Hey everyone, today on Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, we're going to continue in our series that I know is blessing you called You Make Me Crazy.

Now in this series, Rick gives us biblical wisdom to help us in every aspect of our relationships, even dealing with the crazy makers in our lives.

All right, let's join Pastor Rick Warren for part one of a message called Breaking Free

from Abuse.

Everybody has a sinful nature.

I do, you do, everybody does.

We're all born with an innate ability to do the wrong thing.

And because of that, because sin entered the world,

everything in the world is broken.

The weather's broken.

The economy is broken.

Every family is broken.

Every body is broken.

Every relationship is broken.

And that's why we're doing this series

on how do you deal with the

brokenness in our relationships. On you make me crazy. How do you make a relationship

healthier and stronger? This weekend I want to deal with a very, very sensitive issue.

It's a silent subject nobody wants to talk about, but it's an issue we need to talk

about when we deal with broken relationships. And that's the issue of abuse. Physical abuse,

verbal abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse. Now the Bible tells us in 2 Timothy chapter 3 verse 2 that in the last days that abuse is

going to rise, that it is going to increase in its prevalence. And of course we're seeing that

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