{"id":118761,"date":"2025-03-20T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=118761"},"modified":"2025-03-20T23:29:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T04:29:31","slug":"a-la-carte-march-21-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=118761","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (March 21)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"c9962d41-60b9-4fe0-af9d-42e0bc594cb0\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A note for my fellow Canadians: It appears that beginning in early April, books from American sources\u2014which includes many of our favorite Christian publishers\u2014will be subject to a 25% tariff. If you are planning to purchase books anyway, you may want to do so before that date. My understanding is that e-books will not be subject to the tariff.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"67880f21-c6be-4ca8-bc7a-081a1238789f\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\/\">Kindle deals<\/a> include a book from Christopher Ash on teaching the Psalms and Katie McCoy&#8217;s excellent <em>To Be a Woman<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/reflections-arc-2025\/\">Peculiar, Yet Not Peculiar Enough<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"58e22138-5967-4d51-82fe-3d7e32e28764\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I appreciated reading Daniel Strange&#8217;s reflections on ARC 2025. &#8220;How do you judge something where you heard things that made you gasp &#8216;Wow!&#8217; (in a good way) and &#8216;Wow!&#8217; (in a less good way)? As a conservative evangelical theologian and someone interested in cultural apologetics and evangelism, I wonder how many (if any) cheers we should give ARC and the cultural trend it represents.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ccwtoday.org\/2025\/03\/when-god-used-a-stutterer\/\">When God Used a Stutterer<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"6627dce5-82bb-42ff-9c0a-1fe43af3c2d8\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is an interesting tale of God using a person in unexpected ways.<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.focusonthefamily.com\/marriage\/pastors-weekend-getaways-cm\/?refcd=2237803&amp;utm_source=challies&amp;utm_medium=digitaldisplay&amp;utm_campaign=pastorgetaways&amp;utm_content=960x540\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.focusonthefamily.com\/marriage\/pastors-weekend-getaways-cm\/?refcd=2237803&amp;utm_source=challies&amp;utm_medium=digitaldisplay&amp;utm_campaign=pastorgetaways&amp;utm_content=960x540\">Recharge Your Marriage On Us<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"e811807d-c15f-4547-a999-f734fe52063f\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We want to bless you and your spouse with FREE Marriage Getaway for pastors\u2014a 3-day, all-inclusive getaway for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A La Carte: Coming tariffs on books \/ When God used a stutterer \/ Not peculiar enough \/ What leadership is and does \/ Staring into an abyss \/ Standards for good writing \/ Surrender to ministry \/ and moreSee AlsoWeekend A La Carte (September 28)A La Carte (May 30)A La Carte (January 18)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":118777,"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-118761","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-3-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1219&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118761","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=118761"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118779,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118761\/revisions\/118779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/118777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}