{"id":120283,"date":"2025-04-25T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=120283"},"modified":"2025-04-26T00:09:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T05:09:52","slug":"weekend-a-la-carte-april-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=120283","title":{"rendered":"Weekend A La Carte (April 26)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"94b144fa-d673-45d5-bb98-de8db8bef93b\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m grateful to Moody Publishers for sponsoring the blog this week to tell you about <em><a target=\"_blank\" id=\"https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FPlatforms-Pillars-Trading-Performance-Presence%2Fdp%2F080243472X%3Fmaas%3Dmaas_adg_AF85FC3E00957928C999432E55E3E4E9_afap_abs%26ref_%3Daa_maas%26tag%3Dmaas\" href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/a-la-carte\/weekend-a-la-carte-april-26-2025\/#https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FPlatforms-Pillars-Trading-Performance-Presence%2Fdp%2F080243472X%3Fmaas%3Dmaas_adg_AF85FC3E00957928C999432E55E3E4E9_afap_abs%26ref_%3Daa_maas%26tag%3Dmaas\">Platforms to Pillars<\/a><\/em>, a book meant to address the notion of <em>platform<\/em>. &#8220;Sayers takes a deep dive into the influence and allure of digital platforms on individuals and society, and he invites readers to envision a legacy that lives beyond themselves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"6e92a6cb-30ed-4db7-89f4-097c0aed088a\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\/\">Kindle deals<\/a> are headlined by Carl Trueman&#8217;s newest book <em>To Change All Worlds<\/em> which I believe is on sale for the first time.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"d368df40-0918-42a4-ab07-738ea40685a6\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yesterday I recommended Kristen Wetherell&#8217;s new book <em>What Makes You Beautiful<\/em>. I noticed that Westminster Books just <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsbooks.com\/blogs\/2024-enews\/what-makes-you-beautiful?utm_source=challies&amp;utm_medium=challies\">put it on sale<\/a> at a hefty discount, so now&#8217;s a good time to get a copy.<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/2025\/04\/china-christian-publishing-ebooks-digital-ministry\/\">China Closed Christian Bookstores. Digital Publishing Grew in the Vacuum.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"032b8159-ae92-4388-bd3b-06d11fa7f3d2\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I found this article from CT really encouraging. It tells how Christian publishers in China are publishing and distributing really good books despite government restrictions. (You may need a free account to read the article.)<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/interviews\/every-pinch-of-pain-has-purpose\">Every Pinch of Pain Has Purpose<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"f878204f-3249-4516-919d-3d5d6785afed\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">John Piper explains how in God&#8217;s world every pinch of pain has purpose. &#8220;God sees to it that the troubles we have, whether persecution or<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A La Carte: Every pinch of pain has purpose \/ China closed Christian bookstores \/ Watch for the thing after the thing \/ For everything there is a time \/ Showers of blessing \/ What Pope Francis can teach us about preaching \/ and more.See AlsoWeekend A La Carte (April 19)A La Carte (January 8)A La Carte (October 17)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":120300,"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-120283","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-b-3-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1219&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120283","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=120283"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120302,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120283\/revisions\/120302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/120300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}