{"id":109639,"date":"2024-09-27T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-28T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=109639"},"modified":"2024-09-27T23:55:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-28T04:55:12","slug":"weekend-a-la-carte-september-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=109639","title":{"rendered":"Weekend A La Carte (September 28)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"ccbdb88f-564d-4e28-bb17-2fc8fcd7d91b\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am grateful to Evangelical Press for sponsoring the blog this week. They want you to know about the beautiful new box set of J.C. Ryle&#8217;s <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/us.10ofthose.com\/product\/9781783974801\/expository-thoughts-on-the-gospels-boxset\" rel=\"noopener\">Expository Thoughts<\/a><\/em>. I just received a copy and can tell you that it&#8217;s as nice as it looks in the pictures. And the content, of course, is pure gold.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"35020a87-48a3-49af-a93d-36125da9a684\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\/\">Kindle deals<\/a> include a few interesting titles new and old.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"10dac86d-f5ed-44e3-b18c-be32f0753d19\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our friends at Westminster Books are trying <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsbooks.com\/blogs\/2024-enews\/living-life-backward?utm_source=challies&amp;utm_medium=challies\" rel=\"noopener\">something new<\/a>\u2014giving away one of their all-time favorite books as a means of supporting an important ministry.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"b7a44bcd-5adc-41f5-9c95-2a48c1bdd1a8\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(Yesterday on the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/articles\/new-and-notable-christian-books-for-september-2024\/\">New and Notable Christian Books for September 2024<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalliturgies.net\/p\/a-concise-theology-of-failure\" rel=\"noopener\">A Concise Theology of Failure<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"72499584-1ba1-4d23-bd50-c233ce3550f7\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a really good article from Samuel James. &#8220;But what if you don\u2019t get the life you wanted? In the digital age, you might as well not even exist. Failure is obscurity, and obscurity is death. In the post-religious imagination, without success, there is no meaning to one\u2019s life. You can go on surviving, but each day that is spent contrary to what you actually want to be doing is a waste. 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