{"id":6733,"date":"2017-01-10T12:13:15","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T18:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=6733"},"modified":"2017-01-10T12:14:14","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T18:14:14","slug":"read-some-commentaries-like-regular-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=6733","title":{"rendered":"READ (SOME) COMMENTARIES LIKE REGULAR BOOKS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Message-Jeremiah-Bible-Speaks-Today\/dp\/0830824391\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Message-Jeremiah-Bible-Speaks-Today\/dp\/0830824391<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Commentaries on books of the Bible are not created equally.\u00a0 You have to be shrewd in what you consult.\u00a0 The better ones come in all different types from the devotional to the technical.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>My favorite ones are those who combine great care with the text of Scripture, are well-written, and offer many connections to our own time and day.\u00a0 Right now, I am reading one of these kinds of commentaries: Christopher Wright&#8217;s terrific work on Jeremiah.\u00a0 It is part of The Bible Speaks Today series (InterVarsity Press).\u00a0 Here is something I pondered today:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;The reign of King Josiah was a time of great religious fervent and national resurgence.\u00a0 It was all very impressive.\u00a0 But what was God&#8217;s point of view?\u00a0 According to Jeremiah God sees a people who are a disappointment to God, who are being disloyal to their covenant relationship with God, who are already feeling the shock of disasters that foreshadow worse to come, and who are living in brazen denial and delusion.\u00a0 <em>It is a frightening mirror to hold up to the people of God in any generation, with stark relevance to our own<\/em>.&#8221;\u00a0 (Emphasis added)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Message-Jeremiah-Bible-Speaks-Today\/dp\/0830824391 Commentaries on books of the Bible are not created equally.\u00a0 You have to be shrewd in what you consult.\u00a0 The better ones come in all different types from the devotional to the technical.\u00a0 My favorite ones are those who combine great care with the text of Scripture, are well-written, and offer many connections to [&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":[3,24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-bible-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\/6733","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=6733"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6735,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6733\/revisions\/6735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}