{"id":19105,"date":"2025-05-01T18:41:27","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T23:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=19105"},"modified":"2025-07-09T18:47:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T23:47:30","slug":"book-review-understanding-gods-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=19105","title":{"rendered":"BOOK REVIEW | Understanding God&#8217;s Word"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"647\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/39683F8E76ED583A7BC87B81D1D8435238EB6C42.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19106\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/39683F8E76ED583A7BC87B81D1D8435238EB6C42.jpg 647w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/39683F8E76ED583A7BC87B81D1D8435238EB6C42-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 647px) 100vw, 647px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Understanding God&#8217;s Word by Jon Nielson is a wonderful resource for both the devoted Christ follower and the person who is just starting to study God&#8217;s word.  He does a remarkable job of breaking down the hermeneutical process into a system that makes sense.  He uses C&#8217;s to describe each of the &#8220;tools&#8221; in the box of the person that desires to understand and interpret the Bible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Context Tool <br>The Courtroom Tool<br>The Crux Tool <br>The Construction Tool <br>The Clarity Tool<br>The Cross Tool <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t have direct quotes or highlights to share for this one because I finished it and took it right upstairs to one of our Bible teachers who has been looking for a resource to share with students that are new to Bible study.  Great tool&#8230;highly recommend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Understanding God&#8217;s Word by Jon Nielson is a wonderful resource for both the devoted Christ follower and the person who is just starting to study God&#8217;s word. He does a remarkable job of breaking down the hermeneutical process into a system that makes sense. He uses C&#8217;s to describe each of the &#8220;tools&#8221; in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bible-study","category-book-review"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/39683F8E76ED583A7BC87B81D1D8435238EB6C42.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19107,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19105\/revisions\/19107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}