{"id":5526,"date":"2015-05-18T00:00:30","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T05:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=5526"},"modified":"2016-08-27T13:37:42","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T18:37:42","slug":"wave-your-wand-11-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=5526","title":{"rendered":"WAVE YOUR WAND 11.0"},"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?\u00a0Here is the next installment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next up is Michael Svigel. \u00a0Michael is Department Chair and Associate Professor of Theological Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary. \u00a0Michael has the good sense to make my wife&#8217;s book, Good Christians, Good Husbands?, required reading in his American Church History class. \u00a0Here are Michael&#8217;s picks:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div><strong>Thomas Oden&#8217;s Classic Christianity<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>Irenaeus&#8217;s Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>Calvin&#8217;s Institutes<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>Jerry Bridges&#8217; Trusting God<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>Augustine&#8217;s Confessions<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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?\u00a0Here is the next installment. Next up is Michael Svigel. \u00a0Michael is Department Chair and Associate Professor of Theological Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary. [&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-5526","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\/5526","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=5526"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6426,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5526\/revisions\/6426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}