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Pastor Rick Warren taught this message in 1983 as part of the series, How to Be At Peace Under Pressure. It's a prime example of how the emphasis at Saddleback has always been connecting eternal truth to daily life. This download includes the transcript and the mp3.
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This free eBook is an excerpt (six chapters) from Granger Community Church’s Tim Stevens’ 2012 book, Vision: Lost and Found: The Story of a Church That Got Stuck but Didn’t Stay There (Exponential Series).
In this excerpt, Stevens focuses on the evolution in thinking that he and other Granger Community Church leaders went …
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There’s a growing tension to find answers to the question “How do I find meaning in the Sacred and connect it to my life?” Research highlights a widening gap between how we’ve lived out our faith and how we develop meaning through those practices. Unleashed! is a beginning conversation to a more thoughtful and fulfilling …
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We all wrestle with the same daunting questions about our lives: Why am I here? Do I have a unique, God-created role to play in His Kingdom during my lifetime? If so, how do I discover what it is? Calling’s Way charts out the process one goes through to fully discover, experience and optimize their God-given calling in their lifetime. …
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Families are complicated. Just think of your own extended family. It’s a mess, right? Churches are made up of multiple messy families. Worse yet, those families are expected to work together as a great big extended family. And the pastor is supposed to preside over it all. Oh yeah, and the pastor’s own nuclear family is a part of this …
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Move. A word that captures the discipleship passion all pastors share: to help move their people’s hearts and lives to a deeper love of God and others. Now MOVE For Church Planters provides a powerful, condensed summary of how any church—and, in particular, newly established churches—can be more effective at discipleship. This …
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Bottom Line: You won’t have a missional church unless the families in your church learn to go on mission together.
Most parents have huge hopes for their children. Peace, safety, ample provision, happiness and the American Dream. But God has a bigger dream for your family that should make you rethink everything. People are leaving …
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On Sunday, January 6th, Pastor Rick delivered a sermon to prepare the Saddleback church community for the upcoming campaign What On Earth Am I Here For?. If your church is starting the campaign on the National launch day of February 3rd, we thought you could use this sermon to prepare your members and start to talk about forming small …
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A supplemental eBook for Missional Moves (Exponential Series, Zondervan)
As church leaders, we know people won’t become disciples by sitting through services or just studying the Bible in classrooms. Jesus showed us that mission is the context for making disciples who can make disciples. Every church leader faces huge barriers like …
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Heaven is near. Triggered by the recent passing of his mother, pastor/author David Putman has been on an all-out search for glimpses of heaven and eternity. As he read books and studied Scripture, and reflected on life situations (such as the joyous homecoming of his son from military deployment), Putman says he has begun to understand …
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