{"id":121593,"date":"2025-05-26T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=121593"},"modified":"2025-05-26T23:10:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T04:10:01","slug":"a-la-carte-may-27-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=121593","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (May 27)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"cafb8f64-da8c-4171-a972-6b5c45350462\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\/\">Kindle deals<\/a> include some excellent and recently released books on apologetics. There are some other great picks besides.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"6a8139dc-8e31-4d59-b1e3-449ebc4bea31\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(Yesterday on the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/articles\/four-good-questions-to-ask-your-tech\/\">Four Good Questions To Ask Your Tech<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/elephantinroom.substack.com\/p\/how-to-do-controversy-well\">How to Do Controversy Well<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"2ffc1fd3-906a-4108-b9a2-b189df56b03f\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Casey McCall looks at a recent situation from the news and then gains wisdom from a trusted source. &#8220;Fuller was always hesitant about his controversial writings. His diaries reveal him searching his own heart to make sure his motives were godly. Controversy, for Fuller, was not a means for attention or a way to earn a buck or build a platform.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cherylesperbalcom.com\/post\/nothing-is-just-anything\">Nothing Is &#8220;Just&#8221; Anything<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"2ab898c1-a989-43f8-911b-6017c489528d\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a really sweet piece of writing about the use and overuse of the word &#8220;just.&#8221; Because in God&#8217;s world, few things should actually be modified or minimized by that word.<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/learn.ligonier.org\/articles\/was-mary-born-without-sin\">Was Mary\u00a0Born Without Sin?<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"5cdf3918-608f-4b55-9f70-2c3530567782\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Leonardo De Chirico: &#8220;Tough questions demand complex answers. &#8216;Was Mary born without sin?&#8217; is not a tough question, and the answer is pretty straightforward: No. Period.&#8221; The answer is clear and obvious, but it&#8217;s still interesting to see how the Catholic Church came to teach this belief.<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/jacobrcrouch.wordpress.com\/2025\/05\/26\/the-hill-im-dying-on-2\/\">The Hill I\u2019m Dying On<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"5c6bb007-3c61-482b-8a48-d57959603f58\" \n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A La Carte: How to do controversy well \/ Restoring repentant adulterers \/ Nothing is &#8220;just&#8221; anything \/ Was Mary born without sin? \/ The hill I&#8217;m dying on \/ AI and work predictions \/ and more.See AlsoA La Carte (May 20)A La Carte (May 19)A La Carte (August 23)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":121609,"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-121593","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-tue-a-5-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1219&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121593","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=121593"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121611,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121593\/revisions\/121611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/121609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}