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

Today, we continue in the series Essentials for Living.

In these lessons, Pastor Rick shares the power you need to live on,

the principles you need to live by, and the purpose you need to live for,

so that you're truly living and not just existing.

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Right now, here's Pastor Rick Warren with part one of a message called

using the Bible to make decisions.

Well, good morning.

The last several weeks we've been in this series on Essentials for 21st Century Living,

and we said that you need five things.

You need people to live with, you need principles to live by,

you need a profession to live out, you need power to live on,

and you need a purpose to live for.

Now, we spent a couple weeks on people to live with,

and how to get connected to others.

And last week, we began spending two weeks on principles to live by.

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