{"id":5529,"date":"2015-05-19T00:00:08","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T05:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=5529"},"modified":"2015-05-19T11:39:57","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T16:39:57","slug":"5529","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=5529","title":{"rendered":"WAVE YOUR WAND 12.0"},"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>I met Roger Berry about thirty years ago.\u00a0 At the time, he served a church in the Bay Area as a pastor of evangelism and discipleship.\u00a0 I was working for Campus Crusade for Christ at Stanford.\u00a0 Roger moved to Austin a few years before we did.\u00a0 Since 1993 we&#8217;ve been meeting weekly for banter, encouragement, and accountability.\u00a0<\/strong> <strong>You will see that he likes Keller!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here is Roger&#8217;s list:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Basic Christianity by Stott<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Prodigal God by Keller<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Counterfeit Gods by Keller<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reason for God by Keller<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>How Will You Measure Your Life by Christensen, et al.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\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. I met Roger Berry about thirty years ago.\u00a0 At the time, he served a church in the Bay Area [&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-5529","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\/5529","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=5529"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5530,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5529\/revisions\/5530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}