Rick Warren

Rick Warren, an Outreach magazine consulting editor, is the founding pastor of Saddleback Church and the best-selling author of The Purpose Driven Life. He built the Purpose Driven Network, a global alliance of pastors from 162 countries and hundreds of denominations who have been trained to be purpose driven churches. He also founded Pastors.com, an online interactive community that provides sermons, forums and other practical resources for pastors. Rick Warren and his wife Kay are passionate about global missions and what he calls “attacking the five global giants” of poverty, disease, spiritual emptiness, self-serving leadership and illiteracy. His solution, The PEACE Plan, is a massive effort to mobilize Christians around the world into an outreach effort to attack these problems by promoting reconciliation, equipping servant leaders, assisting the poor, caring for the sick and educating the next generation.

7 Time-Tested Principles for Beating Discouragement

Insights from the apostle Paul

4 Things to Do When You Feel Lonely in Ministry

Insights from the apostle Paul in 2 Timothy 4.

5 Ways to Gauge Your Spiritual Maturity

How do you know if you're growing in your faith?

To Catch a Fish, You Have to Think Like a Fish

In order to reach non-Christians, you have to understand them and speak their language.

How to Involve Your Small Groups in the Great Commission

Your church will only be as healthy as its small groups are.

5 Questions to Start a Meaningful Conversation With Anyone

These questions will help you get below the surface to the things that really matter.

3 Ways to Recover From the Emotional Exhaustion of Ministry

"God created you with emotions, and he wants you to be real, to let your emotions out by expressing them to him."

The Most Common Mistakes We Make Regarding the Future

There will always be uncertainty in ministry, but we can avoid making these mistakes.