{"id":128354,"date":"2025-10-31T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=128354"},"modified":"2025-10-31T23:08:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T04:08:25","slug":"weekend-a-la-carte-november-1-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=128354","title":{"rendered":"Weekend A La Carte (November 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am grateful to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/grow.ligonier.org\/\">Ligonier Ministries<\/a> for once again sponsoring the blog this week. Be sure to learn about the new 52-lesson Bible curriculum for K\u20135 students:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.growingingodsword.org\/?utm_source=challies.com&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=a+la+carte&amp;utm_term=reformation+week&amp;utm_content=oct+29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Growing in God\u2019s Word<\/em><\/a>. Each lesson plan reinforces the truths of Reformed theology and Scripture\u2019s unifying covenantal framework.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\/\">Kindle deals<\/a> include titles by C.S. Lewis, John MacArthur, and others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(Yesterday on the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/book-reviews\/helping-your-kids-know-gods-good-design\/\">Helping Your Kids Know God\u2019s Good Design<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/newsletter.oalannoble.com\/p\/wellness-cannot-save-you\">Wellness Cannot Save You<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Wellness as an idol is easy to worship, I think, because no one wants to\u00a0<em>feel bad<\/em>. And the dream of being well, being well-adjusted, being cured, being restored, or being healed is so desirable. You wake up sore, anxious, depressed, aching, in pain, or whatever the problem may be, and you think to yourself, &#8216;If I could only get over this problem, my life would be\u00a0<em>good<\/em>.&#8217; And in some tangible ways, that\u2019s true. Your quality of life\u00a0<em>would\u00a0<\/em>improve. But&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qA49kDdrNPQ\">The Mercy of God (Video)<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have been enjoying the music of StillCreek, including this new song that marvels at God&#8217;s mercy.<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/young-men-sports-gambling\/\">Young Men, Sports Gambling, and a Better Way to Play<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is important to understand just how widespread and pervasive sports gambling has become recently, and especially among men.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A La Carte: Wellness cannot save you \/ &#8220;The Mercy of God&#8221; \/ Young men and sports gambling \/ Following through on the Reformation \/ The decline of reading and the rise of reels \/ Helping kids process social media violence \/ and more.See AlsoA La Carte (October 29)A La Carte (June 13)A La Carte (February 13)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":128370,"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-128354","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-weekend-b-1-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1219&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128354","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=128354"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128372,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128354\/revisions\/128372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/128370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}