{"id":127734,"date":"2025-10-19T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=127734"},"modified":"2025-10-19T23:08:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T04:08:40","slug":"a-la-carte-october-20-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=127734","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (October 20)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"3a8a1366-ddad-46ff-9bc5-e971e769cd38\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Good morning. Grace and peace to you.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"cc2016b8-44b1-45f3-ae23-7caf7772ca4a\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\/\">Kindle deals<\/a> can sometimes be delayed, but if all goes well, you should find some deals on good books by D.A. Carson and others. Mark Vroegop&#8217;s <em>Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy<\/em> should be among them and has proven both popular and influential (as has Randy Alcorn\u2019s <em>Heaven<\/em>). There&#8217;s also a sale from Baker Books that has quite a few good options.<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/future-anglicanism-gafcon-evangelicals\/\">The Future of Anglicanism Has Arrived: What GAFCON\u2019s Statement Means for Evangelicals<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"0e9d61f0-8c05-45c0-a03c-2e4366a97ad7\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You may have heard major news from the Anglican Church last week. This article explains what happened and what it means going forward.<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sacramentality.substack.com\/p\/assisted-suicide-will-wash-us-away\">Assisted Suicide Will Wash Us Away<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"79065444-b94c-45ff-ba07-37479e282240\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is written from a UK perspective but describes what euthanasia has unleashed and will unleash wherever it is permitted. &#8220;The legislation for assisted suicide unleashes a pity which only looks at today and has no regard for tomorrow. It is potent in destruction but weak in healing, strong enough to allow a man to die but lacking the strength to help him live. We cannot allow this pity to become our master.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thestateoftheology.com\/?utm_source=challies.com&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/thestateoftheology.com\/?utm_source=challies.com&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=\">The State of Theology<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"94e86ff7-13c5-4eef-9bb0-ddf4cf9592aa\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What do Americans believe?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A La Carte: Assisted suicide \/ The future of Anglicanism \/ Busyness \/ When dad will not lead \/ When you are maligned \/ Surprised by his goodness \/ Kindle deals \/ and more.See AlsoA La Carte (June 11)A La Carte (May 12)A La Carte (August 18)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":127750,"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-127734","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-mon-b-5-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1219&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127734","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=127734"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127752,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127734\/revisions\/127752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/127750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}