Posts Tagged as ‘Rick Warren’

June 12, 2008

Why did I get into this mess?

The following lesson is taken from God’s Answer to Life’s Difficult Questions by Rick Warren.
Main bible passage: Judges 13 – 16. Samson has everything but blew it.
3 things that get Samson into trouble:

He refuse to learn from his mistake. Samson has two weaknesses are: a) Samson has bad temper. his primary motive is revenge. (Judges 14: [...]

June 6, 2008

Why is this happening to me

Below article is summarized from a chapter with the same title in “God’s Answer to Life’s Difficult Questions” by Rick Warren.
We often fret over problems caused by other people. Recall the story of Joseph and his brothers (Main verse: Genesis 37 – 50). Joseph was treated badly by his own brothers. But what have we [...]

June 6, 2008

How to be confident in crisis

Below article is summarized from a chapter with the same title in “God’s Answer to Life’s Difficult Questions” by Rick Warren.
There are three storms in our lives:

Storm that we bring on ourselves (Recall the story of Samson and Dellilah)
Storm that God causes (Recall Jesus stilling the storm on lake galilee)
Storm that other people causes (Recall Paul & [...]

May 31, 2008

How to handle discouragement

This lesson taken from God’s Answer to Life’s Difficult Question by Rick Warren.
Discouragement is the world deadliest disease, because of three factors. First, it is universal. Everyone experience discouragement at one stage of their lives. Second, it is recurring. Third, it is highly contagious. Someone with negative feelings easily affect others.
Main bible passage: Nehemiah 4
People get [...]

May 28, 2008

How to live above average

I happened to chance upon Christian book written by Rick Warren, God’s Answer to Life’s Difficult Question.  One of the Chapters is “How to live above average.” Lessons to be learnt as follows:
Main Bible Passage: I Chronicles 4: 9 – 10: 9 Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother had named him Jabez,  saying, [...]