{"id":8677,"date":"2020-04-17T00:03:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T05:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=8677"},"modified":"2020-04-17T00:03:36","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T05:03:36","slug":"the-j-curve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=8677","title":{"rendered":"THE J CURVE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>For the first half of this book, I felt the author was a bit redundant. That criticism probably still stands, but I found the second half of the book terrific. It\u2019s not that the first half is worth skipping over. It still offers much, but I think the examples of dying and rising with Christ could have been reduced.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I greatly appreciated the illumination Miller brought to bear from ancient history. His exegesis of some key passages is also well done.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"J-Curve: Dying and Rising with Jesus in Everyday Life\" 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_2ySc9QbqXokmW8&#038;asin=1433561565&#038;tag=kpembed-20\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first half of this book, I felt the author was a bit redundant. That criticism probably still stands, but I found the second half of the book terrific. It\u2019s not that the first half is worth skipping over. It still offers much, but I think the examples of dying and rising with Christ [&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":[12,43,89,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-christianity","category-gospel","category-healing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8677","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=8677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8678,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8677\/revisions\/8678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}