Rick Warren's Pastoral Helps

by Rick Warren

Publisher:

Wordsearch

, 2005

Overview

One of Pastor Rick's most treasured tools is the 4 Pastoral Helps. This collection of works to help energize your sermons.

The 4 Pastoral Helps are:

• Over 2,300 Action Verbs
• Over 240 Category Words for Outlining Sermons
• Bibliography of 376 Books on Preaching
• 4 Indexes to The Purpose Driven Church book

Categories for Outlining Sermons: Finding creative categories to outline your sermon can be difficult. In this list there are over 240 categories to help you outline your sermon. Some examples of how to use the categories are the following:

• The 5 Choices of Every Person
• The 7 Essentials to becoming a person of faith
• The 10 Clues your marriage might be in trouble
• 5 Evils every person should avoid
• 5 ways to Reduce conflict in relationships

Action Verb List: This list contains of over 2,300 action verbs that can be used to enhance your points within a sermon. This follows the James 1:22 principle of being a doer of the word. The "do's" and "don'ts" apply to the usage of the word to make the point. For example: The positive use of the verb makes your point read like this-"Attain peace through Christ." The negative use of the verb makes the point read like this-"Don't abuse God's grace for your life." Therefore, you can use the words that will best help you communicate God's Word for changing lives.

The Purpose Driven Church Book-People Index: This is a people index to Rick's best selling book The Purpose Driven Church. In this index you will find every person mentioned in his book and the page number they are found on.

The Purpose Driven Church Book-Scriptural Index: This index lists every scripture used within the Purpose Driven Church and the page you can find it on.

The Purpose Driven Church Book-Subject Index: The subject index lists the major themes discussed in the book. This exhaustive reference tool will help you locate the topics faster and easier throughout the Purpose Driven Church.

About the Author

Dr. Rick Warren is the author of the New York Times #1 bestseller The Purpose Driven Life, which sold a record-breaking seventeen million copies in its first 19 months, making it the bestselling hardback nonfiction book in history. It has been the #1 bestseller on every major bestseller list and was named 2003 Book of the Year by the both CBA and ECPA.

40 Days of Purpose and the Purpose Driven movement have become a world-wide phenomena featured in over 300 newspapers, magazines, radio shows, and TV shows including USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Fox News, ABC, NBC, Forbes, and TIME Magazine. Millions of people have participated in 40 Days of Purpose reading groups including corporations, schools, dozens of professional sports teams, the United States Senate, prisons, and over 20,000 churches, representing 80 different denominations. The program, based on the book, is a six-week spiritual journey that focuses on the question: What on earth am I here for? The book teaches that life on earth is preparation for eternity, and that meaning in life comes from doing the five things God created us to do.

Rick Warren is also the founding pastor of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California, one of America's largest and best-known churches. He and his wife, Kay, began the church with one family in 1980. Today the church averages over 20,000 in attendance each weekend on its 120 acre campus and lists over 80,000 names on the church roll. The church has also started 34 daughter churches, inspired thousands of other new churches to be started, and sent nearly 5,000 of its members on mission projects around the world.

TIME, Christianity Today, and several other publications have named Rick Warren "the most influential pastor in America" Peter Drucker, dean of American management, calls Rick Warren "the inventor of perpetual revival" and Saddleback's organizational model "the most significant sociological phenomena of the second half of this century."

Rick pioneered the Purpose-Driven Church paradigm of growth, which has been adopted by tens of thousands of churches. More than 320,000 pastors from over 120 countries have been trained in the Purpose-Driven Church strategy. Warren's previous book, The Purpose-Driven Church, has sold over one million copies sold in 21 languages. It won the prestigious Gold Medallion award in 1996 and was selected as one of the "100 Christian Books that changed the 20th Century." Forbes magazine publisher Rich Karlgaard called it "the best book ever on entrepreneurship, business, and investment."

Rick also founded Pastors.com, a global Internet community which serves and mentors those in ministry. Currently, 125,000 pastors subscribe to Rick Warren's Ministry Toolbox, a weekly email newsletter, and the Pastors.com website attracts between 60,000 to 100,000 pastors daily with news, chat forums, sermons, and other resources for those in ministry. His other books include The Power to Change Your Life, Answers to Life's Difficult Questions, Planned for God's Pleasure, and Personal Bible Study Methods. Warren was born in San Jose, California. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from California Baptist College, a Master of Divinity from Southwestern Theological Seminary, and a Doctor of Ministry degree from Fuller Theological Seminary.

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Product Details

• Title: Rick Warren's Pastoral Helps
• Author: Rick Warren
• Publisher: Wordsearch
• Print Publication Date: 2005
• Logos Release Date: 2020
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subject: Preaching
• Resource ID: LLS:WS_3136247F961A4FEA93F94343EB9943AB
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2021-11-09T21:48:10Z

About Rick Warren

Rick Warren (1954– ) founded one of the largest and well-known churches in the world: Saddleback Church. Started in Orange County, California, in 1980, Saddleback now has over 20,000 in attendance each week. He also founded the Purpose Driven movement, a network of tens of thousands of churches from all denominations across the world. Using the teachings of the Purpose Driven movement, Warren wrote the book, The Purpose Driven Church, and devotional, The Purpose Driven Life, which has sold over 25 million copies.

Warren earned degrees from California Baptist University, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, and Fuller Theological Seminary. Warren has lectured at universities and seminaries all over the world including Oxford, Cambridge, and the University of Judaism. He has trained over 350,000 pastors worldwide.

Warren has written several other books, including Rick Warren’s Bible Study Methods, which explains 12 different methods of studying God’s Word.