{"id":114282,"date":"2024-12-12T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=114282"},"modified":"2024-12-12T23:13:06","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T05:13:06","slug":"a-la-carte-december-13-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=114282","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (December 13)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"0adb2e71-ac92-484c-94b1-9314fb690a32\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The God of peace be with you today. <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"0af17209-cd01-4b0a-9a3f-d68e7476eb4b\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Did you know Sinclair Ferguson has a new daily devotional out? <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsbooks.com\/blogs\/2024-enews\/things-unseen?utm_source=challies&amp;utm_medium=challies\">Westminster Books<\/a> has it at 40% off. They&#8217;ve got some other devotionals discounted as well.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"c0f231e6-19aa-4e10-b57b-fe45131f72cc\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\/\">Kindle deals<\/a> include a variety of interesting titles. Remember that I&#8217;ve got an X account at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/challiesdeals\">@challiesdeals<\/a> that shares some of them each day.<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/web-exclusives\/2024\/12\/why-i-am-not-catholic\">Why I Am Not Catholic<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"6633be9c-a49a-442d-98be-f31dc0cb8a34\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Carl Trueman spends a fair bit of time with Roman Catholics and was recently asked why he isn&#8217;t Catholic. He answers at First Things (which, of course, is a Catholic publication). &#8220;Confessional, orthodox Protestants should take no satisfaction in Rome\u2019s increasing resemblance to the old enemy of liberal Protestantism. Rome still has the money and institutional weight to make a difference in these great struggles over what it means to be human. If Rome equivocates and falls on these issues, the world will become colder and harsher for all of us. To quote Elrond, our list of allies grows thin. And Pope Francis is not reversing that process.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/justinpoythress.com\/mastering-your-self-is-harder-than-mastering-the-world\/\">Mastering Your Self Is Harder Than Mastering the World<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"e9cfe664-408c-40a5-894d-9836a47a95bd\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ain&#8217;t this the truth! &#8220;To conquer a city<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A La Carte: Why I am not Catholic \/ Mastering your self \/ The Reformation moment is our moment \/ Is living together before marriage really a sin? \/ What if we let the Bible form us in 2025? \/ and more.See AlsoWeekend A La Carte (October 5)A La Carte (May 21)A La Carte (May 20)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":114299,"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-114282","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-fri-b-1-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1219&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114282","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=114282"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114301,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114282\/revisions\/114301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/114299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}