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Not all that bad, however far from being a rallying call is the book Radical by David Platt. I put this review of it on Amazon, i really don't have much more to say about this book.

This book presents a big gallon or two of  milk(Hebrews 5:12-14). David Platt has presented a way for Christians to live and asks for only a year. This is good to see a church with a minister preaching to their people to forgo living for themselves and live for a eternal purpose. However to request people to do it only for a year is a joke to me. Now i know some would be thinking, "Ed really come on once these new recruits live this way for a year, they will be hooked and they will keep going" but that's the milk. Instruct them to live the life for the rest of theirs. (John 12:25-26) We don't need a bunch of short term thinking recruits. Either live the life or just live and enjoy this season (Hebrews 11:25). Because if you really live the life of a follower of Christ, it will be very different. I would like to say it will be hard, but that is not really true. See when we are weak Christ gives us strength (Acts 3:16, 2 Corinthians 12:9, Phillippians 4:13, Colossians 1:11,  Hebrews 11:34), yet there are times that we find it hard to stay on the straight and narrow (Matthew 7:14). The message needs to be clear and honest. Stop watering it down and just tell it like it really is, and should be.

And you don't need to sell everything to follow Christ. If you did that then you would be as homeless as the people you should be helping. Just jettison the things that you don't need for day to day survival and put the money to better use. Some people need to burn the stuff they don't need or as a follower of Christ, have in the first place (Acts 19:19). P.S. Don't hock it on Amazon, or throw it away, if you don't need it you should not be passing it to others even for a penny.

The usage of scripture without the reference inline to where you can find the passage was annoying. But then again many of the people that claim to be "Christians" probably don't read or own a Bible.  How sad is that. However they could own something they call a Bible, but is nothing more than a perversion of the Word of God. And they don't even know it, which is even more troubling.

I do feel that the people that are mentioned in the book are very sincere, i just have trouble with the milky message that this book contains.

All Scripture taken from the KJV.

I have spent the last few days working on a new site design. I have it almost finished. I am also using new 5.3 methods and had to update the server to it, i don't think i broke anything else when i did that. I took one of the GPL themes that is offered for wordpress and got it to work under my custom blog system. I really wouldn't call this a blog system, more like a dumping ground for my thoughts and a place for me to test code ideas and play with things. This is more of a learning tool than a awesome system. However it does what i need, and will do what i like in the future.

Well this is a short post, just wanted to get something new up about the site. I know there are several things broken like the RSS button at the top of the page and the page navigation at the bottom is not working correctly. I will get these things fixed in the next few weeks. I have a client that wants work done on their site, so i will be spending my time on that. I think next year i will get another nice theme and get it to work here as well. Like to change it up every once in a while. I wish i had more creative skills in the design area, however that is not my gift. I am happy for what i do have thou.

Hey God loves you even when if feels like no one else does.