{"id":126499,"date":"2025-09-24T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=126499"},"modified":"2025-09-24T23:10:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T04:10:22","slug":"a-la-carte-september-25-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=126499","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (September 25)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"19a5aced-0c36-47a3-be8e-42e82f101bc1\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">May the Lord be with you and bless you on this fine day.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"9b213b71-6de6-46f7-a4d3-55f894c700e8\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\/\">Kindle deals<\/a> include a book on parenting, a helpful study through James, a reader-friendly introduction to biblical theology, and a devotional by Sinclair Ferguson.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"2aca96f5-689e-492a-b0db-ecf4f1d0e0a3\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(Yesterday on the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/resources\/new-and-notable-books-for-children-and-teens\/\">A Huge Batch of New Books for Children and Teens<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/amymantravadi.substack.com\/p\/day-shall-come-again\">Day Shall Come Again<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"53ecd605-50f1-4976-a178-693dc67c7bdb\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amy Mantravadi looks to a favorite Tolkien motif to remind us that, no matter how dark it may seem, day shall come again. &#8220;Darkness is always present in the world\u2014a dominating aspect of human existence on earth. Here I refer not merely to the absence of physical light, but the presence of evil. This darkness never truly disappears. It may wax and wane at times, but it is usually our perception that changes. Sometimes we pay more attention to the goodness in our world, and sometimes the evil smacks us in the face so we cannot avoid it. The sun may seem to shine on one person just as darkness engulfs another.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/gcdiscipleship.com\/article-feed\/ordinary-sundays-may-have-dangerous-potential\">Ordinary Sundays Have Dangerous Potential<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"b33c17ab-0105-46a0-b7b1-f0165fde3e7f\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s good to be reminded that the most ordinary of Sundays is still full of potential.<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/missionary.com\/2026\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"http:\/\/missionary.com\/2026\">2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A La Carte: Day shall come again \/ Dangerous potential \/ Why young men are coming back to church \/ How fast to preach \/ Does Jesus call a woman a dog? \/ When to speak and when to stay silent \/ and more.See AlsoA La Carte (July 23)A La Carte (May 30)A La Carte (May 16)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":126515,"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-126499","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-thu-b-3-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1219&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126499","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=126499"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126517,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126499\/revisions\/126517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/126515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}