I'm Warren Smith, and today you'll be listening in on part two of my two-part conversation

with pastor, writer, and ministry leader, Rick Warren.

Here's the original painting of Spurgeon, who was the greatest preacher of the 19th century.

He led my great-great-grandfather to Christ, sent him to America as a church planner.

So I have a lot of handwritten stuff.

This is Spurgeon's famous handwritten letter on depression.

If you listen to part one of my conversation with Rick Warren, you probably picked up that

he doesn't do anything by half measure.

He's kind of a go big or go home kind of guy.

And that goes for his library.

It's probably no surprise that Rick Warren has a love for books.

His father was a pastor and seminary teacher, and his mother was a librarian and bookstore

manager.

Rick says that he started collecting books at age 14.

And for most of his life, he says he read a book a day.

But this library is truly next level.

It's a huge room crowded with bookcases, but also with artifacts that represent important

historic figures in the Christian church.

It's as much a museum as it is a library.

Now I think we do a pretty good job of describing the library as we walk through it, but if

you would like to see it, including the secret door passage that gets us out of Rick's

office into this library, I shot a short video that you can find at my Twitter feed.

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