{"id":64638,"date":"2017-10-21T17:00:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-21T21:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=64638"},"modified":"2017-10-21T18:02:05","modified_gmt":"2017-10-21T22:02:05","slug":"nicholas-davis-11-classics-every-christian-should-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=64638","title":{"rendered":"Nicholas Davis&#8211;11 Classics Every Christian Should Read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of course, nothing is more classic than the Bible. Aside from the Holy Bible, however, there are certain books that all Christians should read.<br \/>\nThe following list of books is not comprehensive but should give you a head start on some great literature that will encourage you in the Christian life. Here are eleven classics (in no particular order) every Christian should read:<br \/>\n1. Basic Christianity by John Stott<br \/>\n\u201cThe Bible,\u201d Stott wrote, \u201cisn\u2019t about people trying to discover God, but about God reaching out to find us.\u201d Few books present an intellectually stimulating and satisfying view of the Christian faith as this one. It is chock-full of wisdom and golden nuggets of truth that help us know what we believe and why we believe it.<br \/>\n2. Confessions by Augustine<br \/>\nThis is the famous autobiography of Augustine of Hippo, where he writes with such beauty and clarity the words, \u201cYou have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.\u201d<br \/>\n3. Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton<br \/>\nIn this brilliant work, twentieth-century intellectual giant G. K. Chesterton explains with both style and substance his own reasons for being a Christian.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cccdiscover.com\/11-classics-every-christian-should-read\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course, nothing is more classic than the Bible. Aside from the Holy Bible, however, there are certain books that all Christians should read. The following list of books is not comprehensive but should give you a head start on<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=64638\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,186,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-church-history","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64639,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64638\/revisions\/64639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}