{"id":9645,"date":"2024-03-23T16:45:56","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T21:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=9645"},"modified":"2024-03-23T16:45:56","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T21:45:56","slug":"the-lord-of-psalm-23-and-authors-response-to-my-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=9645","title":{"rendered":"THE LORD OF PSALM 23 AND AUTHOR&#8217;S RESPONSE TO MY CONCERN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Lord of Psalm 23: Jesus Our Shepherd, Companion, and Host\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"625\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"clipboard-write\" style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?asin=B0BYTFFKMQ\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Last year, I read Gibson&#8217;s terrific <em>Living Life Backward<\/em>. Ecclesiastes has a fond place in my heart.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I received a copy of this book from a friend who discipled me 47 years ago. I am now 66.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>There are many, wonderful things I could offer about <em>The Lord of Psalm 23<\/em>, but I have one concern, but an important one in my estimation. It relates to what Gibson wrote on page 70 and 71 about the &#8220;steady advance of a soul unafraid to die&#8230;&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Like the author, I have been privileged to be with some as they are nearing death. I have seen the same thing that Gibson wrote of in these pages, but I also know believers who experienced terror at the end of life.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I Cor. 15:26 speaks of death being an enemy. We also have John Bunyan&#8217;s account of Christian&#8217;s dread as he makes his final trek to the Celestial City. And then there is John Donne and others I could add who were not always at peace with God.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>[As mentioned in the subject line, the author responded favorably to my concern. It&#8217;s wonderful to see this kind of humility in action!]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gibson wrote a beautiful and penetrating book full of important insights.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I am better for having read it!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, I read Gibson&#8217;s terrific Living Life Backward. Ecclesiastes has a fond place in my heart. I received a copy of this book from a friend who discipled me 47 years ago. I am now 66. There are many, wonderful things I could offer about The Lord of Psalm 23, but I have one [&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":[3,12,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-book-review","category-psalms"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9645","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=9645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9646,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9645\/revisions\/9646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}