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.

So let's get to it.

Here is the final part of a message called

being a disciple in the digital age. You know, this thing about addiction, it was really funny.

This week, Josh, my son sent me an article from Wired Magazine. He knew us teaching on this.

And it was an article defending the internet and online and all these different things,

gaming and social media stuff, say, none of these things are really addicting.

I'm going, what universe are you on?

The guy said, none of these things are really addicting.

Do you know anything about dopamine? None of these things are really addicting. Do you know anything about dopamine?

None of these things are really addicting. And then I looked at the bottom and who wrote it. And I said, I know that name. Where do I know that name from? I think he wrote a book. I think I read it about five years ago. And I went back and I went in my library and I found a book by the guy said none of these things are addicting. And he wrote this book five years ago.

Hooked. How to Build Habit Forming Products. I went back and I went in my library and I found a book by the guy who said none of these things are addicting and he wrote this book five years ago.

Hooked!

How to build habit-forming products.

I'm going to go, busted.

He had written a book on how do you build.

Believe me, night and day advertisers are trying to figure out how to get you hooked.

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