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Rick Warren is an innovative pastor, renowned author, and global influencer.
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How To Keep Your Tank Filled Instead of Running on Empty - Part 3
The antidote to the two biggest causes of stress in your life is gentleness and humility. You learn them by reminding yourself every day that you're not God and you're not the savior. Join Pastor Rick to continue learning about the calm and rest only Jesus offers.
2026-10-14Link to episode
How To Keep Your Tank Filled Instead of Running on Empty - Part 2
One reason we often feel overloaded is because we're trying to control things too much, often without even realizing it. In this message, Pastor Rick teaches the importance of staying in step with Jesus, the One who loves you and has great things in store for you!
2026-10-13Link to episode
How To Keep Your Tank Filled Instead of Running on Empty - Part 1
What does Jesus say when we come to him with an emptiness in our lives? How does he respond when we tell him that we have nothing to give? Join Pastor Rick as he reminds you that God will never scold you or turn you away; he will always say, "Come to me."
2026-10-12Link to episode
How To Trust God When You Don't Like the Changes In Your Life - Part 3
The bigger the changes that happen in your life, the more time you need to spend with God, reading the Bible, talking to him in prayer, and listening to what he wants to say to you. Join Pastor Rick as he highlights the importance of spending daily time with God so you can experience his peace and rest.
2026-10-09Link to episode
How To Trust God When You Don't Like the Changes In Your Life - Part 2
There will always be people in your life who have bad intentions, or who will resent, criticize, and hurt you. There's no way around it. Thankfully, as Pastor Rick teaches in this message, you can trust that God sees, he cares, and he will deliver justice.
2026-10-08Link to episode
How To Trust God When You Don't Like the Changes In Your Life - Part 1
Anybody can be happy when everything's going their way. But only true joy can come from God when you're in the middle of suffering, grief, and heartbreak. In this message, Pastor Rick explores how God's peace can flood into the most chaotic of circumstances.
2026-10-07Link to episode
How To Be Happy No Matter What Happens - Part 2
The negative opinions of others can easily get us down. And if our happiness depends on the approval of other people, we'll never find lasting happiness. Join Pastor Rick as he helps you discover God's strategy for true happiness.
2026-10-06Link to episode
How To Be Happy No Matter What Happens - Part 1
Pain, pressure, people, and problems—the four most common sources of unhappiness. They're the killjoys of life. In this message, Pastor Rick examines why happiness is not based on circumstances—it's a choice.
2026-10-05Link to episode
Finding the Strength to Keep Going When I'm Emotionally Worn Out - Part 2
Do you feel under attack? Tell God. Do you feel like you have no energy? Tell God. Do you feel rejected or lonely? Tell God. In this message, Pastor Rick encourages you to dump everything you're feeling right now onto the Lord—he wants to hear from you!
2026-10-02Link to episode
Finding the Strength to Keep Going When I'm Emotionally Worn Out—Part 1
Spectators at a race often shout, "Keep going!" to motivate the athletes. That's also great advice for anyone who feels emotionally, mentally, or spiritually exhausted from running the marathon of life. Join Pastor Rick as he reminds us that God will give us the power we need to finish what he has called us to do.
2026-10-01Link to episode
Growing a Love That Lasts - Part 3
Only with Jesus in your life will you ever be able to love your spouse with God's everlasting love. Join Pastor Rick as he concludes this series about growing a love that lasts—by expressing faith, extending grace, expecting the best, and enduring the worst.
2026-09-30Link to episode
Growing a Love That Lasts - Part 2
The longer you're in a relationship with an imperfect person (and that's everyone), the more you tend to expect the worst because you know their faults and weaknesses better than anybody else. Listen as Pastor Rick shares how staying hopeful and optimistic in your marriage will grow a love that lasts.
2026-09-29Link to episode
Growing a Love That Lasts - Part 1
The longer you're married, the easier it is to become ungracious. No marriage can last without grace, forgiveness, acceptance, and a lot of patience. In this message, Pastor Rick shares that to make your marriage last, you must learn to extend grace.
2026-09-28Link to episode
How to Get a Marriage Makeover - Part 3
In order to get a marriage makeover, you must deal with unresolved hurt. Listen as Pastor Rick explains the two ways to help heal your marriage of unresolved hurt and the three little words every married person must learn to say.
