{"id":8536,"date":"2019-11-21T03:31:51","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T09:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=8536"},"modified":"2019-11-21T12:38:24","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T18:38:24","slug":"8536","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=8536","title":{"rendered":"REMEMBER DEATH!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Remember Death: The Surprising Path to Living Hope (The Gospel Coalition)\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"625\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?preview=inline&#038;linkCode=kpd&#038;ref_=k4w_oembed_yiuKa1UQ5Ff02d&#038;asin=1433560534&#038;tag=kpembed-20\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>There is much I could say about this book, but I will keep my comments brief.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I typically read about sixty books each year.\u00a0 These are close reads with underlining and marginalia.\u00a0 I peruse hundreds of other books, but that is not reading.\u00a0 There is no doubt that this will easily make my Favorite Reads of 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b><em>Remember Death<\/em> is one of those books that I will use in my teaching, discipleship with men, and gladly recommend far and wide.\u00a0 It is beautifully written, consistently insightful, and thoroughly biblical.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>I know it sounds strange to say that this is a book to savor, but it is.\u00a0 We must face our mortality with ruthless honesty, all the utter horror and ugliness.\u00a0 By doing so, we will find, as the author says so well, the incredible promises found in a relationship with Jesus.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Crossway is to be commended for publishing such a terrific piece of work!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is much I could say about this book, but I will keep my comments brief. I typically read about sixty books each year.\u00a0 These are close reads with underlining and marginalia.\u00a0 I peruse hundreds of other books, but that is not reading.\u00a0 There is no doubt that this will easily make my Favorite Reads [&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":[31,43,49,62,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-history","category-christianity","category-death","category-discipleship","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\/8536","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=8536"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8544,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8536\/revisions\/8544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}