This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the audio broadcast ministry of Pastor Rick Warren.

Today we continue with a series called 40 Days in the Word.

In these messages, Pastor Rick shares practical Bible study tools

that will reignite your passion for God's Word and revolutionize your life

as you grow closer to Jesus.

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Here's Pastor Rick Warren with part one of a message called,

How the Bible Changes Us.

The Bible is like unlike any other book. It's why we call it the Holy Bible.

There are a lot of good books in the world. In fact, there are a lot of great books in the world.

And there are some really super great books. I've been a reader all my life.

I have a library over 20,000 volumes. Some of them is old as four, five hundred years old

that I've been collecting since I was 17 and use bookstores in every city I went into in the world.

And there are a lot of really good books. But this book is unlike any other book.

It has a power, a supernatural power in it that no other book has to change lives.

And the reason it has the power to change lives is because it is the Word of God.

Last week we looked at the seven reasons. We can know for certain that this is God's Word.

It's not just a human book. It's not just an ordinary book. It's not just a bunch of fairy tales

or for that matter, even just a history of Israel. That it is Theo Nustos,

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