Pastor Rick Warren‘s life has always been an open book.
He spread the word about how to live a Christ-centered life in his best-selling book, The Purpose Driven Life.
Over the years, he and his wife, Kay, have shared heartbreaking experiences, including her battle with breast cancer and, more recently, the death of their son, Matthew. He struggled with mental illness and committed suicide by a self-inflicted gunshot wound in April. He was 27.
“2013 was the worst year of my life.” Warren says. Matthew “had a tender heart and a tortured mind.”
Now, in his new book, Warren, 59, founding pastor of Saddleback Church in Southern California, is trying to help people heal their health. The Daniel Plan: 40 Days to a Healthier Life (Zondervan, out Tuesday), written with doctors Mark Hyman and Daniel Amen, details a lifestyle program that helped Warren lose 65 pounds in 2011 and propelled members of his congregation to get healthier by dropping more than 250,000 pounds collectively that year.
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