{"id":733,"date":"2008-12-28T15:34:38","date_gmt":"2008-12-28T20:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2008\/12\/28\/book-recommendation-polishing-gods-monuments\/"},"modified":"2008-12-28T15:34:38","modified_gmt":"2008-12-28T20:34:38","slug":"book-recommendation-polishing-gods-monuments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/28\/book-recommendation-polishing-gods-monuments\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Recommendation: Polishing God&#8217;s Monuments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know that there are book recommendations everywhere and there is only so much time.&#160; So I don&#8217;t recommend books too quickly.&#160; But a book that I was given for Christmas (and had finished by the next day) is one you might <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/097675827X\/713713713-20\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"pillars\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; margin: 5px 0px 0px 5px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"155\" alt=\"pillars\" src=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BookRecommendationPolishingGodsMonuments_CC4D\/pillars.jpg\" width=\"104\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>want to consider reading.&#160; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/097675827X\/713713713-20\">Polishing God&#8217;s Monuments: Pillars of Hope for Punishing Times<\/a>, by Jim Andrews, is a remarkable story of a family that has suffered unlike any I have ever known or could imagine.&#160; Alongside the engaging story of the crises is excellent instruction about suffering from one who has been there (and is still there 20 years later).&#160; Some of the ideas I knew before, some were new, and all is packaged in a single engaging book.&#160; If you &#8216;re in the midst of suffering, you &#8216;ll benefit from this book.&#160; If you&#8217;ve never suffered, now is a good time to get ready.&#160; (I learned about the book from blogger Tim Challies, who named it his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.challies.com\/archives\/book-reviews\/my-favorite-books-of-2007.php\">favorite book of 2007<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know that there are book recommendations everywhere and there is only so much time.&#160; So I don&#8217;t recommend books too quickly.&#160; But a book that I was given for Christmas (and had finished by the next day) is one you might want to consider reading.&#160; Polishing God&#8217;s Monuments: Pillars of Hope for Punishing Times,\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/28\/book-recommendation-polishing-gods-monuments\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-faith","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}