Hello everybody, welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. This is the Bible teaching ministry of Rick Warren.

Hey, we're so glad you're here with us today. We are continuing in a series called Talking About Stuff That Matters.

Now, in this series, Rick looks into the scriptures, and he's unpacking what it means to live in community, have real conversation about what matters most, and face discouragement with courage and faith.

It's honest, hopeful, so stay tuned. You won't want to miss a second.

All right, let's jump in. This is part one of a message called

Being a Disciple in the Digital Age.

If you have a smartphone, you hold in your hand

more power than NASA had when they put a man on the moon.

There's more power in one little cell phone than we had in existence when America

put a man on the moon. You have more technology in your hand. Let me show you what the first hard

drive looked like. Look up here on the screen. That was it. That was five megabytes of storage.

Not very portable, about the size of two men, several thousand pounds. Now that's five

megabytes. In your phone right now, you have a minimum, even if you got a cheapy phone. You have a minimum of a thousand

times that in your phone. And you can buy 10,000 times that and put it on your phone. You have

no idea how much power you have in your pocket. That's why in 2007, Time magazine named the iPhone.

That's the year it came out, this.

The invention of the year.

Now, since that's happened, it's been renamed

because the cell phone, the smartphone,

is by far the most behavior-changing invention in the history of mankind.

Nothing else comes close. Not the wheel, not fire, not the steam engine, not the automobile.

Nothing comes close to the power of this little invention.

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