{"id":636,"date":"2012-08-02T01:04:55","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T06:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/?p=636"},"modified":"2012-08-28T01:07:30","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T06:07:30","slug":"book-review-nearing-home-by-billy-graham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/2012\/08\/02\/book-review-nearing-home-by-billy-graham\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Nearing Home by Billy Graham"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>“I never thought I would live to be this old. All my life I was taught how to die as a Christian, but no one ever taught me how I ought to live in the years before I die. I wish they had because I am an old man now, and believe me, it’s not easy.”<\/p>\n

These are the first lines of Billy Graham’s latest book. This man is beloved by many and has quite a reputation among believers and non-believers alike. He has one of the most recognizable voices to those over 40.<\/p>\n

His words are simple and elegant – just like his life. As you would expect the book is filled with Scriptural references. The point of the book seems to be getting your life in order to die – with relationships, with God and with yourself. It ends with a look at heaven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“I never thought I would live to be this old. All my life I was taught how to die as a Christian, but no one ever taught me how I ought to live in the years before I die.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30,4],"tags":[29,34],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-rev","category-what","tag-book-review","tag-discipleship","item-wrap"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/book_nearinghome_BillyGraham.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1xumr-ag","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}