{"id":112165,"date":"2024-11-05T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=112165"},"modified":"2024-11-05T23:57:02","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T05:57:02","slug":"a-la-carte-november-6-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=112165","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (November 6)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"508b3f28-7101-45ed-bc2b-bc742c480835\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">May the Lord be with you and bless you today.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"58d548b6-9cfc-4afc-a1e6-74ed7c7710c9\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\/\">Kindle deals<\/a> include some notable books like Tim Chester&#8217;s <em>Into His Presence<\/em> and Rush Witt&#8217;s <em>I Want To Escape<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/storywarren.com\/a-warning-about-having-children\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=a-warning-about-having-children\" rel=\"noopener\">A Warning About Having Children<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"d29a4b0c-d33d-4c3c-9164-974622580d6b\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The surgeon general recently issued a\u00a0new public health advisory. Forget pandemics or toxic substances; this time the source of this warning is likely sleeping under the same roof as you. The culprit: your own kids. According to the surgeon general\u2019s report, the mental toll of raising children is &#8216;an urgent public health issue.&#8217;&#8221; Jessica Burke responds to it.<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mereorthodoxy.com\/be-perfect\" rel=\"noopener\">Be Perfect<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"e2b51a1f-f452-4432-9d54-42b6bf8c4602\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a helpful look at what the Bible means when it uses the word &#8220;perfect.&#8221; &#8220;In our time, &#8216;perfectionism&#8217; is rightly treated as a kind of low-level pathology. It comes with certain benefits, of course, but most seem to agree that the perfectionist lifestyle is unsustainable. \u2026 And yet Jesus comes along and tells us to be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect. So we\u00a0<em>should\u00a0<\/em>be perfectionists? Perhaps.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/articles\/leave-church-a-little-tired\" rel=\"noopener\">Leave Church a Little Tired: Serving the Saints on Sunday Morning<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"74db7c71-2e07-4fd9-8612-0daeeed1508b\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I love that idea: leaving church a little tired.<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/buildingjerusalem.blog\/2024\/11\/05\/making-virtues-out-of-what-isnt-virtuous\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Making Virtues Out of What Isn\u2019t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A La Carte: A warning about having children \/ Leave church a little tired \/ Making virtues out of what isn&#8217;t virtuous \/ Is Exodus a myth? \/ A theology of leisure \/ Kindle deals \/ and more.See AlsoA La Carte (August 21)A La Carte (July 16)Weekend A La Carte (May 25)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":112181,"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-112165","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\/11\/cover-a-la-carte-wed-a-1-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1219&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112165","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=112165"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112183,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112165\/revisions\/112183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/112181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}