{"id":116397,"date":"2025-01-23T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=116397"},"modified":"2025-01-24T00:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T06:27:12","slug":"a-la-carte-january-24-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=116397","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (January 24)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"14ac0d42-d234-4cd6-8d0d-d64da1335a71\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\/\">Kindle deals<\/a> include an especially good option: Robert Cara&#8217;s excellent commentary on Hebrews (which has endorsements from Tom Schreiner, Kevin DeYoung, and others). It&#8217;s ideal for pastors or non-pastors alike. There are several other books to look at as well. <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"a47dbfd3-8308-4221-add7-bc83a5553e98\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(Yesterday on the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/resources\/books-about-parenting-in-a-modern-world\/\">Books about the Challenges of Parenting in a Modern World<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mereorthodoxy.com\/love-your-actual-neighbor\">Love Your (Actual) Neighbor<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"762fdb12-668b-4e4f-9b98-d1d52fe1c437\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is probably the best piece of prose you will read today. &#8220;Together we are young, we are old, we are alcoholic, we are poor, we are sometimes rotund, we are childlike, we are childish, we are black, we are white, we are divorced, we are Irish, we are atheist, we are Chinese, we are Jewish, we are widowed. We also take out the dog several times a day, nurture the geraniums on the windowsill, and feed the ornamental fish after breakfast. In short, we are singularly human.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thecripplegate.com\/whiteness-an-african-translation\/\">Whiteness: An African Translation<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"b5c9102d-1e6d-49ee-a70e-51faa350f298\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Cripplegate has a really interesting article about Africa and whiteness.<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/truth78.org\/blogs\/blog\/prioritize-family-discipleship-in-the-year-ahead\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/truth78.org\/blogs\/blog\/prioritize-family-discipleship-in-the-year-ahead\">Prioritize Family Discipleship in the Year Ahead<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"bb37c680-8fe9-4259-b51b-ddca64ee477e\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I know I have to protect family discipleship as a priority because it\u2019s one of those commitments that falls in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A La Carte: Love your (actual) neighbor \/ Whiteness: an African translation \/ How Jesus helps my unbelief \/ Could you be a global nomad for the gospel? \/ God doesn&#8217;t work for me \/ Kindle deals \/ and more.See AlsoA La Carte (January 21)A La Carte (July 18)A La Carte (May 30)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":116413,"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-116397","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-fri-a-3-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1219&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116397","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=116397"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116415,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116397\/revisions\/116415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/116413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}