{"id":5480,"date":"2015-05-06T00:00:30","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T05:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=5480"},"modified":"2015-05-06T00:36:46","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T05:36:46","slug":"wave-your-wand-1-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=5480","title":{"rendered":"WAVE YOUR WAND 1.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I am asking a number of friends to answer the following question: If you could wave a magical wand which caused all Christians to read five books, what works would you pick?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We begin with Dr. Dave McCoy. \u00a0I met Dave over twenty years ago at the church I served as a pastor. \u00a0Dave is a gifted Bible teacher and artist.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here are Dave&#8217;s picks:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s a unique selection for you geared more for the common reader:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Brothers Karamazov<\/span>\u00a0by Fyodor Dostoevsky<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth<\/span>\u00a0by Fee and Stuart<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Problem of Pain<\/span>\u00a0by C. S. Lewis<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Decision Making and the Will of Go<\/span>d by Garry Friesen<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Mere Christianity<\/span>\u00a0by C. S. Lewis<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am asking a number of friends to answer the following question: If you could wave a magical wand which caused all Christians to read five books, what works would you pick? We begin with Dr. Dave McCoy. \u00a0I met Dave over twenty years ago at the church I served as a pastor. \u00a0Dave is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,16,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-reading","category-spiritual-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5481,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5480\/revisions\/5481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}