{"id":18,"date":"2007-03-10T15:23:35","date_gmt":"2007-03-10T20:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godandculture.wordpress.com\/2007\/03\/10\/books-on-my-nightstand\/"},"modified":"2007-03-10T15:23:35","modified_gmt":"2007-03-10T20:23:35","slug":"books-on-my-nightstand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/books-on-my-nightstand","title":{"rendered":"Books on My Nightstand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are two types of reading I do: reading I <em>must<\/em> do in preparation for preaching or my daily radio program and reading I do for <em>leisure<\/em> because I have either heard about the book from someone else or I just want to relax with a good book. I do most of my reading early morning or late evening; therefore most of the books I am currently reading are next to my bed on the nightstand.\u00a0 I am normally reading at a minium three books concurrently. Currently there are 23 titles either on or around my nightstand, including a King James Bible and an English Standard Version,\u00a0divided this way:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Books I&#8217;m currently\u00a0reading for p<em>reparation<\/em> (Homework!)&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Failing America&#8217;s Faithful<\/em> by Kathleen Kennedy Townsend<br \/>\n<em>The Roots of Jihad<\/em> by Tawfik Hamid<br \/>\n<em>A Mormon in the White House?<\/em> by Hugh Hewitt<br \/>\n<em>The Rise of Lakewood Church and Joel Osteen<\/em> by Richard Young<br \/>\n<em>Crisis in the Village<\/em> by Dr. Robert Franklin<br \/>\n<em>The Truth About Same-Sex Marriage<\/em> by Erwin Lutzer<br \/>\n<em>Liturgical Theology<\/em> by Simon Chan<br \/>\n<em>God in Public<\/em> by Mark G. Toulouse<br \/>\n<em>The God Delusion<\/em> by Richard Dawkins<br \/>\n<em>Chosen for Life<\/em> by Sam Storms<\/p>\n<p><strong>Books I&#8217;m currently reading for <em>leisure<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><em>Blog<\/em> by Hugh Hewitt<br \/>\n<em>The Triumph of the Therapeutic<\/em> by Phillip Rieff<br \/>\n<em>The Conservative Soul<\/em> by Andrew Sullivan<br \/>\n<em>Death in Holy Orders<\/em> by P.D. James<br \/>\n<em>The Alexandria Link<\/em> by Steve Berry<br \/>\n<em>Real Christianity <\/em>by William Wilberforce (Bob Beltz)<br \/>\n<em>The Book of Buechner<\/em> by Dale Brown<br \/>\n<em>Through a Screen Darkly<\/em> by Jeffrey Overstreet<br \/>\n<em>The Crook in the Lot<\/em> by Thomas Boston<br \/>\n<em>The New Friars<\/em> by Scott Bessenecker<br \/>\n<em>The Great Giveaway<\/em> by David Fitch<br \/>\n<em>Amazing Grace<\/em> by Eric Metexas<\/p>\n<p>In addition to books, there is also always on my nightstand a copy of the current issue of <em>Christian History<\/em> magazine and the current issue of <em>The Wittenburg Door<\/em> magazine.\u00a0 I supplement my reading while driving by listening to NPR or the current issue of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marshillaudio.org\/\" title=\"The Mars Hill Audio Journal\"><em>Mars Hill Audio Journal<\/em> <\/a>(Ken Meyers) on CD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are two types of reading I do: reading I must do in preparation for preaching or my daily radio program and reading I do for leisure because I have either heard about the book from someone else or I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/books-on-my-nightstand\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}