{"id":112335,"date":"2024-11-08T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-09T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=112335"},"modified":"2024-11-09T00:12:22","modified_gmt":"2024-11-09T06:12:22","slug":"weekend-a-la-carte-november-9-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=112335","title":{"rendered":"Weekend A La Carte (November 9)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"9567834f-a1d8-4c53-abee-54ed9d404ed3\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m grateful to P&amp;R for sponsoring the blog this week to tell you about a beautiful 40-day illustrated <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/prpbooks.com\/book\/a-treasury-of-nature\" rel=\"noopener\">devotional of classic literature<\/a>. Sponsors are crucial for keeping this site going so I appreciate each and every one.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"8f5bdb07-2eec-48b4-8931-b7c53544085e\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don&#8217;t often expect a lot of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\/\">Kindle deals<\/a> on Saturdays, but today&#8217;s an exception. There are some good picks there such as Jackie Hill Perry&#8217;s <em>Holier Than Thou<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"56510d20-43f8-4756-b2ac-3d68127a8b39\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(Yesterday on the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/resources\/nows-the-time-to-prepare-to-prepare-for-christmas\/\">Now\u2019s the Time to Prepare to Prepare for Christmas<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crossway.org\/articles\/waiting-on-god-means-releasing-the-right-to-control-your-life\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Waiting on God Means Releasing the Right to Control Your Life<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"2b10f800-5e2d-424a-a371-1ca00329e363\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mark Vroegop: &#8220;Why is it so easy to get angry when we have to wait? It seems like that\u2018s our natural go-to response. There are other things that we may embrace when we\u2018re waiting that are unhelpful, like getting anxious or apathetic. But for most of us, myself included, our natural knee-jerk reaction is frustration, low-grade anger, or really angry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=F6oMKM-G5lw\" rel=\"noopener\">Approach, My Soul (Video)<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"331c202b-754c-4542-99a2-f7ca2385e3bc\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You&#8217;ll enjoy this new adaptation of an old song.<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/au.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/the-difficult-possibly-unfixable-lot-of-chronic-illness-in-this-life\/\" rel=\"noopener\">The Difficult, Possibly Unfixable Lot of Chronic Illness\u2026 in This Life<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"47ab5381-6394-4651-8723-bf3ffab2945d\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those who live with chronic illness may benefit from reading this article.<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/justinhuffman.org\/2024\/11\/07\/lessons-from-george-muller\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Lessons From<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A La Carte: Waiting on God \/ Approach, My Soul \/ Chronic illness \/ A comforting verse for not so great preachers \/ Love the church like Jesus \/ and more.See AlsoA La Carte (October 24)A La Carte (October 18)A La Carte (June 11)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":112351,"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-112335","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-weekend-b-3-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1219&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112335","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=112335"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112353,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112335\/revisions\/112353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/112351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}