{"id":225,"date":"2022-07-20T14:32:13","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T02:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.faithandpractice.nz\/?page_id=225"},"modified":"2022-07-20T14:40:03","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T02:40:03","slug":"books-faith","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.faithandpractice.nz\/index.php\/recommended-resources\/recommended-reading\/books-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Books &#8211; Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ragamuffin-Gospel-Bedraggled-Beat-Up-Burnt\/dp\/1590525027\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-360 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.faithandpractice.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Ragamuffin-Gospel-cover.jpg?resize=134%2C213&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"134\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.faithandpractice.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Ragamuffin-Gospel-cover.jpg?resize=188%2C300&amp;ssl=1 188w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.faithandpractice.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Ragamuffin-Gospel-cover.jpg?w=314&amp;ssl=1 314w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 134px) 100vw, 134px\" \/>The Ragamuffin Gospel<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><em>By Brennan Manning<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Most of us believe in God\u2019s grace\u2014in theory. But somehow we can\u2019t seem to apply it in our daily lives. We continue to see Him as a small-minded bookkeeper, tallying our failures and successes on a score sheet.<\/p>\n<p>Yet God gives us His grace, willingly, no matter what we\u2019ve done. We come to Him as ragamuffins\u2014dirty, bedraggled, and beat-up. And when we sit at His feet, He smiles upon us, the chosen objects of His \u201cfurious love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brennan Manning\u2019s now-classic meditation on grace and what it takes to access it\u2014simple honesty\u2014has changed thousands of lives.<\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ragamuffin Gospel By Brennan Manning Most of us believe in God\u2019s grace\u2014in theory. But somehow we can\u2019t seem to apply it in our daily lives. We continue to see Him as a small-minded bookkeeper, tallying our failures and successes <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.faithandpractice.nz\/index.php\/recommended-resources\/recommended-reading\/books-faith\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":19,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-225","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faithandpractice.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faithandpractice.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faithandpractice.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faithandpractice.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faithandpractice.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.faithandpractice.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":370,"href":"https:\/\/www.faithandpractice.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/225\/revisions\/370"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faithandpractice.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faithandpractice.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}