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    My Name is Erin: One Girl's Plan for Radical Faith
    My Name is Erin: One Girl's Plan for Radical Faith
    My Name is Erin: One Girl's Plan for Radical Faith
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    My Name is Erin: One Girl's Plan for Radical Faith

    By Erin Davis

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    Maybe you’ve had a moment when God did something radical in your heart. Putting your faith and trust in Him certainly feels like taking a giant leap, but really it’s just the beginning of the exciting, and—yes—radical journey that comes with agreeing to live as God calls you to.

    What does being radical look like? In the Bible, the common characteristics of "radicals" are:

    • They trusted God.
    • They listened to God’s voice and then obeyed—even when it cost them.
    • Because of their faith, they lived lives that looked different from everyone else’s.


    That’s a short list and a tall order, but basically it means you can be a radical, too. There’s nothing on that list that is impossible for you. There’s nothing on that list that requires you to be older, or more financially stable, or to have a college degree. No matter who you are or where you live, you can live a radical faith.

    Meet Erin, who has learned practical ways to do just that. She'll help you be radical, too.

    My Name is Erin: One Girl’s Plan for Radical Faith is one in a series of four books, which can be read in any order. The other titles are:

    My Name is Erin: One Girl’s Journey to Discover Truth

    My name is Erin: One Girl’s Journey to Discover Who She Is

    My Name is Erin: One Girl’s Mission to Make a Difference

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMoody Publishers
    Release dateJul 22, 2013
    ISBN9780802486479
    My Name is Erin: One Girl's Plan for Radical Faith
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    Erin Davis

    Originally from Edmonton, ERIN DAVIS is a radio broadcaster and was the popular, long-time co-host of 98.1 CHFI’s morning show in Toronto. After Lauren’s death, Erin decided to return to her radio work, staying on for eighteen months. At that point, she chose to retire from daily radio and moved with her husband, Rob Whitehead, to Victoria, BC. Erin appears regularly as a freelance voice artist emcee and a keynote speaker for many organizations and events in Canada and the US.  

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      My Name is Erin - Erin Davis

      Acknowledgments

      My name is Erin. I live on a farm smack dab in the middle of America’s heartland—as in, a real farm, with chickens and horses, a donkey named Bart, and a tiny herd of goats. In many ways my life is pretty average. I love my family. I love my job. I love my church. I have the best friends a girl could ask for and when they’re not available, a chick flick and a bowl of popcorn (extra butter, please) are welcome to keep me company any time. At first glance, my life seems just like everyone else’s. But look closer, and I hope you’ll see that there’s something different about me (and I’m not just talking about all the livestock!).

      Erin’s List of the Top Five Chick Flicks of All Time

      • The Princess Bride

      • Gone with the Wind

      • My Girl

      • Steel Magnolias

      • The Little Mermaid

      I wish I could invite every reader of this book over for a visit. We’d take a hayride and roast marshmallows over a bonfire, and I’d tell you about my journey from being a girl who knew about God to being a girl who knew God to being a girl who let God turn her life upside down.

      I’d tell you I’m not interested in just having faith in Jesus. I don’t just want to check the box for Christian, like crossing chores off a to-do list, and then blend in with the crowd. I want a radical faith that changes everything about my life. I want you to have a radical faith too.

      What do you think of when you hear the word radical? Do you imagine someone who dresses weird, talks weirder, and seems to do whatever it takes to stick out like a sore thumb? Is a radical someone who carries picket signs or marches for a cause she’s passionate about? What about standing up for your faith, even if it costs you? Is that what it takes to be radical?

      rad*i*cal:

      very different from the usual or traditional.¹

      All of those things are unconventional, but you don’t necessarily have to dress strange or stage a sit-in to be radical. In fact, the Bible is chock-full of radical followers of God. We’ll look at many of their stories in the pages of this book, but you don’t have to time travel into the Old Testament Promised Land or New Testament Palestine to find people with radical faith. If radical simply means different from the usual, then any of us who are willing to be shaped into the image of Jesus can fit the bill.

      I won’t sugarcoat it—radical faith has its challenges. But Jesus went first. He showed us what a radical life, lived for God’s glory, looks like. Then He simply says, Follow Me, down the path He’s already taken.

      I’ve been a non-Christian, a lukewarm Christian, and a Christian on fire to live like God calls me to. Which is the best way to live? The answer is a no-brainer. Once you’ve experienced radical life in Christ, nothing else will satisfy.

      My name is Erin, and this is my story.

      This Changes Everything

      I grew up going to church. I knew all about baby Jesus in the manger and baby Moses in the basket. I could sing Father Abraham and Deep and Wide with the best of them, but I never thought much about how that fountain flowing deep and wide could impact my life or why I was one of Father Abraham’s many sons.

      Deep and Wide may be describing the fountain of Christ’s love described in this passage: And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ (Ephesians 3:17-18 NIV). Find out why you are a daughter of Abraham in Genesis 22.

      Jesus was someone I talked about at church, but that’s usually where I left Him. I believed He existed, but I didn’t put my hope in Him or allow His Word to influence the way I lived my life.

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