{"id":136,"date":"2017-12-24T18:35:51","date_gmt":"2017-12-25T01:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbarrick.org\/?p=136"},"modified":"2018-09-05T21:24:56","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T04:24:56","slug":"my-recommendations-book-of-the-week-december-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbarrick.org\/?p=136","title":{"rendered":"My Recommendations: Book of the Week, December 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1414326270\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1414326270&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=drba-20&amp;linkId=f93adb7fd81d3eaacc07b1eac6bf8c3f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ASIN=1414326270&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;WS=1&amp;Format=_SL250_&amp;tag=drba-20\" border=\"0\" style=\"float:left;margin:20px;\"><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 20px !important;float:left;\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=drba-20&amp;l=am2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1414326270\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p>Josh McDowell has joined with his son Sean to revise, update, and republish this classic. No better volume fits the Christmas season better when it comes to being a gift to someone still unfamiliar with who the Jesus of Christmas really is or to someone who already loves the Savior deeply.&nbsp;<strong>More Than a Carpenter<\/strong> proved to be a great blessing one Christmas season while we served as missionaries in Bangladesh. I&#8217;ll never forget the impact it made on me and our celebration of Christmas that year. The volume is not just devotional, it is an apologetic presenting the biblical Jesus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click on picture for link.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/recommendations\"><strong>Recommendations<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/books-ive-endorsed\/\"><strong>Books I&#8217;ve Endorsed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"\/dr-barricks-books\/\">Dr. Barrick&#8217;s Books<\/a>&nbsp;<\/strong>or<strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/drbarrick.org\/my-publications\/\">Publications<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh McDowell has joined with his son Sean to revise, update, and republish this classic. No better volume fits the Christmas season better when it comes to being a gift to someone still unfamiliar with who the Jesus of Christmas really is or to someone who already loves the Savior deeply.&nbsp;More Than a Carpenter proved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[419,671,672,673,542,674,675,676,677,678,679,45],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recommendations","tag-apologetics","tag-christmas","tag-christology","tag-devotional","tag-jesus-christ","tag-josh-mcdowell","tag-messiah","tag-momentum","tag-more-than-a-carpenter","tag-sean-mcdowell","tag-tyndale","tag-william-d-barrick"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbarrick.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbarrick.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbarrick.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbarrick.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbarrick.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/drbarrick.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138,"href":"https:\/\/drbarrick.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbarrick.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbarrick.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbarrick.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}