{"id":120319,"date":"2025-04-27T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=120319"},"modified":"2025-04-28T00:09:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T05:09:37","slug":"a-la-carte-april-28-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=120319","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (April 28)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"bc40cd81-a3d9-4730-83db-bed64d2e81c2\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Good morning. Grace and peace to you.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"1f1d3874-c25e-4f40-a852-7a6ebf8727b7\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\/\">Kindle deals<\/a> include a couple of my favorite J.I. Packer titles (e.g. <em>Finishing Our Course with Joy<\/em>). Also, we are coming to the last few days of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/iv-press-kindle-deals-april-2025\/\">Intervarsity Press&#8217; sale<\/a> on all of their ebooks. If you haven&#8217;t yet done so, be sure to at least look at their amazing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/iv-press-kindle-deals-april-2025\/#bst\">commentary selection<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"b4f05433-8881-4161-b0c1-8d8988931cb0\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(<em>Yesterday on the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/resources\/new-and-notable-christian-books-for-april-2025\/\">New and Notable Christian Books for April 2025<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/commonplace.org\/2025\/04\/18\/protestantisms-conservative-catholic-converts\/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email\">Protestantism\u2019s Conservative Catholic Converts<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"5e1795b8-5f45-429d-9d58-27f146d7212c\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Carl Trueman considers some of the reasons that Protestants convert to Catholicism. &#8220;While I can\u2019t speak to the true intentions of all converts, my suspicion is that much of the broader interest among intellectuals in Christianity, of which these Protestant converts to Rome are a small part, may prove to be more of a cultural or political phenomenon than a truly theological one. The real test will be the dogmatic one: will these intellectuals embrace not just the cultural heritage of Christianity but also its dogmas and its practices?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spiritualtheology.net\/p\/a-short-prayer-for-reading-the-bible?utm_source=post-banner&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&amp;triedRedirect=true\">A Short Prayer for Reading the Bible<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"1abd5d70-06d5-4bba-a4fd-18a7cc99e56b\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a helpful short prayer for reading the Bible.<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebeehive.live\/blog\/godscalling\">God&#8217;s Special Calling on Your Life<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"97923c18-2953-4e3b-94a2-4bcc474f2b85\" \n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A La Carte: Protestantism&#8217;s Catholic converts \/ How healthy is your pursuit of health? \/ God&#8217;s special calling on your life \/ Considering a Christian university? \/ Testing the teachings of Catholicism \/ Kindle deals \/ and more.See AlsoA La Carte (April 24)A La Carte (March 28)A La Carte (August 29)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":120336,"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-120319","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-mon-b-5-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1219&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120319","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=120319"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120338,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120319\/revisions\/120338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/120336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}