2026-09-25Link to episode
How to Get a Marriage Makeover - Part 2
God specializes in marriage makeovers, in bringing dead, stagnant, and stale things to life again. In this message, Pastor Rick shares how accepting responsibility for your part in your relationship problems can help turn your marriage into something fresh, exciting, attractive, fulfilling, and wonderful.
2026-09-24Link to episode
How to Get a Marriage Makeover - Part 1
Before you can improve your marriage, you've got to understand what causes marriages to go from harmony to hostility to apathy. Listen as Pastor Rick explains how unrealistic expectations can sink a marriage and how you can learn to be realistic about your spouse's imperfections, as well as your own.
2026-09-23Link to episode
How to Keep Your Marriage Growing - Part 2
In every marriage, you must continually make adjustments for the relationship to grow. Listen as Pastor Rick shares how adjusting in life requires unselfishness and how learning to be unselfish may be the number one lesson God wants to teach you.
2026-09-22Link to episode
How to Keep Your Marriage Growing - Part 1
God wants to grow your marriage—and you. Join Pastor Rick as he explains the reasons you need to keep paying attention to your spouse, for their benefit and for yours.
2026-09-21Link to episode
Unlocking the Marriage Matrix - Part 2
Marriage is a three-legged stool. It takes three to make it stand—you, your spouse, and Christ. Join Pastor Rick as he shares the key to marital stability through reliance on Jesus.
2026-09-18Link to episode
Unlocking the Marriage Matrix - Part 1
One of the purposes of marriage is to learn to be considerate, because Jesus is considerate. In this broadcast, Pastor Rick teaches how to be considerate of your spouse by showing them courtesy and treating them with respect and care.
2026-09-17Link to episode
Finding the Love of Your Life - Part 3
A healthy marriage starts with two emotionally healthy people. Listen as Pastor Rick shares what the Bible says about emotional health and why it matters when choosing a spouse.
2026-09-16Link to episode
Finding the Love of Your Life - Part 2
God wants marriage to be a partnership that helps you fulfill your calling. In this message, Pastor Rick explains how spouses who complement each other's SHAPE, gifts, and calling have incredible marriages and can avoid much conflict and pain.
2026-09-15Link to episode
Finding the Love of Your Life - Part 1
If you plan to get married, you need to be sure your future spouse shares the most important part of your life: your relationship with God. Join Pastor Rick as he teaches about the importance of spiritual unity and how it can even allow you to enjoy unity in many other areas.
2026-09-14Link to episode
Real Christianity: The Model of the First Church - Pt 3
The world may offer you self-help books or encouraging thoughts. But God offers life-changing truth. Join Pastor Rick as he teaches the truth of the gospel and its power to transform.
2026-09-11Link to episode
Real Christianity: The Model of the First Church - Pt 2
God wants everyone in the church to be part of proclaiming his message. In this message, Pastor Rick will help you see how God can use you, no matter who you are.
2026-09-10Link to episode
Real Christianity: The Model of the First Church - Pt 1
There's one thing that makes the church different from every other group of people: The church has the Holy Spirit. Join Pastor Rick as he explains the difference God's Spirit makes in your life.
2026-09-09Link to episode
Where Best to Invest - Part 2
When you give your resources as an act of worship or to bring people to Jesus, you honor God. Join Pastor Rick as he continues to teach about the ways God wants you to invest in his purposes and why he wants you to store up treasure in heaven.
2026-09-08Link to episode
Where Best to Invest - Part 1
God wants you to invest in growing your character, in encouraging other believers, and in helping those in need. In this broadcast, Pastor Rick teaches how those investments will yield eternal dividends.
2026-09-07Link to episode
The Habits of Financial Health - Part 3
To be financially healthy, you have to plan carefully how you use your money. Listen as Pastor Rick teaches about the biblical principle of accounting.
2026-09-04Link to episode
The Habits of Financial Health - Part 2
You need to honor God first in your finances. In this broadcast, Pastor Rick teaches the principle of tithing.
2026-09-03Link to episode
The Habits of Financial Health - Part 1
God designed you to be productive. Join Pastor Rick as he teaches why God made you that way and what that means for your daily life.
2026-09-02Link to episode
The Laws of Sowing and Reaping - Part 3
You reap the same things that you sow. If you plant seeds of selfishness, you reap selfishness; if you sow kindness, you reap kindness. In this message, Pastor Rick talks about how this principle applies to every area of your life.
