{"id":111484,"date":"2024-10-22T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=111484"},"modified":"2024-10-22T23:44:07","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T04:44:07","slug":"a-la-carte-october-23-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=111484","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (October 23)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"0f175c00-fda4-4885-9c36-5717545525e1\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Audible (Amazon&#8217;s audiobook service) is offering a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/a-la-carte\/a-la-carte-october-23-2024\/\" rel=\"noopener\">holiday special<\/a> where your first three months are just $0.99 per month. In that time you&#8217;ll be able to download, listen to, and keep 3 audiobooks of your choice from their massive catalog. Set a reminder on your phone for 3 months from now and then decide if you&#8217;d like to keep or cancel the service. (You are eligible for the deal if you have not had an Audible membership in the past 365 days.)<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"9b64709e-53af-405e-acf3-a6bab0227227\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\/\">Kindle deals<\/a> include <em>You Are Still a Mother<\/em> which is a beautiful and comforting book for those who are grieving stillbirth or miscarriage. There are other good options as well.<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.douglasgroothuis.com\/post\/how-to-write-a-meaningful-card\" rel=\"noopener\">How to Write a Meaningful Card<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"a00a8a75-fbe3-441b-9ae3-9d107f2ac135\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Douglas Groothuis offers some simple but helpful advice on writing a meaningful card. &#8220;Writing cards is a way to re-humanize a de-humanized culture. Too much is too automatic and impersonal. When you pen (and I mean pen) a card, it bears the mark of your handwriting, your choice of ink and pen. A human\u2014you\u2014emerges from the thick lagoon of the pre-set, the template, the standard, the algorithm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/articles\/god-brings-us-bad-to-give-us-best\" rel=\"noopener\">God Brings Us Bad to Give Us Best<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A La Carte: How to write a meaningful card \/ God brings us bad to give us best \/ New notebook, same mission \/ There but for the grace of God go I \/ The trouble with competitiveness \/ and more.See AlsoA La Carte (May 13)A La Carte (3\/7)A La Carte (12\/30)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":111499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[306],"class_list":["post-111484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tim-challies","tag-a-la-carte","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/cover-a-la-carte-wed-b-5-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1219&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111484"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111501,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111484\/revisions\/111501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/111499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}