{"id":123534,"date":"2025-07-15T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=123534"},"modified":"2025-07-15T23:09:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T04:09:25","slug":"a-la-carte-july-16-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=123534","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (July 16)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"b60ded41-acef-45ed-88ee-fa6bd2eb31d8\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just a reminder that I am on vacation this week so I am posting only A La Carte. Original articles will return next week.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"4a494731-9b79-4291-b94f-a1481fbe75ce\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\/\">Kindle deals<\/a> include Ed Welch&#8217;s must-read <em>When People Are Big and God Is Small<\/em> and more besides.<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/justinhuffman.org\/2025\/07\/08\/how-can-i-read-my-bible-correctly\/\">How Can I Read My Bible Correctly?<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"3cd50d69-5cff-4167-bf9d-954f181bbf0f\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Justin explains why there are numerous ways of misinterpreting the Bible, but only one way of understanding it correctly. He offers three broad categories of misinterpretation.<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/matthiasmedia.com.au\/blogs\/news\/why-you-can-be-confident-of-gods-goodness-to-you\">Why You Can Be Confident of God&#8217;s Goodness to You<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"37df241d-9761-4d65-b4d6-ab9812254991\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I\u2019ve been pretty blessed in my life up to this point, and it\u2019s not that hard\u2014by and large\u2014for me to believe that God has been working for my good. But we all know people who seem to have had lives that are full of hardships and suffering. For them, sad events have accumulated year after year, one on top of another, repeatedly stretching their resilience to breaking point. Experientially, for some of our dear brothers and sisters, their trust in God\u2019s goodness can seem almost irrational.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/imitatorsofthose.com\/2025\/07\/07\/the-faithful-understand-the-time\/\">The Faithful Understand the Time<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"f4b22006-3949-4425-9a77-89bcd87e3a25\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">D\u00f3nal looks at one of the big questions that arises in ministry and missions:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A La Carte: Reading the Bible correctly \/ Understanding the time \/ Living wisely in a digital world \/ We&#8217;ll never get tired \/ You need gospel friends \/ God&#8217;s goodness to you \/ and more.See AlsoA La Carte (January 16)A La Carte (July 16)A La Carte (July 9)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":123550,"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-123534","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-wed-b-3-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1219&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123534","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=123534"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123552,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123534\/revisions\/123552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/123550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}