{"id":126268,"date":"2025-09-21T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=126268"},"modified":"2025-09-21T23:14:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T04:14:25","slug":"a-la-carte-september-22-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=126268","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (September 22)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"443ed90f-ec9b-4194-acbc-b873a55ff405\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Good morning. Grace and peace to you.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"0eaf5fc4-ac07-4839-9c3c-5d29bb38902d\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\/\">Kindle deals<\/a> include some especially interesting books, like D.A. Carson&#8217;s must-read account of his father&#8217;s life and Lucy Austen&#8217;s telling of Elisabeth Elliot&#8217;s. I&#8217;m also reasonably certain I haven&#8217;t seen Reeves&#8217; <em>Theologians You Should Know<\/em> on sale before.<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/whatever-happened-postmillennialism\/\">Whatever Happened to Postmillennialism?<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"1b6ec171-f0b5-4655-8b32-c34aa2e44c7d\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s a good question. When postmillennialism was once so popular, especially in the United States, why is it so rare now?<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.epm.org\/resources\/2025\/Sep\/19\/true-gift-discernment-humble\/\">The True Gift of Discernment Humbly Displays the Fruit of the Spirit<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"b4097c51-fdf3-472e-bf7d-e7d3c7a67a1d\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Randy Alcorn: &#8220;Unfortunately, what some call a spirit of discernment might simply be a critical spirit. It becomes easy to take the spiritual high ground\u2014judge and condemn and label and categorize people\u2014because the &#8216;gift&#8217; entitles them to do so. Hence, the Bible\u2019s warnings against unrighteously judging and condemning somehow don\u2019t apply to them. Honestly (and I hate to say this), I have rarely met someone who says they have the gift of discernment who does not display a critical spirit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/missionary.com\/2026\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"http:\/\/missionary.com\/2026\">Announcing the 2026 Missionary National Conference:&nbsp;<em>The Lord Who Sends<\/em><\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"37084a1d-9cd7-4884-a8ba-9f2ebb94cc3f\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, in some places, there is only silence: no Scripture, no gospel, no church.&nbsp;Entire peoples still wait. 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