{"id":638,"date":"2010-05-11T10:48:49","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T14:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faculty.bbc.edu\/mstallard\/?p=638"},"modified":"2010-05-11T10:48:49","modified_gmt":"2010-05-11T14:48:49","slug":"bbs-seminary-student-wins-book-of-the-year-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/bbs-seminary-student-wins-book-of-the-year-award\/","title":{"rendered":"BBS Seminary Student Wins Book of the Year Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Baker, a Ph.D. student at Baptist Bible Seminary, has recently won the 2010 Book of the Year Award in the category of Christian Living for the Christian Small Publishers Association.\u00a0 His work is <em>Spiritual Maturity: The Road to Wonderland<\/em> published by Grace Acres Press.\u00a0\u00a0Bruce&#8217;s book came out of course work\u00a0in the Ph.D. program at BBS.\u00a0 However, he writes\u00a0for the Church\u00a0and not\u00a0just for academics.\u00a0\u00a0Bruce creatively and powerfully\u00a0uses\u00a0the images of Alice in Wonderland from Lewis Caroll&#8217;s classic nineteenth-century works to illustrate a clear exposition of mostly Pauline texts concerning how Christians are to grow in their walk with Christ through the work of the Holy Spirit.\u00a0 I predict that this work will become a standard tool for study in our churches.\u00a0 I would like to think that Bruce&#8217;s work shows that one can work in the doctoral program at BBS without losing his zeal for the local church and the spiritual growth of individuals in our churches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Baker, a Ph.D. student at Baptist Bible Seminary, has recently won the 2010 Book of the Year Award in the category of Christian Living for the Christian Small Publishers Association.\u00a0 His work is Spiritual Maturity: The Road to Wonderland published by Grace Acres Press.\u00a0\u00a0Bruce&#8217;s book came out of course work\u00a0in the Ph.D. program at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}