{"id":11364,"date":"2020-01-26T05:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-26T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=11364"},"modified":"2020-01-26T05:37:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-26T11:37:01","slug":"sunday-a-la-carte-january-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=11364","title":{"rendered":"Sunday A La Carte (January 26)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It was such a good week for interesting articles and videos that I collected more than I could fit into this week’s A La Carte columns. For that reason I’m adding an additional A La Carte today. Enjoy!<\/p>\n

Why We Shouldn’t Ditch the Traditional Sermon Just Yet<\/a> <\/p>\n

I quite agree that we shouldn’t even seriously consider ditching the traditional sermon!<\/p>\n

A Lesson (or Two) in Death<\/a> <\/p>\n

Eleazar Maduka shares an important lesson or two about death. “To the average churchgoer in many Christian circles in Nigeria, untimely death occurs when a person dies before their God-appointed time. It’s when the plan of the devil (or a person’s enemies) prevails over God’s plan. When a person dies young. Or dies just before a major breakthrough. Or immediately after a major breakthrough. Anything short of a ripe, old age is untimely and isn’t God’s plan. It’s a work of Satan.”<\/p>\n

America’s Favorite Poison<\/a> <\/p>\n

It has been a long time since I’ve read any serious engagement with the possible drawbacks of alcohol, especially from a non-religious source. Yet here’s just such an article from The Atlantic<\/em>. “Regardless of how much Americans love to drink, the country could be safer and healthier<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was such a good week for interesting articles and videos that I collected more than I could fit into this week\u2019s A La Carte columns. For that reason I\u2019m adding an additional A La Carte today. Enjoy! Why We Shouldn\u2019t Ditch the Traditional Sermon Just Yet I quite agree that we shouldn\u2019t even seriously consider ditching the traditional sermon! A Lesson (or Two) in Death Eleazar Maduka shares an important lesson or two about death. \u201cTo the average churchgoer \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":11368,"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-11364","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\/2020\/01\/A20La20Carte20-20concepts203202_5-1.jpg?fit=910%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11364","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=11364"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11370,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11364\/revisions\/11370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}