{"id":119535,"date":"2025-04-08T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=119535"},"modified":"2025-04-09T00:10:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T05:10:44","slug":"a-la-carte-april-9-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=119535","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (April 9)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"390ff16d-bf06-4433-bbaa-813e75333cca\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">May the Lord be with you and bless you today.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"3aeb49be-5528-448d-ab52-056118f2ac05\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Westminster Books has a deal on a new book of <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsbooks.com\/blogs\/2024-enews\/gospel-stories?utm_source=challies&amp;utm_medium=challies\">Gospel Stories<\/a><\/em>. They also still have a discount on a new <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsbooks.com\/blogs\/2024-enews\/pippa-and-the-singing-tree?utm_source=challies&amp;utm_medium=challies\">book for kids<\/a> by Kristyn Getty.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"202fcb0f-1733-470c-aed8-3d5036f93d8a\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There&#8217;s a wide variety of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\/\">Kindle deals<\/a> today. Lewis&#8217; Space Trilogy is an especially good value. So too Powlison&#8217;s <em>Good and Angry<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/tessalind.substack.com\/p\/prove-me-try-me-test-me\">Prove Me. Try Me. Test Me.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"63f381f1-f908-49cd-b955-a886b01ad5d0\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I tell my Sunday school class that we speak to God through prayer, and God speaks to us through His Word. With the Psalms, it\u2019s different. God speaks to me through the Psalms, but I also pray the words right back to Him. Attempting to emulate David, His words become my words. But today, I want to take back the spoken words, regifting them back to David and refusing to keep them as my own.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.retirementstewardship.com\/2025\/04\/08\/trumps-tariffs-what-they-are-what-they-arent-and-why-it-matters-to-retirees\/\">Trump\u2019s Tariffs: What They Are, What They Aren\u2019t, and Why It Matters to Retirees<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"d0b298a1-f28a-4219-acaa-e8d0c309d76d\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chris writes a blog for Christian retirees. In this article, he considers Trump&#8217;s tariffs and how they may matter to retirees and the rest of us.<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dashhouse.com\/it-only-gets-better\/\">It Only Gets Better<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"d2096c84-8485-4075-90d9-f62bc9c0a9db\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Darryl is correct that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A La Carte: Prove me, try me, test me \/ Trump&#8217;s tariffs \/ It only gets better \/ Praise and criticism in worship \/ The third heaven \/ The spiritual problem of being overinformed \/ Kindle and book deals.See AlsoA La Carte (October 24)A La Carte (October 8)A La Carte (July 9)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":119551,"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-119535","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\/04\/cover-a-la-carte-wed-b-1-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1219&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119535","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=119535"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119553,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119535\/revisions\/119553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/119551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}