{"id":115360,"date":"2025-01-03T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=115360"},"modified":"2025-01-03T23:23:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T05:23:31","slug":"weekend-a-la-carte-january-4-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=115360","title":{"rendered":"Weekend A La Carte (January 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"3a490e33-d7ee-4045-b4b2-dc59f15cd941\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once again I&#8217;m thankful to Burke Care for sponsoring the blog this week. Burke Care offers discipleship care (biblical counseling) through its secure online portal.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"9d5ade6a-caa0-48e5-905d-bc5e005c42e2\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Westminster Books is offering a steep discount on a new <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsbooks.com\/blogs\/2024-enews\/the-power-of-the-gospel?utm_source=challies&amp;utm_medium=challies\">devotional commentary<\/a> by R.C. Sproul. They have lots of other daily devotionals on sale as well.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"26a65283-d79d-4510-bcb4-42edd1d84c1b\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are, indeed, some new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\/\">Kindle deals<\/a> to consider today.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"511a9ed4-1b79-44c3-98cc-7a75f8e2cab4\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(Yesterday on the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/book-reviews\/to-be-a-woman\/\">To Be a Woman<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wyattgraham.com\/p\/what-does-the-bible-say-about-remarriage\">What Does the Bible Say About Remarriage?<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"e71cb268-d73b-44d2-9af5-0b05e4bad6ec\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wyatt Graham follows up his article about divorce with a very thorough and helpful one about remarriage. &#8220;For my part, I do not believe that the Bible provides extensive teaching on remarriage, and so I will argue that we need to take each divorce on a case-by-case basis, using Christian wisdom to understand how the Bible and God-given reason inform the situation. In other words, discussing remarriage after divorce\u00a0<em>requires prudential reasoning on the basis of certain first principles<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.newgrowthpress.com\/are-you-your-spouses-biggest-cheerleader\/\">Are You Your Spouse\u2019s Biggest Cheerleader?<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"46d3831f-2ad5-4352-9b78-51ca1b6f7681\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bob Lepine tells how spouses ought to be one another&#8217;s biggest cheerleaders.<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.str.org\/article-feed?p_p_id=com_liferay_journal_content_web_portlet_JournalContentPortlet_INSTANCE_VXWGAytvGtxR&amp;p_p_lifecycle=0&amp;_com_liferay_journal_content_web_portlet_JournalContentPortlet_INSTANCE_VXWGAytvGtxR_groupId=20123&amp;_com_liferay_journal_content_web_portlet_JournalContentPortlet_INSTANCE_VXWGAytvGtxR_articleId=995242\">What Is a Man? What Is a Woman?<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"2842f7d7-faa6-4b79-85b4-fde395920f32\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alan Shlemon: &#8220;Is there a reliable,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A La Carte: What does the Bible say about remarriage? \/ Are you your spouse&#8217;s biggest cheerleader? \/ What is a man and what is a woman? \/ For the most part, we need to stop the claims of government overreach \/ Find purpose in mundane work \/ and more.See AlsoA La Carte (November 6)Weekend A La Carte (October 5)Weekend A La Carte (June 29)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":115376,"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-115360","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\/2025\/01\/cover-a-la-carte-weekend-b-1-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1219&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115360","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=115360"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115378,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115360\/revisions\/115378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/115376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}