{"id":127767,"date":"2025-10-20T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=127767"},"modified":"2025-10-20T23:07:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T04:07:54","slug":"a-la-carte-october-21-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=127767","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (October 21)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you&#8217;re looking for books for children, you won&#8217;t do much better than <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsbooks.com\/blogs\/2024-enews\/little-christmas-carol?utm_source=challies&amp;utm_medium=challies\">Little Christmas Carol<\/a><\/em>, which is on sale now at Westminster Books. Meanwhile, Logos users may want to browse the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/logos.sjv.io\/c\/5601117\/2524153\/26054?u=https:\/\/www.logos.com\/reformation-sale\">Reformation Sale<\/a> that has just begun. Be sure to grab your <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/logos.sjv.io\/raQVER\">free book<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\/\">Kindle deals<\/a> include some almost brand-new and highly recommended books for parents, those who suffer from chronic pain, and others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(Yesterday on the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/articles\/if-you-had-written-the-bible\/\">If You Had Written the Bible<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/greatandnobletasks.com\/2025\/10\/20\/the-worst-kind-of-parenting-advice\/\">The Worst Kind of Parenting Advice<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rebekah explains the worst kind of parenting advice while offering some much better advice. &#8220;Whether it\u2019s 1999 or 2025, whether it\u2019s face-to-face or on social media, whether the advice-givers are Christian or secular \u2026 the more things change, the more they stay the same.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/comer-cafeteria-approach-spirituality\/\">The Problem With Comer\u2019s Cafeteria Approach to Spirituality<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Matthew Bingham explains the problem with John Mark Comer&#8217;s &#8220;cafeteria&#8221; approach to spirituality. &#8220;Comer\u2019s overall vision for the Christian life is a pick-what-works-for-you approach. It\u2019s not that he\u2019s a secret Roman Catholic or Eastern Orthodox proponent hiding things from his readers. Rather, his cafeteria approach is inherently unstable and doesn\u2019t sit comfortably within any established Christian tradition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/byfaithonline.com\/stranger-things-of-the-old-testament-the-giants\/\">Stranger Things of the Old Testament: The<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A La Carte: The worst parenting advice \/ John Mark Comer&#8217;s cafeteria approach \/ Giants in the Bible \/ How a wife can help her husband \/ Social media and pornography \/ Book and Kindle sales \/ and more.See AlsoA La Carte (August 1)A La Carte (July 4)A La Carte (November 25)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":127783,"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-127767","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-5-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1219&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127767","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=127767"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127785,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127767\/revisions\/127785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/127783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}