{"id":127180,"date":"2025-10-06T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=127180"},"modified":"2025-10-06T23:11:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T04:11:33","slug":"a-la-carte-october-7-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=127180","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (October 7)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today and tomorrow, Amazon has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/articles\/books-on-sale-for-amazons-prime-big-deal-days\/\">huge sale<\/a> going on. My interest in these things always relates to books, and I&#8217;m glad to see a huge selection of <strong>paperback and hardcover books<\/strong> discounted\u2014books for kids, books for grownups, Bibles, commentaries, and so on. I had 20 hours of flying to do yesterday, so I spent much of it combing through the list. I compiled it all here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/articles\/books-on-sale-for-amazons-prime-big-deal-days\/\">Books on Sale for Amazon\u2019s Prime Big Deal Days<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\/\">Kindle deals<\/a> include a trio of recent releases that are all well worth a look: <em>Two Cities, Two Loves<\/em>; <em>Choose Better<\/em>; and <em>Redeeming Sex in Marriage<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(Yesterday on the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/articles\/how-much-money-is-god-not-concerned-about\/\">How Much Money Is God Not Concerned About?<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/sarah-mullally-archbishop-canterbury\/\">Appointment of New Archbishop Continues Tragic Slide into Irrelevance<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;This week, the Church of England\u2019s leadership continued its tragic slide into irrelevance as it announced the appointment of Sarah Mullally as the next Archbishop of Canterbury.&#8221; Mark Thompson provides his perspective as the principal of a faithful Anglican college\/seminary. (See also this episode of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=X8FaRknute0&amp;si=jQ5JXSqpSLUiVJqs\">The Pastor&#8217;s Heart<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jvfesko.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/5\/take-it-on-the-chin\">Take it on the Chin<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">J.V. Fekso explains why pastors sometimes have to be willing to just take it on the chin. &#8220;Criticism and the pastorate go hand<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A La Carte: Take it on the chin \/ The Archbishop of Canterbury and the slide into irrelevance \/ A quick change to improve your sermons \/ Hymns for the end of life \/ Cultivating gratitude \/ Huge book sale \/ and more. See AlsoA La Carte (Black Friday Edition)A La Carte (1\/25)A La Carte (8\/31)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":127197,"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-127180","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\/10\/cover-a-la-carte-tue-a-1-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1219&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127180","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=127180"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127199,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127180\/revisions\/127199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/127197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}