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Sunday Apr 03, 2016
The Good Life
Sunday Apr 03, 2016
Sunday Apr 03, 2016
The default good life works very well but it worries
secular philosophers. The human experience isn't just "flat" and
ordinary: work, family, health, wealth, longevity, ease, no pain. Notice
there is nothing soulish about the default good life. More, ordinary
good life has fallen into the pit of insatiability - we want more and we
don't know how to stop (Eccl. 1:7,8). Jesus says the ordinary good life
is "living by bread alone" (Luke 4:4). Not good. The biblical good life
takes Psalm 23 as its starting place: "The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall
not want..." The more rounded good life is centered on simplicity and
contentment. This message comes out of my doctoral reading of
philosophers Charles Taylor, Jamie Smith, Aldous Huxley, Friedrich
Nietzsche, and Miroslav Volf.
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