{"id":845,"date":"2008-07-10T23:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T03:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=845"},"modified":"2013-06-26T16:58:19","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T20:58:19","slug":"gum-geckos-and-god-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=845","title":{"rendered":"Gum, Geckos, and God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_xECWNO6yc9I\/SHbWIfZfT1I\/AAAAAAAAAPE\/Xe5yrhGT1Hw\/s1600-h\/gum+geckos+and+god.jpg\"><img id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5221596259338374994\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; cursor: hand;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_xECWNO6yc9I\/SHbWIfZfT1I\/AAAAAAAAAPE\/Xe5yrhGT1Hw\/s200\/gum+geckos+and+god.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>I am happy to be participating in a blog tour by Jim Spiegel promoting his new book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FGum-Geckos-God-Familys-Adventure%2Fdp%2F0310283531%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1215747484%26sr%3D1-1&amp;tag=thechildrshou-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">Gum, Geckos, and God<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"drznwrdrbsdvrykzephh\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thechildrshou-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>. Jim teaches philosophy at Taylor University and is the father of four children. This book is a record of various conversations that have come up between him and his children as they have talked about God and the Christian life in informal settings. You can see more about the tour at <a href=\"http:\/\/zondervan.typepad.com\/zondervan\/2008\/06\/gum-geckos-and.html\">Zondervan&#8217;s site<\/a>.<br \/>\nThis is the tour schedule:<\/div>\n<p>July 21- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spunkyhomeschool.blogspot.com\/\">Spunky Homeschool<\/a><br \/>\nJuly 22- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beautyfromtheheart.org\/\">Beauty from the Heart<\/a><br \/>\nJuly 23- <a href=\"http:\/\/atahenspace.blogspot.com\/\">At a Hen&#8217;s Pace<\/a><br \/>\nJuly 24- <a href=\"http:\/\/aholyexperience.com\/\">A Holy Experience<\/a><br \/>\nJuly 25- <a href=\"http:\/\/familyvoice.wordpress.com\/\">Family Voice<\/a><br \/>\nJuly 28- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tedkluck.com\/blog1\/\">Ted Wins<\/a><br \/>\nJuly 29- <a href=\"http:\/\/inamirrordimly.com\/\">In a Mirror Dimly<\/a><br \/>\nJuly 30- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rvanneste.blogspot.com\/\">Oversight of Souls<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/childrenshourbooks.blogspot.com\/\">The Children&#8217;s Hour<\/a><br \/>\nJuly 31- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiansincontext.org\/\">Christians in Context<\/a><br \/>\nAugust 1- <a href=\"http:\/\/ateam.blogware.com\/\">The A-Team Blog<\/a><br \/>\nAugust 4- <a href=\"http:\/\/tomelenbaas.org\/blog\/\">Embarking<\/a><br \/>\nAugust 5- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.challies.com\/\">Challies.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On its day, each blog will post a question about the book and Jim&#8217;s answer. Readers can then ask further questions in the comments section. As you can see I will host the tour on my <a href=\"http:\/\/rvanneste.blogspot.com\/\">pastoral ministry blog<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n<p>I am excited about this book and have really enjoyed reading it. I hope you will stop by for the tour and check out the stops at the other blogs as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am happy to be participating in a blog tour by Jim Spiegel promoting his new book Gum, Geckos, and God. Jim teaches philosophy at Taylor University and is the father of four children. This book is a record of various conversations that have come up between him and his children as they have talked &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=845\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Gum, Geckos, and God&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[222,104],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3297,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions\/3297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}