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

Well, today we continue with our series called The Keys to a Blessed Life.

In these lessons, Rick shares the practical steps found in Jesus' sermon on the Mount

that will help you live the hopeful and purpose-filled life God planned for you.

In just a few moments, we're going to tell you how you can go deeper in Pastor Rick's teaching

by getting his video-based Bible study for this series. You can find out more by going to

pastorrick.com or by texting the word daily to 800-600-5,000-4. That's the word daily to 800-600-5,000-4.

Right now, here's Pastor Rick Warren with part two of a message called How to Reconcile a Relationship.

Now, what causes us to postpone and procrastinate over issues that we know when we're out of whack

with somebody at work or at home or in our family, whatever? Well, the answer is one word. It is fear.

Fear. We're always afraid of conflict. I've seen very masculine,

manly Marines who would die in a battlefield shrink in terror when their wife says four words.

We need to talk. Those four words put the fear of God in every human male. We need to talk,

because people don't like conflict. Now, this fear of conflict is as old as the first couple,

Adam and Eve. Adam and Eve disobeyed God. They got out of fellowship with God. They were out of

whack with him. And here's what the Bible says in Genesis 3. Adam said to God, I heard you in the

garden and I was afraid because I was naked and so I hid. Now notice, he says, I'm afraid because

I was naked. What's he talking about? I feel vulnerable. I feel exposed. I'm not covered up. So I was

afraid and I hid. And men have been hiding from women and women have been hiding from men ever

since. In relationships, we hide and we hurl and we're afraid. What is it that we're afraid of?

We're afraid of vulnerability. We're afraid of being exposed. And that does three things. It makes

you distant. It makes you demanding and it makes you defensive. First, when you're afraid in a

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