{"id":115233,"date":"2024-12-31T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=115233"},"modified":"2024-12-31T23:57:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T05:57:30","slug":"a-la-carte-january-1-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=115233","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (January 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"ce8ea224-ea77-48ad-bb60-6b860127fb76\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Happy new year, my friends! May this be a year in which you experience and enjoy God\u2019s richest blessings.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"05389fe9-dd6d-4a18-8a4b-36f94ede792e\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are some excellent new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\/\">Kindle deals<\/a> to look through today. I&#8217;ll also make sure the list is updated by around 6:30 AM EST.<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ilfordipc.co.uk\/the-best-seats-at-church\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=the-best-seats-at-church\">The Best Seats at Church<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"c91afffb-336e-4afa-8ad3-2b63f2967276\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What are the best seats at church? And who ought to sit in them? This article will fill you in.<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/articles\/how-healthy-is-your-soul\">How Healthy Is Your Soul? Six Questions for a New Year<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"73af8faf-29fc-4a86-a209-da1130203f83\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scott Hubbard: &#8220;The devil uses many weapons in his assault against our soul, but one of the most overlooked is simply time. We are changeable creatures in a long war, called to \u201cresist the devil\u201d not for a day or a week or a year but a life. And spiritual health yesterday does not guarantee spiritual health today. So, at the end of a new year, on the edge of another, let\u2019s stop to take some spiritual vitals. How healthy is your soul?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/missionary.com\/docuseries\">See How God Used Six Missionaries to Fulfill the Great Commission<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"7d25ec78-9886-461c-acce-1e1336513bac\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The church isn\u2019t finished\u2026 Stream the <em>Missionary<\/em> docuseries to see how God used missionaries like John Paton,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A La Carte: The best seats at church \/ Soul-health questions for a new year \/ The ministry of presence \/ Parental regret and moving forward when you&#8217;ve let down your children \/ Pastoral burnout \/ and more.See AlsoA La Carte (August 6)A La Carte (June 11)A La Carte (11\/21)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":115249,"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-115233","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-wed-a-3-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1219&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115233","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=115233"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115251,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115233\/revisions\/115251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/115249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}