{"id":966,"date":"2017-08-01T14:38:01","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T13:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.com\/?p=966"},"modified":"2017-09-01T14:38:35","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T13:38:35","slug":"book-review-the-art-of-turning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/book-review-the-art-of-turning\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: The Art of Turning"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Kevin<\/p>\n

At some point I’m going to need to write a ‘thinkpiece’ about Christian publishing. This book, actually, prompted that thought. So I won’t go down that line today.<\/p>\n

So what is this book?<\/p>\n

This is a short, readable, challenging little book from one of my nearly-favourite authors. Kevin DeYoung, that deals with the thorny question of the conscience.<\/p>\n

I need to emphasise again – this is a\u00a0short<\/em> book, dealing with a large issue, but Kevin does a great job in the few pages available to him. The subtitle of the book is the invitation this nicely produced little booklet offers – to\u00a0turn<\/em> from Sin to Christ\u00a0for<\/em> a joyfully clear conscience.<\/p>\n

Kevin engages with Luther, Paul, and the spread of New Testament teaching on the conscience. This would be a helpful book for those of us who struggle with what our conscience is, and how we engage with it Christian-ly. This invitation to turn\u00a0from<\/em> Sin\u00a0to\u00a0<\/em>Christ is an invitation to joy – and this little book is one that is an encouragement and a faith-builder. I read it in one short sitting – and at 40 pages I think you could too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At some point I’m going to need to write a ‘thinkpiece’ about Christian publishing. This book, actually, prompted that thought. So I won’t go down that line today. So what is this book? This is a short, readable, challenging little … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,88,390,3],"tags":[560,559,558,561],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":968,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions\/968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}