{"id":123444,"date":"2025-07-11T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=123444"},"modified":"2025-07-11T23:09:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T04:09:51","slug":"weekend-a-la-carte-july-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=123444","title":{"rendered":"Weekend A La Carte (July 12)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"adc07f71-8a80-4d45-b50b-c5e1fbcf63c5\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My thanks goes to The Master\u2019s Academy International for sponsoring the blog this week. They&#8217;d love for you to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/twp25-challies\">join them<\/a> from July 20\u201327 for a global week of prayer, lifting up pastors serving in places marked by war, persecution, and hardship.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"087d8ccc-8a72-4e4b-91bc-df48aa67fc6e\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\/\">Kindle deals<\/a> include various books that may well be worth your time and a couple of your dollars.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"b73e0411-eb70-4b2f-9f3d-9eb5e7f4f9a8\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(Yesterday on the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/book-reviews\/thriving-marriage\/\">Thriving Marriage<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/doctoraldiscipleship.substack.com\/p\/where-art-thou-rob-bell\">Where Art Thou Rob Bell?<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"c567b522-f87f-455f-9ad6-c03b09e05f9d\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is an interesting look at the way one young man was influenced by Rob Bell, but then began to see the futility of his teaching. &#8220;Bell had sold me a vision of Jesus that was real, authentic, and closer to the genuine Jesus. He had led me to search for the divine, but by the end, he was telling me that true joy and the experience of the divine came from within, on the way to Trader Joe\u2019s. It felt like the power of positive thinking, repackaged with a veneer of spirituality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mereorthodoxy.com\/the-case-against-in-vitro-fertilization\">The Case Against in Vitro Fertilization<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"06d0b9c7-5187-4b11-b521-b13152430b57\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stiven Peter offers a thorough explanation of why he thinks Christians should oppose in vitro fertilization. &#8220;While I am<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A La Carte: Where art thou Rob Bell? \/ The case against in vitro fertilization \/ Praying and weeping for those suffering in Texas \/ Greet each other with a holy hug \/ The example of Jimmy Swaggart \/ and more.See AlsoWeekend A La Carte (July 5)Weekend A La Carte (July 27)A La Carte (July 9)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":123460,"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-123444","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\/07\/cover-a-la-carte-weekend-b-1-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1219&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123444","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=123444"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123462,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123444\/revisions\/123462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/123460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}