The ability to make moral choices is one of the greatest gifts that God has given to each of us. In fact, our choices shape our lives far more than our circumstances do. This is especially true in the area of our minds. Choosing what we think about, how we think about it, and what we allow into our minds affects our lives daily. This week, Pastor Rick takes a look at the first step toward a life reset—choosing to change what we think about. ——— Listen to Pastor Rick’s daily Bible teaching and subscribe to his Daily Hope email devotional at http://pastorrick.com Connect with Rick! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pastorrickwa… Twitter: https://twitter.com/RickWarren Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pastorrickw… Podcast: http://pastorrick.com/listen/podcast
Hello everybody. Today We’re going to continue in
our series on Resetting My Life with Part 2. Now,
this weekend I’m actually visiting a couple
campuses, but I wanted to begin by saying, I love
you all. I love you so much; in fact, let me just
say I love you to all of our campuses. I love you,
Anaheim. I love you, Berlin. I love you, Brea.
I love you, Buenos Aires. I love you East Vale
campus. I love you, Espanol. I love you, Hong
Kong. I love you, Newport Mesa. I love you, Irvine
North. I love you, Irvine South. I love you,
Laguna Woods. I love you, Lake Forest. I love you,
Los Angeles. I love you, online Saddleback. I love
you, Rancho Capistrano. I love you, San Clemente.
I love you, San Diego, and I love you, Santa
Rosa, Philippines, and I love you South Bay.
That’s a mouthful. We are all celebrating
your Easter reports from all of our campuses.
Now, if you pull out your message notes, in
Part 1 of this series last week we introduced
the fact that God is in the transformation
business, life transformation. And, by the way,
so is this church. Saddleback is all about changed
lives. We are all about that. Now, God didn’t just
create you. He wants to transform you into
what he’s always intended for you to become.
Now, I mentioned this last week. This
transformation has many, many different
kinds of names. It’s called salvation. That’s
when you first step across the line. It’s
called sanctification. That’s the rest of your
life, growing in Christ. It’s called conversion.
This life change is called starting over.
It’s called being born again. It’s called
getting a fresh start. It’s called having a
life reset. Our own Saddleback family here,
hundreds of thousands of people, have
experienced this spiritual reset in
their lives. And every one of you could probably
give a personal testimony, or most of you could.
Now, here’s the point. After you experience
the first reset of salvation in your life,
where your life takes a big U-turn, you’re going
to have many, many other moments of change,
transformation, life reset,
and improvement in your life.
You can have a reset in your connection to
God many, many times in your life. You get
disconnected in some way. You can have a
reset in your health. You can have a reset
in your relationships or in your marriage.
You can have a reset in your career,
in your finances. You can have a reset in
your parenting, the way you deal with certain
kids. You can have a reset in your energy and
literally hundreds of other areas in your life.
That’s why we’re doing this series called
Resetting My Life. Now, if you missed Part 1,
I want to ask you to please watch it
because in that message we talked about
four preparation steps that have to happen in your
life in order for you to have a transformation,
a new leaf, a new life, a resetting of
your life. Okay? So watch that message.