Hello everyone and welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the Bible teaching ministry that's here to encourage and inspire you every day.

And today we're continuing our series called Awesome Relationships. In it, Rick Warren shares practical ways to help you take your relationships with family, friends,

coworkers, and even God, from ordinary to extraordinary.

And this is a series you don't want to miss.

Let's get right to Rick for part one of a message called Fighting for an Awesome Family.

I choose this word intentionally, fighting, because families are not awesome by accident. By accident, they're average.

And you have to fight for your family if you want it to be a great family.

Because there are all kinds of forces working against your family in our society.

Now I'm not going to spend a minute detailing those.

I don't want to make a laundry list or a litany of all of the things that are working against

the family today, but there are economic forces, there are spiritual forces, there are

moral forces, there are cultural and social forces that

want to destroy the idea of family and specifically your family.

What I'm much more interested in is looking at the positive side and that is how do you

fight for an awesome family.

You know, when the families of Jerusalem were under attack thousands of years ago, the leader

Nehemiah said this.

He said to the people, don't be afraid.

Remember the Lord who is awesome.

Everything is awesome, including God.

And we're looking at awesome relationships.

Remember the Lord who is awesome and fight for your

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