Hey, welcome to the Happy Grant podcast. I am Ted Cluck, joined as always in studio by my good friends and partners in radio, Barnabas Piper, and Ronald J Martin. Boys, we are in a transitional

moment business-wise. We've just come to the end of one relationship. We are about to start swimming in hipster leather, which I can't wait for.

But in between Piper, we have a book promo from an old friend, old friend of the program, old friend of the reform camp tell us about

platy's new title you know it's interesting that you say we're sort of in this

transitional period because that that seems to be what this book is about.

It's a book called Something Needs to Change,

a call to make your life count in a world of urgent need.

So, listeners, you will know that David Platt is best known for writing radical and crying whenever he preaches

But it's he a big crier piper writing? Oh yes, he is

Fascinating he I didn't realize that either man because he has he just has that very dark monotone when he preaches

But then but then when he starts to get intense it's it almost sounds like he's having like a like his throat is seizing up and he kind of

preaches through his throat and like he just gets super super intense and to the point

of near tears so this is this is actually a little bit of a like travel memoir meets crisis of faith meets

what is genuine Christianity. So not crisis of faith like losing faith, but like what why does it matter that's sort of the question of it so he was

He was he was leading a team on a trip through the Himalayas and was basically...

As one does.

Yeah, I mean, I do this.

Ronnie doesn't do this because that's not a man of leisure thing to do that it requires like sweating

and getting cold and stuff. The Himalayas would actually be in Florida. Yeah.

That's true. Yeah, you can't there's no it probably very Instagrammable, but there's not cell phone service, so Ronnie doesn't do that.

Wow. So he's, he's just sort of plat, not Ronnie, was floored by the need he encountered there and it just began to stir up all these questions in him of

About God and suffering and what is like what difference should Christianity make in a case like this coming from you know

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