{"id":120917,"date":"2025-05-11T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=120917"},"modified":"2025-05-11T23:24:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T04:24:19","slug":"a-la-carte-may-12-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=120917","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (May 12)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"68d93e7d-6189-4aa3-a050-f8f5c7258816\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Good morning. Grace and peace to you.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"8bca2831-32fb-4dbe-9c7f-b5bf52d0e390\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\/\">Kindle deals<\/a> include <em>Confronting Christianity<\/em>, <em>Covenantal Apologetics<\/em>, and lots of other popular titles<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/gcdiscipleship.com\/article-feed\/when-prayer-starts-with-panic\">When Prayer Starts With Panic<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"597f1c9f-94f0-4686-a2cd-1b20689bedd1\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You don&#8217;t have to be a pastor to benefit from this one. &#8220;I was a pastor. I preached about trusting God. I counseled others through their storms. But here I was, sweating through the sheets, spiraling through financial collapse and personal failure. The anxiety didn\u2019t care that I had a seminary degree or years of ministry experience. It just whispered, &#8216;You\u2019re failing.&#8217;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/articles\/tell-the-truth-about-children\">Tell the Truth About Children<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"11562cc5-013e-4b7c-a95f-ba2013160d02\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Monica Geyen points out that when we speak of children we often use words like &#8220;<em>Chaos. Burdens. Busyness. Craziness.<\/em> But God bestows on them different names:\u00a0<em>Heritage. Power. Blessings. Gifts.<\/em>\u00a0Our children do not need to &#8216;grow up&#8217; to earn given titles. Rather, mothers\u2019 hearts need to hear afresh God\u2019s words about children.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/jacobrcrouch.wordpress.com\/2025\/05\/09\/when-christ-is-en-vogue-christians-beware\/\">When Christ Is En Vogue, Christians Beware<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"5fbf6b0b-2120-4a70-888d-b21a307a1729\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It has been interesting to see society express just a bit more respect for Christianity. &#8220;But with this widespread cultural acceptance comes a level of danger. I want to give three warnings about the dangers of Christian popularity.&#8221; These<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A La Carte: When prayer starts with panic \/ Tell the truth about children \/ When Christ is en vogue, Christians beware \/ Keeping learning after college \/ A word on diligence \/ Kindle deals \/ and more.See AlsoA La Carte (January 21)A La Carte (December 2)A La Carte (November 28)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":120933,"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-120917","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\/05\/cover-a-la-carte-mon-b-1-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1219&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120917","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=120917"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120935,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120917\/revisions\/120935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/120933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}