{"id":119687,"date":"2025-04-11T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=119687"},"modified":"2025-04-12T00:27:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T05:27:15","slug":"weekend-a-la-carte-april-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=119687","title":{"rendered":"Weekend A La Carte (April 12)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"3831561a-b689-453a-8808-8e34ea977438\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My thanks goes to Zondervan Reflective for sponsoring the blog this week to tell you about a <a target=\"_blank\" id=\"https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FReason-Church-Matters-Division-Individualism%2Fdp%2F0310166675%3Fmaas%3Dmaas_adg_62373FF8D650BC71334766217A16A575_afap_abs%26ref_%3Daa_maas%26tag%3Dmaas\" href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/a-la-carte\/weekend-a-la-carte-april-12-2025\/#https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FReason-Church-Matters-Division-Individualism%2Fdp%2F0310166675%3Fmaas%3Dmaas_adg_62373FF8D650BC71334766217A16A575_afap_abs%26ref_%3Daa_maas%26tag%3Dmaas\">new book<\/a> that may interest you\u2014a book Trevin Wax calls &#8220;one of the most important books of the year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"f6711910-ab6f-438d-b523-f9914a7a00bb\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\/\">Kindle deals<\/a> include a variety of titles. Among them, you&#8217;ll find several excellent picks by Douglas Groothuis such as his massive <em>Christian Apologetics<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"4651d5f5-9571-43eb-a3ba-4fe7ec05969a\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(Yesterday on the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/book-reviews\/good-news-at-rock-bottom\/\">Good News at Rock Bottom<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/newsletter.oalannoble.com\/p\/designer-babies-as-the-conquest-of\">Designer Babies as The Conquest of Nature<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"dd1f357b-f49a-49e0-a2e0-200ae2c9ea92\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It seems we are never far from a whole new regime of eugenics as Alan Noble explains here. &#8220;A problem with this &#8216;liberal eugenics&#8217; (other than the fact that\u00a0<em>it\u2019s still eugenics!<\/em>) is that it wrongly assumes that the absence of State mandates means that individuals won\u2019t be pressured to use the technology. But we know from other issues that parental pressure to compete with other parents in giving their children &#8216;as many advantages as possible&#8217; is a powerful force.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/heiditaiwrites.substack.com\/p\/the-dragon-and-the-rooster-d91\">The Dragon &amp; The Rooster<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"4aa76447-66ac-4d55-9882-6b52b2c04963\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is such a wonderful and uplifting piece of writing by Heidi. <\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/zakmellgren.substack.com\/p\/leper-christianity-embracing-the\">&#8220;Leper&#8221; Christianity: Embracing the Sanctifying Work of Suffering<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"d9d0974b-add6-46d2-8d93-2f5f14c63a90\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zak considers a difficult time he and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A La Carte: Designer babies \/ The dragon and the rooster \/ Leper Christianity \/ Theologians against nature \/ Faithful and small \/ The missing heart of AI sermons \/ Douglas Groothuis books \/ and more.See AlsoA La Carte (October 24)A La Carte (June 28)A La Carte (2\/3)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":119703,"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-119687","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-weekend-a-1-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1219&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119687","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=119687"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119705,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119687\/revisions\/119705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/119703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}