2026-09-01Link to episode
The Laws of Sowing and Reaping - Part 2
You always reap in a different season than you sow. In this broadcast, Pastor Rick teaches what you can do while you're waiting for God's blessing.
2026-08-31Link to episode
The Laws of Sowing and Reaping - Part 1
Everything in life starts as a seed. Join Pastor Rick as he teaches why God requires you to first plant a seed in faith before he begins to bless your life with fruitfulness.
2026-08-28Link to episode
The Law of Contentment - Part 3
Did you know that you can become possessed by your possessions? In this message, Pastor Rick will give you practical strategies for focusing on eternal priorities instead.
2026-08-27Link to episode
The Law of Contentment - Part 2
You can have very little materially and still be content, or you can have a lot and still wish for more. Join Pastor Rick as he teaches how contentment has nothing to do with your circumstances and everything to do with your attitude.
2026-08-26Link to episode
The Law of Contentment - Part 1
God has made you unique in every way, including in the resources he's given you. Join Pastor Rick as he teaches why contentment requires you to stop comparing yourself to others.
2026-08-25Link to episode
The Foundation of Financial Health - Part 2
Everything you have belongs to God: you are only a manager of what he gives you. In this broadcast, Pastor Rick teaches the spiritual discipline of money management.
2026-08-24Link to episode
The Foundation of Financial Health - Part 1
God often uses money to test your faith. Join Pastor Rick as he explains why God does this and what you need to do to pass the test.
2026-08-21Link to episode
Heaven: God's Eternal Goodness to You - Part 4
We may not know exactly what heaven will look like, but we do know that God will be there. That means we will get to experience God's glory and his goodness forever—and that will be enough. Don't miss Pastor Rick's continued teaching on how wonderful heaven will be for those who follow Jesus.
2026-08-20Link to episode
Heaven: God's Eternal Goodness to You - Part 3
Many people wonder what they're going to do in heaven. You're definitely not going to be bored! In this message, Pastor Rick explores some of the specific answers the Bible gives about what your work looks like in heaven.
2026-08-19Link to episode
Heaven: God's Eternal Goodness to You - Part 2
God created every person because he wants them to be a part of his family. He invites everyone to heaven, his home, but not everyone chooses to accept God's terms. Pastor Rick shares in this message how you can accept God's invitation to heaven.
2026-08-18Link to episode
Heaven: God's Eternal Goodness to You - Part 1
What is heaven? There are a lot of misconceptions about what heaven will be like. But the Bible says it's a physical and permanent place that will last forever. Join Pastor Rick as he teaches how, in God's goodness, God reserves heaven for his family.
2026-08-17Link to episode
Why You Don't Need to Fear the Future - Part 3
Are you worried about the future? You don't know what tomorrow will look like, but you do know that God has prepared an eternity for you in heaven. Join Pastor Rick as he teaches how to live in light of eternity and share that hope with others.
2026-08-14Link to episode
Why You Don't Need to Fear the Future - Part 2
God's goodness and mercy are always working around you and in you and watching out for you. Knowing this should give you great peace and confidence for the future. Pastor Rick teaches in this message about why you can rely on God's good, merciful nature.
2026-08-13Link to episode
Why You Don't Need to Fear the Future - Part 1
In his goodness, God is always looking out for you. There is no place you can go where you are not in his care! Learn from Pastor Rick how God created you to love you and is with you every moment of every day.
2026-08-12Link to episode
From Overwhelmed to Overflowing - Part 3
There is one habit that will help you move from an overwhelmed life to an overflowing life: staying connected to Jesus. But that can seem hard to do in today's fast-paced and busy world. Pastor Rick shares in this message how and why you need to stay connected to God.
2026-08-11Link to episode
From Overwhelmed to Overflowing - Part 2
Often the fear of missing out motivates you to do too much. Join Pastor Rick as he explores why you're not missing out on anything when you rest in the goodness and provision of God.
2026-08-10Link to episode
From Overwhelmed to Overflowing - Part 1
Do you have a shortage mindset or a surplus mindset? A surplus mindset recognizes that God supplies more than enough to meet everyone's needs at the same time. Don't miss Pastor Rick's teaching on how to develop this mindset so you can experience God's goodness every day.
2026-08-07Link to episode
Living an Anointed Life - Part 2
God's anointing helps you through your own problems, but God also anoints your life to bless others. Pastor Rick explores in this message what it means to have God's anointing as he continues to teach from Psalm 23.
2026-08-06Link to episode