Hi everyone. Welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the Bible teaching ministry of Rick Warren.

Well, we hope you've had a meaningful Thanksgiving surrounded by the people that you love.

And today, we are picking up right where we left off in our powerful series, Radicalis, developing spiritual roots.

So let's join Rick right now for the first part of a message called Radical Faith. Last week, as we began a new series, I said, what the world needs is more

radical Christians. Not fanatical. We got plenty of fanatics. We don't need any more fanatics.

But we need radical believers.

Not casual, but radical in the true sense of the meaning of the word radical.

And I explained to you last week that that word radical is misused by most people today.

Most people think it means extreme, over the top, on the edge, excessive, fringe, fanatical.

But the word radical actually means from the roots.

That's what it means, from the roots.

It's from the Latin word radicalis, and that's what we're calling

this series, Radicalis, a 14th century English word that literally means from the roots. It's from

the word radix that we get the word radish. And what is a radish? It is a big root. And when we talk

about eradicating something, that means to eliminate it, you pull it up by its roots,

you eradicate it.

When we talk about radical surgery, you cut it out at the root, you cut out the disease,

you don't leave, you don't put a bandied over it, you cut it out at the source, so there's no root left.

And I explained to you last week that in every field, the word radical means rooted or from the roots.

In botany, the word radical means the leaves closest to the root are the radical leaves.

In math, the radical in math is always the root of the equation.

And the radical sign in math is the square root sign

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