{"id":124854,"date":"2025-08-18T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=124854"},"modified":"2025-08-18T23:56:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T04:56:04","slug":"a-la-carte-august-19-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=124854","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (August 19)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"660216aa-79d1-400b-bc5b-40413185d441\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\/\">Kindle deals<\/a> include so many good picks. There&#8217;s my favorite book for public schoolers and several good options for homeschoolers. There&#8217;s a great book on knowing God&#8217;s will, another on awakening wonder in your children, and a bunch of options by John MacArthur. And that&#8217;s only half of it!<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"6dbd9c45-2361-4524-acda-dd985721b354\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reminder: My new book and documentary <em>From the Rising of the Sun<\/em> launch today! You can <a target=\"_blank\" id=\"https%3A%2F%2Famzn.to%2F4mSaGi9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/a-la-carte\/a-la-carte-august-19-2025\/#https%3A%2F%2Famzn.to%2F4mSaGi9\">order them now<\/a> for immediate delivery. (The documentary is free with the book.)<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"28d5b8b6-cb79-45df-ba47-1bf8dc053f6d\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(Yesterday on the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/articles\/to-be-almost-saved-is-to-be-completely-lost\/\">To Be Almost Saved Is To Be Completely Lost<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/amy-medina.com\/am-i-a-missionary-colonizer\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=am-i-a-missionary-colonizer\">Am I a Missionary Colonizer?<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"a1d46a70-0ad9-4cd1-a56a-1784c1a64744\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amy Medina responds to the common charge that missionaries are evil\u2014colonists who import false or condescending ideas from other cultures. &#8220;The people who say we shouldn\u2019t impose our beliefs on other people are, in fact, imposing that very belief on other people. They are making personal autonomy the highest value. But who gets to decide that\u2019s the highest value?&#8221; (See also: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UoyuxT15vJU\">Should Christians STOP Doing Mission Trips?<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/jacobrcrouch.wordpress.com\/2025\/08\/18\/the-separation-of-church-and-home\/\">The Separation of Church and Home<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"7f7f27ef-5d2c-4481-b711-bf749f3cc779\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jacob explains his concerns with the separation of church and home.<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crossway.org\/articles\/why-we-sing-and-why-a-hymnal\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.crossway.org\/articles\/why-we-sing-and-why-a-hymnal\/\">Why We Sing\u2014And Why a Hymnal<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"05e60d17-0697-4a11-8d56-e050f32bcb02\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hymns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A La Carte: Am I a missionary colonizer? \/ The separation of church and home \/ Invite people into your life \/ Contentment in childlessness \/ A misunderstood grief \/ When people are late to church \/ So many Kindle deals.See AlsoA La Carte (August 1)A La Carte (May 21)Weekend A La Carte (September 21)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":124871,"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-124854","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\/08\/cover-a-la-carte-tue-a-3-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1219&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124854","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=124854"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124873,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124854\/revisions\/124873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/124871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}