{"id":114628,"date":"2024-12-18T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=114628"},"modified":"2024-12-18T23:56:40","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T05:56:40","slug":"a-la-carte-december-19-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=114628","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (December 19)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"21784dce-b066-47e0-98f8-c537e14502de\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">May the Lord be with you and bless you today.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"19bb79f9-cef3-4072-a4d9-d17de3529978\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\/\">Kindle deals<\/a> include some excellent titles on forgiveness, evangelism, and living in exile.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"11f3487e-848f-4e06-a40b-4d88c74a1dd7\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(Yesterday on the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/resources\/12-interesting-ways-to-read-your-bible-in-2025\/\">12 Fresh Ways to Read Your Bible in 2025<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/astronaut-left-nasa\/\">Meet the Astronaut Who Left NASA to Help Support Healthy Churches<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"2ca7f177-7b1e-4399-a345-68609c078f3e\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You&#8217;ll enjoy this profile of astronaut Pat Forrester. &#8220;Pat Forrester was 63 years old. He\u2019d been to space three times to put together the International Space Station. To do the internship, he\u2019d stepped down from his job as chief of the astronaut office\u2014the highest position an active astronaut can have\u2014and moved from his corner office at the Johnson Space Center in Houston to a white plastic table in a CHBC Sunday school room.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/tifwe.org\/the-cradle-that-rocked-the-world\/\">The Cradle That Rocked the World<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"71a734bb-fd55-45af-9016-54db1ce4d0e1\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Do yourself and your family a favor this December. Start by reading Luke or Matthew\u2019s account of Jesus\u2019 birth; but don\u2019t stop there. Tell the whole story, starting with Genesis and ending with Revelation. You see, the Christmas narrative\u2014fully told\u2014is quite different from what one might typically imagine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/buildingjerusalem.blog\/2024\/12\/18\/are-catholics-christian\/\">Are Catholics Christian?<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"4946ef4c-2460-4074-a1d6-0910710d3e5e\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stephen does a good job of answering a big question:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A La Carte: The astronaut who left NASA to support healthy churches \/ The cradle that rocked the world \/ Are Catholics Christian? \/ Why we need beautiful churches \/ On stumbling \/ and more.See AlsoA La Carte (October 14)A La Carte (June 5)A La Carte (May 16)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":114643,"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-114628","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-a-3-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1219&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114628","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=114628"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114645,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114628\/revisions\/114645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/114643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}