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

Today we continue in our series called Building a Better Life.

In these lessons, Pastor Rick dives into the Bible and shows us how God can take a difficult situation

and use it to help you build a better future.

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of Pastor Rick's wonderful book, The Purpose of Christmas.

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Now, here's Pastor Rick Warren with the final part of a message called

Resuming Life After Captivity.

Number one, expect to have mixed emotions as you re-enter.

Happy and sad, all over the place.

Number two, pause before you get really involved and write down the lessons

so you don't waste what happened this last year.

Here's the third principle that we learned from these five books that are about

encouragement after the exile.

Resuming Life After Captivity, we now get to a prophet named Haggai.

Okay, and he wrote to encourage people too as they were trying to resume

normal life after being in captivity for a period.

Here's the third thing.

Evaluate everything before resuming it.

All right, this is going to be really important for you to do for your future.

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