{"id":125785,"date":"2025-09-08T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=125785"},"modified":"2025-09-08T23:10:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T04:10:05","slug":"a-la-carte-september-9-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=125785","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (September 9)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"b7a2a891-06d5-47df-9630-0752acdd74bb\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There&#8217;s a new legacy edition of <em>Desiring God,<\/em> and Westminster Books has it <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsbooks.com\/blogs\/2024-enews\/desiring-god?utm_source=challies&amp;utm_medium=challies\">on special<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"55a574b4-5f0e-4868-a5e9-beb43eb90b19\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\/\">Kindle deals<\/a> include lots of interesting books, including Esther Smith&#8217;s <em>A Still and Quiet Mind<\/em> which, to my knowledge, is on sale for the first time. I&#8217;ve also never seen Mack&#8217;s <em>Strengthening Your Marriage<\/em> on sale before.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"8b02342e-a98c-42e2-b77a-5f3321d8307b\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(Yesterday on the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/articles\/bring-knife-to-a-gunfight\/\">Go Ahead, Bring a Knife to a Gunfight<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.joshuabudimlic.com\/post\/it-s-all-just-noise\">It\u2019s All Just Noise<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"1fc727da-b568-47fb-8f8a-c43836974318\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Life is made up of seasons, seasons made up of years, years made up of months, and those months are made up of weeks, days, hours, and fleeting moments. If we cushion our every waking hour with some distraction or other, do we not run the very real risk of forfeiting much of our lives?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/newsletter.oalannoble.com\/p\/dont-do-everything-for-your-kids\">Don&#8217;t Do Everything for Your Kids<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"d8e6acf9-52e0-46a7-a173-9b90c3ec139c\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alan Noble writes about the high expectations on parents. &#8220;Inevitably, every parent must fail to meet these expectations. In fact, every parent\u00a0<em>should\u00a0<\/em>fail to meet these expectations because many of them are disordered and\u00a0<em>bad\u00a0<\/em>for their children and for them! But the guilt can still linger because the pressure still lingers. The pressure to\u00a0<em>do more<\/em>, to\u00a0<em>be more<\/em>. 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