{"id":13252,"date":"2020-02-28T05:05:56","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T11:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=13252"},"modified":"2020-02-28T05:23:14","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T11:23:14","slug":"a-la-carte-february-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=13252","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (February 28)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are in maybe just a bit of a lull when it comes to&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Kindle deals<\/a>, but there are a few for you to think about, at least. We will hope for better things tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenkneale.com\/2020\/02\/25\/whats-to-be-done-potentially-nothing-else\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">What&rsquo;s To Be Done? Potentially, Nothing Else.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We have a tendency to expect the church to fix every possible problem. We can rightly identify things that are less than excellent in the church. But our next question is often very telling: &lsquo;what should be done?&rsquo;&rdquo; But sometimes the best answer is&hellip;nothing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/human-interest\/2020\/02\/oil-bible-dalton-georgia-trump-prophecy-evangelical-miracle.html\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">The Bible That Oozed Oil<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>You might have heard of the Bible in Dalton, Georgia, that supposedly and mysteriously began to ooze oil. In this article, Slate looks into it (and, to my mind, does so quite respectfully). Not surprisingly, they find very good reasons to be skeptical about the whole thing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/justin-taylor\/matthew-25-the-right-doctrine-from-the-wrong-text\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">The Right Doctrine from the Wrong Text<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Justin Taylor uses Craig Blomberg to show how we can sometimes attempt to prove a perfectly good doctrine from the wrong text.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2020\/02\/03\/the-woman-shaking-up-the-diamond-industry\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">The Woman Shaking Up the Diamond Industry<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>This is a very interesting article about the changing diamond industry. (Note, there are a couple of bad words.) It&rsquo;s worth looking up some of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are in maybe just a bit of a lull when it comes to\u00a0Kindle deals, but there are a few for you to think about, at least. We will hope for better things tomorrow. What\u2019s To Be Done? Potentially, Nothing Else. \u201cWe have a tendency to expect the church to fix every possible problem. We can rightly identify things that are less than excellent in the church. But our next question is often very telling: \u2018what should be done?\u2019\u201d But \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":13260,"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-13252","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\/2020\/02\/A20La20Carte20-20concepts202-FRI20b-3-1.jpg?fit=910%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13252","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=13252"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13262,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13252\/revisions\/13262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}