{"id":81081,"date":"2024-08-08T23:02:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T04:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=81081"},"modified":"2024-08-08T23:25:13","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T04:25:13","slug":"a-bit-of-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=81081","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"9daac1b7-0401-4e7a-a108-71a67ec0ffb6\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph has-drop-cap\">There is nothing wrong with being purposeful in our reading. Do you want to be a better dad? Then read a book about fatherhood. Do you want to have a better marriage? Then read a book about marriage. Do you want to come to a deeper understanding of the attributes of God? Then read a book on his attributes. Well and good.<\/p>\n<aside data-beyondwords-marker=\"a83e3a16-2b5d-4c4f-bbab-96223f1a57e1\" class=\"wp-block-group alignright challies-book is-layout-flow wp-container-core-group-is-layout-3 wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" id=\"book\">\n<header data-beyondwords-marker=\"c0dc6e96-31c4-44c0-b02f-cdf4d9625fd7\" class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-container-core-group-is-layout-2 wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"> A Bit of Earth <\/p>\n<div data-beyondwords-marker=\"bed49c98-fe26-4d54-8c84-59527bf6122e\" class=\"wp-block-group book-meta is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-1 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"74c87330-1a7e-4cfd-ba26-7ce007333816\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph book-author\">Andrea Burke<\/p>\n<figure data-beyondwords-marker=\"9ae97279-855d-451c-b1be-bb2662689267\" class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-medium book-cover has-box-shadow\">\n<div data-beyondwords-marker=\"352aa865-6032-4b8b-9a96-b5bb790a9726\" class=\"wp-block-buttons book-links is-vertical is-content-justification-center is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-1 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div data-beyondwords-marker=\"32ad6ac1-8b52-4eba-a6f0-0422d1fb330c\" class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-100 is-style-outline is-style-outline--d13fdf02f049d01bfb483876fcaf8ac0\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/articles\/a-bit-of-earth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Buy from Amazon<\/a>   <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"28fbb2d7-02ac-417f-b6cb-8f2e39ce43d6\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But there is also something to be said for reading a book that isn\u2019t quite so straightforward or quite so easily categorized. It is sometimes good to read a book that is beautifully written and that uses a certain topic to offer reflections on living the Christian life. And that\u2019s what Andrea Burke has provided in <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/articles\/a-bit-of-earth\/\" rel=\"noopener\">A Bit of Earth<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"56b0db21-f96b-47f7-9746-76ecdf56840d\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The book is structured around a year of tending to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is nothing wrong with being purposeful in our reading. Do you want to be a better dad? Then read a book about fatherhood. Do you want to have a better marriage? Then read a book about marriage. Do you want to come to a deeper understanding of the attributes of God? Then read a book on his attributes. Well and good.See AlsoThree Types of Reading (And Suggested Books for Each)Redeeming Sex in MarriageNone Like Him<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":81094,"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":[303],"class_list":["post-81081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tim-challies","tag-articles","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\/08\/benjamin-combs-wuU_SSxDeS0-unsplash-1-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81081","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=81081"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81095,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81081\/revisions\/81095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/81094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}