I wonder, do you ever feel drained or burned out? Sometimes life can just leave you feeling empty.

If that's you, you're in the right place. Today on Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, we're continuing

with our exciting new series, Running on Empty. In today's message, Rick Warren shares how faith

can refresh your spirit, restore your

strength, and bring new energy to your life. So please don't miss a minute of this inspiring

message of renewal and hope. Okay, so here's Rick with part one of a message called slowing down.

Now, you don't have to be a profit to notice that technology has made three things happen

in a world.

Our world has gotten smaller, our world has gotten more complex, and our world has speeded

up.

It's going faster.

You live a much faster lifestyle than your parents did. Would you agree with that?

And your children will live an even faster lifestyle than you did. How many of you have ever

gotten a speeding ticket? Can I see your hands? All right, I feel very comfortable about this

message on slowing down today.

I read the other day that frozen juices are declining in sales because people don't want to wait for them to thaw.

And they're now buying prepackaged juices instead of frozen juice.

Of course, if you go out on the freeway, you figure

out pretty quickly that everybody is A, in a hurry, and B, multitasking. Isn't it an amazing

what you see people doing while they try to drive on the freeway? In fact, I thought this morning

we would just have a little free-for-all,. You tell me what you've seen on the freeway.

And those of you who are in the venues, just shouted out in the venues too.

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