Well, hello and welcome to Daily Hope with Pastor Rick Warren. Today Rick's going to

kick off a new series called Building My Life on Values That Last. In these

inspiring lessons, Rick shows us practical ways to apply the biblical

principles of trust, self-control, balance, respect, forgiveness, moral purity, fairness, honesty, and love.

Now here's Pastor Rick with part one of a message called

Choosing My Standard.

What are your values?

Your values are your core beliefs that shape everything you do in life.

There are a lot of people who say, you know it really doesn't matter what you believe.

But that's just not true, folks. It is not true. It does matter

what you believe. Your beliefs, let's get this, your beliefs determine your

behavior and your behavior determines what you become.

So the kind of person you are, if you look at its foundation, is based on the things you've chosen to value.

In other words, your convictions in life determine your conduct and your

conduct determines your character. So whatever you want to be in life, you

better figure out quick what your values are because

they determine your stress level, your success, your salvation, and many, many other things. Now if you want to build a lasting life of success and

significance you must build it on lasting values and that's what we're going to look at in this series. Now one thing

that basically everybody in our society agrees with today, whether you're

liberal or whether you're conservative, Democrat, Republican, independent,

whether you are religious or irreligious, a Christian or an un-Christian or an atheist or whatever,

vast the majority of people say that our society today is in a stage of spiritual or

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