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Radical. Crazy. Transformative and restless. Every word we read these days seems to suggest there’s a “next-best-thing,” if only we would change our comfortable, compromising lives. In fact, the greatest fear most Christians have is boredom—the sense that they are missing out on the radical life Jesus promised. One thing is certain. No one wants to be “ordinary.”

Yet pastor and author Michael Horton believes that our attempts to measure our spiritual growth by our experiences, constantly seeking after the next big breakthrough, have left many Christians disillusioned and disappointed. There’s nothing wrong with an energetic faith; the danger is that we can burn ourselves out on restless anxieties and unrealistic expectations. What’s needed is not another program or a fresh approach to spiritual growth; it’s a renewed appreciation for the commonplace.

Far from a call to low expectations and passivity, Horton invites readers to recover their sense of joy in the ordinary. He provides a guide to a sustainable discipleship that happens over the long haul—not a quick fix that leaves readers empty with unfulfilled promises. Convicting and ultimately empowering, Ordinary is not a call to do less; it’s an invitation to experience the elusive joy of the ordinary Christian life.

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Michael Horton (PhD) is Professor of Systematic Theology and Apologetics at Westminster Seminary in California. Author of many books, including The Christian Faith: A Systematic Theology for Pilgrims on the Way, he also hosts the White Horse Inn radio program. He lives with his wife, Lisa, and four children in Escondido, California.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Zondervan (Oct. 7 2014)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0310517370
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0310517375
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 213 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.97 x 1.6 x 21.29 cm

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Michael Horton is the founder of the White Horse Inn, a multi-media catalyst for Reformation. He is editor-in-chief of Modern Reformation magazine (www.modernreformation.org) and co-host of the nationally syndicated White Horse Inn radio broadcast (www.whitehorseinn.org). Michael Horton is also the J. Gresham Machen Professor of Systematic Theology and Apologetics at Westminster Seminary California.

Before coming to WSC, Michael Horton completed a Research Fellowship at Yale University Divinity School. He is a member of various societies, including the American Academy of Religion and the Evangelical Theological Society, and author of thirty books, including a series of studies in Reformed dogmatics published by Westminster John Knox, whose final volume (People and Place: A Covenant Ecclesiology) was published in 2008 and won the 2008 Christianity Today Book of the Year award in Theology.

His most recent book is Ordinary: Sustainable Faith in a Radical, Restless World. He has written articles for Modern Reformation, Pro Ecclesia, Christianity Today, The International Journal of Systematic Theology, Touchstone, and Books and Culture.

Michael Horton is a minister in the United Reformed Churches of North America, and lives in Escondido, with his wife, Lisa, and four children.

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Daddio

The Ordinary is extraordinary.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 26, 2015

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Michael Horton provides an escape from the success driven unsustainable pace that modern society sells us as normal. His scripture based discussion of how we have lost our way in the current time is bang on. By returning to living based on the true Message, we can find rest for our soul and meaning for our lives.

A must read for those who feel like the current form of Christianity being sold to many doesn't feel right.

This book is a true blessing.

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Glenn Bridges

Good perspective of we all expect the norm is to ...

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on December 7, 2014

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Good perspective of we all expect the norm is to be the next Moses or Paul or Peter we can at times think we are unworthy and unable and get discouraged enough to walk away. Be still and no that HE is God!!

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Heather Haynes

Inspirational.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on June 19, 2019

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Great book! Easy to read and enjoy.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 9, 2019

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Keeps Christians grounded...good food for thought!!

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Bob Woods

A necessary resource for the church and the average member.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on June 30, 2015

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A must read in a time when hype and entertainment are found everywhere in the church.

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The high road of the everyday

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For too long we have been badgered with demands that have been too much for us, expectations that placed heavy weights in our shoes. The joy that was supposed to be at the heart of Christian living seemed illusory. The prospect of some new experience or blessing or challenge has disappointed too often to inspire one more big effort.
What a relief this book brings to the jaded and weary Christian! Oh to see again that the ordinary is God's gift to us for the journey. Time and again as I read this book I wanted to cheer! How good of God to make his blessings so accessible as to be at hand for us all, all the time.

andyb

Great points made in first third!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 27, 2020

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This is so insightful and challenging. It helps those of us disillusioned by wrong expectations to see our experience of the Christian faith is valid. It was unnecessarily long which was a pity

Esteban

Great book!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 24, 2019

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Michael Horton helps us understand that we can glorify the Lord in our ordinary lifes with our ordinary callings, serving an extraordinary God.

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Wow! Speechless! Amazing!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 9, 2014

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I'm a Catholic, but a big fan of Michael Horton, and was eagerly awaiting this. I have not been disappointed! It is prophetic.

Some time ago, Pope Francis brought out an Apostolic Exhortation called 'Evangelii Gaudium', and in it, he coins a term, 'Self-Absorbed Promethean Neo-Pelagianism' (paragraph 94). It's rather a mouthful, but I believe it boils down to a form of elitism, or 'two-tiered' approach to Church, where some consider themselves special, or called to 'fix' those in the pews whom they consider aren't going in the right direction. What might be called 'Pietism' in some circles?

In essence, that term sums up what this book is about, for me. It's as if Dr Horton read Evangelii Gaudium, and decided to expand upon the themes in the section titled, 'No to spiritual worldliness' (Paragraphs 93-97). For, both Dr Horton and Pope Francis seem suspicious of those who see the mission of the Church as one of Great Pelagianesque Projects or revivals to bring about the 'Perfect Church', rather than a Church of motley sinners under grace, through what Pope Francis has called, 'anthropocentric immanentism' (para. 94). Of course, even if Dr Horton has read Evangelii Gaudium, 'Ordinary' is just the maturing of his thought which began in 'Christless Christianity', rather than taking his cue from Pope Francis. I just find it fascinating how people like Dr Horton and Kevin deYoung are addressing the same issues us Catholics are.

In short, not only is Dr Horton genuinely charitable towards his Catholic brothers and sisters, which is really appreciated, but also shows that we're suffering from the same disease on both sides of the Tiber: the effluence of secular culture seeping into certain quarters of the Church.

As another reviewer, Scott Gustafson, points out, it's a fillip to those who might feel brow-beaten by these 'super-apostles' because they've been made to feel inadequate in the face of the 'super-spiritual', as if being an 'ordinary' Christian is somehow 'bad' or deficient.

As Pastor Bob DeWaay starts his well-kown article on Pietism, 'There are no extraordinary Christians; but being an ordinary Christian is an extraordinary thing.'. Amen!

Well done, Dr Horton!

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Arturo

Reminder that the Christian life does not have to be complicated

Reviewed in Australia 🇦🇺 on November 28, 2016

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If there are words which we need to be reminded of they are those in 1 Thessalonians that tell believers to - live quiet lives an work hard with their own hands. That way a by product will be they gain respect from observers. How do I know a Christian - it is the one who works hard from Monday to Saturday and rests hard on Sunday.

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