{"id":118498,"date":"2025-03-13T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=118498"},"modified":"2025-03-13T23:10:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T04:10:51","slug":"a-la-carte-march-14-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=118498","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (March 14)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"77f5bda0-7930-42d2-8a26-c26b531841d1\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Westminster Books has a collection of &#8220;Springs&#8217;s Best New Kids Books&#8221; discounted this week. I was thankful to see my graphic novel <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsbooks.com\/blogs\/2024-enews\/springs-best-new-kids-books?utm_source=challies&amp;utm_medium=challies\">Eric&#8217;s Greatest Race<\/a><\/em> at the top of the list. It&#8217;s coming very soon, so this is a great time to pre-order it! <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"259c2ce4-68b2-4e27-b029-6675fa2073f7\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\/\">Kindle deals<\/a> include the usual collection of 6 or 8 good books.<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.proclaimanddefend.org\/2025\/03\/13\/when-puppies-replace-people\/\">When Puppies Replace People<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"e2352228-6728-42db-89f5-0d167755428d\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What happens when puppies begin to replace people? This article looks at a comment by a Christian antagonist that was very revealing in what it says about modern culture. &#8220;Kids are the new boats. Pets are the new kids. Plants are the new pets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/byfaithonline.com\/learning-to-disagree-as-christians\/\">Learning to Disagree as Christians<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"647811d7-d391-4225-ac04-50b2fbcc3ad5\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">byFaith has been offering some reflections on the church five years after COVID. In that vein, Jake Meador offers some helpful thoughts on learning to disagree as Christians. &#8220;If our hope for Christian unity is found in agreeing on an extensive, exhaustive list of political and public health questions not directly addressed by Scripture, then we have no grounds for hope.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youthpastortheologian.com\/blog\/what-does-the-bible-teach-about-demons-and-spiritual-warfare\">What Does the Bible Teach About Demons and Spiritual Warfare?<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"64c79525-ec9f-452c-9d8f-b79b5c260648\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Writing with younger believers in mind, Mike summarizes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A La Carte: When puppies replace people \/ Learning to disagree \/ Persevere in prayer \/ Demons and spiritual warfare \/ LARPing your job \/ Secret Christianity \/ Graphic novel on sale \/ and more.See AlsoA La Carte (March 6)A La Carte (November 25)A La Carte (September 17)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":118514,"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-118498","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\/03\/cover-a-la-carte-fri-b-1-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1219&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118498","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=118498"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118516,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118498\/revisions\/118516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/118514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}