{"id":202,"date":"2012-12-14T11:08:56","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T11:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faithsearch.org\/blogs\/rw\/?p=202"},"modified":"2015-11-20T14:39:53","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T14:39:53","slug":"surprised-by-faith-third-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/ministry\/surprised-by-faith-third-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprised by Faith THIRD Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_190\" style=\"width: 203px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/faithsearch.us\/blogs\/rw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SBF_3e_LR.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-190\" class=\"wp-image-190 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/faithsearch.us\/blogs\/rw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SBF_3e_LR-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"Surprised by Faith, 3d edition\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SBF_3e_LR-193x300.jpg 193w, http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SBF_3e_LR.jpg 395w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-190\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Surprised by Faith, THIRD Edition<\/p><\/div>\n<p>At last! We received our shipment of the newly revised, THIRD Edition of <em>Surprised by Faith<\/em>. I&#8217;m very happy with how it turned out, and the timing couldn&#8217;t have been better. Now we will begin using it to continue proclaiming the Gospel with evidence.<\/p>\n<p>For fun, here&#8217;s \u00a0a little <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faithsearch.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/SBF3e_orig.mp4\">video<\/a>\u00a0I made about the &#8220;birth&#8221; of the book as it comes out of the bindery.<\/p>\n<p>There are new features in this edition, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Updated scientific and historical evidence, particularly the analysis of the relative number of manuscripts among various recognized documents from antiquity;<\/li>\n<li>New material on the nature of faith;<\/li>\n<li>Transition material between the chapters, highlighting the <em>&#8220;Ah-ha!&#8221;<\/em> discoveries along the way. This ties the book more closely to the <em><strong>FaithSearch<\/strong><\/em> Discovery presentation, for which it is the text.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t read it yet, I encourage you to do so. We hear time and again from people who say, &#8220;I wish someone had told me this earlier!&#8221; And the most common comment after our events presenting this material is, &#8220;I wish I had known how powerful and good this would be; I would have brought my friends.&#8221; Check out our <a title=\"FaithSearch events calendar\" href=\"https:\/\/faithsearch.org\/events\/\" target=\"_blank\">calendar<\/a> for an event near you, and bring your friends.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for making it possible for me to work on this and other projects here at <em><strong>FaithSearch<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At last! We received our shipment of the newly revised, THIRD Edition of Surprised by Faith. I&#8217;m very happy with how it turned out, and the timing couldn&#8217;t have been better. Now we will begin using it to continue proclaiming &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/ministry\/surprised-by-faith-third-edition\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":619,"href":"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions\/619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}