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The Purpose Driven Life for Commuters: What on Earth Am I Here For?

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The #1 New York Times bestseller, with over twenty million copies sold, now available in an abridged audio CD. With the new abridged audio for commuters, people driving to work, riding the bus or subway, or flying cross-country will be able to experience the life-changing message of The Purpose Driven Life. It will help you understand why you are alive and God's amazing plan for you---both here and now, and for eternity. Rick Warren will guide you through a personal 40-day spiritual journey that will transform your answer to life's most important What on earth am I here for? Knowing God's purpose for creating you will reduce your stress, focus your energy, simplify your decisions, give meaning to your life, and, most important, prepare you for eternity. This recording (available in both CD and cassette formats) offers a blueprint for Christian living in the 21st century---distilled wisdom on what life is all about. 'One of the people who mattered most in 2004.'--- Time Magazine 'Warren has a knack for giving people a sense of purpose when life can seem materialistic and meaningless.'--- The Los Angeles Times 'Rick Warren has the answer to the meaning of life.'--- USA Today 'Read and studied by millions of people in and out of churches across the country.'--- The Washington Post

5 pages, Audio CD

First published January 1,2002
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Format
5 pages, Audio CD
Published
March 15, 2005 by Zondervan
ISBN
9780310258971
ASIN
0310258979
Language
English

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NVHp
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April 16,2025
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"Don't give up -- grow up."
“You were carefully and thoughtfully designed by God to add to life on earth, not just take from it.”
One of the books that keep you more kotivated to live happily and do not give up. Because if you are living like a real human then you are doing your responsibility in world. Do not forget earth is a temporary residance.
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Animexgirl22194
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April 16,2025
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The church my fiancée and I go to is doing a financial class based on Rick Warren's "A Purpose Driven Life". Contrasting to what may be popular belief, Rick Warren is not liberal, he is in between liberalism and conservatism. He is a theologian who works to help others, not to make his works seem like the Bible. That is absolute nonsense. Someone very close to me has also read this book and recommended it to me, and I have to say, I am not disappointed. His devotionals are also beneficial. He is no deceitful individual, and has trustworthy applications.

Now, the financial part of his lessons give the individual some wisdom on how one believes God would have them spend their money. It is quite enlightening and something that we all need to consider and act on. His lessons are important and I would highly recommend him to any and everyone interested in learning about how, for one, they believe what God wants them to do with their money, and advice and wisdom on what God wants us to do with our lives.
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Eliskasu
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April 16,2025
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I read this in 2007 because it happened to be on the shelf of a nonprofit where I was sitting overnight as a volunteer phone-answerer waiting for the phone to ring.

The author, Rick Warren, has used his power and influence to say things that are unhelpful to groups to which I belong, and I don't share his theology, and therefore, I was not disposed to like his book. I took notes when I read it in 2007, wrote up something, and posted a review here on Goodreads. It generated a comment thread in 2015 that was personal and wasn't really about Warren's book anyway.

The original review and comment thread are no longer here because:

In 2021, I n  rewrote my review and moved it to Mediumn upon learning that The Purpose-Driven Life has sold FIFTY. MILLION. COPIES. And the book does not even make sense to me! Warren earns money from his book, and I likewise have the prerogative to monetize my work, on a platform of my own choosing, even if it's a response to his book. When I took down my review, I noticed that I may have misinterpreted one passage in the book; now I believe it's wrong for a different reason than I originally gave, so in 2021 I adjusted my argument. Four years later, in 2025, nearly 3,000 people have viewed my review on Medium, 3% of whom came from this Goodreads post over the last four years. Because Medium has since changed how its paywall works, I've updated the Goodreads post to provide an unpaywalled link.

The "lesson learned" from the 2015 comment exchange I turned into a separate Medium rant: n  Why Someone Complained About The Review You Posted to Goodreadsn. My review was too short? My review was too long? Whatever.

There's yet another lesson I'm always heartened to relearn (maybe this, too, will become another essay): that it's OK to change and delete stuff online. The beauty of the internet, as a Wise Old Person once told me back when AOL was still sending out CDs and we capitalized Internet, is that the information can change. If we have "lessons learned," we can share the better version of our knowledge and not leave our internet corner looking like a screenshot from 2007 or 2015. That's my 2 cents on what it could mean to live a purpose-driven life.
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holyolyoly
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April 16,2025
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Unfortunately for anyone who actually has need of reading a book like The Purpose Driven Life, the book is not for them. The ideas portrayed are too simplistic to be educational or helpful. It certainly won't tell you what your purpose in life is.

As with most people who have read this book, I was encouraged by someone in my church to give it a go. My depression was hitting me hard, and this was the only thing my fellow Christian thought would help. I read it and shared opinions on it weekly over the phone with my church buddy. I agreed with most of the concepts and thought it was mildly uplifting, but it was generally not useful in any way. As my copy is too light and slick to be a doorstop, I can really see only limited potential use for the book.

Sometimes Christians want to prove to other Christians how entirely profound their faith is and how dedicated they are to God. One of the more substantial and immediately self-gratifying ways to accomplish the goal of showing off is to read this book and throw it at someone else. The others that get pressured into the pissing contest are only trying to associate, socialize, and fit in. It's a safe enough book for most modern Christian churches to force-feed it to their small group studies.

There's nothing really in this book to set a person on edge, nothing to hate about this. But no point to it either. One word of advice: if you read this, don't buy all the gadgets and supplemental readings advertised in it. God won't think you're a cheap sinner.
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Tyranidor
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April 16,2025
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Seeing Cassie's listing of this reminded me to add it to my books even though I never finished it. I did read over 3/4th of it.

When I finished Retreat in Daily Life the St. Ignatian Spiritual Exercises I was looking for something to fill the gap and a few of the ladies who had been in my group were going to read this so I thought I'd join them in it. None of us ever finished it; it was such a weak follow-up. Maybe I would have liked it better or gotten more out of it at another time or under different circumstances, I don't know.
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LethargicCat
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April 16,2025
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O carte buna pentru oricine, mai ales pentru un crestin proaspat convertit sau pentru un crestin dezorientat, care cauta sa-si reaseze in ordine viata, identitatea si scopurile.
Cartea se doreste a fi abordata sub forma unei calatorii transformatoare, de 40 de zile, in 40 de capitole.
Daca m-a transformat, nu stiu...dar sigur mi-a prins tare bine in perioada asta.
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darhkm8
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April 16,2025
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This book is a good road map to success in your spiritual life. The author teaches us of God's love and His purpoese for our lives and how to walk in faith twards that purpose. I recommend this book to all who are struggling with their beliefs or attitudes twards their Lord and tward their purpose.Enjoy and Be Blessed.Diamond
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