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Awesome Relationships

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by Rick Warren
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Nobody wants toxic relationships in their lives because they typically lead to emotional stress and problems.

Luckily, God doesn't want that for you and your congregation either.

He wants the relationships your people form to be the best, so that they lift up the people in their lives just as much as others lift them up!

This four-part series from Pastor Rick Warren will show your members how to build awesome relationships with their friends, family, romantic partners, and most important of all, with God.

Relationships are meant to support us in our best and worst times, we just have to make the right choices that will bring people closer to us instead of pushing them away. After hearing these messages, your members will become relationship experts!

Sermons included:

  1. Fighting for an Awesome Marriage tells us why marriage matters, why God created it, and how to fight for our marriage in good times and bad.
  2. Fighting for an Awesome Family shows us how we can grow good family traits despite the social and economic factors that are constantly taking a toll on families.
  3. Fighting for Awesome Friendships teaches us that although friendships are hard to cultivate and keep up with, having true friends is absolutely necessary for our overall happiness.
  4. Becoming Best Friends With God talks about our most important relationship of allÑwith GodÑand gives us five ways we can build a friendship with God.

This resource includes:

  • MP3 audio of each message for easy listening on an iPhone, Android, or any other MP3 player.
  • Transcripts to read while listening to the audio and to highlight passages that stood out.
  • Outlines (blank and with fill-ins) to understand the structure of the message and give to your members to take notes on.
  • Message slides (.jpeg and PowerPoint) that can be used as a visual display as you preach.
  • Talk It Over Discussion Questions to give to your small groups to discuss what they learned from your message.

NOTE: The DVD set only includes videos from the messages, not the additional resources listed above.

Get the individual sermon series parts

Fighting for an Awesome Marriage Download

By Rick Warren

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Delivered on 10/26/2014

Part 1 of the series Awesome Relationships

Pastor Rick teaches why marriage matters, and gives us six reasons God created it. Rick and his wife Kay give an honest and humorous testimony of how their marriage has lasted thirty-nine years in spite of their differences, disappointments, and distractions, discussing how to fight for marriage in the seasons of life. This message will encourage you whether you are single, married, separated, or divorced.

Fighting for an Awesome Family Download

By Rick Warren

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Delivered on 11/02/2014

Part 2 of the series Awesome Relationships

Families are not awesome by accident. You have to fight for your family if you want it to be great. Pastor Rick shares his experience as a son and a father and from his forty years of counseling families as a pastor, teaching the four common traits he sees in families that are awesome. He offers practical ways to teach and model kindness and service, and to cultivate strong families.

Fighting for Awesome Friendships Download

By Rick Warren

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Delivered on 11/09/2014

Part 3 of the series Awesome Relationships

You don't need a lot of friends in life; you just need a few awesome ones! But if you are like most people, you've never been taught the secrets of making and keeping deep friendships for life. Friendships are designed by God to help you to accomplish what you could never do on your own. To model great friendships, Pastor Rick invites his small group of thirteen years to join him for a frank and funny discussion. These men and women have walked with Pastor Rick and Kay through some of their best and worst moments. This will be an inside look at how they have built awesome friendships, and how you can too. Pastor Rick teaches the six golden rules of friendship in this message.

Becoming Best Friends with God Download

By Rick Warren

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Delivered on 11/29/2014

Part 4 of the series Awesome Relationships

Pastor Rick concludes the series on Awesome Relationships teaching about the most important relationship of all, our relationship with God. He asks the question, what kind of relationship does God really want with us, and he gives us five ways to get started in building a friendship with God. This message includes a communion service.