Rick Warren

Former president George W. Bush is scheduled to make an appearance at Saddleback Church in Southern California on Monday for an interview with Pastor Rick Warren.

The event, which will focus on leadership and service, is sold out but is being made available to view live online (www.saddlebackcivilforum.com).

"The forum will include a personal conversation between Pastor Rick and President Bush," David Chrzan, Warren's chief of staff, told The Orange County Register. "The goal is to create a forum where the community around Saddleback Church can hear from speakers who are great leaders and those who have positively impacted humanity." more >>

A men’s ministry launched a YouTube channel Thursday with an initial 100 videos addressing secret questions that men ask.

Every Man Ministries – led and founded by Kenny Luck, the men’s pastor at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif. – plans to add at least five videos a week for the next two years addressing additional questions that men have but usually do not ask. The ministry aims to focus, identify, and answer core issues men face, often in secret and isolation, and help resolve them to help men be more mature and spiritually healthy.

“Men are icebergs. We only see the tip. The major part of their lives is under the water line,” states Kenny Luck, who has dedicated the past decade to revolutionizing men’s ministry in the church. “With these questions now answered, we equip men to resolve the core issues that hold them back whether they choose not to talk or don’t know how to talk about them publicly.” more >>

A former Muslim who is now a pastor is telling Christians to stop fearing Muslims and to discern what they really should be fighting against.

Thabiti Anyabwile, senior pastor at First Baptist Church of Grand Cayman on the Cayman Islands, says Christians need to think first rather than let their emotions dictate how they react to Muslims and Islam.

“We live in a world where failing to understand real and significant differences that matter to people not like us can result in things like hijacking, bombings, and bullets flying,” said Anyabwile during the recent “Think: The Life of the Mind & the Love of God” conference organized by Desiring God ministry. more >>

Many Christians are ineffective because they do not know how to fight the battle of the mind, said popular megachurch pastor Rick Warren at the 2010 Desiring God conference.

“[W]hatever gets your mind gets you,” stated Warren in a pre-recorded video played at the conference in Minneapolis, Minn., on Friday. “The battle of sin always starts with the mind.”

The Southern California pastor, known for his innovative thinking, lamented over how few pastors train their followers on how to fight the battle of the mind even though it is so critical to the fight against sin. more >>

Rick Warren will speak at the Desiring God national conference – connected to Pastor John Piper – Friday amid some criticism of his theology.

Some supporters of the Desiring God ministry had complained that Warren relies more on pragmatism than biblical doctrine – in other words, that he relies more on methods than on God to achieve results.

But Piper defended his decision to invite Warren to the annual conference. In a video, Piper listed Warren’s shared beliefs, including that the Bible is totally inerrant, God is sovereign over everything and that people who do not believe in Jesus Christ as their savior will go to hell. more >>

Author, apologist and former White House policy analyst Dinesh D’Souza has high hopes for The King’s College in New York City.

The Catholic-raised evangelical, who was appointed Monday to serve as the school’s president, wants to raise a generation of Christians who can defend their faith while simultaneously being embedded in the mainstream world.

Christian colleges today, he says, tend to “shelter students” from society’s “toxic influence.” more >>