Rick Warren, best-selling author of The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth am I Here For? (Zondervan) and founding pastor of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif., launches “Daily Hope with Rick Warren” national radio programming starting Easter Sunday. This includes a 25-minute program and one-minute teaching spots, to begin Monday, April 1.

The half-hour daily program will feature a practical message by Warren, intended to encourage, equip and train people to fulfill God's purposes for their life. The daily 60-second teaching spots will address timely issues and topics.

"For 32 years, I said 'no' to radio because I felt God called me to preach to my local congregation rather than compete with other local churches for a national audience," said Warren. "But one year ago, He began to put a burden on my heart and a passion for broadcast ministry, born from three deep convictions.

"First, in the wake of a weak economic recovery from recession, a high rate of joblessness, natural disasters, painful school shootings and gridlock among political leaders, America is discouraged," said Warren. "With the coarsening of our society, there is a clear loss of civility, and more than ever before, people need to hear a message of hope found in the gospel.

"Secondly, I am deeply concerned about the erosion of our first right of religious liberty in America, which needs to be protected," Warren continued. "On every front—school campuses, businesses, hospitals and even churches—secularists in government are increasingly trying to limit, undermine and even outlaw historic protections of our religious freedoms, which will likely become the civil rights issue of the next decade.

"Thirdly, taking the gospel to the ends of the earth is our greatest goal, including reaching the remaining 2,900 unengaged tribes and people groups who have yet to hear that message," Warren concluded. "The Daily Hope radio program can expose listeners to the potential of involving themselves or their church in the PEACE Plan to help accomplish our '20/20 Vision' to reach every last tribe with the gospel and a church by the year 2020."

“Daily Hope” will initially launch in both local and major markets across America with plans to expand rapidly. It will also be carried on Sirius XM Satellite Radio's Family Talk Channel.

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