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The ordinary radical
In the current tension between “radical” (via David Platt, Francis Chan, et al) and the case for the “ordinary” (latest from Michael Horton), there is some sort of balance to strike. We don’t want complacency in our lives, but we should learn something of the term Paul calls content. We don’t want our lives so set on edge we burn the…
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We get torn apart by our terminology
Richard Stearns, head of World Vision, wrote a response on a perceived attack on the term “radical Christians.” This was in response to a Christianity Today piece on the “new radicals.” Stearns’s response is basic: “Yep, we’re radical, and we’re not radical enough!” It’s gone back and forth in a way that reminds me of the days when my “tribe” (Pentecostals) were…
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There is ALWAYS Something to Attack
Just when I think I find something new to explore, to look at and see if it something that begins to describe what I am sensing in my own spiritual life, along comes an attack on that exact position. Anthony Bradley takes a swing at the terms “missional” and “radical” and calls it the “new legalism.” Just when I was…
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The Gospel of Wealth
David Brooks is the like the Babe Ruth of columnists for me. Every time I see his column is like seeing Babe Ruth come to bat. You just wait to see him hit it out of the park. This column on “The Gospel of Wealth” is powerful. I remember reading a short excerpt from David Platt’s book when the publisher…
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