictions. Yet only decisions that are based on your convictions will last and leave a lasting legacy.
• 01/11/2007

  Relationships are Essential for Spiritual Growth

  Your people will not grow on their own.
• 01/09/2007

  To Fulfill Your Life Mission, Get in Shape in 2007

  Did you know your body is a tool? God can use it to fulfill his purposes in the world. But you must cooperate first.
• 12/20/2006

  How to be Used by God this Christmas

  God is not arbitrary about who he chooses to use.
• 12/18/2006

  How to Worship When You are Wounded

  Everybody goes through wounding experiences in life – even those of us in ministry. Whether these wounds are physical, spiritual, emotional, or relational, they’re either in your life now or they’re coming. So what do we do when we’re wounded? Worship. It’s the only antidote to our pain.
• 12/07/2006

  Schedule a Buffer for Yourself
• 12/01/2006

  Resist Discouragement