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

Today we continue in our series called Radicalis, developing spiritual roots.

In these lessons we'll learn how to live a life that is deeply rooted in Christ and

His Word, so that we can become all God has created us to be.

Now in just a few minutes, we're going to tell you how to get a very special Scripture

card set with verses selected by Pastor Rick to help you renew and recharge your faith.

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while you listen to today's teaching.

Now here's Pastor Rick Warren with part one of a message called Radical Generosity.

Now for the last six weeks we've been looking at this series I'm calling Radicalis, which

is the Latin word from the roots.

And we're talking about deepening spiritual roots, going deeper, not being shallow people,

not being selfish people, being deeply rooted in the love of God.

And over the last six weeks we've looked at radical gratitude, we've looked at radical

faith, we've looked at radical joy, we've looked at radical hope.

This week I want us to look at the issue of radical generosity.

Now the Bible says this, if you take out your message notes, one of my favorite verses

in the Bible is Proverbs 11, 24, message paraphrase says, the world of the generous gets larger

and larger, the world of the stingy gets smaller and smaller.

Now what's he saying there?

That when I'm generous, it enlarges my heart, it enlarges my perspective, it enlarges my

impact, when I'm generous it enlarges my influence.

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