{"id":122968,"date":"2025-06-29T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=122968"},"modified":"2025-06-29T23:10:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T04:10:34","slug":"a-la-carte-june-30-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=122968","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (June 30)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"4ba98912-2f18-4916-b1a2-14f2f51e0200\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Good morning. Grace and peace to you.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"91855b18-fc67-4668-9b34-d45e40bea5c1\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\/\">Kindle deals<\/a> include Ortlund&#8217;s <em>Good News at Rock Bottom<\/em>, Jon Nielson&#8217;s <em>Understanding God&#8217;s Word<\/em>, and much else.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"82d02875-a304-4e36-9c8f-07f262d803bd\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(Yesterday on the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/articles\/let-them-leap-to-hell-over-our-bodies\/\">Let Them Leap To Hell Over Our Bodie<\/a>s)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/writetounderstand.substack.com\/p\/the-gift-of-what-ill-never-write\">The Gift of What I&#8217;ll Never Write<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"4ee2fb1e-16c0-4336-b54a-9351285e173f\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is good to learn to appreciate the gift of what we will never write. Or more broadly, the things we set out to do but will never actually accomplish.<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reviveourhearts.com\/blog\/bible-reading-blues-study-your-stop\/\">Bible Reading Blues? Study Your Stop<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"0d448b83-9a4e-430d-896d-91e9e0f1a4e7\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This article at ROH is designed to help you diagnose why you may have stopped reading your Bible. &#8220;If you were sitting across from me and you mentioned that you\u2019d abandoned your Bible reading plan, I wouldn\u2019t ask you about what went well. We\u2019d talk about what didn\u2019t work. We\u2019d start with what made you stop because understanding why you didn\u2019t finish could be the key to helping you begin again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alifeoverseas.com\/halt-b-i-dont-do-all-that-well-with-tired\/\">HALT-B<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"3e0a998c-76b9-4b82-9725-ce3e4a51bc60\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">HALT-B is perhaps not the sharpest acronym ever coined, but it does helpfully describe the most common reasons behind our poor choices.<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/trevin-wax\/gift-middle-age-enjoy\/\">The Gift of Middle Age<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"de115023-72ec-4fdc-b030-918dffb676f0\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;As I look back over my life<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A La Carte: The gift of what I&#8217;ll never write \/ Bible reading blues \/ The gift of middle age \/ So, you can&#8217;t seem to function today \/ Neither authoritarian nor anti-institution \/ Kindle deals \/ and more.See AlsoA La Carte (April 24)A La Carte (February 25)A La Carte (November 25)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":122985,"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-122968","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\/06\/cover-a-la-carte-mon-b-7-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1219&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122968","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=122968"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122987,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122968\/revisions\/122987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/122985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}