{"id":110770,"date":"2024-10-10T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=110770"},"modified":"2024-10-10T23:33:19","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T04:33:19","slug":"a-la-carte-october-11-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=110770","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (October 11)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"4c0a59ad-393f-4127-985e-dac5b38cbdfe\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\/\">Kindle deals<\/a> include Vance Christie&#8217;s hefty new biography of David Livingstone\u2014one of the best biographies I&#8217;ve read in a while. It&#8217;s discounted by something like 90%. You&#8217;ll find some other excellent books as well.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"672f617a-83f0-4168-b1ca-85771389ade1\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also, if you&#8217;re not in the habit of checking in over the weekend, you may want to know that on Sunday there&#8217;s going to be a big one-day Kindle sale with lots of great deals. So check <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\/\">here<\/a> or at my X account (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/challiesdeals\" rel=\"noopener\">@challiesdeals<\/a>) to see what it&#8217;s all about.<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crossway.org\/articles\/saul-had-an-extraordinary-supernatural-conversionand-so-did-you\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Saul Had an Extraordinary, Supernatural Conversion\u2014and So Did You<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"c47e61f7-5de8-455d-a92f-8a2bda07f736\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nancy Guthrie: &#8220;Isn\u2019t it interesting how God saves people? And whom God saves? And how he changes them? It\u2019s often the people we least expect and in a way we would never expect. Some people hear the gospel and immediately take hold of it, while others spend a lot of time considering the claims of Christ and gradually come to faith. Some people have a profoundly emotional experience, while others feel very little. Some experience immediate deliverance from sinful impulses and patterns, while others spend a lifetime seeking to put certain sins to death. 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