{"id":117300,"date":"2025-02-10T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=117300"},"modified":"2025-02-11T00:08:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T06:08:42","slug":"a-la-carte-february-11-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=117300","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (February 11)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"47c6e9e5-31f2-4266-af5d-e17324bb7b65\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The God of love and peace be with you.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"0fee3dae-1ab9-49cf-b223-e271686e72ed\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\/\">Kindle deals<\/a> include a few picks for pastors and a few for others. As usual, there&#8217;s lots to choose from.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"75bc2454-69ff-4120-940f-2a65e780785e\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(Yesterday on the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/articles\/dumb-will-do-why-satan-doesnt-need-heresy\/\">Dumb Will Do<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ccef.org\/to-those-living-in-secret-sin\/\">To Those Living in Secret Sin<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"0045d839-0645-4ef5-93b6-c449943d2c1d\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you are living in secret sin, please read what Esther Liu has written here. &#8220;From the title, you may assume I will tell you to bring your secret sin into the light, which is true. Yet, I know this invitation may sound trite and unappealing. If it were that easy, you would have done so already\u2014but chances are it is more complicated for you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/lookingupward.org\/2025\/02\/06\/inseparable\/\">Inseparable<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"1ae820bf-3500-4324-8d4d-f046b95b05a6\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Olivia&#8217;s article is long but rewarding. She offers a biographical story of coming to a deeper understanding of God&#8217;s love and concern for those who are suffering. &#8220;I imagined my tears evaporating up to heaven. I wondered how many trucks full of tear bottles God had to reserve for me. Maybe he had to special order an extra large size or a whole fleet of those massive semis. &#8216;WIDE LOAD,&#8217; they would say in a bright yellow banner while they drove<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A La Carte: To those living in secret sin \/ The time Jesus Left the 99 \/ The discipline of remembrance \/ No-contact for toxic relationships \/ Relational wisdom \/ and more.See AlsoA La Carte (September 26)A La Carte (September 13)A La Carte (June 12)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":117316,"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-117300","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\/02\/cover-a-la-carte-tue-a-3-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1219&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117300","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=117300"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117318,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117300\/revisions\/117318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/117316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}