{"id":125978,"date":"2025-09-12T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=125978"},"modified":"2025-09-12T23:10:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T04:10:00","slug":"weekend-a-la-carte-september-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=125978","title":{"rendered":"Weekend A La Carte (September 13)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"0a307070-4b00-40dc-8528-d363b3f303f3\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My thanks goes to New Growth Press for sponsoring the blog this week. Be sure to take a look at their new <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/SwordChallies\">storybook study<\/a> that is meant to help young readers see the beauty of Romans.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"b084855a-e19a-492d-a99c-3c8460d8579e\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\/\">Kindle deals<\/a> include several books that are likely to be of interest to you. Some are newer and some are older.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"682046df-1422-4cf5-a6a4-5f939cf2a4cb\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you&#8217;ve been hoping to catch a discount on an <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsbooks.com\/blogs\/2024-enews\/esv-heirloom-bible-sale?utm_source=challies&amp;utm_medium=challies\">Heirloom ESV Bible<\/a>, now&#8217;s the time since Westminster Books has them discounted up to 70%.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"533aa8fe-a085-41e9-b7ac-ba8a1143d271\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(Yesterday on the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/book-reviews\/a-trusted-and-helpful-guide\/\">A Trusted and Helpful Guide To the Bible<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.str.org\/w\/the-genesis-of-transgenderism\">The Genesis of Transgenderism<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"3520942c-4442-4f23-b477-453698b12f4c\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alan Shlemon traces the rise of transgenderism. &#8220;How did the statement &#8216;I am a woman trapped in a man\u2019s body&#8217; come to be regarded as coherent and meaningful? A few decades ago, such a claim would have warranted psychotherapy. Today, men who say they\u2019re women are taffirmed. Girls who say they\u2019re boys are declared &#8216;brave.&#8217; There\u2019s even a global event\u2014International Transgender Day of Visibility\u2014every March 31 to celebrate transgender and non-binary people. What led people in our society to shift how they think about those who identify as transgender? What\u2019s the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A La Carte: The genesis of transgenderism \/ Violence and technology \/ Patterns and rhythms \/ What the locusts ate \/ Room for nuance \/ Where did Christianity come from? \/ and more.See AlsoA La Carte (August 1)A La Carte (July 4)A La Carte (May 30)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":125994,"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-125978","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\/09\/cover-a-la-carte-weekend-a-1-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1219&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125978","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=125978"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125996,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125978\/revisions\/125996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/125994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}