{"id":73793,"date":"2024-03-21T23:02:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T04:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=73793"},"modified":"2024-03-21T23:23:01","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T04:23:01","slug":"gospel-generosity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=73793","title":{"rendered":"Gospel Generosity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph has-drop-cap\">There are certain categories of books that you can read once and never return to\u2014you read a single title on that subject and it tells you all you ever need to know about it. But there are other categories of books that you need to return to on a regular basis. In my experience, that includes books on giving\u2014on living a life marked by financial generosity. Over time I find my natural tendency is toward keeping rather than giving, toward saving rather than freely distributing. So I need to regularly read books that will interrupt my apathy and reaffirm what I know to be good and true.<\/p>\n<p>   Gospel Generosity  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph book-author\">Nathan W. Harris<\/p>\n<p>     <a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/book-reviews\/gospel-generosity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Buy from Amazon<\/a>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A new book on the subject proved to be just what I needed. Nathan W. Harris\u2019 <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/book-reviews\/gospel-generosity\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Gospel Generosity: Giving As An Act of Grace<\/a><\/em> is part of B&amp;H\u2019s \u201cThe Short Guide Series\u201d and, as such, wastes little time in getting right to the heart of the matter. \u201cThis book is all about one thing\u2014giving. More specifically, it\u2019s about how the gospel calls Christians to a life of radical generosity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s important to address the word \u201cradical.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are certain categories of books that you can read once and never return to\u2014you read a single title on that subject and it tells you all you ever need to know about it. But there are other categories of books that you need to return to on a regular basis. In my experience, that includes books on giving\u2014on living a life marked by financial generosity. Over time I find my natural tendency is toward keeping rather than giving, toward saving rather than freely distributing. So I need to regularly read books that will interrupt my apathy and reaffirm what I know to be good and true.See AlsoRead More, Read Better10 Tips to Read More and Read Better10 Tips to Read More and Read Better<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":73807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[854],"class_list":["post-73793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tim-challies","tag-book-reviews","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/lightstock_842344_medium_tim_challies-1-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73793"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73808,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73793\/revisions\/73808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}