{"id":113808,"date":"2024-12-04T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=113808"},"modified":"2024-12-04T23:26:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T05:26:45","slug":"a-la-carte-december-5-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=113808","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (December 5)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"339a0ac5-37d0-4be4-a2ab-db233597e662\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you&#8217;re into audiobooks, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/a-la-carte\/a-la-carte-december-5-2024\/\">Audible<\/a> (which is associated with Amazon) has all of their titles discounted, many up to 85% if you purchase them rather than use a subscription credit. So, for example, <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/a-la-carte\/a-la-carte-december-5-2024\/\">Becoming Elisabeth Elliot<\/a><\/em> is 85% off while that great <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/a-la-carte\/a-la-carte-december-5-2024\/\">new biography<\/a> of David Livingstone is 56% off, as is the new biography of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/a-la-carte\/a-la-carte-december-5-2024\/\">Corrie Ten Boom<\/a>. And it&#8217;s not just biographies, of course. Basically, just <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/a-la-carte\/a-la-carte-december-5-2024\/\">search for a book<\/a> and click on the audiobook edition to see the sale price.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"f417856d-dde7-47c6-9431-434ff06207b4\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\/\">Kindle deals<\/a> include one about the church and one about Jesus.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"dc8438ec-f1de-436b-849c-f56b5a3ef7d5\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(Yesterday on the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/articles\/youre-exactly-as-holy-as-you-want-to-be\/\">You\u2019re Exactly As Holy As You Want To Be<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wng.org\/opinions\/the-transition-to-ambivalent-world-1733225254\">The Transition to Ambivalent World<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"1efd4323-47bf-499d-bc1d-70ff41865b12\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seth Troutt may be on to something here. &#8220;Aaron Renn\u2019s Negative World thesis makes sense of the secularization we\u2019ve seen in America through three stages: Positive World (pre-1994), where being a Christian was an asset; Neutral World (1994\u20132014), where Christians were generally well-tolerated; and Negative World (2015\u2013present), where following Jesus was seen as a liability. \u2026 From my vantage point, Negative World is already disintegrating and giving rise to a fourth epoch: Ambivalent World.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/homewardbound-cb.blogspot.com\/2024\/12\/how-long-o-lord.html\">How Long, O LORD?<\/a> <\/p>\n<p \n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A La Carte: Transitioning to Ambivalent World \/ The fun of fighting phantoms \/ Is God calling me to obscurity or influence? \/ Six questions our children have that demand answers \/ How long, O Lord? \/ A giant audiobook sale \/ and more.See AlsoA La Carte (October 25)Weekend A La Carte (August 10)A La Carte (June 12)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":113824,"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-113808","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\/12\/cover-a-la-carte-thu-b-1-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1219&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113808","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=113808"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113826,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113808\/revisions\/113826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/113824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}