You know, we live in a world of competing beliefs, values, and choices.

What you believe shapes how you live, and ultimately who you become.

Here's the good news. God hasn't left us to figure it all out alone.

And today, on Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, we kick off the series, Reframing Your World View,

where Rick is going to unpack powerful truths from God's Word, and he's going to help you

see life clearly and live it with confidence and purpose.

Okay, well, I can't wait to hear what Rick will share today,

so let's join him right now for part one of a message called

Why Does It Matter What I Believe?

Friends, ideas have consequences.

Every idea has a consequence for good or for bad. Even the most trivial of ideas has a consequence

because you're wasting time, energy, thought, maybe money. You're wasting your life on something

that's trivial when you could be doing something much more positive with your life. So every

idea has a consequence to it.

You don't realize it, but every day you are affected and influenced by the worldviews of other people,

the people all around you. You're not even aware of it. The world views of your friends,

the worldviews of people you work with, the worldviews of your parents, of co-workers, of the media, of celebrities,

of people you listen to in schools, teachers. They have influenced your life in ways you're not

even aware of. And not only that, every day you're influenced by your own worldview.

In fact, it determines your happiness, it determines your success in life, it determines

what you feel about life, it determines your peace of mind, your stress level, your confidence

level, all come from

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