{"id":117880,"date":"2025-02-26T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=117880"},"modified":"2025-02-27T00:26:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T06:26:41","slug":"a-la-carte-february-27-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=117880","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (February 27)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"3bd66b2d-a8a8-428f-92f2-1e5494803f3f\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">May the Lord be with you and bless you today.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"1332a18d-faf3-4c3f-907d-b39ce16595cb\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\/\">Kindle deals<\/a> include several titles meant to help prepare you for Easter. There&#8217;s quite a substantial list of other titles as well.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"5004c4e1-e379-4cef-bfb8-b266fd120aac\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(Yesterday on the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/articles\/the-quest-for-more\/\">The Quest for More<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/faithfulparadox.com\/2025\/02\/25\/what-i-thought-versus-what-i-now-know\/\">10 Things That Are Different Than What I Expected<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"968853c3-45af-44be-818e-3844c5b4d8a6\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyone who has experienced deep grief, or anyone who wants to be equipped to walk with others through such a time, will be helped by this article. The writer expresses &#8220;10 things that are different than what I expected as I consider the road of loss and grief.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sethlewis.ie\/2025\/02\/26\/the-indispensable-inefficiency-of-prayer\/\">The Indispensable Inefficiency of Prayer<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"8d3135ce-1cfc-4a54-93a9-07f43e451743\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;For a Christian, one of the most effective uses of our time is an activity that looks to most people\u2014and maybe quite often to ourselves\u2014like one of the most inefficient. And yet, if we really believe what we say we believe, and if we really trust our Saviour to guide us, then it is indispensable: Prayer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/symposium-25-challies\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/symposium-25-challies\">Reclaiming Biblical Missions: Join Paul Washer &amp; Conrad Mbewe at the 2025 International Symposium<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"ae261425-8a7a-47fc-829d-07413d5c42e4\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Join The Master\u2019s Academy International and over 40 missions leaders for a one-of-a-kind international<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A La Carte: Different than I expected \/ The indispensable inefficiency of prayer \/ Dumb church \/ Pleading the blood \/ Love songs and Christian marriage \/ Acts of God \/ and more.See AlsoA La Carte (January 17)Weekend A La Carte (December 7)A La Carte (May 30)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":117897,"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-117880","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-thu-a-5-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1219&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117880","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=117880"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117899,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117880\/revisions\/117899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/117897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}