This is a Salaback Church podcast.

We're so thrilled that you're with us today.

We are in a journey that we've been in together as a church now.

This is our six week.

It's called the Anchored Life Challenge, and there are many of you have said yes to read through the New Testament,

and we're making progress five out of eight weeks, and I just want to encourage you if you're

in that journey with us, stick with it. Last week I said this, you know, catch up, kind of jump to

where we are, and journey with us. So week we'll be in the book of Matthew,

reading through that book together over the five days this week,

and I'm excited about that.

Today's message is going to be all pretty much pulled from the message of Matthew

and his teaching found in the gospel of Matthew.

And I want to look at Matthew's teaching in his life

through the angle of purpose. And I want to focus in today on discovering God's purpose,

his design for our lives. You know, when you look back over the history of our church,

there was a book, if you don't know this, written by Pastor Rick Warren, called The Purpose-driven

life. And it came out of Saddleback and literally has blessed 10,000. book, if you don't know this, written by Pastor Rick Warren called The Purpose Driven Life,

and it came out of Saddleback and literally has blessed tens of millions of people all over the

world, but so many people, even with a wonderful book like Purpose Driven Life, so many people

live without purpose. So many people never come to a conclusion of why they exist here on planet Earth.

And deep within our souls, deep within us is tucked this deep desire to know why am I here?

Why am I breathing? Why am I on planet Earth?

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